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(Auction)The Grievos Sell Their Collection
This stoneware jug was made in New Haven, Connecticut, 1825-30. It is signed "Made by Absalom Stedman" and has an incised cobalt-decorated American eagle with a striped shield breast. It was exhibited at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum in 1975, and its provenance includes the Preston Bassett collection, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: You Can Fight City Hall
A few months after the western Massachusetts town of Great Barrington passed a secondhand dealers bylaw in 2010, antiques dealer Paul Kleinwald spoke at a town selectmen's meeting. “I told the town they could have a bylaw, but I'll be damned if I'm going to abide by it. This is ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Strong Sale in Chicago
Top lot of the sale at $91,500, the French bronze and ivory by Demetre H. Chiparus (1886-1947) also decorated the catalog cover. Titled Les Amis de Toujours, the circa 1925 piece showed a woman flanked by borzoi hounds. Set on an onyx base, the almost 25" tall statue topped a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Swann Broadens Market for African-American Fine Art
Charles White's J'Accuse! No. 10 (Negro Woman) sold to a dealer on the phone for $204,000 (est. $150,000/200,000). The 1966 charcoal on paper in tondo form is 28" x 28".Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) by Kara Walker went to a collector at $120,000 (est. $75,000/ 100,000), a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Julia Has a Blast with Guns
Virtually every one of the 52 items listed in the Class III category sold within or above estimates. Top, the Colt Thompson M1921AC submachine gun, serial number 6884, with all internal parts manufactured in 1921, in a purple felt-lined case, sold for $37,950 (est. $20,000/30,000). The 1919 Colt B.A.R., serial ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Object of History: Colonial Treasures from the Massachusetts Historical Society
MHS president Dennis A. Fiori with his wife, Peggy Burke, executive director of the Concord Museum. Schinto photo.
Oil on canvas portrait of Dorothy Quincy (1708/9-1762), wife of Edward Jackson, a Boston merchant and manufacturer. It was painted in Boston circa 1720 by an unidentified painter. Quincy's great-grandson Oliver Wendell Holmes ... (Read More)
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(Feature)More New Kids on the Block at Bowmanville Show
One of Ben Lennox's favorites was this set of about 25 soldier figures from the 1960's to '80's, $2800 the set or priced individually. Steve Harris displayed a number of crocks and jugs on a plant shelf. His least expensive one was a cracked redware jar at $65, and his ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Record $402,900 Stoneware Jug Is Top Lot at Grievo Sale
Photo courtesy Pook & Pook.by Lita Solis-CohenPotter Absalom Stedman's masterpiece, a stoneware jug incised with a large American eagle holding an American flag, sold for $402,900 (includes buyer's premium) at Pook & Pook's sale on May 5 of the collection of Mr. and Mrs. James Grievo.Four phone bidders and an ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Bankruptcy Trustee Goes after Transfers
The “Grand Reopening Sale” for New Orleans Auction Galleries (NOAG), November 30-December 2, 2012, was featured in M.A.D., March 2013, p. 16-D. The previous business bearing that name had run into financial problems and declared bankruptcy on April 1, 2011. That filing is still open and being conducted by Judge ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Encouraging Signs Emerge at Potomack Auction
When I first saw this scroll in a showcase at the Potomack gallery, I thought it was a roll of wallpaper. Boy was I wrong. The handscroll, Travelers in Landscape, an ink and light color on paper, mounted on silk brocade, dates from the first half of the Qing Dynasty ... (Read More)
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