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(Feature)Books Received
by M.A.D. StaffThese are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or on-line orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or mail-order house is the place to look.Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved: Scrimshaw in the New Bedford Whaling Museum ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Washington's Annotated Constitution Returns to Mount Vernon
Left, George Washington's handbound and annotated copy of the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and first Acts of Congress, 1789, 12" x 7½", sold to the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association for $9,826,500 (est. $2/3 million). Right, the title page, with Washington's signature. Photos courtesy Christie's.Each year George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques at the Arena: A New Maine Antiques Dealers Association Show
A sculptural wrought-iron wall planter priced at $485 and two 6' tall wrought-iron torchiere floor lamps wired for bulbs and tagged $595 graced the booth of Alden House Antiques, Belfast, Maine.The Thomas W. Lawson is identified as the only seven-masted schooner ever built. At the time she was launched in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Ohio Valley and Americana Auction
This decorated stoneware churn, made in Summit County, Ohio, 1865-80, is possibly the work of William McBurney. It depicts a bird holding a banner reading "Akron Ohio" and the name "D.S. Alexander" under the rim. With some chips and cracks, it sold for $28,200.My Home by Elijah Pierce (1892-1984) of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Collector Files RICO Lawsuit against Knoedler Gallery
In February 2007, collector John D. Howard visited the Armory Show in New York City where he was shown a Willem de Kooning landscape in the booth of Knoedler & Company, New York City. Four months later, he paid $4 million for it.In a civil racketeering complaint filed in federal ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The January Americana Pier Show is No More
After a run of 20 years, the January Pier show has been canceled by Stella Show Management Company. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Swann Has Best-Ever Book Department Sale
The top lot, going in the room for $90,000 (est. $4000/6000) to a major collector of historical documents, established a new auction record price for an autograph letter signed by Jonathan Trumbull Jr., George Washington's aide-de-camp. The buyer's underbidder was another collector seated adjacent to him. "The two stared each ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine and Decorative Art Auction
Polish Sleighing Party by Jan Van Chelminski (Polish, 1851-1925), oil on canvas, signed and dated 1886, a snow scene with soldiers on horseback, 19½" x 29½", craquelure and slightly darkened varnish, $27,025.Kentucky State Agricultural Society coin silver award pitcher, marked “W. Adams” of New York, having chased and repoussé landscapes, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Indian Art
Kwakwaka'wakw ceremonial feast bowl carved of cedar to depict Dzunuk'wa, 19th century, 36½" long, $111,625. Comanche child's doll cradle, sinew-sewn hide tinted red, blue, and yellow, cast brass bells and German silver disks, wooden slats painted red and blue with brass tacks, with porcelain-faced doll with cloth body, fourth quarter of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rhinebeck Antiques Fair: July Show Canceled and Fall Date Changed
by Fran KramerAt press time, Rhinebeck Antiques Fair manager Bruce Garrett said that the dates for the October 2012 show have "a 99.9% chance" to be changed from the Columbus Day weekend dates of October 6 and 7 to October 13 and 14. The show's Web site indicates the "new ... (Read More)
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