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Babbitt and Hyde Family Artifacts at Auction
by Mark Sisco

An 18k gold or better three-piece Victorian mourning suite in a relief ram’s head motif produced the biggest price of the sale at $4600. A full-plate daguerreotype of the family of Edwin and Elizabeth A. Hyde sold for $2875. Gamage had high hopes for this Victorian American walnut and marble bedroom ... (Read More)

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Chinese Wall Plaque Sells for $57,600
by Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo

The Chinese painted porcelain wall plaque, from the collection of Alma Cleveland Porter, brought $57,600. This Ammi Phillips (1788-1865) oil on canvas portrait (32" x 27") of Elizabeth Hardenbergh DeWitt went to a collector for $33,600. Northeast Auctions photo. The pair of Dutch Delft chargers, 1690-1700, depicted Queen Mary II and William, ... (Read More)

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Nautical Antiques Sold in Boston
by Jackie Sideli

This lighthouse beacon was described in the catalog as “monumental.” It had a huge 500 mm Fresnel lens of cut crystal set into a bronze frame. It had been converted to AC current with a light fixture but also was supplied with an AGA gas burner. Measuring 52" tall and ... (Read More)

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Evans Sells Americana from Virginia and the South
by Walter C. Newman

The high lot of the Evans sale was this folk art fraktur birth and baptismal certificate. The document is dated February 12, 1819, and is inscribed with the name Anna Magdalena Scherertz. The fraktur is watercolor and ink on paper and attributed to the so-called Wild Turkey Artist of Wythe ... (Read More)
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