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A Country Sale in the North Carolina Mountains
by Pete Prunkl

The top furniture lot and the second-highest lot of the sale was a two-piece French cabinet with scrolled and carved crown, open shelves, and two doors above. Below were one small drawer, two angled doors, and a carved skirt. It sold for $1485. The top lot of the sale at ... (Read More)

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Burk Show Rolls Into Its 40th Year
by Karl H. Pass

The pillar and scroll shelf clock from Allentown, Pennsylvania, had a Black Forest movement from Europe. The dial and tablet were original and on tin. It was priced at $12,500 from New Oxford, Pennsylvania, dealer Kelly Kinzle. The Severin Roesen still-life painting was $55,000, and the inlaid cutlery box was ... (Read More)

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"Miss Edgerton's Ye Colonial Shoppe" or Women in the Trade, Part Two
by Jeanne Schinto

by Jeanne Schinto"You've sold all my things. You've sold my mother's china. You sold the rugs. You sold the portraits. You've made a business out of it—selling the past. What kind of a business is that—selling the past?"—from "Publick House," John Cheever, The New Yorker, August 16, 1941The cover of ... (Read More)

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A Farm Animal Shelter in Western New York Saves Historic Site
by Fran Kramer

by Fran KramerCracker Box Palace, a farm animal haven in Alton, New York, is well underway to saving an essential piece of Shaker history.Alasa Farms, on the site of what was the Sodus Shaker community from 1826 to 1836 (the Sodus Shakers then moved 90 miles southwest to Groveland and ... (Read More)

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Strongest Painting Sale Ever---without a Fitz Henry Lane
by Jeanne Schinto

At the Grand Prix by Childe Hassam (1859-1935), an 11½" x 8¼" (sight size) pastel and graphite on paper/board, brought the top price of the day, $699,000 (est. $150,000/200,000). Signed “Childe/Hassam,” it was inscribed “given to me by A.L.A. for Victorian Room” on a label from the Worth Avenue Gallery, ... (Read More)
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