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Roger Winter of Solebury, Pennsylvania, offered this George III pedestal dining table with two original leaves. It seats 16 comfortably. It was $39,000. The eight George III chairs with Marlborough legs were $16,500.
Donald Cresswell of the Philadelphia Print Ship offered Currier and Ives’s popular Winter in the Country, 1864, for ... (Read More)
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Aetna Insurance Co. reverse-painted glass sign with mother-of-pearl inlay, $51,300.
“That Aetna sign was one of the most impressive reverse glass signs we’ve ever seen, just beautiful,” said Mike Eckles of Showtime Auction Services.
Eckles was speaking of an Aetna Insurance Company reverse-painted glass sign with mother-of-pearl inlay, 34" square, in excellent ... (Read More)
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The miniature writing desk featuring four interior cubbies and fantastic inlay work was 18th-century Italian ($6500); the miniature desk/stationery box having ivory decoration could be had for $2200. Both were offered by Paul Fischer and Dannie Chandler of Indianapolis, Indiana.
Sold out of the booth of Sorisio’s Antiques, Leechburg, Pennsylvania, was ... (Read More)
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Frontispiece of the first edition of an early (1665) treatise on tobacco, Commentarius De Abusu Tabaci… by Danish physician Simonis Paulli (1603-1680). Priced at £3250 (or $5390) by Sokol Books, London, the book also includes sections on tea, coffee, and chocolate and was at the forefront of the debate over ... (Read More)
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Presidents and Convicts, 1941, sold for $87,500 (est. $10,000/15,000), setting a record auction price for carver Elijah Pierce. Born in 1892 to a former Mississippi slave, Pierce eventually settled in Columbus, Ohio. He was a barber, a lay minister, and a wood carver and is best known for his religious ... (Read More)
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There were no lines, no traffic, no bad weather, no tickets, no dealer-to-dealer preshow buying, and no standing in line at the bar. The Antiques Dealers’ Association of America (ADA) on-line show could be experienced anywhere—on a desktop computer, a laptop, a tablet, or a smartphone. This on-line-only show ran ... (Read More)
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Winter Sunlight by Edward Redfield, oil on canvas, 38¼" x 50", $710,500. Photo courtesy Freeman’s.
Marshes of Long Point by Frank Benson, oil on canvas, 36" x 44", $662,500. Photo courtesy Freeman’s.
On Sunday, March 30, Freeman’s in Philadelphia sold the George D. Horst collection of 63 European and American 19th- and ... (Read More)
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Gustaf Edolf Fjaestad (Swedish, 1868-1948), Pool in Winter, inscribed “G Fjaestad 13” on the bottom left. It also retains on the back a label with “The Swedish Exhibition 1916” and “Panama-Pacific International Exposition San Francisco 1915.” Horst bought the 47 3/8" x 57¾" oil on canvas from a Swedish exhibition at ... (Read More)
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