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Part II of V
Photos courtesy the Walpole Society
“He buys ‘like a Prince’ what he wants. He does not ‘pussyfoot,’ ‘soft pedal,’ or haggle. What he feels is beyond his reach or excessive in price is simply left alone, and he is so modest that he does not continually talk about ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Bonhams, San Francisco, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Sales totaled $1.3 million (includes buyers’ premiums) at Bonhams’ Native American art auction in San Francisco on December 7, 2015.
Specialist Jim Haas said there was “a roomful of people” attending, something that he found “almost shocking” considering how many bidders bid on the phone and/or ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Grogan & Company, Boston, Massachusetts
Fine art and jewelry are frequently areas of blurred distinction. Both are mainstays at Grogan and Company’s auction gallery in Boston, and neither disappointed at the December 6, 2015, sale where a fine 18" long silver necklace by Alexander Calder (1898-1976) brought $109,800 (includes buyer’s premium). ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman’s
A standing-room-only crowd, a dozen staffers on telephones, plus a fellow at a computer taking bids from online bidders filled the first-floor gallery at Freeman’s in Philadelphia on Sunday, December 6, 2015, for an auction of more than 130 lots of American art and Pennsylvania Impressionism. Many ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
New Orleans Auction Galleries, New Orleans, Louisiana
Nothing provides more panache for an auction than a glamorous collection with star lots, and the New Orleans Auction Galleries (NOAG) had an impressive biography to open its December 4-6, 2015, sale. Lloyd Cooper Flatt was a retired aerospace executive with homes in the ... (Read More)
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(Show)
Glendale, California
The two-day Golden West Show, held December 5 and 6, 2015, at the Glendale (California) Civic Auditorium, is the hoped-for upgrade of the Golden California Antiques Show, held for 12 years at the same venue. The new owners are Terry Schurmeier, Victoria Wilson Roberts, and Eric Berg. Schurmeier called ... (Read More)
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A portrait of young Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776-1834), and his elder sister, Princess Sophia (1773-1844) of Gloucester, by American painter Benjamin West (1738-1820) was recently installed in the McGlothlin American Galleries at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) in Richmond. The portrait was acquired ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Mystic Seaport, Mystic, Connecticut
41 degrees, 21 minutes, 20 seconds North by 71 degrees, 57 minutes, 50 seconds West. This is the global “address” of Mystic, Connecticut. Many of us know, from reading Dava Sobel’s 1995 best-selling book Longitude, that finding Mystic was not so easy for ship captains before John ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Mebane Antique Auction Gallery, Mebane, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Mebane
On December 4, 2015, Alfreda Evans met the man who bought her great-uncle’s 1937 Gibson Nick Lucas guitar. The encounter represented an important closure for Evans. She had never met her Uncle Ben. The amateur guitarist was killed in a robbery at ... (Read More)
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Allyson Bradley of Michaan’s Auctions in Alameda, California, and Matthew S. Wilcox of Freeman’s in Philadelphia have been elected to the board of directors of the Foundation for Appraisal Education (FAE), a Chicago-based organization founded in 2002 to raise scholarship funds for professionals seeking aid in the field of personal ... (Read More)
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