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Lynn and Michael Worden of Worden Select Objects, Burr Oak, Michigan, continue their focus on a visually appealing, eclectic style. The couple combined a strong metal base with a stone slab, possibly a building revetment, to produce an attractive table, priced at $1450. The geared wheel on top was $295. ... (Read More)
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by Ed Polk DouglasPalo Alto plantation, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, by Marie Adrien Persac, $371,000. Photo courtesy Neal Auction Company.Cataloged as "American School/New Orleans, mid-19th c., 'A New Orleans House and Grounds, probably on Esplanade Ridge,' c. 1860," the painting brought $6273.75. Photo courtesy Neal Auction Company.The locale where an object ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)
A homegrown point-of-sale system on the computer monitor.Computer Column #266by John P. Reid, [email protected] discussing using computers as cash registers, here is an interesting news item. On November 23, 2010, Christie's in London sold an Apple-1 computer motherboard with its original shipping box, some accessories, and a typed letter signed ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)
>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)
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 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)
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 Universitys observatory, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Leading all painted chests was this one with original black and green sponge paint with the script initials HD in mustard yellow that sold for $10,062.50.A watercolor of a Canadian Rocky Mountain Indian encampment by Walter Joseph Phillips (1884-1963) sold for $25,300.Frank Vining Smith oil on canvas of the revenue ... (Read More)
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Silhouettes were offered by Danny and Vicki Dennis of Lock 147 Antiques, Conesville, Ohio. The male and female images in the bottom row (mounted in similar frames) were $425 for the pair. The smaller framed gentleman in the bottom row is reverse painted on glass and $395. The image center ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)
Auction Law and Ethicsby Steve ProffittPersonality-how important is it to a business deal? Well, if you're an auctioneer considering signing an auction contract with a prospective seller, it is extremely important.Last month we began considering the due diligence that an auctioneer should conduct on a prospective auction seller, and we ... (Read More)
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