(Issue Story)
Rob Girouard with some of his favorite glass.
Mid-19th-century conical amber quart bottle with pulled white loopings, attributed to the Whitney glass factory in southern New Jersey, $2000. Girouard said, “In all my years I’ve only seen one other. It sold at auction in south Jersey for about thirty-five hundred [dollars].”
Midwestern ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)
A plug-in external hard drive can back up all files on an old or new computer in a few hours unattended.
Computer Column #309
John P. Reid, [email protected]
New developments in computers come so fast that there is danger of being caught with obsolete technology. Nowhere is this truer than in recordkeeping.
The inventory ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
The top lot of the sale was the 16" x 30¼" hand-drawn map of the Battle of Monmouth by Michel Capitaine du Chesnoy (1746-1804), the cartographer and aide-de-camp of Marquis de Lafayette. It was estimated at $90,000/150,000, but a private collector, bidding by phone, had to pay $486,400 to own ... (Read More)
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(Show)
Navajo rug specialist Eric Phillips of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was asking $48,000 for this 1910-20 large Zia jar, 17" tall x 22" diameter. “The show was well attended,” Phillips told M.A.D., “with a lot of interest in everything. I sold more historic jars than Navajo weaving.”
This circa 1900 Apache figural ... (Read More)
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(Show)
Jackie Haliburton’s memory paintings focus on hats and body shapes within a southern African-American community. Butt Stop is typical of her work. She asked $1500 for this large (3' x 8') acrylic on canvas.
The artist John “Cornbread” Anderson was widely represented at Folk Fest. His 36" square oils on ... (Read More)
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(Show)
Michael Smith, who has a gallery on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, was asking $18,500 for this large (74" x 46") circa 1920 Navajo weaving of a Hopi kachina. Smith said he’d met “a lot of people.” By the day after the opening, he’d sold “a nice painting,” but “business ... (Read More)
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(Show)
A $10,000 American celestial globe stood prominently with show newcomer Michael Corbett of The Federalist Antiques, Kenilworth, Illinois. Standing on a tripod pedestal with paw feet and acanthus leaf carvings on the knees, it was made by T. M. Bardin of London in the early 19th century.
Robert Foley of Gray, ... (Read More)
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(Show)
An anonymous buyer seemed entranced by the items in Susan Swift’s space. She and Erich Erdoes do business in Santa Fe under her name. That buffalo robe, circa 1890, was a magnificent $25,000. The beaded and quilled bags to the right were $7500 each.
John Durbin of Redding, California, displayed this ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
A SkinnerLive! Internet buyer won this 57" high polychromed and carved figure of an Indian princess figure by Samuel Robb of New York City for $92,250. Skinner sold a quite similar Indian princess figure on October 20, 2011, for $71,000.
Polychrome painted carved “black dandy” tobacconist figure, wearing wildly painted clothes, ... (Read More)
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(Show)
Not too long ago somebody paid $2200 at auction for one of these Johnson’s Peacemaker Coffee advertising tins in the form of a log cabin, so you better grab this one from Paul and Nancy Hahn of Country Things, Bowie, Maryland, for $1300. It was dated 1915. The Johnson-Layne Coffee ... (Read More)
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