(Issue Story)
Editorial
Sign and Sell
Dan Miller, the controller for Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, should heed a judge’s ruling and sign an auction contract allowing the deeply indebted city to auction off the Western artifacts it owns.
In 2011, the city council voted to sell what remained of the $8.3 million worth of objects that former ... (Read More)
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by David Hewett
A church in St. Louis, Missouri, that had been the victim of numerous thefts over the past two years got nailed again just before Christmas. Thieves took material intended for needy neighborhood families, cash and gift cards worth $1100, and food items from St. John’s Lutheran Church on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Bidders chased this circa 1890 primitive New England oil on tin sporting scene, 21" x 36", well past the $1000/1500 estimate to $5922.50.
String of 75 graduated natural pearls with a Tiffany 18k white gold clasp set with three European-cut diamonds, $143,750. Thomaston Place photo.
Oil on canvas by Sir John Lavery ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
The sale’s pair of bronze Great Danes by Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington (1876-1973) lay at the feet of previewers in Skinner’s Boston gallery on the night of Robin Starr’s gallery walk. Each is approximately 27" x 53" and signed, inscribed, and dated by the artist “Anna V. Hyatt/ Auvers-sur-Oise 1907.” ... (Read More)
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(Show)
A Bird in Hand Antiques, Florham Park, New Jersey, asked $3500 for this Grenfell Mission rug of a sailing ship at sea. The tiger maple Sheraton chest of drawers was $5400, and the circa 1880 cow weathervane was $25,000.
Elizabeth Ayscough of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, had this western Pennsylvania or Ohio ... (Read More)
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Tanner-Hill Gallery, Chattanooga, Tennessee, offered the Obama Chair, a basswood carved chair, 2012-13, for $4800. Hidden under the seat, to be turned up or down, “depending when you need them,” is a set of carved testicles. The artist, Lonnie Usrey, a dairy farmer from northwest Arkansas (and Angela Usrey’s uncle) ... (Read More)
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The Thayer Public Library in Braintree, Massachusetts, has an exhibit of Wedgwood ceramics through February. Installed by Ron Frazier, a former president of the Wedgwood Society of Boston and a former president of the Braintree Historical Society, the exhibit features Wedgwood from the company’s earliest production in the 1750’s to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Korean folding longevity screen, 18th or early 19th century, ink and mineral pigments on silk or linen, $603,750.
A pair of 18th-century carved cinnabar vases with red poppies on a yellow ground easily passed the $800/1200 estimate, starting at $5000 and finishing at $9200.
An eight-piece Aesthetic Movement walnut parlor suite by ... (Read More)
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<p>Flamingo Eventz, LLC will launch a new vintage book and ephemera fair in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The show will be held at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel on February 3 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.</p><p>"We've wanted to run a show in downtown Philly for a number of years," said Tina ... (Read More)
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by David Hewett
A church in St. Louis, Missouri, that had been the victim of numerous thefts over the past two years got nailed again just before Christmas. Thieves took material intended for needy neighborhood families, cash and gift cards worth $1100, and food items from St. John’s Lutheran Church on ... (Read More)
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