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(Auction)Cabinet of Morbid Curiosities: The Richard Harris Collection
Potter & Potter Auctions, Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Potter & Potter Auctions
“He was an eclectic collector who had a lot of stuff.” The comment came from Aron Packer, the director and specialist of fine and Outsider art for Potter & Potter Auctions in Chicago, as he commented on the person ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Please Read Carefully
Beneath the Surface
Life gets incrementally easier with kids. It is like the reverse of that apocryphal boiling frog story: things getting ever-so-slowly better—instead of worse—until one day you suddenly notice that they are better. (Yeah, yeah, don’t write to tell us how it’s going to start getting worse again now ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Elevated Art and 20th-Century Design
Toomey & Co., Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Toomey & Co. To grasp the impact of a two-layered sale held at Toomey & Co. in Chicago on October 1, one must first understand “the network.” Ergo, a brief tutorial is in order.
This particular network is a relatively new business entity that links ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Joel White
Joel White is a third-generation Mainer and antiques dealer who now lives in an 1830s brick farmhouse located on the same road in Waldoboro, Maine, where he grew up. “There used to be a brick factory down the road, and the clay for the brick came from the pond,” he ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Massachusetts Sale Lights Up to $6.5 Million Total
The September 28 and 29 auction at Fontaine’s Auction Gallery totaled just over $6.5 million from 1000 lots, according to the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, auction house. Tiffany Studios lighting and decorative arts objects dominated the sale, but there were other high-profile objects, called “unusual and exceptional” by the auction house. Three ... (Read More)
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(Auction)“We the People”: The U.S. Constitution and Articles of Confederation at Brunk Auctions
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Brunk Auctions
Record-breaking rainstorms followed by Hurricane Helene forced the delay of the planned September 28 sale of a rare copy of the 1787 United States Constitution at Brunk Auctions. Flooding in Asheville, North Carolina, and throughout western North Carolina destroyed entire towns and disrupted ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Sale of Jay R. Moyer’s Estate
Hess Auction Group, Manheim, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Hess Auction Group
On September 28, the day after Pook & Pook in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, finished selling 1500 lots of mostly Pennsylvania antiques used by generations of Pennsylvania Germans, Hess Auctions in Manheim, Lancaster County, a little more than 50 miles up the road, offered ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)MADA Helps Restore Painting
On July 31 the Maine Antiques Dealers Association (MADA) presented a check for $1000 to the Lincoln County (Maine) Historical Association to help fund the recent restoration of a circa 1840 landscape painting by artist and explorer Henry Cheever Pratt (1803-1880).
The check was presented at the Pownalborough Court House in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Maine Scene Tops Dallas Auction
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
Paintings of scenic New England landscapes and seascapes by renowned American artists dominated Heritage Auctions’ September 27 sale of American art, confirming that the market for this genre of art remains strong.
The “American Art Within Reach Showcase Auction” was highlighted by works of late ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Will Coffeepot and Rare Fraktur Lead Americana Sale
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook, Inc.
On September 27 the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at a record high, and Wall Street’s three main indexes posted weekly gains. On that same day, the last of Pook and Pook’s three-day sale in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, some blue-chip Americana ... (Read More)
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