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Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer's premium when charged. We're always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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New York City
For three generations, collectors of Americana have come to The Winter Show at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City in search of the finest furniture, silver, ceramics, and textiles. The trade saves the best objects they can muster for this premier American antiques show, held January ... (Read More)
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Case Auctions, Knoxville, Tennessee
Photos courtesy Case Auctions
The artist William Edmondson (1894-1951) took a discarded block of limestone and chiseled out a female figure with a repurposed railroad spike to create Schoolteacher Lifting her Skirt, which, far and away, was the top lot in Case Auctions' winter sale January 31 and ... (Read More)
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New York City
Red dots filled the walls of the gallery space on West 26th Street in far West Chelsea in New York City during the Nameless Art + Design show, January 30 and February 1.
Held over the last weekend in January, dealers, many of them repeat performers, brought a trove ... (Read More)
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York, Pennsylvania
The 186th Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show and Sale, centrally located at the York Fairgrounds and Convention Center in York, Pennsylvania, opened this year amid record-setting low temperatures and snow on the ground. Despite this, the show saw consistent attendance throughout the day both Friday and Saturday, January 30 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Miniatures of American antiques come in many genres. Be they chests of drawers, wooden duck decoys, sideboards, dressing tables, blanket chests, church podium donation boxes, firkins, burl dough bowls, wallpaper hatboxes or those with pincushion covers, food/pie safes, painted trenchers, mortars and pestles, samplers and other needlework, or baskets, they ... (Read More)
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Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland
Photos courtesy Crocker Farm
"It's an exciting time in the collecting world, some interesting pieces are appearing and major collections coming out," noted Mark Zipp of Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland, following the company's second part of the single-owner sale of the Carole Carpenter Wahler collection. "The results speak ... (Read More)
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David L. Johnson, 66, of Old Greenwich, Connecticut, has been charged in a five-count indictment with offenses stemming from his alleged embezzlement from a deceased individual's estate.
As alleged in the indictment, Johnson operated an antiques business, Antique Treasures LLC, and an auction business, Greenwich Auction, both based in Stamford, Connecticut. ... (Read More)
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Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Brunk Auctions
Beginning in 1937, Byerly Antiques was a vital resource for collectors, decorators, and the trade in central North Carolina. That resource came to a dramatic end in 2000, when the state of North Carolina bought and razed its building on the south side ... (Read More)
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Childhood sweethearts Jim and Jody Lowery are still at it-the buying and selling of antiques-which they've pursued for over half a century.
Growing up three houses away from one another, Jim, an only child, would walk over to Jody's to visit her and her seven sisters. "Jimmy was a brother to ... (Read More)
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