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This 19th-century sterling silver covered tureen, 65.8 ozt., 9" x 13" x 10", opened at $10,000 and sold for $25,300 to a collector on the phone.
An Internet bidder from the South took home this Pablo Picasso pitcher, Bearded Man’s Wife, 1953, 15" high x 11" wide, in excellent condition, ... (Read More)
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Battery-operated Fred Flintstone on Dino by Marx, with the original box, $650 from Darryl McKinney of Monroe, Ohio, who promotes the Cincinnati Antique Toy and Advertising Show.
Mechanical store display, “Look for Mazda GE on the Bulb,” depicting a woman whose arm moved to point at a light that turned on ... (Read More)
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Yarns of a Summer Day by Henry Farny (1847-1916), gouache on paper, 1894, 11¼" x 15¾" (sight), $310,000.
Apache figural tray basket, a central flower radiating light and dark petals, surrounded by ten humans, ten dogs, and five wolves, circa 1900, 19¾" diameter, $22,140.
Navajo Late Classic woman’s dress, black and red, ... (Read More)
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This unattributed 29" x 31½" oil on canvas portrait of three children, bearing an American Folk Art Gallery label on the back of the frame, sold in the room for $15,000 (est. $7000/10,000) to collectors Michael and Suzanne Payne. The Paynes recognized it as a work by upstate New York ... (Read More)
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Shadow Dance by Martin Lewis (1881-1962) fetched $42,500. The 1930 drypoint and sand-ground print from an edition of 109 is 9¼" x 10¾". This was not the first time that the print has done very well at Swann. The auction house set a still-standing record when it sold a copy ... (Read More)
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The Crowninshield family mahogany bombé chest of drawers, Marblehead, Massachusetts, circa 1770, 33¼" high x 40" wide x 22" deep, appears to retain its original cast brass hardware and sold on the phone for $581,000 (est. $300,000/600,000). Other bombé chests from this group have sold for $2,023,500 at Christie’s in ... (Read More)
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The 6¼" x 10¼" unframed moonlit scene of ships under full sail, with one flying an American flag, by James Edward Buttersworth (1817-1894) came from an Arizona estate and sold to a Worcester, Massachusetts, dealer for $11,400.
The 17¼" x 23¼" watercolor on silk mourning picture had gold foil decorations and ... (Read More)
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