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(Auction)Five Clock Stars
Schmitt Horan & Co., Manchester, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy Schmitt Horan & Co.
There were 899 lots-comprising thousands of clocks, watches, tools, parts, music boxes, books, and other antiques-presented at the October 26 and 27, 2019, auction held by Schmitt Horan & Co. in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Continuing a recent strategy of a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pennsylvania Sale Excels in the Heartland
Horst Auction Center, Ephrata, Pennsylvania
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Horst Auction Center held a 798-lot sale on October 25 and 26, 2019, at its facility in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, titled "Folk Art from an Old Time Ohio Collection." The total gross was $298,435. Horst does not charge a buyer's premium for in-house ... (Read More)
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(Auction)On-Site Sale in Newbury
John McInnis Auctions, Newbury, Massachusetts
All prices include the buyer's premium.
John Atkinson arrived in Newbury, Massachusetts, sometime before 1664 when he was granted an acre of land on which to build a house. Over the years it passed from generation to generation until it passed out of the family in the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)American Furniture Study Center
American Furniture Study Center ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Former Partners to Face Off in Legal Battle
In 1987 an informal partnership of Treadway Gallery and John Toomey Gallery was formed to conduct sales. For the next 30 years, the pair sold hundreds of thousands of lots, regularly publishing thick catalogs filled with every kind of antiques and art but with a special emphasis on Modernism and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Winterthur Purchases Two Genre Paintings
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Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library purchased two genre paintings at Christie's in January: Self-Portrait of John Lewis Krimmel with Susannah Krimmel and Her Children, 1810-11, by John Lewis Krimmel (1786-1821) and Family Group in a New York Interior by Francois-Jules Bourgoin, a 19th-century immigrant from France. Both paintings ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine Art at Shannon's
Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers, Milford, Connecticut
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Twice-yearly art auctions at Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers, Milford, Connecticut, bring out fine artworks that result in a full house for each sale. The October 24, 2019, sale was no exception.
The 271-lot event drew 500 bids on 20-some phones, on site, and online. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Winter Show Loan Exhibition Reflects Global Market
Masterworks from the collection of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library, spanning 4000 years of Hispanic history, art, and culture, will be the loan exhibition at The Winter Show, January 24-February 2, 2020, the annual benefit for the East Side House Settlement in the South Bronx.
The exhibition is co-curated by ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)American Silver in the Philadelphia Museum
Dedicated to the memory of Robert L. McNeil Jr. (1915-2010), a museum trustee, passionate collector of American art, and benefactor of scholarship, American Silver in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Volume I, Makers A-F is the long-awaited first of four volumes to be published over the next five or six ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Starr and Arnhold Collections
Sotheby's, New York City
The Starr and Arnhold Collections
by Lita Solis-Cohen
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
Two stellar collections of ceramics offered at Sotheby's on successive days were not ignored by an international group of collectors and dealers. "Wedgwood & Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection" sold on October 23, 2019, for a total ... (Read More)
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