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(Auction)Quinn & Farmer Offer New Approach to Old Game
This redhead duck decoy is attributed to carver B.P. Holland and probably dates from the 1930’s. Holland practiced his craft in the Back Bay area along the Atlantic coast at the Virginia and North Carolina border. The decoy measures 9" x 13" x 7" and exhibits cracks and chips associated ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Art of the Hunt: Martha’s Vineyard Decoys
The museum gallery on opening night of the exhibition. Photo courtesy Martha’s Vineyard Museum.
Chris Murphy, guest curator of the exhibition. Penny Uhlendorf photo. Courtesy Martha’s Vineyard Museum.
“I went to go look at a few decoys that someone called me about recently,” Chris Murphy said. The person ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Sue and Bear van Asch van Wyck, Washington, Connecticut
Sue and Bear van Asch van Wyck.Some figural items, from left: 19th-century bronze putto after Verrocchio, $5800; cast-iron bust of Lord Byron, $2000; Italian carved wood painted and gilded eagle with a 5'10" wingspan, $7500.English diorama with hand-carved coach and horses, $1200.Still life of flowers, oil on panel, 17th-century Dutch, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Antique Jewelry and Gemology: Two Jewelry Auctions
A Victorian 14k yellow gold, emerald, and diamond serpent bracelet, containing one oval step-cut emerald and two rose-cut diamonds set in an engraved serpent head with a body consisting of pivoting gold links with chain attached to the tail, sold for $1586 (est. $600/800). Leslie Hindman photo.An Art Deco platinum ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Small People, Big Changes
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondThe world would be a better place if doing the right thing were always synonymous with doing the easy thing, but it isn't, and nowhere is this more apparent than parenting. OK, maybe the words "easy" and "parenting" shouldn't even appear in the same sentence, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Down the Rabbit Hole with Lewis Carroll Collectors
In the late 1980's, Macmillan found in a bank vault all but one of the 91 original boxwood engravings for Tenniel's illustrations of the Alice books. They made 250 copies, using an electrotype of the missing engraving to complete the set. This is Christopher Morgan's copy of one of those ... (Read More)
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(Show)Maine's Little Gem
A circa 1850 cast-iron garden dog with a great original painted surface, by the Gray Foundry of Poultney, Vermont, was $16,500 with Hilary and Paulette Nolan of Falmouth, Massachusetts.Roger Williams of Boathouse Antiques, Wiscasset, Maine, had this $4800 gilded 48" pilothouse eagle, created around 1950, perched dramatically atop a tall ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Burning Love for Elvis Fuels Heritage Auction in Memphis
A surprising standout in the sale was this stand-up movie lobby advertising figure for Love Me Tender, Elvis's first movie. The rare piece of ephemera roared past the opening bid of $1250 to $20,000. Heritage Auctions photo.An icon of the King's style, this pair of "Tiger Man" sunglasses with yellow ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stitches in Time: Bucks County Needlework Samplers
Adam and Eve sofa by Marie Loncoske Davis (1908-2007), upholstered 1970-71, ebonized wood, bronze ormolu, linen, wool yarn, and metallic thread. Davis wrote about this sofa, “Everything is nice on top, with Eve minding her own business - riding a giraffe, and Adam playing ball with monkeys (using an apple). ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Modern Sale at Rago
Designed by Paul Evans for Directional in 1972, this metal cabinet is bronze composite, painted wood, and metal, and has a slate top. The 32" x 97½" x 22" cabinet is signed “PE 72.” It sold for $25,000 (est. $9000/12,000).
This 1965 hanging wall case by George Nakashima is made from ... (Read More)
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