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(Fragment)Grogan Sells Russian Book for $83,375
The book with its silk embroidered dust jacket folded back. Grogan cataloged it only as "Russian Book on Byzantine Art; in Russian; N. Kohaakoba, bears date on title page 1892; limited edition numbered 175 out of 200 copies; white cover with black and gold decoration, 14½"." Bidders found it anyway. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Marine Paintings and Decorative Arts
Robert Salmon (1775-1845), Drying Sails in Boston Harbor, 1831, oil on canvas, 16½" x 24¼", signed lower right and inscribed on the reverse. Was this top lot at $458,000 a sign of greater sales to come? If so, we can thank Alan Granby of Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, for leading the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Million-Dollar-Plus Painting Forfeited
Leda ed il Cigno (Leda and the Swan), oil on copper, 16 7/8" x 11¾".Leda ed il Cigno (Leda and the Swan), an oil on copper by Italian Renaissance painter Lelio Orsi (1511-1587), was ordered forfeited to the United States government as property brought into the U.S. in violation of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Fusco & Four Announces Initial Roster for New Ellis Boston Antiques Show
by Jeanne SchintoAs of February 1, the dealer list for the new Ellis Boston Antiques Show, scheduled for October 13-16 at the Cyclorama in the Boston Center for the Arts, was divided exactly between veterans and newcomers.View of the entrance to the Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Monk Exceeds Expectations
by Don JohnsonIndeed, they found him.There were two Chinese porcelain figures, but this monk was the key item of the lot. The pair realized $36,425. The base of the figure was stamped "China" in capital letters and had the impressed maker's mark in Chinese, shown above. Photos courtesy Cowan's.An unpretentious ... (Read More)
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(Show)An "Off" Year at the Peabody Essex Museum
W.M. Schwind Jr. of Yarmouth, Maine, posed with this 1780-1800 Maine country Chippendale 57¼" tall six-drawer chest in birch with traces of old red finish and its original brasses. Descended in the Nathan Weston family, the chest was $7500.Stephen Score posed with this 1920-30 New England hooked rug depicting a ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law & Ethics: Problems with Property
Auction Law and Ethicsby Steve ProffittAn auctioneer sells property of some type at auction. That is obvious. What is not so apparent are all the particulars involved with the property and relevant to its sale. This is one of the aspects of auctioneering that makes it a lot more difficult ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques + Modernism Winnetka
Gary Sergeant of Woodbury, Connecticut, shows a couple a small (65" high x 39" wide) George II figured walnut chest-on-chest. It was $17,500. The George II carved walnut footstool on top with hairy paw feet with original casters, Irish, circa 1745, was $9800. The oil on canvas setter portraits by ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Karen and Mark Wheaton, Maria's Pond Antiques, Mariaville, New York
Karen and Mark Wheaton at home.Store counter of unusually small size (32" high x 41" wide x 16" deep), in old white paint, with both the edge of the top and of the open shelf in the back grain-painted,$725.Vibrant multicolored hooked rug with the initials “AW,” $595.Black-and-white carved horse with ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)It Takes a Village
The Young Collectorby Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondShortly after Hollie's labor ended, Andrew began one of his own, one that proved far more protracted than any childbirth. Approached late last spring by the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio in Lancaster with an opportunity to serve as a guest curator of ... (Read More)
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