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(Auction)20th-Century Design Including Tiffany
Carlo Bugatti (1856-1940), rare desk and chair, circa 1902, the chair with adjustable back, painted vellum, tooled copper, brass, and wood, desk 363/4" high x 271/4" wide x 22" deep, and the chair 381/4" high, sold for $80,500 (est. $30,000/50,000).
Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) for Jean-Michel Frank (1895-1941), Trepied a Feuilles table ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Radios and 20th Century Decorative Arts
Shown is a circa 1942 Fada 188 All American in a yellow case with blue knobs and handle with a red wraparound grill and Fada decal, 51/2" high x 9" long x 5 1/2" deep, that sold for $16,250 (est. $6000/9000). Another Fada 188 (not shown) in an orange-yellow case ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Design Sales
Line Vautrin (1913-1997), Baguettes mirror, circa 1960, convex mirrored glass, Talosel resin, colored glass, 143/4" diameter, sold for $96,100, the highest price of the week for a Line Vautrin mirror.
Harumi Nakashima (b. 1950), Struggling Form T-1, 2001, stoneware, white, blue, and transparent glazes, 38" x 341/2" x 171/2", sold for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Successful California and Western Paintings Sale
Woman Sewing by Guy Rose (1867-1925), 29" x 24", sold for $782,500 (est. $400,000/600,000) to Ray Redfern of Redfern Gallery, Laguna Beach, California, bidding for a client. It was the auction's highest price.
Julian Onderdonk (1882-1922), Field of Bluebonnets at Sunset, 30" x 40", sold for $326,500 ($150,000/200,000).
Bonhams, San Francisco, California ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Document, a Map, and a Song Lead Book Sale
This 59 15/16" x 44 3/16" six-sheet manuscript map by Charles Blaskowitz (circa 1743-1823), consigned by Mrs. M. Sharpe Erskine's trust, sold for $782,500 (est. $700,000/1 million) to Paul E. Cohen of Cohen & Taliaferro, New York City, who was bidding for a client. Another member of the trade, Seth ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Chicken Shall Lead Them
Even those unfamiliar with North Carolina's obsession with these Moravian pottery figures will agree that this little chicken shaker is precious. It is small, old, beautifully glazed, undamaged, and in this part of the world highly coveted. The chicken shaker can rest in its new home in Virginia after ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American History Auction
Worsted wool 34-star Naval flag with diamond-shaped star configuration, 6' x 10', some toning, scattered holes, and canton repair, $23,500.
Book from Thomas Jefferson's library, Robert Patterson's A Treatise of Practical Arithmetic, Intended for the Use of Schools (1818), purchased in 1829 at the sale of Jefferson's library in Washington, D.C., ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Mang Netsuke Collection Nets $1.6 Million
The scowling figure who is looking skyward represents a sennin, or immortal person, who is holding a mokugyo, a wooden percussion instrument used while reciting Buddhist texts. This relatively large (3 7/8") netsuke ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Arader Galleries Holds Auction to Raise Money for Universities
John James Audubon's Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, 1848, three volumes, Imperial folio (27" x 211/2") with 150 hand-colored lithographs, $793,000.
"People love auctions," said W. Graham Arader before he mailed out a catalog for his December 5, 2012, auction conducted by Guernsey's at his 1016 Madison Avenue flagship gallery ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Native American Art
A Navajo Classic child's blanket sold to a dealer from the Southwest for $60,000 (est. $20,000/40,000). This blanket was originally offered at the Ball collection sale in May 2012, at Bonhams in New York City, with an estimate of $50,000/70,000.
Bonhams, San Francisco
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Bonhams' Native American art expert Jim Haas ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Jewelry Auctions in Chicago and California
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers in Chicago, Illinois, held a jewelry sale on December 2, 2012. John Moran Auctioneers held its inaugural HQ Jewelry and Luxury Goods auction on December 6, 2012, in Altadena, California. Let's see what the jewelry experts in the Windy City and sunny southern California ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings Sale
George William Sotter (1879-1953), The Neighbors, signed bottom right, and with "George W. Sotter Studios" on the stretcher label, 26" x 32", oil on canvas. It sold for $62,500. It was painted on burlap, the texture of which is visible throughout the painting, under the paint.
Asher Brown Durand (1796-1886), Landscape, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fairfield County Show Survives Second Year
Stephen White of White & White Antiques and Interiors, Skaneateles, New York, took a lot of ribbing, both from other exhibitors and a reporter, about the late Empire slant-lid desk he showed. White admitted, "This has to be the latest period slant-lid desk I've ever seen." In an interesting aside, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Turn, Turn, Turn: Holtzapffel Rose Engine Lathe Brings Record $228,000
Made in London in 1838, the Holtzapffel & Company rose engine lathe number 1636 and its mahogany bench with drawers containing numbered split rosettes, steel and ivory rubbers, tool rests, brass chucks, and hand tools came with two additional bench-top dovetailed mahogany boxes holding 24 sets of brass split rosettes. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Treasures from a Tavern
Superb cobalt-decorated J. & E. Norton water cooler, with blue rings and a central panoramic scene, $23,575.
This unsigned and unframed oil on canvas portrait, 20" x 30", of a man and his horse is solidly attributed to Maine animal and landscape artist Scott Leighton (1849-1898) because of its style and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Holiday Sale 2012
Cowan Jazz bowl in melon green glaze, signed by designer Viktor Schreckengost, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
Characters inhabiting this month's "Letter" include an 18th-century Selenophile, Nelson, John the Baptist, Harlequin, and James Bond. Comic birds and a pricey pair of old silk trousers also get a look in.The Meissen "Indiscreet Harlequin" group sold for $67,470 to a European dealer at Christie's on July 5."Harlequin and the ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Antique Jewelry and Gemology Auctions
by Mary Ann HenselFive jewelry auctions held in August, September, and October, from New York to New Hampshire to California-literally sea to shining sea-represent several levels of the antique jewelry and gemology market. John Moran Auctioneers held its fine jewelry auction on August 28 in Pasadena, California. The press release ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Kaufman Collection on Permanent View at the National Gallery of Art
Placed prominently in the center of this room is the only known tea table of this form, 1760-70, that can be attributed to John Townsend (1733-1809). This sculptural table is balanced by two other distinctive tea tables, allowing regional styles and preferences to be easily compared. The Philadelphia example (left ... (Read More)
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(Show)Getman's New One-Day Show: A Small Wonder
The Lexington Historical Society's executive director, Susan Bennett, said her organization was "delighted to partner" with Marvin Getman in bringing Antiques at the Depot to town. "The society's depot building, right in the center of Lexington, and the [town-owned] parking area behind it are a perfect venue for this event," ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Farmer Sale Turns the Page
The high lot of the Farmer sale was this set of sterling flatware from Tiffany & Company in the Audubon pattern, which first appeared in 1871. The set is from the 20th century and consists of 101 pieces that are not monogrammed. The set is not old, but it is ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sanford Robinson Gifford: An Artist's Legacy and a Dealer's Admiration
Michael Altman is shown in front of Hook Mountain on the Hudson River, 1867, oil on canvas, 12 5/8" x 101/4", from a private collection.The newly discovered large painting, A Venetian Twilight (left), and two studies for the Venetian painting at Michael Altman's gallery. These are three of at least ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Blockbuster Auction Caps Maine Summer Antiques Week
Fused bars of gold and a gold chain from the Nuestra Senora de Atocha lost in 1622 that was recovered by treasure hunter Mel Fisher sold for $172,500. Sisco photo.The best-known paintings by William Bradford (1823-1892) are of the Arctic regions of Labrador and Greenland, often painted with dramatic lighting, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Model Autocar and Toy Chariot Pace Julia Auction
Very rare Ives hippodrome horse racing chariot toy from the 1880's, one of only a few known extant, $69,000.
This scale model of an Autocar military transport vehicle from the World War I era sold for $57,500.
From the late 1800's, this Ives horse-head three-wheeled velocipede had a young boy for a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Grand Reopening Sale
Helen M. Turner (1858-1958) of Louisiana was an important American Impressionist noted for sensitive interior scenes featuring women and children. Sold for $92,250, The Moth (271/2" x 191/2"), signed and dated 1918 by the artist, will be included in the catalogue raisonne being prepared by Kaycee Benton.
Among ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Seymour Chest and Gold Medal Soar at Skinner in October
$312,000. Photo courtesy Skinner.by David HewettA Federal dressing chest with mirror in the Hepplewhite form, attributed to John and Thomas Seymour, was the highest-priced lot at Skinner's October 28 Americana sale in Boston. The chest, a nearly identical mate to the chest depicted on the dust jacket of Robert Mussey's ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Exhibitions
Maine Antique Digest includes, as space permits, brief announcements of exhibitions planned by galleries, museums, or other venues. We need all press materials at least six weeks in advance of opening. We need to know the hours and dates of the exhibit, admission charges, and phone number and Web site ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Indian Lake Show
This circa 1890 mahogany diorama, including a fox, weasel, ermine, bobwhite, chipmunk, ptarmigan, and squirrel, was $2500 in Randal Coulton's Kamp Kamp booth.Bob Ross had the largest moose head and couldn't wait to show us. "The full chest mount from the state of Maine" was priced at $2200.John Provo Antiques, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Portrait Tops Indiana Auction
Unsigned 18th-century oil on canvas portrait of a gentleman, unframed, 32" x 27", $23,100.Copper teakettle by Benjamin Harbeson, Philadelphia, $3410.Trade sign for "H. Yoder Harness Oil," painted wood, one-sided, $2420.Landscape by Susan Gertrude Schell (1891-1970), a member of the Philadelphia Ten, $1870.Davies Auctions, Lafayette, Indianaby Don JohnsonShortly before the start ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Former Art Dealer's Conviction Upheld
On November 9, the First Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a U.S. District Court jury's conviction in March 2011 of Rocco P. DeSimone, 58, of Johnston, Rhode Island, for conning several investors out of more than $6 million in cash, tangible assets, and forgiven debt.DeSimone, a former art dealer, was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art at Sotheby's
Two phone bidders and a bidder on line competed for Homesickness by Jared French (1905-1987). It is signed lower right and signed and titled on the reverse. The 91/2" x 71/4" egg tempera on panel was painted in 1942 and sold on line for $92,500 (est. $15,000/20,000). Another magic realism ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings at Bonhams
Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009), Little Caldwell's Island, 1940, signed lower right. The 32" x 40" tempera on panel was estimated at $1,000,000/1,500,000 and sold for $722,500 to John Driscoll of Driscoll Babcock Galleries, New York City. The view is of Little Caldwell's Island from Caldwell's Island (Knox County, Maine) at low ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art at Christie's
Arthur Dove (1880-1946), Car. The signed 131/4" x 22" oil on canvas was painted in 1931. It sold on the phone for $686,500 (est. $200,000/300,000). It was consigned by Laughlin and Jennifer Phillips and was a gift to them from Duncan Phillips, founder of The Phillips Collection in Washington, ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received: Brief reviews of antiques and fine art books recently published
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 View Book of the Many Images Found in Clifford Ashley's ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Book Review: Dream House: The White House as an American Home
by Lita Solis-CohenDream House: The White House as an American Homeby Ulysses Grant Dietz and Sam WattersAcanthus Press, 2009, 304 pages, hardbound, $75 plus S/H from Acanthus Press, (www.acanthuspress.com) or (800) 827-7614.Published three years ago, Dream House: The White House as an American Home seems relevant during this election year. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)"America in View" at RISD
Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916), Cape Horn, Columbia River, 1867, albumen print. Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund.Ansel Adams (1902-1984), Half Dome, Blowing Snow, Yosemite National Park, California, circa 1955, gelatin silver print from the 1970's. Museum purchase with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. (c)2012 The Ansel Adams Publishing ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Plumb Crazy
5781This bronze-body scraper plane, patented by Leonard Bailey on August 7, 1855, was one of Donnelly's superstars for the day. It finished with the top price of the sale at $32,200.5782A probably unique adjustable mechanical rounding plane, patented by Samuel M. Adams of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, on June 4, 1872, sold ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Banks Pay Dividends
Mikado mechanical bank, Kyser & Rex, 1886, blue table variation, took top honors at $198,000.Freedman's Bank mechanical bank, Jerome Secor, 1880, one of five or six known, $138,000.Kiltie mechanical bank, Harper Ltd., England, 1931, ex-Bill Norman, ex-F.H. Griffith, $25,200.Calamity or Football mechanical bank, J. & E. Stevens, 1905, $38,400.Top pick ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Records Fall at Pook's Flack Sale
$159,975. Photo courtesy Pook & Pook.by Lita Solis-CohenA couple of records were made at the sale of the collection of Paul and Rita Flack held at Pook & Pook in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, on October 27. A record $159,975 (includes buyer's premium) was paid for a Jonas Weber box with a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Issue of Team's "Tiffany Treasures" Available
To celebrate 48 years in business, Team Antiques of White Plains, New York, has published a new catalog. In the latest issue of Team's Tiffany Treasures is a selection of many items made by Louis C. Tiffany, such as lamps, glass, desk sets, candlesticks, and other fancy goods. All items ... (Read More)
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(Show)Maine Antiques Dealers Association Show
Before I arrived in the late morning, a dry sink, a painting, and a few country stands had vanished from the booth of Bill and Ruth Garland of Jefferson, Maine. They still had this large (13") blue and white spongeware bowl with raised arches on the sides for $295.Damariscotta, Maineby ... (Read More)
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(Show)American Art Week in Manhattan
John Frederick Kensett (1816-1872), Lily Pond, Newport, Rhode Island, oil on canvas, 10" x 18", monogrammed and dated JFK/ 186 (indistinct). From Kensett's major Newport series of paintings, it has a rich tactile surface and color chords that create a luminous environment; one can almost smell the sea. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Auction
Monumental Hopi pot attributed to Nampeyo, having a stylized polychrome bird design around the shoulder, Southwest, second quarter of the 20th century, 11" high x 20" diameter, a small hole and a 2" hairline, $37,600.
Pair of pewter lamps by Josiah Warren and Daniel Stocking, Cincinnati, circa 1821, whale ... (Read More)
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(Show)Williamsburg Holiday Show-Brightens Black Friday Weekend
Robert and Deanna Taylor of Aylett, Virginia, trade as Taylor Antiques and Estates. On this table they displayed a wooden box with inlays of clasped hands and striped shields on the lid (left), $550; a four-drawer miniature chest with turned front feet, $750; a slant-front document chest, $675; and a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana at Auction
Sold to benefit the Lee B. Anderson Memorial Foundation, this circa 1869 View of Belfield, a 28 1/8" x 36 1/8" oil on canvas laid on panel, attributed to Rubens Peale, brought $40,625 (est. $15,000/25,000). Inscribed on the stretcher is "View of Charles W. Peale Homestead Near Germantown/ Copied from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Farrin Pre-Thanksgiving Auction
Two fish portraits by Maine artist Louis C. Ewer sold for $1265 apiece.
Two beaded pouches, apparently Plains Indian strike-a-light bags, both in good shape, fetched $1540 and $660.
Farrin's Country Auctions, Randolph, Maine
Rusty Farrin held about 28 auctions in 2012. With the exception of an on-site auction or two, he ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine and Decorative Art
Interior scene by Eugenio Landesio (Italian, 1809-1879), oil on canvas, signed and dated 1863, an original handwritten label identifying the scene as a corridor of the house of the Mine of Mellado in Guanajuato, Mexico, 161/2" x 111/2" (sight), craquelure, relined with wax method, small amounts of inpainting, $24,000.
Dessert service, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The "New" Book and Paper Show-Getman Gets It
The show's promoter, Marvin Getman.
A finely bound, unique collection of over 100 pieces of sheet music, 1859-64, was $1500 from Yeoman's in the Fork, Leiper's Fork, Franklin, Tennessee.
We spent a longer time than usual with Christopher Frey of Frey Fine Books, Rougemount, North Carolina, because he had a display of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Exceptional Results at Louisiana Purchase Auction
In the mid-19th century, John P. Weimar modeled a bust of George Washington after the well-known life portrait by sculptor Jean- Antoine Houdon (French, 1741-1828). The Weimar version, cast in bronze in 1852, sold for $14,340. Neal Auction Company photo.
Top lot of the November sale was a landscape ... (Read More)
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(Show)Vintage Holiday Show at Craven Farm
The venue is small but always well attended. This crowd continued to circle the floor for a good long while at the one-day show.
Fabric panels such as this one were once a popular and inexpensive way to have a "Grandma Moses" in one's home. Nadia Mered of Seattle, Washington, brought ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tiffany Garden Museum Contents Sold
A Tiffany Studios parakeet and goldfish bowl tea screen sold for $324,500, which was the auction day's highest price. Michaan called the screen "very special, unique, a small version of a famous Tiffany window." It is 8" tall including its 18k gold frame and was estimated at $400,000/600,000.
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(Auction)Tiffany Garden Museum Contents Sold
A Tiffany Studios parakeet and goldfish bowl tea screen sold for $324,500, which was the auction day's highest price. Michaan called the screen "very special, unique, a small version of a famous Tiffany window." It is 8" tall including its 18k gold frame and was estimated at $400,000/600,000.
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(Auction)Prolonged Bidding Takes Dutch Still Life to $666,000
The sale's top lot, Still Life with Tazza, Peeled Lemon, and Roemer by Willem Claeszoon Heda (Dutch, 1594-c. 1680), went to a phone bidder at $666,000 (est. $30,000/50,000). The 151/2" x 221/2" oil on cradled panel dates from 1630.Tabletop Still Life with Fruit by Robert Spear Dunning (1829-1905), signed and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Christie's Americana
From the Philadelphia Museum of Art, this mahogany easy chair with carving attributed to the Garvan carver, Philadelphia, 1760-65, 44 3/4" high, sold on the phone for $1,116,500 (est. $600,000/900,000) to dealer Todd Prickett of C.L. Prickett, Yardley, Pennsylvania, for a client. A similar chair sold at Christie's in January ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Antique Toys at Auction
Althof, Bergmann & Co. Santa in a sleigh pulled by goats, 9" high x 20" long, is the fourth one to turn up. Each is slightly different because they were made before the advent of mass production. This one had been the prized possession of a New York state family. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Sale on Cape Cod
"There has been a huge amount of interest in this full-plate daguerreotype," said a member of the Eldred staff before the auction began. The circa 1845 image was big and colorful--four men in uniform, standing before crossed American flags. The flags were hand-colored by the photographer, according to catalog notes. ... (Read More)
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(Show)People Were Selling and Deals Were Getting Done
Thomas G. Boss of Salem, Massachusetts, offered a number of French books with Art Deco bindings, including this one, Daphne by Alfred de Vigny. Priced at $40,000, it was designed circa 1924 by F.-L. Schmied and executed by G. Crette. Printed by pressman Pierre Bouchet, it is copy no. 3, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Outsider Art Fair Sold
The Outsider Art Fair, the annual show in New York City that showcases Outsider, self-taught, and folk art, has been sold by Sanford L. Smith and Associates, LLC to Wide Open Arts, LLC.In addition to a new owner, the January 31-February 3, 2013, show will be held in a new ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York Consignor Protection Law Signed
by Betty FloodLegislation to provide protection for a consignor or his or her heirs when the consignor's works of art are in the care of a consignee or an art merchant has been approved as Chapter 450 on the 2012 Chapter Law List. It was signed into law by New ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Frederick Hurten Rhead Four-Part Tile Panel Sells for $637,500
Frederick Hurten Rhead large four-part tile panel depicting a peacock, marked "Frederick H. Rhead, U.C. 1910," 203/4" square. The U.C. stands for University City near St. Louis where Edward Gardner Lewis, a publisher of American women's magazines and an amateur potter, opened an art academy in 1907 with studios for ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Coast Guard Sues to Get Back Lighthouse Lens
by Clayton PenningtonIn October, the United States, acting on behalf of the United States Coast Guard, filed a lawsuit in federal court against the William Lyon Phelps Foundation, which owns the Huron City Museum in Port Austin, Michigan. The suit seeks a declaratory judgment that the United States "is the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Santa Fe Show Schedule Shakeup Scuttled
by Alice KaufmanThe more things change, the more they stay the same.The Whitehawk 30th annual Antique Ethnographic Art Show will open on August 8, 2013, and run through August 10. The Whitehawk 35th annual Invitational Antique Indian Art Show will open on August 11 and run through August 13. Both ... (Read More)
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(Show)Traditional Art Scoops Contemporary for a Change
The show's coproducers, Robert Four (on left) and Tony Fusco.
An Early Snow by Walter Launt Palmer (1854-1932) was painted in 1887. The 221/2" x 261/2" oil on canvas was offered for $445,000 from Avery Galleries. Richard Rossello said it had been exhibited at the Chicago World's Fair.
Boston-based Colleene Fesko, an ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Queens Foundry Owner Charged with Trying to Sell Fake Jasper Johns Sculpture
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(Auction)Edison Reproduces Again
Symphonion Eroica music box, 72" x 28", style No. 37, featuring duplex combs with 100 teeth. Having its original door picture, it was in wonderful condition. Included with the lot was a walnut cabinet with shelves to store the accompanying 32 three-disc sets. Top lot of the three-day sale, it ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Overflow Crowd, Strong Prices Prevail at Labor Day Weekend Auction
The 20" x 24" oil on masonite by Eric Sloane (1905-1985) depicting a church in Grafton, Vermont, sold for $9350 to either an absentee or a phone bidder.The 1775 map of The Seat of the War in New England by an American Volunteer is the work of Robert Sayer and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Skinner's Americana Sale
The 221/4" x 33" oil on canvas by William Allen Wall (1801-1885) depicts the area known as Old Four Corners, at the junction of Union and Water Streets in New Bedford, Massachusetts, circa 1807. Wall's painting has to be a bit conjectural, since it depicts the Four Corners as it ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Back-to-Back Sales at Garth's
George III terrestrial globe, George Adams Jr., London, circa 1790, printed and hand colored, on an oak stand with cabriole legs and pad feet, the base mounted with a compass, the cartouche with Adams's standard dedication to the king, 31" high x 18" diameter, imperfections, $15,275.Map of the world by ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Internet Ruled at Augusta
Labeled "Doeuillet 18 Place Vendome Paris," this one-piece tea gown from 1910 was of fine Russian cream bobbin lace with a bodice insert and deep skirt panels of heavily embroidered cotton lawn with repeats of small flowers surrounded by a swirling vine. It was missing its original green silk sash ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Cards Make Grand Slam at Saco River Auction
Michael "King" Kelly, $71,300."Dan" Brouthers, $7475.by Mark SiscoPhotos courtesy Saco River Auction CompanySaco River Auction Company in Biddeford, Maine, hit a rare grand-slam homer on August 29 when it sold a collection of seven 19th-century baseball cards for a total of $102,005 (includes buyers' premiums).All of the cards were Old ... (Read More)
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(Auction)JMK Shows Adds New York City Show
Allison Kohler, director of JMK Shows, has announced that the firm will launch a new show in New York City. The New York Antiques & Fine Arts Show will make its debut April 5-7, 2013, at the Bohemian National Hall located at 321 East 73rd Street.The Bohemian National Hall, which ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana at Freeman's
Three phone bidders wanted this Federal carved mahogany high-post bed with feather-carved reeded posts, made in Charleston, South Carolina, circa 1815. It sold for $26,250 (est. $8000/12,000).
Five phone bidders competed for this Tiffany Favrile aquamarine paperweight vase with yellow narcissi with orange and black centers and green stems and leaves. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Minnesota Man Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud in Insurance Case
On August 17, 39-year-old Jason William Sheedy of St. Paul, Minnesota, pleaded guilty in federal court to filing a false insurance claim for approximately $250,000. On August 6, he was charged with one count of wire fraud in connection with this incident.In his plea agreement, Sheedy admitted that between September ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tall Clock with Music Box Towers at Talbot
A combination Regina tall clock and music box, with the disc-playing mechanism concealed in the base, brought $8250, the top price of the auction.In red paint and with iron hardware, this country store cabinet with the original owner's terms clearly painted on the doors sold for $575.Charles M. Talbot Associates, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Buyers Get the Big Pictures
The highest price of the night was $6325 for this Gustav Stickley Mission oak chest of six drawers with iron ring hardware.This oil on canvas, solidly attributed to John Joseph Enneking, after the famous Jules Breton work Return of the Gleaners, brought $2990.A majolica sardine dish with cover and undertray ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dr. Bruce Barnes to Head George Eastman House
Dr. Bruce Barnes has been appointed the Ron and Donna Fielding Director of the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, New York. Barnes will be the eighth director of the world's oldest museum of photography and one of the largest motion-picture archives.Barnes is the president ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Buddha Transcendent at the New Brunk Auctions
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina
by Pete Prunkl
Photos courtesy Brunk Auctions
Asian antiques dealer Jeffrey Wong of New York City and China was eager to pose during the preview with this Chinese cast bronze standing figure of Buddha. The 22" x 9" x 63/4" figure was the top lot of the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Daguerreotype Camera Sells at Benefit Auction
The auction's top lot, going to Mike Robinson at $14,300, was this mid-19th-century American daguerreotype camera in a rosewood-veneered bellows box that is stamped "Palmer & Longking, Manufacturers of Daguerreotype Apparatus, Newburg & New York." It was designed by William Lewis and his son William H. Lewis, whose manufactory ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Shenandoah Valley Clock Leads Evans Sale
This Virginia walnut tall-case clock proved to be the high lot of the Evans sale. The circa 1800 clock is a rare signed example from the short-lived partnership of Woodstock, Virginia, clockmakers Jacob Fry and Caleb Davis (working 1796-1800). The hood features a broken-arch pediment with simple turned rosettes and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Southern Pottery Draws Selective Bids
The obvious star of this sale was this monumental four-handle storage jar. Few such large vessels were made because of the skill required. Thomas Chandler boldly incised his mark just below one of the lug handles. Early decoration is of dark iron clay slip and includes loopy swags tied to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chicago Rides Tidal Wave to $264,500
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(Auction)Folk Art Sale in Georgia
A surprise in the sale was a religious banner, the only one in the sale and estimated at $2000/4000. The lot quickly surpassed the estimates with a phone bidding war. The end result was $33,350. The 1920's paint on muslin banner, 35" x 68", had 13 images and the words ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rookwood XXII, Keramics 2012, Art Glass 2012
Tiffany Studios stamp box, gilt bronze and Favrile glass, bronze and glass scarabs on the cover, marked, 2" high x 41/2" wide, one scarab missing a leg, the other scarab adhered to the lid, $33,350.Weller Gardenware "Happy Ducks" lawn sprinkler, marked, 14 5/8" high (ceramic portion), original fittings, fine overall ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Monhegan Paintings and Wyeth Top Thomaston Auction
An oil on linen of a great blue heron by Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945), inscribed "To Carolin J. Chandler, June 1942," fetched $253,000. Thomaston Place photo.This 391/2" x 491/2" (sight size) oil on canvas by Andrew Winter, Happy Lobstering Ground, Whitehead Island, Lower Penobscot Bay, signed lower right and dated ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 49th Delaware Show
Montgomery County walnut schrank with replaced brasses and original feet and shelving, 821/2" x 561/2" x 25", ex-collection J. Stogdell Stokes, deaccessioned by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, $52,000 from Philip H, Bradley of Downingtown, Pennsylvania. The walnut wing chair with Russian leather covering from the Moravian Community workshop, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Paintings Sale Hauls in $2.7 Million
Matin de Novembre by Guy Rose (1867-1925), oil on canvas, 283/4" x 233/4", brought the auction's highest price, $458,500 (est. $250,000/350,000). It went to private collectors from Texas.A Los Angeles couple, "two of our better clients," paid $122,500 (est. $80,000/120,000) for Granville Redmond's 191/2" x 30" oil on canvas of ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Salon Art + Design
Galerie Downtown, Paris, specialists in 20th-century furniture, installed furnishings from a private house in Montmartre. "Charlotte Perriand was close to the owners, Jean and Huguette Borot, and for thirty years designed for them. It was one of her last private commissions," said Helin Serre, director of the gallery. He ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Computer Column: Calendars and Graphic Tablets
by John P. Reid, jreid@dca.netLinking an on-line calendar to multiple computers and cell phones as well as using a graphics tablet for photo editing will be described.-Calendar AnywhereMost collections of computer software include a personal calendar. It keeps track of doctor's appointments and family birthdays. It also can remind of ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Baltimore Summer Antiques Show 2012
Jon Eric Riis, the Atlanta, Georgia, fiber artist who in 2011 was named a Windgate Fellow by United States Artists, citing his research into pre-Columbian Peruvian, Imperial Chinese, and Russian textile traditions to create tapestries. One of his forms is the "universal coat," which he meticulously weaves with metallic thread, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Vintage Posters Sale Totals $581,891
An artist's record for Fred Spear (dates unknown) was set by this 321/4" x 223/4" condition B+/A- "Enlist" poster from 1915. It brought the auction's highest bid-$22,800-from a collector bidding on the phone (est. $15,000/20,000). In August 2005, a 32" x 23" condition B copy sold within estimate for $5060.The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Crowell Black-Bellied Plover Stands Out in Easton
This "humpback" model goldeneye hen with "paddle tail" and turned head by the Ward brothers, in original scratch paint, sold just over low estimate for $80,500 (est. $75,000/95,000) to a private collector from New Jersey. "It had everything you look for in an early Ward brothers working decoy," remarked one ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: A Picture Is Worth...
by Steve ProffittA lawyer wrote to me about a case involving a painting that her client had consigned to an auctioneer. The consignor lacked any expertise with art and was simply looking to sell some things in an effort to raise money. The painting previously belonged to a relative, who ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Long Anticipated McCue Shaker Sale Shakes the Faithful
The cherry and pine trestle table has a 621/4" x 34" top and is 281/2" high. McCue purchased it from collector Edna Greenwood in 1949 for $350. Its exhibition history includes the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, and the Corcoran ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Uncovering a Hidden Treasure
by Scott KeulerPhotos courtesy Birmingham Museum of ArtFor me, collecting antiques is more than just a hobby-it's a great way to gain an appreciation of beautiful objects from the past and a way to learn more about our history. As most antiques collectors will tell you, it's the thrill of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Corkscrews Bring High Prices
Eighteenth-century Irish corkscrew called the "Read's Coaxer," $35,555.On April 28, a Robert Jones 2nd registration, 1842, corkscrew reached $36,780 (no buyer's premium charged) in an on-line auction conducted by ICCAuctions, LLC. The corkscrew received 40 bids.According to the auctioneer, there are perhaps ten good examples of the Jones 2 known ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Camden-Rockport Historical Society Show
Gordon Nicoll of Nicoll Fine Art and Antiques, who recently opened a new gallery in Damariscotta, Maine, displayed this beautiful French double-sided four-segment wood and canvas painted screen, dating from the early 19th century, for $12,500.Patrick Renschen, who is the husband of Virginia Renschen ("We're married but not in business ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Precious Metals and Precious Ducks
The Charles Marion Russell (1864-1926) bronze, Watcher of the Plains, from the Roman Bronze Works foundry, sold for $115,500 to a New York City gallery, underbid by a private collector.Two early Monhegan Island decoys in their old, dry original paint sold to the same private buyer from Cape Cod for ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Cloudy Provenance Halts Renoir Sale
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company.by Walter C. NewmanOn September 5, The Potomack Company, an auction house in Alexandria, Virginia, issued a press release announcing that its September 29 catalog sale would feature an original oil on canvas painting by French Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). The estimate for the painting was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Eclectic Ceramics Sale
Opening the sale was this very early ovoid two-gallon stoneware jar with vertical open handles and cobalt pomegranate decoration in remarkable condition. Attributed to the Kemple Pottery of Ringoes, New Jersey, circa 1750, the jar is one of the earliest examples of Colonial American stoneware known. It was recently ... (Read More)
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(Show)Transformation in Time
This 1880-90's crazy quilt attracted customers to the booth of dealer Rebecca Prohorenko of Rebecca's Antiques. She said it is rare to see such a variation of a crazy quilt, especially one made completely from colorful silk fabrics. Add that it is in pristine condition and nicely sized at ... (Read More)
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