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(Feature)Exhibitions
Maine Antique Digest includes, as space permits, brief announcements of exhibitions planned by galleries, museums, or other venues. We need all press materials at least six weeks in advance of opening. We need to know the hours and dates of the exhibit, admission charges, and phone number and Web site ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Dr. Werner Muensterberger's African Art Collection
Werner Muensterberger's Collecting: An Unruly Passion was first published in 1994 by Princeton University Press. Copies are available on Amazon (www.amazon.com) and other used-book Web sites. One must get to the end of the book to discover the doctor believed that collecting, if kept within bounds, could be a healthy ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Mobile Antiques Web Sites
Newport, Rhode Island, antiques shops listing as seen on an Android smartphone.Computer Column #263by John P. Reid, [email protected] value of Web site ownership to antiquers was discussed in the last two columns along with steps for creating mobile versions of Web sites. This month some interesting mobile antiques Web sites ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fire Screen "Possibly" Going Back to White House
The 47½" x 27" carved giltwood fire screen, possibly by French cabinetmaker Pierre-Antoine Bellangé (circa 1760-1844), sold to an unidentified phone bidder for $22,420 (est. $2000/4000).Still Life by Anton Faistauer (1887-1930), an important Austrian Modernist, sold for $112,100 (est. $30,000/40,000). The 26" x 35" oil on canvas makes evident that ... (Read More)
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(Feature)A Box-Lot Blue Pickle, "Wonderfully Imperfect" Stirs Fuss on eBay
Kim Kokles is shown holding his new blue pickle with an old favorite—a colored-enamel back bar bottle, a "Yellowstone Whiskey" with a full-color view of the grand falls. Most of the bottles represented in his bar bottle collection have color depictions relating to the product brand. This photo, Kokles added, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Lily Pad Master Salt Sells for $38,700
Yellow olive-amber master salt, 2½" high, circular bowl with folded rim, body decorated with superimposed gather, tooled into a type 2 lily pad design, applied funnel foot with folded rim, tubular pontil scar, attributed to the Lancaster Glass Works, New York, circa 1852, possibly the work of John Lambrix, ex-David ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)James Johnston's Composite Audubon
Full-sheet composite.by Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy Antique Nature PrintsPrint dealer James Gilbert Johnston, who has a shop in Birmingham, Alabama, and a Web site (www.antiquenatureprints.com), is proud of a discovery he made in November 2010. Viewing a Skinner auction catalog on line, he found an undercataloged Audubon print."Lot 628 looked strange, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Tool and Its Money
This Stanley No. 340 furring plane was the top money-getter at $10,350.This open screw thread micrometer is in "like-new" condition, despite the patent date of April 23, 1878. It was patented by George M. Pratt of Middletown, Connecticut, and produced by the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company of Providence, Rhode ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Variety Is the Spice of Success
Märklin (Germany) stationary traction engine steam toy, early 1920's, the crown jewel from the late Klaus Grutkza's steam toy collection, base 14½" x 26", $19,550.Hubley Popeye on motorcycle, cast iron, 1928, includes factory tag, ex-Bob Brady, 6¾" long, $19,550.Arcade parlor coach, cast iron, circa 1926, deemed the finest example known, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tall Clock Leads Rhode Island Auction
A trip to a home in Jamestown, Rhode Island, was the source of this stunning tall clock with a Goddard case and brass dial that read "Thos. Stretch Philadelphia." The clock features a classic Goddard-carved shell and measures 101" tall. It opened with a $10,000 bid and, with several phones ... (Read More)
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