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(Auction)Canadiana and Folk Art: The Marty Osler Collection
Miller & Miller Auctions Ltd., New Hamburg, Ontario
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"Let’s put it this way,” said Ethan Miller, co-owner of Miller & Miller Auctions. “In all the auctions we’ve had, you get a sense of when the community is excited about a collection, and this was just ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Books and Manuscripts Blowout
Sotheby’s, New York City
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Printed and manuscript Americana from the estate of Ira and Barbara Lipman offered in 557 lots in three sessions at Sotheby’s, April 13 and 14, brought an impressive $12,396,132 (including buyers’ premiums), well over the presale estimates of $735,000/10,600,000 (figured without buyers’ premiums). The sale, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bunker Hill Visitor Logs Sold
Three logbooks, long missing from the Bunker Hill Museum, Charlestown, Massachusetts, raced past the $7500/8000 estimate to sell for $21,250 (includes buyer’s premium) at University Archives, Wilton, Connecticut, on April 14.
The logbooks contain the signatures of over 40,000 visitors to the Bunker Hill Monument during the Civil War, between 1860 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Color, Form, and Surface Prevail
Skinner, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusetts
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Eighteenth-century color, form, and surface prevailed in Skinner’s Americana sale that ran online from April 1 to 12. Two Connecticut collections of early New England objects and 18th-century furniture plus textiles, furniture, and decorative arts deaccessioned from Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, Massachusetts, gave bidders much ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Country Antiques and Accessories
Flying Pig Auctions, Westmoreland, New Hampshire
Country Antiques and Accessories
"The sale was great!” said Roxanne Reuling of Flying Pig Auctions after the sale on April 12 in Westmoreland, New Hampshire. The 399-lot sale was primarily focused on American country antiques and appropriate accessories. An antique Oriental rug, 10'5" x 13'10", estimated ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sevatson and Foley Collections Anchor Sale
New Haven Auctions, Branford, Connecticut
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New Haven Auctions’ April 10 and 11 two-day sale, in the new gallery in Branford, Connecticut, offered two premier folk-art collections on day one. They were the collection of Maine dealer Robert Foley and the estate of Nancy Sevatson (1933-2020), who had ... (Read More)
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(Show)Midwest Antique & Art Show
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
There were stories to be told at the Midwest Antique & Art Show, held on April 11 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Stories of how a dog crate connected to a once-in-a-generation movie. Of a painting and the celebrity who once owned it. Of people, perseverance, and a shift ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Collector’s Eye
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Not long into the spring edition of The Collector’s Eye, a general-line antiques show held at Hawkeye Downs in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on April 11, a couple stood near an open bay that separates the event from the Midwest Antique & Art Show. The sibling events sidle against ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Chippendale Side Chairs Bring $33,210
A pair of 18th-century Philadelphia Chippendale mahogany side chairs sold for $33,210 (includes buyer’s premium) in an online-only auction held on April 10 by Neue Auctions in Beachwood, Ohio.
$33,210.
The chairs, ex-Joe Kindig Jr., had sold at Garth’s on March 26, 1988, for $80,000 (at that time, Garth’s did not charge ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Control Issues
The Young Collector
Pandemic lifestyle grates on a person. Of course, at this point in winter, everything grates on a person, and as the anniversary of a year in shutdown rolls around for many of us, it grates all the more.
Many aspects of this are, as the kids would often say ... (Read More)
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