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(Fragment)Buy a Real Weathervane so the Owners Can Buy a Fake One
The Concord Scout House (CSH) in the middle of Concord, Massachusetts, was built out of an old barn in 1932 for the local Girl Scout troop, and it's been the site of dances and concerts ever since. Before there was a Concord Scout House, there was a barn, and on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Variety and Surprises
Farmer Auctions, Salem, Virginia
Photos courtesy Farmer Auctions
Farmer Auctions held its spring catalog auction on April 23 at its gallery in Salem, Virginia. The sale offered a good mix of categories and generated several pleasant surprises.
One was an ephemera archive involving a construction project that never came to fruition. In February ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Buyers' Market for Americana
Pook & Pook, Downingtown, Pennsylvania
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Pook & Pook's Americana sale on April 23 was open for preview during the weekend of the Philadelphia Antiques & Art Show, and some of those on the Pennsylvania turnpike en route to the show stopped off in Downingtown to have a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)North American Decoys at Auction
Guyette & Deeter, St. Charles, Illinois
The 31st Guyette & Deeter spring auction, held April 21 and 22 in St. Charles, Illinois, was notable for several reasons. To begin, the annual event is one of the larger sales held by the decoy auction firm. This year more than 600 lots were ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Silver Sells
Christie's, New York City
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Collectors of American silver can find silver for sale at Christie's at least three times a year. Generally Colonial and Federal silver and 19th- and 20th-century silver works by Tiffany and Gorham appear in Americana sales catalogs in January and sometimes in September. For more ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine Furniture, Decorative Arts, and Silver
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago, Illinois
We've already written here about the cornucopia of variety available in a Leslie Hindman auction. Based in Chicago with regional satellites in Denver, Milwaukee, Naples and Palm Beach, Florida, and St. Louis, the house has widespread contacts. To all that, add international bidders and previews held ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Interesting Couture Labels on Vintage Fashions
Augusta Auctions, New York City
Photos courtesy Augusta Auctions
A sprinkling of couture labels by lesser-known fashion designers, as opposed to well-known and revered designers, were seen on vintage clothing at an auction of couture and vintage fashion, historic textiles, and fashion accessories held by Augusta Auctions at Landmark on the Park, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Furniture and Decorative Arts
Freeman's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman's
A consignment of furnishings collected by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association brought national attention to Freeman's April 19 sale in Philadelphia. The furniture had helped fill up the empty rooms of George and Martha Washington's plantation house with antiques from every state in the Union. The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Historical Documents Sale Highlights Reagan's 50-Year Correspondence with a Fan
Profiles in History, Calabasas, California
Photos courtesy Profiles in History
An archive of over 350 candid photographs of Ronald Reagan, the majority unpublished, along with 128 letters by him dating from the 1940s through the mid-1990s, as well as much, much more, sold to an unidentified institution for $120,000 (including buyer's premium) ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Skirmish Breaks Out over Civil War Coat
A Confederate coat, made of homemade blue jeans on a hand loom by a blind seamstress, is the subject of a lawsuit between a collector and a museum.
Collector Joe Fitzgerald of Huntsville, Alabama, a civilian aide to the secretary of the United States Army, bought the coat at the Mid-South ... (Read More)
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