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by David HewettAntique Place in Hallandale, Florida, may be a possible record holder for passed lots. It has had four Live Auctioneers sales in 2010. The auctions ranged in size from 215 lots to 270 lots. So far this year it has offered a total of 956 lots. According to ... (Read More)
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by Karl H. PassIt was not a typical Tuesday evening sale for Wehrly's Auction Service Inc. on May 11. The small rural Glen Rock, Pennsylvania-based company sold an unusual paint-decorated southern York County, Pennsylvania, lift-top chest for $11,000 (includes buyer's premium) to a Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, private collector."We believe it ... (Read More)
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William Jurian Kaula landscape of the Pemigewasset Valley of New Hampshire, $10,925.Delaware Valley ladder-back armchair, $10,350.Spectacular open-top pewter cupboard, probably from the Margaree Valley region of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. It had an array of detailed decorative carvings, ranging from a reticulated dentil cornice, to pinwheel rosettes and quarter sunburst ... (Read More)
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Woman in a Garden Sewing by Joseph Kleitsch (1882-1931), 24" x 30", sold to a Bay Area private collector for $230,000. The painting was one of several offered from the estate of Nancy M. Daly, a Los Angeles collector who was married to L.A. mayor Richard Riordan. Kleitsch is one ... (Read More)
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Rago Arts and Auction Center, Lambertville, New Jerseyby Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy RagoA Judy Kensley McKie patinated bronze jaguar bench, 1992, inscribed 11 of 12/ copyright JKM 1992, 26½" x 57" x 17", sold for $73,200 (est. $30,000/40,000) on the phone. A phone bidder paid $31,720 (est. $15,000/20,000) for a Judy ... (Read More)
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Robert Bob Foley of Gray, Maine, offered for $155 a small concrete sculpture of a woman dozing on a park bench. She was guarded by a $255 pair of red-eyed owl andirons.Weatherwise, it was a fine day, but not everybody was out raking. Barbara Boyland, Polly Thibodeau, and JanDurham of ... (Read More)
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EditorialIs the antiques business a shadow economy? Sometimes, like the late comedian Rodney Dangerfield, it gets no respect.Local legislation in Massachusetts that was aimed at protecting the public has brought serious unintended consequences. On Cape Cod this spring, some well-meaning selectmen, aided by law enforcement, managed to get a socalled ... (Read More)
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Auction Law and Ethicsby Steve ProffittHow do we get into the bad spots that we do? We usually do it to ourselves. We "sell" ourselves into the predicaments that haunt and harm us.Take my cousin, Junior, over in Boaz, Alabama, a real intellectual and crack negotiator too. Cross Gomer Pyle ... (Read More)
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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 Force for Change: African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald ... (Read More)
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Barn Star Productions' two shows during Antiques Week in New Hampshire (the Manchester Pickers Market on Monday, August 9, and Mid-Week in Manchester on Wednesday and Thursday, August 11 and 12) will once again be held at the Furniture World building, located at 1300 South Porter Street in Manchester (Exit ... (Read More)
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