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Wow! What can we say? What a session of bidding occurred when this man's wool zoot suit, 1938-42, came up for bid. Four phones battled each other, and Karen Augusta and Bob Ross fielded bids on their individual phones. The excitement began at $500 against a $700/900 estimate and spiraled ... (Read More)
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Doug and Rui Ramsay.View of the Connecticut River from Ramsay's home.Delicate New England demilune table with pegged construction in Spanish brown paint over red stain, $1400. On top, a mid-20th-century sheet metal weathervane of a coupe, $1850.Polychrome carved pine eagle that Ramsay dates to the late 19th century, $2850.Gold-painted model ... (Read More)
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The Hanebergs Antiques, East Lyme, Connecticut, showed two brace-back, continuous-arm Windsor chairs with slight differences. The chair at left cost $2500; the one at right, $2800.Scott Bassoff, Sandy Jacobs Antiques, Swampscott, Massachusetts, showed a toy made in Keene, New Hampshire, around 1920. The 13" long Kinsgbury Automatic Fire Station with ... (Read More)
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A 20" x 16" oil on canvas self-portrait of Augustus John (1878-1961) sold for $44,250 (est. $2000/3000). The sleeper of the sale, it bore a gallery label from Arthur Tooth & Sons of London and is going back to London, said Michael B. Grogan.A 58" long 19th-century Chinese nine-dragon embroidered ... (Read More)
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Note taking software displayed in front of the Web page it has just clipped and saved.Computer Column #279by John P. Reid, [email protected] on this column begins each month with a flurry of note organizing. A folder for the new subject is set up in the Web browser "Favorites" or "Bookmarks." ... (Read More)
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This scroll-back armchair, made in 1807 for William Bayard's brick residence at 6 State Street at the tip of Manhattan, is among the earliest documented Phyfe furniture in the Neoclassical idiom. It was among the 12 chairs purchased by Henry Francis du Pont in 1929 along with their original bill. ... (Read More)
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Perry-Joyce Fine Arts, Sawyer, Michigan, offered mostly 19th-century British needlework pictures, paintings, ceramics, papier-mâché, and metalwares, including furniture with needlework upholstery priced from $125 to $4000.Wesley Sessa, Heller Washam Antiques, and Dixon-Hall Fine Art together furnished a large stand that resembled a Main Line Philadelphia living room. The circa 1775 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
This Chippendale mahogany corner chair has a tooled Portuguese leather slip seat, well-formed ball-and-claw feet, pierce carved splats, and turned baluster posts. It sold for $34,500.This 10" x 14" oil on board by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait of a mother quail and her brood sold for $13,800.Devin Moisan, Dover, New Hampshireby ... (Read More)
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This Japanese scroll print showing lobsters and crabs in semiabstract style, possibly by an artist named Qi who may have passed away around 1990, according to the underbidder, sold for $13,225 (est. $100/200). Cobbs photo.First edition of A Book of Cats by Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, signed copy #59 of 500, ... (Read More)
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by Danielle ArnetThe old way of antiquing is, to borrow from the Monty Python parrot routine, dead, dead, dead. There's a new way to play antiques today. Younger buyers can't afford the old rubric and find it fusty anyway. Too traditional, irrelevant, and bluntly old. This is a cohort that ... (Read More)
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