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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Past the Halfway Point
>by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondAround our house, Hollie's always taking things apart to fix them and putting them back together. If we're going to have to call someone in anyway, we might as well take a crack at it first, right? More than once, with the dishwasher disassembled or ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received
by M.A.D. StaffThese are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or on-line orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or mail-order house is the place to look.A New World Imagined: Art of the Americas, edited by Fronia ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Joseph Sorger Collection
The 24½" high white marble bust of a woman by William Henry Rinehart (1825-1874), signed “Wm. H. Rinehart Sculpt. Roma 1874,” sold for $25,000 (est. $3000/5000) to New England collectors in the room. (The 42½" high Carrara marble pedestal under the bust was sold separately for $544.)Cataloged as French school, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Icon of American Horology Sells for $539,500
The William Bond & Son astronomical regulator, made in 1868, sold to a private collector for $539,500 (est. $300,000/500,000). The clock has a single-arm gravity escapement and a constant-force remontoire invented by Richard F. Bond. Only two other clocks like it are known. One was made for Harvard University’s observatory, ... (Read More)
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