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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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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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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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