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(Feature)Old Masters Get New Homes
An amazingly intact George III six-light glass candle chandelier, complete with drip pans, chains, pendants, and a glass baluster pendant, sold for $11,800. Northeast Auctions photo.A matching pair of George III serpentine mahogany card tables (one shown) with double swing legs, molded top edges, shell-carved knees, and scrolled feet sold ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Two Shows in the Adirondacks
by Betty FloodThe Adirondacks will be hopping this summer with two antiques shows. The first will be held on the grounds of the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, New York, on August 13 and 14. The second will be at the Indian Lake Central School and Town Hall in ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Scrap Law Proposed in New York
by Sabrina Pry and Betty FloodThe sale, offer of sale, or purchase as scrap of certain items such as street signs, funeral markers, or any metal items bearing markings of any government entity, utility company, cemetery, or railroad, unless offered for sale by an authorized employee, would be prohibited in ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Painting Pledged to Carnegie Sold in London
by Daniel GrantIn a settlement that was announced on June 22, the Michael Werner Gallery in New York City agreed not to contest the sale at Christie's London on June 28 of Red Boat (Imaginary Boys), a 2004 painting by Peter Doig (Scottish, b. 1959). The gallery had sought to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Historic Firearms and Early Militaria
Seventeenth-century Qing Dynasty cannon captured in the Boxer Rebellion, $149,500.Experimental 1915 Mauser Nickl pistol, .45 caliber, 5" barrel, walnut grips, the only known example, barrel and frame with most of the original blue, $97,750.Factory-engraved Colt single-action revolver, .45 caliber, 4¾" barrel, cylinder is from a rejected military revolver, pearl grips, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Kyle D. Husfloen Joins Kaminski Auctions
Kyle D. Husfloen is the new Southern California representative of Kaminski Auctions of San Diego and Beverly Hills, California, and Beverly, Massachusetts. Husfloen served as editor-at-large of The Antique Trader of Dubuque, Iowa, for over 30 years and took over the editorship of the Antique Trader Antiques & Collectibles Price ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Strong Glass Sales
Ex-David Good and the Stradlings, a 5" high Zanesville, Ohio, ten diamond aquamarine pitcher sold for $42,900. It was probably blown at the Whites Glass Factory in Zanesville circa 1820.Glass International's latest auction included 33 lots and closed on May 28. According to auctioneer John DeCaro, a unique mold-blown pitcher ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Indian Art
This Eastern Shoshone painted hide depicts a typical dance scene, probably a Sun Dance, with a buffalo head surmounted by an eagle with wings outstretched, and the open field with a teepee and dancers, equestrian figures, and buffalo. It is attributed to Cadzi Cody and is 77" wide. Cody continued ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Semiannual Antique Cane Auction
A late 19th-century Japanese carved hand cane, 36" long, with shibayama insects realized $3220. The elephant ivory handle carved to look like a hand leaning on a cane top was enhanced with five randomly placed overlaid hardstone insects with carved and inked legs and antennae. Shibayama is a style of ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Hirschl & Adler Moves to Fifth Avenue at 57th Street
The pair of Classical pier tables was made in Boston; the compotes on them were made at La Cristellerie de Voneche in Belgium. The painting on the left, Boats on the Harlem River, is by Ernest Lawson; the painting on the right, Sand Storm, is by Agnes Pelton and was ... (Read More)
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