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(Fragment)Massachusetts Sale Lights Up to $6.5 Million Total
The September 28 and 29 auction at Fontaine’s Auction Gallery totaled just over $6.5 million from 1000 lots, according to the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, auction house. Tiffany Studios lighting and decorative arts objects dominated the sale, but there were other high-profile objects, called “unusual and exceptional” by the auction house. Three ... (Read More)
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(Auction)“We the People”: The U.S. Constitution and Articles of Confederation at Brunk Auctions
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina
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Record-breaking rainstorms followed by Hurricane Helene forced the delay of the planned September 28 sale of a rare copy of the 1787 United States Constitution at Brunk Auctions. Flooding in Asheville, North Carolina, and throughout western North Carolina destroyed entire towns and disrupted ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Sale of Jay R. Moyer’s Estate
Hess Auction Group, Manheim, Pennsylvania
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On September 28, the day after Pook & Pook in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, finished selling 1500 lots of mostly Pennsylvania antiques used by generations of Pennsylvania Germans, Hess Auctions in Manheim, Lancaster County, a little more than 50 miles up the road, offered ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fall Antiques and Art Auction with Gunn Textile Collection
Meander Auctions, Whipple, Ohio
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Meander Auctions held its fall antiques and art auction September 28 at the company’s gallery in Whipple, Ohio. Top lots ranged from Clyde Singer paintings to Blenko glass. The most notable inclusion, however, was the first part of the lifetime collection of Dr. Virginia ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)MADA Helps Restore Painting
On July 31 the Maine Antiques Dealers Association (MADA) presented a check for $1000 to the Lincoln County (Maine) Historical Association to help fund the recent restoration of a circa 1840 landscape painting by artist and explorer Henry Cheever Pratt (1803-1880).
The check was presented at the Pownalborough Court House in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Maine Scene Tops Dallas Auction
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
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Paintings of scenic New England landscapes and seascapes by renowned American artists dominated Heritage Auctions’ September 27 sale of American art, confirming that the market for this genre of art remains strong.
The “American Art Within Reach Showcase Auction” was highlighted by works of late ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Will Coffeepot and Rare Fraktur Lead Americana Sale
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
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On September 27 the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at a record high, and Wall Street’s three main indexes posted weekly gains. On that same day, the last of Pook and Pook’s three-day sale in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, some blue-chip Americana ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Thomas Jefferson’s Furniture
A Book Review
Since 1993 American Furniture,edited by Luke Beckerdite and published by the Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee, has presented new research by leading scholars in the field on furniture history, technology, conservation, and connoisseurship of furniture made or used in America from the 17th century to today.
Last year Beckerdite announced ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Objects from Thornside Sold
Stair Galleries, Hudson, New York
Photos courtesy Stair Galleries
The “Design from 1860 to 1910” sale that took place at Stair Galleries in Hudson, New York, on September 26 counted bold-faced consignors evocative of Big Oil (Ann and Gordon Getty) and Park Avenue (Jordan Saunders).
Also on the block were the contents of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)West Coast Bitters Bottle Tops Heckler Sale
Norman C. Heckler & Company, Woodstock Valley, Connecticut
Photos courtesy Norman C. Heckler & Company
Norman C. Heckler & Company once again hosted a minimalist online-only event resulting in not-so-minimalist final sale prices. The September 25 auction of early American glass, fine tableware, historical flasks, and bottles offered up a mere 31 ... (Read More)
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