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(Show)The 63rd Fall Wisconsin Antiques Dealers Show
Seller Gloria Lyon of Lyn’s Antiques, Eagle River, Wisconsin, was a farm girl, so she pointed out components of the charming 1920s carved toy wooden vehicles found in Northwoods Wisconsin. The $325 brewery wagon at rear with four horses has barrels plus a man standing on the back. The $175 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Biography of an Object Writing Contest
Garth’s third annual Biography of an Object writing contest kicked off on October 1. “The entries last year were tremendous,” said contest sponsor and founder Amelia Jeffers, president of Garth’s Auctioneers, Delaware, Ohio.
The idea grabbed the attention of Jeffers while assisting her daughter with a school assignment. “I remember entering ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The American Museum of Folk Art Purchases Stock Portraits at Doyle New York
Photo courtesy Doyle New York.
In 1845 Joseph Whiting Stock (1815-1855) painted posthumous portraits of Mary Wilcox and her younger brother Francis (who died 140 years ago at ages four years, two months and two years, four months). The works were commissioned by the children’s father, Philo Franklin Wilcox, a wealthy ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Keno Auctions’ Contemporary Art and Design Sale
Ruth Asawa (Japanese-American, 1926-2013), hanging five-lobed continuous form with spheres inside four of the lobes, two of the inside spheres containing spheres within them, circa 1954, iron and brass wire, 103" high, diameter at base 21", sold for $329,000 (est. $100,000/200,000). There are a number of Ruth Asawa sculptures at ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings, Furniture, and Decorative Arts
Joseph Whiting Stock (1815-1855) portraits of Mary Wilcox and her younger brother Francis (who died in 1844 at ages four years and two months and two years and four months), 25" x 20¼" and 25" x 20 1/8", sold for $46,875 (est. $25,000/45,000) to the American Folk Art Museum.2
Phone bidding ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Warden Family Americana Sale
The auction’s top price of $16,250 (est. $5000/ 7000) was paid for this 27" x 22" oil on canvas portrait attributed to 18th-century English painter John Wollaston.
This 13½" x 12" second half of the 18th-century family record for Moses Chase and Susanna Kelly of Deerfield, New Hampshire, painting on paper, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Planes and the Plain-speaking American
This No. 1 Stanley smooth plane, with spring-lever cap, rosewood open handle, and cast rib in front of the throat is in immaculate condition. “Bailey” on the box refers to Leonard Bailey, who in 1855 had invented and patented the definitive method of securing and adjusting the cutter. When the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Closet Safe Door Turns Up in York
The discovery of a closet safe door with the words “Henson’s Improv’d Closet Safe” punched in the tin on the bottom panel, a punched-tin portrait of George Washington in the middle panel, and a punched-tin star-in-circle design on the top panel was the biggest discovery at Melvin Arion’s Original York ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Learning the ABCs at Cottone's Auction
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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(Show)The Indy Antique Advertising Show
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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