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(Auction)A Decorated Seed Chest, a Rare Carpet, and the Easter Bunny
Chester County is the place to sell hunting scenes. This Charles Morris Young (1869-1964) oil on canvas depicts a fox hunt at Andrews Bridge and is signed lower right and dated 1941. It's in the original gilt frame signed "Philip N. Yates" and measures 15" x 18". Estimated at $10,000/15,000, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Art in Flowers and Flowers in Art
Top price of the sale was the $103,500 paid by a New York City phone bidder for this floral still life by Maurice Brazil Prendergast (1858-1924), a 20" x 11" oil on canvas laid down on board that had descended in the family of Lillie Bliss (1864-1931). According to the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Blue and White Pottery and Canadian Painted Furniture Auctioned
Potter usually opens his auctions with a stunner, and he did not disappoint this time out. He sold this two-handled 11" tall redware crock with a mottled orange and green glaze for $2970. Thompson photo.A beautiful circa 1800 corner cupboard from Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, with the overpaint removed to the original ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antique City: The Fun Fair
There was a line at 8:30 for the 9 a.m. opening. Promoter Norman Schaut gave away thousands of tickets.Although more people came than in the fall, the aisles were wide, and it never seemed crowded.Joe Soucy of Seaside Toys, Westerly, Rhode Island, offered a 1960's VW van, a Volkswagen giveaway ... (Read More)
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(Show)And the Winner Is--Metrolina
This massive converted double gas light with elaborate brass curlicue supports is a hefty 5' across x 3½' tall. Dick Timme of Killingworth, Connecticut, who found it in a warehouse office, had it priced at $1500.From the 1920's, this Keystone toy steam shovel lacks paint on its pressed steel roof ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: This month's column has a distinct French flavour, the two main reports focussing on items once owned by the remarkable Duchesse de Berry and her "Miracle Child," a 19th-century claimant to the French throne, and on exceptional decorative furnishings from the much more recently acquired Château ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)New Book Documents Early Furniture of America's Lower Mississippi River Valley
A Book Reviewby Ed Polk DouglasFurnishing Louisiana: Creole and Acadian Furniture, 1735-1835by Jack D. Holden, H. Parrott Bacot, and Cybèle T. Gontar, with Brian J. Costello and Francis J. PuigThe Historic New Orleans Collection, 2010, hardbound, 552 pp., $95 plus S/H from Historic New Orleans Collection, (www.hnoc.org) or (504) 598-7147.For ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Albert Sack Has Died
Dealer and author Albert Sack of the legendary antiques firm Israel Sack has died. We'll have more information when it becomes available. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Herkimer Home Closed
by Sabrina Pry and Betty FloodHerkimer Home State Historic Site, a gem of the American Colonial period, closed for the winter with no plans to reopen, according to Dan Keefe, spokesman for the New York Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation (OPRHP). The Georgian-style house is located in Little ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Esmerian Pleads Guilty to Fraud
by David HewettOn April 15 Ralph Esmerian, a former president and former chairman of the board of trustees of the American Folk Art Museum in New York City, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Denise L. Cote in U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, to a three-count indictment ... (Read More)
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