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(Auction)A Time Capsule of Chinese Export Material
Pair of monumental China trade oil on canvas panoramic landscapes, attributed to Youqua (active 1840-70), circa 1840, $768,000 (est. $150,000/250,000) to collectors in the room. Tibbits collection.
According to the catalog, the first oil depicts “the hongs at Canton with a bustling harbor scene in front displaying hundreds of Chinese boats ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Signed "Sgt. Pepper's" Album Sells for $175,698
A copy of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, signed by all the Beatles, sold on line for $175,698 (includes buyer’s premium) on January 15 at RR Auction, based in Amherst, New Hampshire.
The first issue mono pressing of the album by U.K. Parlophone Records was signed on the full-color gatefold ... (Read More)
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(Auction)January Firearms Auction Earns $1.8 Million
Selling for nearly double its high estimate at $19,200 was a Smith & Wesson .44-caliber revolver known as the No. 3 First Model. Made in the early 1870s prior to the advent of the Colt six-shooter, these popular guns were carried by both lawmen and law-breakers. Its serial number is ... (Read More)
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(Show)Washington Winter Show
Doug and Bev Norwood of Timonium, Maryland, trade as Norwoods’ Spirit of America. Their booth always offers unusual and interesting pieces of Americana. Here are a group of violin-related items. The 19th-century trade sign offering lessons was priced at $2800. The violin on the left has a handwritten fingering chart ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Winterthur Acquires the Pastor Frederick S. Weiser Collection
Religious text by Andreas Kolb, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, circa 1785. Winterthur Museum purchase with funds provided by the Henry Francis du Pont Collectors Circle; photo, Jim Schneck. This extraordinary fraktur is a masterpiece from the hand of Andreas Kolb, a Mennonite schoolmaster and fraktur artist who taught in Montgomery and ... (Read More)
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