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(Auction)Americana and International Auction
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook
The Mahantongo Valley, Pennsylvania, turned and painted sugar bowl or spice cup and cover illustrated on the front and back covers of the Pook & Pook May 4 auction catalog sold for $128,100 (includes buyer's premium). Dated 1861, it is inscribed ... (Read More)
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(Show)Boone County Treasure Hunt
Lebanon, Indiana
Change has been good for the Indy Antique Advertising Show. After being purchased in January 2017 by Nona and Mark Wilson of Northstar Collective, Park Falls, Wisconsin, it was moved out of Indianapolis and reinvented as part of the Boone County Treasure Hunt in Lebanon, Indiana. With the Indy ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Pook Sells Mahantongo Painted Urn for $128,100
The Mahantongo Valley, Pennsylvania, turned and painted urn-shaped sugar bowl or spice cup and cover, dated 1861 and inscribed "Jared Stiely" [sic], illustrated on the cover of Pook and Pook's May 4 catalog sold on the phone for $128,100 (with buyer's premium) to Edwin Hild, partner with Patrick Bell of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Bradford Family Potteries in Massachusetts
American redware has been a type of utilitarian production sought after by collectors and museums for well over a century. The Pennsylvania German sgraffito wares were some of the earliest styles in demand. Understandably, many of the best examples disappeared from the American marketplace when they were acquired by such ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Made in New York City: The Business of Folk Art
American Folk Art Museum, New York City
Elizabeth V. Warren, guest curator and a trustee of the American Folk Art Museum, has been thinking about New York City urban folk art for more than two decades. "Folk art is not just rural. Folk art was made in the cities too," she ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Lalique Perfume Bottle Leads IPBA Auction
International Perfume Bottle Association, Itasca, Illinois
Photos courtesy International Perfume Bottle Association
Wine glasses in hand, members of the International Perfume Bottle Association (IPBA) settled into their chairs on May 3 in Itasca, Illinois, for the auction that is the exclamation point to the IPBA annual convention. With 180 lots to sell, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stolen First Nations Art
The Nanaimo Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is asking for the public's assistance in locating a significant piece of First Nations art that was stolen in late March. The art piece, known as a spindle whorl, created and designed by local carver Joel Good, was last seen on Thursday, March ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Show in Massachusetts
Joshua and Rachel Gurley of Gurley Antique Shows will open a new show, The Fancy Flea at Edaville-Vintage and Antiques Fair, at the Edaville Family Theme Park in Carver, Massachusetts, on Saturday, June 22.
The focus of The Fancy Flea will be vintage goods and antiques. By running it at the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)J. Levine Files Bankruptcy
On March 15 J. Levine Auction & Appraisal LLC, Phoenix, Arizona, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Court documents show the estimated number of creditors as 200 to 999. The company, established in 2009, has assets of $100,001 to $500,000 and liabilities of $1,000,001 to $10,000,000.
The 20 largest unsecured claims total ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Where Have All the Portraits Gone?
Peter, Paul, and Mary's plaintive song strikes a chord in the ongoing search for some missing portraits by 18th-century Salem, Massachusetts, artist Benjamin Blyth (1746-1811). He was an enigmatic man about whom little is known, despite that many of his portraits, primarily pastels, have been used in numerous publications over ... (Read More)
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