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(Auction)A Revered Print Reaches $120,000
Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Historical documents from several collections captivated bidders at Northeast Auctions' October 31 and November 1, 2015, auction, which played before a full house on both days. "The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in King Street, Boston on March 5th, 1770, by a party of the 29th Reg't.," engraved, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Willard Skeleton Unearthed at Halloween Clock and Watch Auction
Skinner, Inc, Marlborough, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Skinner, Inc.
Not human bones, a Simon Willard, Jr. skeleton clock, 1825-35, earned the fifth-highest price at the October 31, 2015, Skinner, Inc. auction of clocks, watches, and scientific instruments in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Selling at $19,680 (including buyer's premium) from a New Hampshire collection, it is ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Autumn Auction of Majolica for the Connoisseur
Strawser Auction Group, Hatfield, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Strawser Auction Group
Sometimes collecting friendships segue into working friendships, and what a wonderful collaboration that can be. It was only a natural progression that Michael Strawser, founder of the Majolica International Society, president of the Strawser Auction Group, and collector extraordinaire of majolica in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Show in Miami after Old Show Is Postponed
After a three-year hiatus from the Miami market, Dolphin Promotions is returning with a new show, the Miami Antiques + Art + Design Show, to be held at the Miami Airport Convention Center (MACC) January 22-24, 2016. The inaugural Miami Antiques + Art + Design Show will feature about 100 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Art Gallery Owner Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy in Wildlife Case
Michael Polenske, 53, the owner of Ma(i)sonry Napa Valley, an art and antiques gallery as well as a wine-tasting collective in Yountville, California, pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco on August 11 to wildlife trafficking and conspiracy.
Polenske, who has been featured in Town & Country, Forbes, the Robb ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"The Art of More" Premieres November 19
Is the world of high-end auction houses a good backdrop for a television series? The streaming service Crackle (www.crackle.com) thinks so, and on November 19 the network will debut The Art of More, its first scripted drama.
According to the network, the ten-episode series explores "the underbelly and surprisingly cutthroat world ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)WPA Artwork Recovered from an Antiques Store and an Auction House
Manhattan from Brooklyn, an etching by Mortimer Borne (1902-1987), was offered on eBay by an antiques store in Hopewell, New Jersey, until the General Services Administration (GSA) found out.
On October 28, 2015, special agents from the Office of Inspector General (OIG) seized the Works Progress Administration (WPA) etching. Government officials ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Spruce Gum Boxes--Folk Art for Sweethearts
Spruce gum boxes were created by lumbermen in the crowded bunkhouses of the North woods on Sundays and during cold winter nights. The boxes were made to contain sap from the spruce tree used as chewing gum. Spruce gum is resin from the spruce tree, and before chicle was discovered ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Who Designed the Stickley Furniture Sold at Bonhams?
Rare and aesthetically arresting furniture by Gustav Stickley does not often appear on the auction market, but when it does there is keen competition. When a chair and a settle, both with copper and pewter inlay, were pictured in the catalog for a Bonhams sale of 20th-century decorative arts on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine Furniture, Silver, Decorative Arts, and Clocks at Bonhams
New York City
Photos courtesy Bonhams
The chair that held many prominent figures in 19th-century American history while their portraits were taken by photographer Mathew Brady sold on the phone for $449,000 (with buyer's premium) at the Bonhams fine furniture, silver, decorative arts, and clocks sale on October 26, 2015. The carved ... (Read More)
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