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()Strong Dealer Buying at Vermont Antiques Dealers' Association Annual Show
Mill Brook Antiques, Reading, Vermont, reported very good preshow sales. In fact, most dealers said there was a lot of action at setup, some of which we witnessed. This labeled Grenfell mat is 21" x 33½" and was priced at $1950.
Holden Antiques, Sherman, Connecticut, showed a painted game board, 36" ... (Read More)
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(Auction)July Sale at Garth’s
Buddha hand, brown and white jade, Chinese, 18th or 19th century, 3" high, $14,100.
Carved circular ink stone showing a body of water, a building, and two birds in flight, possibly nephrite jade, Chinese, Qianlong period, signed by Zi Gang, 3¾" diameter, rim flakes, $30,550.
Pair of monumental seven-light silver candelabra marked ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Newport Antiques Show
G. Sergeant Antiques, Woodbury, Connecticut, asked $14,500 for this 51" diameter single-board Sheraton breakfast table; it sold. Gary Sergeant said he also sold a mid-18th-century George II English inlaid walnut chest (not shown); the asking price was $18,000.
Diana H. Bittel of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, asked $9500 for this late 19th-/early ... (Read More)
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(Show)Strong Market for American Brilliant Cut Glass at ACGA Convention
This very rare Quaker City three-piece revolving punch bowl in the Roosevelt pattern, 22" tall x 16" diameter, from ACGA dealer Elias Bustamante of Atwater, California, sold in the first 30 minutes. The bowl stand and cut collar ring, covering a metal turning mechanism, joining the base to the bowl, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Armed RobberSentenced to 9½ Years in Prison
On July 23, Robert A. Fiolka, 69, of Staten Island, New York, was sentenced to 114 months in prison for his role in the robbery of Blue Stove Antiques in Fair Haven, New Jersey.
Fiolka previously had pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson to an information charging him ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Numerous New Records Set at July Ceramics Sale
The William Morgan circa 1822 stoneware cooler from Baltimore brought the second-highest price ever paid for stoneware at auction. It sold for $230,000 (est. $30,000/50,000) to dealer Todd Prickett bidding by phone, underbid by collector Adam Weitsman in the salesroom.
This important early Manhattan stoneware jar, just 5½" high, made by ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Paintings and Southern Furniture Are Highlights
Master cabinetmaker Jesse Needham (circa 1774-1838) had close ties to Quaker families in Randolph and Guilford Counties in North Carolina and influenced many Piedmont furniture makers of the day. The scalloped frame with slipper feet is typical of his work. This 69½" x 23" x 44" chest-on-frame by Needham was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Maritime Art at Auction
This diminutive framed oil on canvas, 12" x 16", was presented on the second day of the sale and was the top lot. A classic yacht racing scene, signed on the lower right “J.E. Buttersworth,” it was painted by American master James Edward Buttersworth (1817-1894). It had impeccable provenance—it had ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Alderfer Elected President of National Auctioneers Foundation
Sanford L. Alderfer was elected president of the National Auctioneers Foundation board of trustees. He was installed at the National Auctioneers Association international conference and show in Indianapolis, Indiana, on July 18.
Alderfer is president of the Sanford Alderfer Companies, Hatfield, Pennsylvania. He is active in the National Auctioneers Association and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Adell Venus Collection of Miniatures
We knew the minute we saw it that the 1¼" wide walnut-cased drafting set by William R. Robertson (est. $200/400) would sell high, but the $18,750 result floored us. Bearing a tag on the underside engraved with the maker’s name and inscribed 1993, the chest has two rabbeted drawers. The ... (Read More)
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