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The Potomack Company Enjoys Solid Spring Sale
by Walter C. Newman

This oil on canvas is attributed to the circle of Gaetano Lapis (Italian, 1704-1776). The painting depicts the central encounter in the story of Armida and Rinaldo from the poem by Torquato Tasso (1544-1595). Armida is shown as she approaches the sleeping Rinaldo. Her intent is to kill Rinaldo; instead ... (Read More)

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A New Location for Chelsea Clock Company and a Second Edition of Its History
by Jeanne Schinto

One of the new photographs in the second edition of the Demeters’ book is a vintage image showing Joseph H. Eastman (1843-1931), founder of the Chelsea Clock Company’s immediate precursor, the Eastman Clock Company. Eastman, who trained as a watchmaker as well as a clockmaker, fitted his clock movement with ... (Read More)

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The Bowmanville Antiques & Folk Art Show: Fragments of Living Canadian History
by Larry Thompson

Fairfield Antiques, Kingston, Ontario, offered the folk painting of the Yankee whale fishery for $1800. It dated from the second half of the 19th century (ex-Rod Brook collection). The six-board blanket box hailed from the Niagara Peninsula via the Bill Hogan collection and dated from the second quarter of the ... (Read More)

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It Was an Interesting Time
by Cathy Aldrich

Customers filled the floor on Saturday afternoon. One thing that pleased the dealers was a steadier than usual second-day flow. This custard glass dresser set with its mustard-colored decoration on white shows a little wear, but for a set from the 1890s, once proudly gracing someone’s boudoir, that is to be ... (Read More)

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Forty Years of Sommer
by Mark Sisco

“I have a wonderful relation with the dealers who are in the shop. I like what they see and buy and bring in. I’m spoiled,” said Phyllis Sommer. The next time you’re driving on Route 1 into Searsport, Maine, take heed of the 25 m.p.h. speed limit sign as you’re approaching ... (Read More)

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Hot Prices for Barkley Hendricks's Cool Portraits and Norman Lewis's Abstractions
by Jeanne Schinto

Barkley L. Hendricks (b. 1945), Steve, 72" x 48" oil, acrylic, and Magna on canvas, 1976, $365,000. Boy and Sheep under a Tree by Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) sold within estimates to a collector for $245,000. The 17 3/8" x 27" oil on canvas is signed and dated (“1881”). Cathedral, Norman Lewis ... (Read More)

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Church Painting Brings $353,000
by Julie Schlenger Adell

The star lot of the sale, Frederic Edwin Church’s View of Baalbek, circa 1868, sold on the phone to the Detroit Institute of Arts for $353,000. The 9½" x 20" oil and pencil on heavy card had an estimate of $80,000/120,000. The painting had descended in the family of the ... (Read More)

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The New York Sale
by Julie Schlenger Adell

The “most emblematic of New York’s emblems” is how the auctioneer described Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s La Liberté éclairant le monde or Statue of Liberty. This parcel-gilt bronze with a dark green patina, 112 5/8" high, was cast in 2010 as part of an edition of 12 from the plaster in ... (Read More)

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Midweek Antiques Show Confirms Opening Hours
by M.A.D. Staff

Barn Star Productions’ 22nd Midweek Antiques Show, now held in Concord, New Hampshire, during Antiques Week in New Hampshire, is adjusting the opening hour for the August 4 and 5 show. “Last year we moved our Midweek Show to Tuesday following the Americana Celebration Antiques Show, launching Antiques Week with two ... (Read More)
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