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(Fragment)Schultz Auction Sells Rare Chinese Moon Flask for $1,751,500
Photos courtesy Kelly and Benjamin Schultz.by Charles Wenner On May 7, an auction held by Kelly and Benjamin Schultz in Clarence, New York, led to a climactic bidding event that resulted in the sale of an 18th-century Chinese moon flask for $1,751,500 (includes buyer's premium). The early flask has a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Herkimer Home Reopens
The Herkimer Home State Historic Site in Little Falls, New York, which had closed for the winter with no plans to reopen, has been reopened. Barbara Mielcarski, president of Friends of Herkimer Home, said, "The site is reopened. We now have two staff on board, and filling in with volunteers, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Heisey Collection Highlights Spring Sale
This Wedgwood "Florentine" dinnerware service, comprising 12 place settings and 130 pieces total, all in good condition, according to the catalog report, sold for $2200.This tiny three-masted ship model with a village diorama in the background sold for $1980. It was inside an 11" long clear glass whiskey bottle with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Majolica and Oyster Plate Auction
The top lot was this 34" high x 20½" deep Minton floor jardinière in the form of three putti with garlands crowning their heads, separated by pink shells with yellow centers supporting a large cobalt basket (shape No. 1281). With a professional repair to one foot, the rim on two ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Perkins Stepping Down as Executive Director of Bennington Museum
Stephen Perkins, executive director of the Bennington Museum in Bennington, Vermont, is stepping down at the end of June. The director of public programs, Deana Mallory, has been named interim director and will take over management of the museum upon Perkins's departure. Perkins joined the museum on June 18, 2001, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Auction Firm Pleads Guilty to Tax Charges
by Sabrina Pry and Betty Flood Pneuco, Inc., owned by well-known and popular auctioneer R. Cash Cunningham, 59, of Buffalo, New York, pled guilty to underreporting more than $164,000 in sales tax, according to New York State Department of Taxation and Finance Commissioner Thomas H. Mattox. The corporate plea to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rural Material Culture: Selections from Indiana and Borders
Among the most expressive works by Marcus Mote, a devoted Quaker, is an 1884 oil on canvas, 18" x 28", inscribed "Old Indiana Yearly Mtg. trying to count her chickens."Using wood as a canvas, Hosea Hayden expressed views on women's suffrage in the incised decorations and text of this tripod ... (Read More)
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(Show)Second Annual Show at Longfellow's Wayside Inn
Dan Meenan is a member of the Sudbury Militia, a group of reenactors or, more formally, historical interpreters of the Colonial period, specifically for the American Revolution in Sudbury, Massachusetts. For more information, see the Web site (www.sudburyminutemen.org).A portion of the tent and some of the vintage cars on exhibit ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Shenandoah Antiques Expo
Martin and Darlene Facazio of Culpeper, Virginia, were set up in the infield. Darlene was pleased to announce that since her husband is now retired, they will be able to participate in more shows. Marty had no comment. The Facazios offered this array of small brass and tin lanterns that ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The 30th-Anniversary Indiana Art Auction
The Sentinel by Edward K. Williams (1870-1950), oil on canvas, 30" x 36", signed, with 1935 Hoosier Salon tag, $31,900."Ol' Saint Nick" by T.C. Steele (1847-1926), oil on canvas, 27" x 20", signed on frame and dated 1870, $82,500.By the Side of the Road by William Forsyth (1854-1935), oil on ... (Read More)
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