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(Auction)Strongest Painting Sale Ever---without a Fitz Henry Lane
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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(Show)The Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair
Moylan-Smelkinson/The Spare Room found a way to solve the universal case crunch dilemma. Faced with showing 21 Chrysanthemum pattern plates by English maker Herculaneum, they mounted themon a wall. From about 1810, the plates were $17,000 for the lot or $850 each.Merchandise Mart seller Richard Norton brought a set of ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Antiquing Around the World--On Line
The Woolloongabba Antique Centre in Brisbane, Australia looks like something you might find anywhere in the U.S.Computer Column #260by John P. Reid, e-mail: [email protected] the past six months, this column has discussed serious stuff—software for dealers and antiques malls, inexpensive office software, running Windows programs for antiquers on a Macintosh ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Greg Hamilton Chosen VADA's Interim President
The spring meeting of the Vermont Antiques Dealers' Association was held at the South Station Restaurant in Rutland on June 7. The board accepted, with regret, the resignation of James Dunn, who has guided VADA for the past three and a half years. Dunn will remain on the antiques show ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Antique Toys, Advertising, and Americana Auction
Märklin gauge I red locomotive passenger train set, comprising an American Steam profile 0-4-0 clockwork engine with maker’s emblem on boiler front, brake lever, and whistle chain, in very scarce maroon and red colors (some paint chipping and paint peeling from the boiler); a four-wheel tender with rear hinged compartment; ... (Read More)
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(Show)Tales of a Wayside Inn Show
Samuel Herrup Antiques, Sheffield, Massachusetts, brought a circa 1760 cherry high chest from the Hartford,Connecticut, area, priced at $14,000. The English or Dutch William and Mary dressing table in oak was $4800. The pair of armchairs, late 17th-century Chinese,in elm wood, was tagged $9500. On the wall, the circa 1820 ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)The Teitelman Collection: More Than a Good Catalog
A Book Reviewby Lita Solis-CohenSuccess to America: Creamware for the American Market, featuring the S. Robert Teitelman Collection at Winterthurby S. Robert Teitelman, Patricia A. Halfpenny, and Ronald W. Fuchs II, with essays by Wendell D. Garrett and Robin EmmersonAntique Collectors' Club, 2010, 303 pages, hardbound, $75 plus S/H from ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Twain Manuscript Sells for Record $242,500
Photo courtesy Sotheby's.by Jeanne SchintoAn unpublished manuscript by Mark Twain, titled "A Family Sketch," sold at Sotheby's in New York City on June 17 for $242,500 (includes buyer's premium). The price is a new world auction record for any autograph manuscript by Twain, Sotheby's press office stated. The buyer in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rockport Art Association's Biggest Auction
Aldro Hibbard (1886-1972), Winter Stream, oil on canvas, 24" x 30", $17,250, the star of this auction. Collectors are fussy concerning the Hibbard paintings for which they will pay five digits. For example, a winter logging scene with plenty of snow and in Hibbard’s style, but without a sparkling stream, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Los Angeles Antiques Show
As first-time exhibitors at this show, but specializing in antique barometers for over 40 years, Derek and Tina Rayment Antiques, Farndon, Cheshire, U.K., displayed a collection of wonderful and decorative barometers from 1780 to 1940. Prices ranged from $250 to $20,000, making a barometer affordable to either a beginner or ... (Read More)
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