(Auction)
LeRoy Neiman’s Football Star Constellation (35" x 24") was the top lot of the sale, bringing $430,000, way over its estimate of $40,000/60,000. It sold to an American private buyer on the phone. It was signed, dated “’78,” and inscribed “Louisiana Superdome / Super Bowl XII / Denver Dallas 1-15-78.” ... (Read More)
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The Round Lake Antiques Festival in Round Lake, New York, has a new promoter, Michael Green of Fairground Shows NY, who is best known for promoting the Washington County Antique Fair.
“I plan on doing some aggressive advertising and lots of person-to-person marketing. I like to go around to other shows ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)
These are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or online orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or a mail-order house is the place to look.
Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South by Deborah ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
There was competition on the Internet and on the phone for this circa 1800 Federal inlaid mahogany tall-case clock by Samuel Breneiser, Adamstown and Reading, Pennsylvania. It has a scroll top with inlaid rosettes and brass ball and spire finials, a painted iron face inscribed “Samuel Breneiser, Reading,” moon phases, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Doyle New York, Doyle Beverly Hills, and John Moran Auctioneers
The top lot of the Doyle April 22 sale was this pair of Cartier Art Deco platinum, diamond, and carved emerald and ruby “tutti frutti” pendant ear clips measuring 2 1/8" x 9/16". The pair was ... (Read More)
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(Show)
Dutch Delft garniture, late 17th century, was $6000 from Mark Allen.
Christopher T. Rebollo Antiques, North Wales, Pennsylvania, offered this Chester County tall chest of drawers, 73" high x 42" wide x 21" deep, with the initials “M.P.” It is walnut with poplar and lightwood inlay, 1780-90, and has an unusual ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Across the Canal by Edward Redfield (1869-1965), a 26" x 32" oil on canvas, signed lower left, was a gift of the artist to Charles F. Bockmann, grandfather of the consignor. It sold to a phone bidder for $132,000 (est. $40,000/80,000).
Pennsylvania painted poplar chest of drawers, circa 1815, with original ... (Read More)
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The Speaker’s House as it looks today: the outline of the general store added by Frederick Muhlenberg in 1782 is visible on the gable wall. Photo courtesy Gavin Ashworth.
The Speaker’s House in Trappe, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, needs a roof. It is the house where Frederick Muhlenberg lived when he served ... (Read More)
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With the implementation of the federal law banning the sale of ivory still unclear, the fight has moved to the state legislatures. New legislation has been introduced in at least 14 states; New York and New Jersey already have ivory bans in place.
In many instances, the language of the bills ... (Read More)
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(Show)
Dealer Eve Stone of East Haven, Connecticut, writes a bill of sale to the man standing behind her.
A woman from Wilton holds a ship diorama she had just bought at from Joseph Collins of Middletown, Connecticut. It was heavy so she was resting for a minute in Nancy Fishelson’s ... (Read More)
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