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Cowboys and Indians
by Mark Sisco

The Bronco Buster by Frederic Remington was produced by the Roman Bronze Works and marked “75.” It bought $138,000, the top price at the auction. The late 1890s or early 1900s Sioux Indian vest with nearly complete beadwork coverage on brain-tanned deer hide sold for $34,500. A French Romanesque (12th century) bas-relief ... (Read More)

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Coca-Cola Calendar Brings $210,000
by M.A.D. Staff

Near-mint 1900 Coca-Cola calendar featuring image of Hilda Clark, $210,000. Morphy Auctions photo. A Grapefruitola ceramic syrup dispenser in the form of a grapefruit, in near-mint condition, commanded $66,000 (est. $15,000/ 25,000). Morphy Auctions photo. At Morphy Auctions’ August 22-24 sale in Denver, Pennsylvania, a near-mint-plus Coke calendar from the year 1900, ... (Read More)

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The 2014 Baltimore Summer Antiques Show
by Lita Solis-Cohen

Sideboard, circa 1885, probably by Pottier and Stymus, with inset ceramic tiles by John Moyr Smith (1839-1912), $18,000 from John Orban of Cadiz, Ohio. Large centerpiece silver bowl, Kalo Shop, Chicago, initial “G,” 1920s, $6900 from Spencer Marks, Southampton, Massachusetts. David Brooker of Woodbury, Connecticut, brought Fag & Curly, 40" x ... (Read More)

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Jewelry Dealers at the Coastal Maine Antiques Show
by Mary Ann Brown

Antique Jewelry & Gemology The Maine Antiques Dealers Association (MADA) held its annual single-day show on August 20, a week earlier than in past years, in hopes that summer residents and vacationers would attend. The show benefits MADA and the Damariscotta River Association and is held at Round Top Farm in ... (Read More)

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Coastal Maine Antiques Show
by Mark Sisco

Armillary spheres were designed to illustrate the sun, moon, and other astronomical bodies in relation to the earth. Gary Hume of Wells, Maine, re-creates them out of 19th-century parts. This one was formed from a side piece of a grinding wheel, an old iron wheel, and other parts, and it ... (Read More)

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Four Days and $5.7 Million Later
by Mark Sisco

Waldo Peirce’s oil on canvas of the Coast Guard at “the Silver Slipper,” Key West sold for $48,585, and Don Ernesto Con Una Bonito capped the Peirce artworks at $53,325. A 24" x 20" oil on canvasboard by Marguerite Zorach (1887-1968) of a forest waterfall sold for $31,995. Julia photo. This not-so-little ... (Read More)
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