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(Auction)A Document, a Map, and a Song Lead Book Sale
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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(Auction)A Chicken Shall Lead Them
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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(Auction)American History Auction
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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(Auction)Mang Netsuke Collection Nets $1.6 Million
The scowling figure who is looking skyward represents a sennin, or immortal person, who is holding a mokugyo, a wooden percussion instrument used while reciting Buddhist texts. This relatively large (3 7/8") netsuke is carved from bone, and the mokugyo appears to contain a loose ball inside. It sold for ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Arader Galleries Holds Auction to Raise Money for Universities
John James Audubon’s Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, 1848, three volumes, Imperial folio (27" x 21½") with 150 hand-colored lithographs, $793,000.
“People love auctions,” said W. Graham Arader before he mailed out a catalog for his December 5, 2012, auction conducted by Guernsey’s at his 1016 Madison Avenue flagship gallery in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Native American Art
A Navajo Classic child’s blanket sold to a dealer from the Southwest for $60,000 (est. $20,000/40,000). This blanket was originally offered at the Ball collection sale in May 2012, at Bonhams in New York City, with an estimate of $50,000/70,000.
Bonhams, San Francisco
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Bonhams’ Native American art expert Jim Haas ... (Read More)
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