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Toy Trains Dominate Bertoia’s $1.95 Million Spring Break Sale
by Dick Friz

The auction’s top lot, this Carlisle & Finch No. 45 locomotive and passenger set, 1904-08, locomotive with nickel-finished boiler and roof, N.Y.C. & H.R. tender with two eight-wheel #52 passenger cars, and a #111 Baggage Express car, all original, finished with a full head of steam at $46,020.  J. & E. ... (Read More)

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Benny Carter’s Museum of Mighty Fine Art
by Pete Prunkl

Benny Carter outside his home in Mayodan, North Carolina, with a Statue of Liberty construction. Photo courtesy of Richard Bay. The front porch of Benny Carter’s home at the time of his death. Meeks Auction photo. This photo was taken inside the Carter home before everything was transferred to three large ... (Read More)

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The Outsider Art Fair
by Julie Schlenger Adell

Works by Bill Traylor (1854-1949) were scattered throughout the Outsider Art Fair. This one, originally untitled but called Man Pointing Up, 1942, was shown at Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago. The 11¾" x 9" graphite and tempera on found paper work had an asking price of $60,000. Hammer said he sold ... (Read More)

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Shortened Fishersville Show Enjoys Success
by Walter C. Newman

This wall display was found in the booth belonging to Rachel and Michael Gallant of Glenburn, Maine. The Gallants trade as Hometown Antiques. Michael related that they were returning to the Fishersville show following a ten-year absence. Here he displays a 24" diameter wooden bowl, priced at $695; a cast-iron ... (Read More)

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New Ownership for Grass Valley Show
by Alice Kaufman

This Mills double Chicago slot machine with music (“American tunes”) was found in Seguin, Texas, and was priced at $125,000 and “available for purchase.” Exhibitor Bradley Witherell, show promoter Brian Witherell’s brother, was manning Witherell’s private sales division space at the entrance to the show where visitors could not miss ... (Read More)

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Simmons Bird Tree Sells for $30,000 in Kutztown, Pennsylvania
by Karl H. Pass

Photo courtesy George Miller IV Auction Company. The George Miller IV Auction Company, Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, sold a fresh-to-the-market small Simmons bird tree for $30,000 (no buyer’s premium charged) and two individual Simmons birds on stands at its spring estate sale held on May 3 in Beltzner Hall on the Kutztown Fairgrounds ... (Read More)

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The 2014 Pure and Simple Antique Show
by Don Johnson

Family hair record with samples from Martha Baldwin, Little Helen and Rev. Curtis Baldwin, and with a place and date, “Ohio 1855,” $135 from Jim and Toni Stoma of Latcham House Antiques, Waterville, Ohio. Fraktur-type Mennonite family record, the last event dated 1882, measuring 22" x 28", $2250 from Bob Zordani ... (Read More)

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The Annual Benefit Auction for RAA
by Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo

The Bathers—Cape Ann by Emma Fordyce MacRae (1887-1974) sold within estimate for $18,400. Sugaring Time in Vermont, a 30" x 36" signed oil on masonite view by Ken Gore (1911-1991), sold for $2875. Otis Cook’s Gloucester Harbor, 20¼" x 24¼", was cataloged as in very good condition and sold for $3737.50. Aldro Hibbard’s ... (Read More)

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Clocks and Cannon Balls
by Jeanne Schinto

Detail of the tree section from Little Round Top. The relic fetched $23,370 (est. $1000/1500). Schinto photo. These are both circa 1800 Massachusetts shelf clocks, each 40" tall, with so-called kidney-shaped dials. I have asked experts why these dials are called “kidney-shaped,” when kidneys are bean-shaped. No one seems able to ... (Read More)

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Heart of America Carnival Glass Association Auction
by Nick Sabo

The blue Fenton Portland Elks bell is the only one known and is considered a key piece in the carnival glass world. One of the nicest pieces of lettered glass out there, it sold for $11,000. Rare and with very pretty irid, this purple Imperial Hattie pattern chop plate sold for ... (Read More)
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