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(Auction)Skinner Fine Art
Skinner, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Skinner
A standing mobile by Alexander Calder (1898-1976) was untitled but garnered much interest and $267,000 (includes buyer's premium) at Skinner's May 19 American and European works of art sale in the Boston gallery. Bidding on the 3" tall mobile opened at $120,000 (est. $100,000/150,000) and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Four Spring Jewelry Auctions
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Freeman's, John Moran Auctioneers, Rago Arts, and Dupuis Fine Jewellery
Vacation time while writing this column required e-mail correspondence and telephone interviews for the several sales in this month's column, so thanks go to coauthors Virginia Salem of Freeman's, Philadelphia; Mollie Burns Keith of John Moran ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Edgefield Pots Are Winners
Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society, Bennett, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society
The Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society's 47th absentee sale closed on May 27. The prices realized show it was a clear win for the Edgefield, South Carolina, candidates. Notable signed examples by Dave the Slave Drake and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)World-Record Banner Sets the Tone at Americana and Political Sale
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
The interest in politics and the political process is at an all-time high, undoubtedly fueled by the most recent United States presidential election and subsequent discourse concerning the new leaders.
But then again, Monday-morning armchair quarterbacking has been going on for decades, even centuries, where ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pennsylvania Chest Tops Garth's Sale
Garth's Auctioneers & Appraisers, Delaware, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth's
Top lots from different sessions had an interesting connection during the sale held by Garth's in Delaware, Ohio, on May 12 and 13. The link-longtime collections. While high-quality items remained in demand, the event underscored the added appeal of desirable antiques that have ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)StuffSavvy Launches
In 1999 auctioneer Leslie Hindman launched Eppraisals.com, a company that offered low-cost and quick appraisals over the Internet. The company had hundreds of specialists in 300 collecting categories to provide information and valuation of art, antiques, and collectibles. Eppraisals raised millions of dollars in venture capital and signed a deal ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Comfortably Numb
The Young Collector
The world is getting smaller. Computers have collapsed distances virtually, at the same time that dropping phone prices have made keeping in touch over long distance easier as well. Our kids will never understand that we had to retrain their grandparents to start calling us before 11. Even ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Red Tag or Dot Means Sold
You've seen it hundreds of times at antiques or art shows, in art galleries too-the red sold tag stuck in the corner of a painting, half visible inside a chest drawer, or stuffed into a crevice of a weathervane. More subtle, and some might argue classier, is the red dot. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rubenstein Pleads No Contest
Art dealer Perry Rubenstein, 63, pleaded no contest on March 30 to charges that he failed to pay more than $1 million to the owners of paintings sold through his gallery, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced.
Rubenstein entered his plea to two counts of grand theft by embezzlement. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Revolution at Home: The Muhlenberg Family of Pennsylvania
The town of Trappe in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, was named for its tavern. The story, told in the journal of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, the patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America, is about an English fellow who had stayed too long at John Jacob Schrack's tavern, had a row with ... (Read More)
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