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(Show)The Pier Antique Show
David Allen Fine Arts, Arlington, Virginia, had a lot of traffic. Allen “usually sells $20,000 to $30,000 here at the show,” and sometimes sells things for a lot more. He offered a port wine server with spigot, stamped Tiffany, that he found in Italy, for $3500 (middle shelf, second from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The End of the Winter that Wouldn't Die
This ship portrait of the Charles Dennis, built in Richmond, Maine, in 1873, sold for $4715.
Coastal Maine eider duck decoy, $4600.
Chinese dreamstones represent a harmony between man and nature. Nature creates the scenes, but it takes the hand of man to reveal them. The series of ten marble dreamstones was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Tools Ply the Atlantic
When Francis Nicholson, America’s first known specialist plane-maker, died in 1753, his son John and his freed slave Cesar Chelor continued the trend he had set in producing distinctive plows in yellow birch with square arms mortised in the fence and held fast by wedges. More efficient wooden thumbscrews as ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Season Opener Rises to the Occasion at $1.2 Million
Gunthermann (Germany) Gordon Bennet coupe racer, the medium-size edition of a treasured trio of speedsters, ex-Dr. Malcolm Kates, 8¾" long, $9940.
Marx (U.S.) “Butter and Egg Man,” 1934, lithographed tin, 7¾" high, $2242. Not shown: a Marx Red the Iceman with ice tongs and wooden block of ice, 8½" high, ... (Read More)
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