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This item became a story picked up by national media. The .38 Colt Model 1902 pistol had been found on the body of Bonnie Parker at the Conger Funeral Home in Arcadia, Louisiana, after the law caught up with the infamous pair in 1934. Very well documented for outlaw memorabilia, ... (Read More)
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“Phoenix/ Factory 1840” is written in fine script on the shoulder of this 19½" stoneware jar. Master potter Thomas Chandler was employed at Phoenix in 1840 and may have turned this jar. Phoenix Factory went out of business in 1850. At $90,000, this was the sale’s top lot (est. $50,000/70,000). ... (Read More)
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Puchstein Promotions will launch a new show in January. The Miami Antiques Extravaganza will be held January 24 through 26, 2014, at the Miami-Dade County Fairgrounds, located on the west side of Miami, Florida. The majority of the approximately 400 exhibitors will be inside the air-conditioned Arnold Hall and Coliseum; ... (Read More)
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Library table and two chairs, Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company, New York City, 1891-93, made of primavera (similar to satinwood) and American ash with elaborate floral carving, varicolored wood, and metal micromosiac inlay; the chairs have glass ball and brass claw feet; $1,330,000 from Associated Artists. David Parker believes Samuel ... (Read More)
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John James Audubon (1785-1851), Say’s Squirrel, inscribed in pencil: “2 female 1 male April 9 ’43 Female and male facing in long leaves of grass; St. Louis, MO,”watercolor, 14" x 19¾", 1831, tears, creases, and soil, sold on the phone for $137,000 (est. $80,000/120,000). The proceeds went to a nonprofit ... (Read More)
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Gorgeous, rich greens come together in this Haitian painting from the 1970’s. Fred Cain of Naples, Florida, called it Children of Paradise and priced it at $1800.
“Whoever buys it gets to figure out how to open it!” Nancy B. Cooper of Austin, Texas, said of the secret drawer in this ... (Read More)
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One of the first things visible to incoming shoppers was this hooked rug offered by folk art dealers Robert Snyder and Judy Wilson of Wiscasset, Maine. The semicircular circa 1930 work was $2850 and provided a graphic picture of Americana. Its eagle is surrounded by stars and stripes.
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Emma Heather by William Pierce Stubbs (1842-1909) depicts the three-masted schooner Emma Heather, built in 1871 in Milton, Delaware, and sunk in a gale off the Delaware Breakwater in 1893. Stubbs’s work and the work of so many other artists flattered and idealized its subject. She was a coal carrier! ... (Read More)
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This scalloped-top Philadelphia tea table from the Eric M. Wunsch estate, probably made in the shop of Benjamin Randolph, with carving attributed to Richard Butts, brought $905,000. Christie’s photo.
This eider drake decoy from the legendary McCleery collection, from a rig probably made by an unidentified maker on Monhegan Island, Maine, ... (Read More)
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The silver brandywine bowl, one of only two known with the mark of Cornelius Vander Burch, New York, circa 1690, has six lobed panels and a domed center with an embossed and chased flower head. The two cast scroll handles have caryatids and beading, and the body is engraved ... (Read More)
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