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(Fragment)Fall Americana Sales
Parkman-Scollay family bombé chest of drawers, $782,500. Sotheby's photo.Chester County wainscot chair that descended in the Lewis family, $77,025. Pook & Pook photo.Connecticut "sunflower" chest, possibly by Peter Blin, $482,500. Christie's photo.by Lita Solis-CohenAmericana sales in New York City at Christie's and Sotheby's have long been considered seasonal barometers of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Gaining Positive Momentum
The award for “Best in Auction” goes to this Tiffany “Aladdin” lamp with a Favrile glass shade that brought $8550. The shade is signed, and “Tiffany Studios New York 575” is impressed on the base. The central oil font is inscribed with swirling arabesques. The shade measures 10" in diameter, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)What Bad Economy? New Auction Records for Vintage Posters
Bidders vied heavily for this conditionA 48" x 36" Mather work incentive paper poster from 1925 by an unknown designer with a hospital theme (better to view a poster than the inside of an ambulance or a hospital room), which brought the auction’s second-highest price at $11,400 from a collector ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York Deaccessioning Regulations Expire
by Betty FloodThe New York State Board of Regents voted to let museum deaccessioning regulations, which were set in 2006, expire as of October 8, according to staff members who attended the meeting on September 14. According to Assemblyman Matthew Titone (D-Staten Island) and Assemblyman Richard Brodsky (D-Westchester), when proponents ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Northeast Sells China Trade and Marine Americana
This tooth is from the scrimshaw collection of Thomas H. Gosnell of Rochester, New York, and Nantucket, Massachusetts, who died in April 2009. He was active in land preservation efforts in Nantucket and in New York state and a supporter of and donor to historical societies and educational institutions. This ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Auction in Nantucket
The top lot of the sale was this unsigned oil on canvas portrait by British artist George Chinnery (1774-1852). According to catalog notes, Chinnery was the only western painter of his time to make his home in southern China, in Macao and Canton. He began painting in London and Ireland, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Quite a Show Ends with Quite a Blow
All lined up in the booth of DebraElizabeth Schaffer of Wiscasset, Maine: a four-sided glass and tin candle lantern, $45; a rare oil lamp with the original blown and bubbled glass, framed by pierced and painted tin, $675; and a lighthouse-form teapot with remnants of black paint, $175.“I’ve been battling ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Book Review: Please Touch!
by Jeanne SchintoSensory Marketing: Research on the Sensuality of Productsedited by Aradhna KrishnaRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009, 392 pages, softbound, $39.95, or hardbound, $79, from Taylor & Francis, (800) 634-7064 or (www.taylorandfrancis.com).Give him a tap with your fingernail.Muhlbach does so. The tiny statue rings like porcelain...Muhlbach picks up the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Brown Brings Green
John George Brown, Young Aspiring Sailor, signed "J.G. Brown N.A." and dated 1883, numbered No. 52444 on a paper label affixed to the back, oil on canvas, 25" x 20", $192,950. Weschler's photo.Paintings by John George Brown (1831-1913) that were the cover lots at Weschler's in Washington, D.C., and at ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Expensive Jade and "That" Outfit
White jade table screen, Chinese, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong period (1736-96). The arched rectangular panel is finely carved with two oarsmen in a boat with a deer and a basket of flowers in a mountainous waterscape with a pavilion in the distance. The reverse is carved with pine and bamboo with ... (Read More)
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