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(Auction)JMK Shows Adds New York City Show
Allison Kohler, director of JMK Shows, has announced that the firm will launch a new show in New York City. The New York Antiques & Fine Arts Show will make its debut April 5-7, 2013, at the Bohemian National Hall located at 321 East 73rd Street.The Bohemian National Hall, which ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Internet Ruled at Augusta
Labeled “Doeuillet 18 Place Vendôme Paris,” this one-piece tea gown from 1910 was of fine Russian cream bobbin lace with a bodice insert and deep skirt panels of heavily embroidered cotton lawn with repeats of small flowers surrounded by a swirling vine. It was missing its original green silk sash ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana at Freeman’s
Three phone bidders wanted this Federal carved mahogany high-post bed with feather-carved reeded posts, made in Charleston, South Carolina, circa 1815. It sold for $26,250 (est. $8000/12,000).
Five phone bidders competed for this Tiffany Favrile aquamarine paperweight vase with yellow narcissi with orange and black centers and green stems and leaves. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tall Clock with Music Box Towers at Talbot
A combination Regina tall clock and music box, with the disc-playing mechanism concealed in the base, brought $8250, the top price of the auction.In red paint and with iron hardware, this country store cabinet with the original owner's terms clearly painted on the doors sold for $575.Charles M. Talbot Associates, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Buyers Get the Big Pictures
The highest price of the night was $6325 for this Gustav Stickley Mission oak chest of six drawers with iron ring hardware.This oil on canvas, solidly attributed to John Joseph Enneking, after the famous Jules Breton work Return of the Gleaners, brought $2990.A majolica sardine dish with cover and undertray ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Minnesota Man Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud in Insurance Case
On August 17, 39-year-old Jason William Sheedy of St. Paul, Minnesota, pleaded guilty in federal court to filing a false insurance claim for approximately $250,000. On August 6, he was charged with one count of wire fraud in connection with this incident.In his plea agreement, Sheedy admitted that between September ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dr. Bruce Barnes to Head George Eastman House
Dr. Bruce Barnes has been appointed the Ron and Donna Fielding Director of the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, New York. Barnes will be the eighth director of the world’s oldest museum of photography and one of the largest motion-picture archives.Barnes is the president ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Buddha Transcendent at the New Brunk Auctions
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina
by Pete Prunkl
Photos courtesy Brunk Auctions
Asian antiques dealer Jeffrey Wong of New York City and China was eager to pose during the preview with this Chinese cast bronze standing figure of Buddha. The 22" x 9" x 6¾" figure was the top lot of the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Daguerreotype Camera Sells at Benefit Auction
The auction’s top lot, going to Mike Robinson at $14,300, was this mid-19th-century American daguerreotype camera in a rosewood-veneered bellows box that is stamped “Palmer & Longking, Manufacturers of Daguerreotype Apparatus, Newburg & New York.” It was designed by William Lewis and his son William H. Lewis, whose manufactory ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Shenandoah Valley Clock Leads Evans Sale
This Virginia walnut tall-case clock proved to be the high lot of the Evans sale. The circa 1800 clock is a rare signed example from the short-lived partnership of Woodstock, Virginia, clockmakers Jacob Fry and Caleb Davis (working 1796-1800). The hood features a broken-arch pediment with simple turned rosettes and ... (Read More)
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