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(Auction)East Meets West on the Shores of Lake Pontchartrain
Top lot of the sale was this pair of simple, elegant Chinese huanghuali stools from the New Orleans estate of Irene S. Chandler that sold for $69,310 (est. $10,000/15,000).Distinguished by its unusual subject matter, a very large (43½" x 66¾") painting of Prisoner's Escort, A Scene from the Crimean War ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Spring Marburger Farm Antique Show
This lovely pre-Civil War pull cart is all original except for its new canvas canopy. Dick and Mary Flynn of Country House Antiques, Marshall, Michigan, brought it for their 35th trip to Marburger, saying "It's one of our best shows...plus the people are so nice!" They priced it at $1895.Mary ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Coca-Cola Soda Fountain Wows at Auction
The marble soda fountain built by the Liquid Carbonic Company for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 sold for $5,175,000 to an anonymous phone bidder. The front counter is 3'6" high x 21' long, and the back bar is 10' high overall x 19'9" long.The work involved to ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Paperwork Loss Leads to Lawsuit
by Daniel GrantBad things sometimes happen to art—a guy puts his elbow through the canvas, an assemblage sculpture is carted out with the trash, a bronze is stolen to be melted down, things get dropped and break, a Picasso gets spray-painted—you name it. Here's a new twist. Nothing happened to ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Clockmakers of Flemington, New Jersey: 1788-1840 Part I, The Early Years
Figure 1A. Emma Jo (Thompson Bousquet) Langerak setting her watch to the Thomas Williams tall-case clock with engraved brass dial. The beveled glass in the trunk door is a later addition. Originally this clock had a solid walnut tombstone-shaped door. Photo was taken circa 1920 in Pella, Iowa, and is ... (Read More)
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