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Its plank-on-frame construction with many working parts, said dealer Dave White of Whites Nautical Antiques as he was describing this Gloucester fishing schooner, 1880-90, for which he was asking $3950. It sold later in the show.John Hunt Marshalls son Leland stands in front of a colorful Italian three-panel folding screen, ... (Read More)
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Turkey Hunter by Eanger Irving Couse (1866-1936), oil on canvas, signed, 20" x 24", professionally relined, minor inpainting, $47,587.50 (est. $30,000/40,000).Portrait of Elk Foot Jerry, Taos by JosephHenry Sharp (1859-1953), oil on canvas,signed and dated 1941, also inscribedHunting Son, Taos on cardboard on back, 20" x 16", $81,075 (est. $40,000/60,000).Nampeyo ... (Read More)
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Barrett Menson of Perkins & Menson Antiques, Townsend, Massachusetts, new to the show, had a period frame for every picture, and this one fit his face beautifully. The 14" x 10" 19th-century frame still hadits little brass hanging ring on top ($330). Its rare because its made of full birds-eye ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)
by Steve ProffittHuman nature is funny. There are some people you don't like from the moment you meet them. Others you immediately like and gravitate toward under the same circumstances. My feelings were the latter for a M.A.D. reader who wrote me about a bad auction experience. His comments were ... (Read More)
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Lowes patent fillister plane, $7040.A triptych-style folding tool cabinet, full of ornamental turning tools by Holtzapfel & Deyerlain of London, England, essentially complete, with handles in beech, rosewood, and ebony, fetched $1210.Martin J. Donnelly Antique Tools, Nashua, New Hampshireby Mark SiscoLive Free or Die Antique Tool Auctions is now celebrating ... (Read More)
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General Dwight D. Eisenhowers uniform Ike jacket, 38 regular, custom tailored by Clipper Craft Clothes as indicated by a label on the interior breast pocket with the typed identification Gen. D. Eisenhowerand the date 3/45. The jacket has a patch for SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force) upper left, shoulder ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)
by Jeanne SchintoBirds in Wood and Paint: American Miniature Bird Carvings and Their Carvers, 1900-1970by Joseph H. EllisUniversity Press of New England, 2009, 184 pages, hardbound, $60 plus S/H from University Press of New England, Order Department, 1 Court Street, Lebanon, NH 03766 or (800) 421-1561 or from the Web ... (Read More)
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We photographed the 38¾" wide bowfront tambour desk before the show opened when there was no price on it. By the time we got back, the first customers had entered, and it had sold. Martin J. Ferrick Antiques, Lincolnville, Maine, was the exhibitor. Fellow exhibitors said that Ferrick had a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
This 17" x 25" oil on board by Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) brought the top price of the sale, $235,750, from a New York City gallery on the phone, bidding against at least seven other phone bidders. The lot also included the first edition of the book We, the People ... (Read More)
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by Daniel GrantMuseums are full of stuff, and they are always trying to get more. Sometimes they buy objects for their collections (from dealers, auction houses, and collectors), and more often they receive things as donations.There is, however, a whole realm of other ways of acquiring additional items. One way ... (Read More)
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