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Country Americana at Garth's
by Don Johnson

Acoma pot signed by Marie Z. Chino (1907-1992), polychrome grid design, possibly 1940’s, 7½" high x 9" diameter, slight wear and minor rim flake, $4500. One-piece corner cupboard attributed to the Ralph family of Sussex County, Delaware, early 19th century, pine with old green paint, elaborate molded and carved decoration, 87" ... (Read More)

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Stick with Hap Moore
by Mark Sisco

This handmade wooden walking stick, with a connection to Abraham Lincoln via an embedded metal plate reading, “From fence rail Abraham Lincoln split in Decatur, Ill. on his father’s farm and made at Niantic, Ill. by Franklin A. Pickering in 1865,” sold for $6325. Peggy Bacon gouache of a coastal ... (Read More)

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Cowan's Inaugural Auction in Cleveland
by Don Johnson

Circa 1900 brewing company sign showing a bird’s-eye view of “The John Wagner Sons Br’g. Co. / Sidney, Ohio, U.S.A.,” color lithograph on paper, 22½" x 33½" (sight size) plus frame, toning and minor foxing, top of frame scratched, $7200. Late 19th-century American Star high-wheel bicycle by H.B. Smith Machine Company, Smithville, ... (Read More)

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American Folk Art Festival
by Alice Kaufman

Sacramento contemporary folk artist Susan Arnot makes everything at her booth by “lots of cutting, sewing, gluing,” she said. Her best seller was “the Little Black Cat Theater.” Karen Pierce of Cottage Creek Antiques, Reno, Nevada, was asking $15 for this 10" diameter old egg basket filled with painted mini gourds. ... (Read More)

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Dealers and Collectors Super Selective at Shaker Sale
by David Hewett

The sisters cupboard over drawers in original bittersweet red-orange paint has some great features: there are two original pegs on each side, original brass knobs, and the original iron key in a concealed hiding place. Read the story to discover why that key nearly drove Will Henry mad. The cupboard ... (Read More)

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Back-to-Back Sales for John McInnis
by Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo

The North Carolina secretary-desk by William Seay dated from about 1790. It sold to a bidder from the South for $51,750. McInnis photos. The China trade portrait of the American ship Julia A. Brown off Hong Kong sold on line for $4255. The 19th-century bicycle repairing sign (10" x 36") with ... (Read More)
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