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(Fragment)Expensive Corkscrews Sold On Line
B. Wilhelm corkscrew, $21,100.
Durand 1879 French patented rack and pinion corkscrew, $18,500.
The antique corkscrew collecting community conducts on-line auctions with an all-volunteer effort at ICCAuctions. During the sale that closed on May 11, a B. Wilhelm 1885 U.S. patent corkscrew, found 20 years ago in a Los Angeles antiques mall, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Faithful Show Up in Droves at Wayside Inn Antiques Show
Diana Bittel of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, picked up this pair of shellwork pictures in England recently. She said she’d owned a pair by the same hand 20 years or so ago. The circa 1840 pictures are 17½" tall x 12" wide. Bittel asked $12,000 for the pair.
Brian Cullity of Sagamore, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Shenandoah Antiques Expo
This hooked rug was found in the booth belonging to a Fishersville regular, Jim Fisher of Fairfield, Pennsylvania, who trades as Plain Dealer. The folky rug features a clipper ship flying an American flag as it sails toward a harbor with a lighthouse. The rug was $395. The group of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Washington Tops in Texas Auction
Rembrandt Peale, Martha Washington, circa 1856, oil on canvas, 36½" x 29", signed lower left, inscribed on the back “Mrs. Martha Washington (1795) / Painted by / Rembrandt Peale / with improvements From / Original by Ch’s W. Peale / Philadelphia,” $158,500.
Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860), George Washington, circa 1856, oil on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Inuit Art Auction
An artist from Arviat known only as Susan carved her Mother and Child of stone. It has a simplified, proud stance and rightfully earned $312 (est. $300/500). Auctioneer Duncan McLean thought it “quite a lovely little piece,” and it is.
Joe Talirunili (1893-1976), Povungnituk, is most famous for his carvings of ... (Read More)
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(Show)Pure and Simple Antique Show
The smaller hatbox, marked for C.B. Platt, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, has an illustration of a beaver and was $495. The larger hatbox, showing birds in a tree and lettered “Tappé/ 9 West 57,” was priced at $325 and sold during the show by Bill and Terri Baxter of Baxter Auction Gallery, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Balancing Act Perfected
As the fashion for Orientalism flourished in England, talented artist David Roberts (1796-1864) went on a painting expedition to record monuments and scenes of daily life in the Middle East. His travels resulted in the 240 plates that illustrate The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, with Egypt and Nubia, published ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$1.5 Million Toy Auction
Märklin, Germany, Pabst beer railroad car, gauge 1, early 1900’s, 10½" long, $21,240, the same price achieved by another elusive Märklin beer advertising car (not shown), Schlitz of Milwaukee, 10" long.
The truly memorable Märklin, Germany, U.S.S. Maine battleship, first series, 1902, 30" long, crested as Bertoia’s two-day topper at $64,900.
Voltamp ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Horn of Plenty
This powder horn sold for $74,750 at Cowan’s Auctions on May 1. “It was one of a few map horns that detailed British ships in the New York harbor and the number of guns on each,” said Jack Lewis, Cowan’s director of historic firearms and early militaria. Cowan’s photo.
A bit ... (Read More)
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(Show)Spring Show NYC
Shows are where collectors meet. New York 20th-century silver collector Margot Grant Walsh talks with Philadelphia silver collector Robert Taylor in the booth of Massachusetts dealer Spencer Marks.
The Manhattan Art & Antiques Center stand offered a variety of material from ten dealers. In the case to the right is a ... (Read More)
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