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(Show)Connecticut Spring Antiques Show: Colorful and Classic
Justin Cobb of Captain's Quarters, Amherst, Massachusetts, asked $3000 for this 47½" tall x 43" wide captain's desk of teak and rosewood, probably made in China or India. Cobb said that newer desks are coming in from Asia and lack the quality of the period ones and explained that to ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Tailgate Antiques Show Says, You Want It, We Got It
A blue heart border set off this stick spatter child's tea set for $295 among the toys shown by Barbara and Jerry Sharp of Some Sharp Antiques, Hendersonville, Tennessee.Ed Fulkerson and Michael Breddin run a 10,000-square-foot store in Brenham, Texas, called Leftovers. On display in Nashville was this gray-painted Texas ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Equal in Goodness: Ohio Decorative Arts 1788-1860
Items from the northeast quadrant of Ohio include a "Map of the Western Reserve Including the Fire Lands in Ohio," published by William Sumner of Nelson, Portage County, 1826; and a figured maple settee from Zoar, Tuscarawas County, circa 1840.Items from the southeast quadrant of Ohio include a paint-decorated Windsor ... (Read More)
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(Feature)When Danny Met Sally
The introductory page to the When Danny Met Sally Web site.by Danielle ArnetWhen two veteran Chicago vintage collectors/show promoters/sellers with off-the-wall personalities decide to launch a blog (www.whendannymetsally.com) about their love of all things vintage, what do you get? For starters, something not seen before in the collecting world. As ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Woodbury Auction's Second Anniversary Sale in New Location
Woodbury Auction's second anniversary auction on May 21 will be held at a substitute venue. The sale will take place in the heart of historic Woodbury, Connecticut, at 670 Main Street South-Sherman Village-instead of the firm's headquarters at 50 Main Street North.Thomas Schwenke, founder of Woodbury Auction, commented that "this ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Price Keeps Going Up for Artwork Not Yet Paid For
by Clayton PenningtonSamuel T. Freeman & Co. of Philadelphia and consignors Marvin and Lorie Balistocky have filed suit in federal court against Manhattan art dealer David Benrimon for failing to pay for Roy Lichtenstein's screenprint cataloged as Water Lilies with Willows (court documents title it Water Lily Pond with Reflections).The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Gollings Ponies Set Pace in Detroit
More than 16 registered telephone bidders were added to the in-house and Internet contingent competing for Tepees & Animals in Winter, a 10" x 14" oil on canvas by Elling William Gollings (1878-1932), dated 1924. To the surprise and delight of the consignors, who were in attendance, the painting brought ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Twentieth Century at Bonhams
A Paavo Tynell brass snowflake chandelier, manufactured by Taito Oy, Finland, 1950's, impressed "Taito Oy" and numbered, 40" high x 25" diameter, sold for $36,600 (est. $10,000/15,000).Bonhams, New York Cityby Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy BonhamsThe various-owners 20th-century design sale at Bonhams on the afternoon of December 14, 2010, was a potpourri ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Vintage Radios at Bonhams
An Air King 52, 1933, in a red Catalin case with red on black knobs and a map of the world dial, 11¾" high x 8¾" wide x 6¾" deep, sold in the salesroom with competition in the room and on a phone for $42,700 (est. $25,000/30,000).Bonhams, New York Cityby ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Meg Kocian and Frank DePasqua, Kocian DePasqua American Antiques & Folk Art, Woodbury, CT
Frank DePasqua and Meg Kocian. Meg said, "People come up to Frank and say, 'Are you Kocian?' They think it's his first name, not my last name."The couple's home and shop. They report that the recent posting of "Connecticut Antiques Trail" signs on nearby Interstate 84 has added to traffic ... (Read More)
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