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(Feature)In the Trade: Mary Belter, Falls Village, Connecticut
Mary Belter's shop on Route 7 in Falls Village, Connecticut.Mary Belter by the woodstove in her shop.Partial view of the shop.This interior view shows one of the Art Deco ceiling fixtures, which were installed when the place was built as a grocery store in 1940.One of Belter's favorite display cases. ... (Read More)
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(Show)The San Francisco Antiques Show
This turn-of-the-20th-century German Noah's ark "of unusually large size" with "quite a few" animals was priced at $12,900, including the animals, by Yew Tree House Antiques, New York City.The label for these circa 1935 English reconstituted stone seated putti described them as "an engaging pair." Finnegan Gallery, Chicago, priced the ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Vermont's Antiques Week: Shows Do Well, Rains Repeat but Don't Endanger
Shown by White & White Antiques, Skaneateles, New York, the oil on canvas, 25" x 31½", depicts a scene of the French countryside and is signed "Aston Knight, Paris." Louis Aston Knight was the son of American painter Daniel Ridgway Knight and was born in Paris in 1873. Steven White ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Castan and Tomlinson Sale Reaps $1 Million-plus Bounty
Buddy "L" red tugboat, pressed steel, only known example of red color variant, no clockwork mechanism, possibly a salesman's sample, 27½" long, $23,000.Buddy "L" red Ford Flivver truck, a special gift to Fred Castan from Buddy "L" founder Fred Lundahl, 12" long, $20,700.Tippco (German) motorcycle with sidecar, boxed example, clockwork, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)VermontADA Donates Show Profits to Food Banks and Flood Relief
The Vermont Antiques Dealers' Association held its 37th annual show on July 30 and 31, 2011, at the Union Arena in Woodstock, Vermont. According to the association, admission ticket profits have been donated and distributed to three Woodstock area food shelves: Woodstock Community Food Shelf, Reading-Brownsville Foodshelf, and Neighbors Helping ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: Another British Import
In this issue of Maine Antique Digest, we've included a special color pullout section previewing the events during Americana Week in New York City, the fortnight of shows, auctions, and exhibitions in mid- to late January that surround the venerable Winter Antiques Show.There's no question that Americana Week is a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Midwestern Sculptural Stoneware Based on "The Arkansas Traveler" Sold at Crocker Farm
$19,550.Currier & Ives, The Arkansas Traveller.by Karl H. PassA rare hand-molded salt-glazed stoneware sculpture of a log cabin with a family and animals sold for $19,550 (includes buyer's premium) at Crocker Farm in Sparks, Maryland, on October 29, 2011. The piece recently surfaced in Illinois, according to the Zipps of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Highlights of Americana from Two Estates
Once again, a powerful piece of music memorabilia was top lot at a Case auction. This time a 1964 copy of Meet the Beatles with a handwritten tribute to Dr. Jules Gordon and the signatures of all four members of the band climbed to $75,400.A. Welling LaGrone Jr. was a ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, [email protected] Merry Christmas, One and All…I looked hard for something appropriate and Christmassy with which to open this month's "Letter," but nothing presented itself, and in the end, the closest I came—and even then it occurred to me only after I had written the piece—was De Nova ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Sales of Magnificent Jewels
Circa 1925 Art Deco diamond brooch of geometric motif, mounted in platinum, centering upon a bezel-set old-European-cut diamond, with an openwork old-mine-cut and old-European-cut diamond plaque, in a burgundy leather case signed "Casa Weil, Santiago." It sold for $25,000 (est. $15,000/20,000). Christie's.The signed Tiffany & Co. circa 1930 Art Deco ... (Read More)
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