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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.John Storrs: Machine-Age Modernist by Debra Bricker Balken (The Boston Athenaeum, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Out of Anonymity: Ruby Devol Finch (1804-1866)
by Donald R. WaltersIn three recent consecutive preliminary articles1 for this column on "folk" portraiture in nineteenth century America an attempt has been made to construct a general framework of reference for a discussion of individual artists and their work. My aim has been (1) to place the artist accurately ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Christie's to Sell Martin Folk Art
Carved huntsman, wearing a gray jacket with yellow buttons and holding a bird with his dog at his feet, 19" tall, illustrated in Lipman's American Folk Art in Wood, Metal and Stone, estimated at $30,000/60,000.by Lita Solis-CohenAlastair Bradley Martin and his wife, Edith, lived at a time when all sorts ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Old and New at Foster Folk Art Auction
Two-gallon Norton “guitar” crock, $5280.This eastern Native American ash splint basket sold for $2145.A good and early stretcher-based chair table in an old red paint with wear in all the right places and a two-board scrubbed top fared well at $2750.Robert L. Foster, Newcastle, Maineby Mark SiscoDid you hear the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Key Lots Excite Bidders at June Auction
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(Feature)In the Trade: Jerry and Pat Jordan, Dorset, Vermont
The Jordans’ shop. It looks old, but they built it recently using parts from an 18th-century Maine home. The couple is camera-shy. They’re hiding inside.Part of the shop’s interior.Amusing hooked rug, 29" x 27", the clock face tan and the wide outside border burgundy, $1675.Account book of tailor James Read ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Auction in California
A Chippendale mahogany blockfront chest of drawers, possibly made by George Bright of Boston, sold to an East Coast dealer for $61,000 (est. $80,000/120,000). That was the highest price in the Americana section of the auction, although it did not come up to the chest’s lower estimate. With an impressive ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antique Metal Restoration Center Reopens
The Antique Metal Restoration Center is reopening in East Walpole, Massachusetts. Otto Suchy has restored everything metal from suits of armor to candlesticks. A family business started in 1938 in Czechoslovakia by Suchy's father, the firm moved to the United States in 1968.Over the years Suchy has worked for museums ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Book Reviews: Life after Lovejoy #23
by Marilis Hornidge When it comes to mysteries with a solid antiques background these days, the gleanings are amazingly few. Best-selling glitzy thrillers of the Da Vinci Code ilk seem to have discouraged authors (and/or publishers) from the old-fashioned puzzles with class and background; the determinedly light-reading writers have been ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Mackle Collection Highlights Evans Glass Sale
We have often commented that no serious glass collection is complete without an example of a pressed tulip vase from the Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. The collection of Larry and Sandy Mackle is no exception. These brilliant deep teal or peacock blue vases measure 11" high with a base ... (Read More)
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