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Louisiana Purchase Auction Shows Strength in the South
by Karla Klein Albertson

The furniture star of the auction was this rosewood Gothic Revival center table based on a design by Alexander Jackson Davis (1803-1892); it sold for $44,812.50 to a local collector. A similar table thought to be designed by Davis is shown in “Drawing Room at Kenwood, Gothic Style,” an illustration ... (Read More)

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Keno's First New York City Auction Successful
by Lita Solis-Cohen

There were three phone bidders competing for this diminutive (20½" high x 22¼" wide x 12¾" deep) paint-decorated pine blanket chest attributed to Robert Crosman (1707-1799) of Taunton, Massachusetts. The hinged top is a 19th-century replacement. Estimated at $2000/4000, it sold for $14,640. It was illustrated in The Magazine Antiques ... (Read More)

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Modernism 2010
by Lita Solis-Cohen

This collection of old microphones, some with the stations’ call letters, was around $7000 from James Elkind of Lost City Arts. They sold to someone who saw them on line and came to the show to see them in person and buy them.Jacksons, Stockholm, Sweden, and Berlin, Germany, asked $35,000 ... (Read More)

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American Paintings
by Lita Solis-Cohen

The star of the American Art Fair was Gilbert Stuart’s George Washington, for which Hammer Galleries at 475 Park Avenue was asking $7,500,000. When Armand Hammer bought it at auction in 1970, it cost $205,000, then a record for a painting by an American artist, eclipsed by an Eakins a ... (Read More)

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Edward Gorey Glory
by Antioch Jensen*

Swann sold a signed copy of Gorey’s The Beastly Baby by Ogdred Weary for $1200 (est. $400/600). Published in 1962, it is one of 500 unnumbered copies of the first book bearing Gorey’s own Fantod Press imprint. Ogdred Weary is an anagram for Edward Gorey. According to Swann, the price ... (Read More)

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An Antique Jewelry Market Glimpse from Two Maine Businesses
by Mary Ann Hensel

A client of Dan Chambers brought in this circa 1910 natural fancy colored yellow diamond (weighing 5.19 carats), diamond,and platinum ring made by her grandfather, Samuel H. Draisin, a competitor of Harry Winston. Chambers represented his customer with Bonhams and Butterfields,at an auction of fine jewelry and timepieces in June ... (Read More)

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Decoys Sell Well in the City
by Lita Solis-Cohen

This mallard drake by Joseph W. Lincoln (1859-1938) of Accord, Massachusetts, circa 1925, is probably the only fullsize Lincoln mallard drake decoy in original paint known to exist. It was found several decades ago in an antiques shop in Pennsylvania. During Lincoln’s lifetime, mallard ducks as a wild species were ... (Read More)

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Show to Have Live Internet Buying with Personal Shoppers
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The Indianapolis Art & Antiques Show, held over the weekend of March 11-13, will offer live Internet access for shopping the displays on the show floor. The Methodist Health Foundation will offer easy access to shoppers who are not able to attend the show.Now in its 24th year, the show ... (Read More)

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Yale's Rhode Island Furniture Archive Now On Line
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A new Web site, the Yale University Rhode Island Furniture Archive at the Yale University Art Gallery, documents furniture and furniture making in Rhode Island from the time of the first European colonization in 1636 through the early 19th century. Bringing together records of surviving furniture, individuals who owned it, ... (Read More)

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The Virginia Safe Project
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Figure 1Figure 2Common to most 19th-century Shenandoah Valley households, the pie or food safe is the focus of a multiyear research project launched in August 2010 as "The Virginia Safe Project."The initial phase of the study will target the Shenandoah Valley region, beginning with Frederick County in the north and ... (Read More)
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