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This 59 15/16" x 44 3/16" six-sheet manuscript map by Charles Blaskowitz (circa 1743-1823), consigned by Mrs. M. Sharpe Erskine’s trust, sold for $782,500 (est. $700,000/1 million) to Paul E. Cohen of Cohen & Taliaferro, New York City, who was bidding for a client. Another member of the trade, Seth ... (Read More)
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Even those unfamiliar with North Carolina’s obsession with these Moravian pottery figures will agree that this little chicken shaker is precious. It is small, old, beautifully glazed, undamaged, and in this part of the world highly coveted. The chicken shaker can rest in its new home in Virginia after ... (Read More)
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Worsted wool 34-star Naval flag with diamond-shaped star configuration, 6' x 10', some toning, scattered holes, and canton repair, $23,500.
Book from Thomas Jefferson’s library, Robert Patterson’s A Treatise of Practical Arithmetic, Intended for the Use of Schools (1818), purchased in 1829 at the sale of Jefferson’s library in Washington, D.C., ... (Read More)
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