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The Main Line Antiques Show
by Lita Solis-Cohen

Perry-Joyce Fine Arts, Sawyer, Michigan, offered mostly 19th-century British needlework pictures, paintings, ceramics, papier-mâché, and metalwares, including furniture with needlework upholstery priced from $125 to $4000.Wesley Sessa, Heller Washam Antiques, and Dixon-Hall Fine Art together furnished a large stand that resembled a Main Line Philadelphia living room. The circa 1775 ... (Read More)

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Chippendale Corner Chair Tops Auction
by Mark Sisco

This Chippendale mahogany corner chair has a tooled Portuguese leather slip seat, well-formed ball-and-claw feet, pierce carved splats, and turned baluster posts. It sold for $34,500.This 10" x 14" oil on board by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait of a mother quail and her brood sold for $13,800.Devin Moisan, Dover, New Hampshireby ... (Read More)

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"Chinese Is Hot!"
by Mark Sisco

This Japanese scroll print showing lobsters and crabs in semiabstract style, possibly by an artist named Qi who may have passed away around 1990, according to the underbidder, sold for $13,225 (est. $100/200). Cobbs photo.First edition of A Book of Cats by Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, signed copy #59 of 500, ... (Read More)

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Vintage Redux: Repurposed Antiques
by Danielle Arnet

by Danielle ArnetThe old way of antiquing is, to borrow from the Monty Python parrot routine, dead, dead, dead. There's a new way to play antiques today. Younger buyers can't afford the old rubric and find it fusty anyway. Too traditional, irrelevant, and bluntly old. This is a cohort that ... (Read More)

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Letter from London
by Ian McKay

by Ian McKay, [email protected] a couple of new year sales feature in this month's reports, but 2012 sales should have gained more momentum by the time my next copy deadline comes around. Thankfully, I still had plenty left on my files from the old year, and this month's selection includes ... (Read More)

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Dealers' Eyes Were Shining at the Monroe Antique Show and Sale
by Cathy Aldrich

A steam and sailing ship diorama featuring the City of Rome was offered by Kathy and Paul Johnson of Seattle Folk Antiques, Seattle, Washington. The actual City of Rome was built in England, launched at Barrow on June 14, 1881, and sailed her first voyage from Liverpool on October 13 ... (Read More)

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Who's Who Sale Is a Masterful Success
by Marty Steiner

A signed late 19th-century carved and painted life-size Cuban tobacconist figure sold for $36,800. She was mounted on an original stenciled and iron-wheeled base.William Hawkins (1895-1990) created this very large (54½" x 48") enamel on plywood Northeast View from the State House Grounds, signed and dated 1983. Bidding started in ... (Read More)

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At the Louisiana Purchase Auction Exotic Lots Fly Like Tropical Birds
by Karla Klein Albertson

This view of a lonely cabin at Manchac, across Lake Ponchartrain from New Orleans, was attributed to Marshall Joseph Smith Jr. (1854-1923) and had descended in the family of artist William Henry Buck. Both men had been students of landscape painter Richard Clague Jr. The work brought $79,950.Southern collectors seek ... (Read More)

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A Book Review: Pastors & Patriots
by Lita Solis-Cohen

by Lita Solis-Cohen Pastors & Patriots: The Muhlenberg Family of Pennsylvaniaby Lisa Minardi, a special issue of Der Reggeboge (The Rainbow), Journal of the Pennsylvania German Society, Volume 45, Number 1, 2011, 95 pages, softbound, $24.95 plus $6 S/H from the Pennsylvania German Society, (717) 597-7940. The exhibition catalog Pastors & Patriots: ... (Read More)

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Beyond the Verdict: How LaSalle and Zaplin Won the $51 Million Bouguereau Suit
by David Hewett

Notre Dame des Anges.by David HewettOn Monday afternoon, January 9, a six-person jury returned to a courtroom in the Supreme Court of the State of New York building in Albany and delivered a verdict that surprised those who had been following the tale of two art dealers who were accused ... (Read More)
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