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Winterthur recently announced two important acquisitions.
John Shearer Chest Made for Salome Kramer
At the Furniture Forum (March 4-7) Winterthur announced the purchase of a chest of drawers made by John Shearer (worked 1790-1820) for Salome Kramer of Frederick County, Maryland, in 1809. Shearer signed the walnut, oak, and poplar chest ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
River landscape after Cornelius Ver Bryck (1813-1844), oil on canvas, signed "T. C- / from an outline by C. Ver Bryck," 12" x 18" plus frame, inpainting to about 10% of the surface, $46,800.
Banjo clock, circa 1825, cherry and pine, scenic and foliate-decorated tablets, gilt surface, restoration to gold ... (Read More)
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Sandy Doig in his basement workshop. In good weather he works in his barn. He thinks the two-drawer stand is from the south shore of Massachusetts. "It has the thinner stock that they use there." He's asking $450 for it. "Eight years ago it would have been nine hundred," he ... (Read More)
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Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts, New York City, took a large booth located at the front of the show. Displayed on the wall are a set of five terra-cotta reliefs by Carl Milles (1875-1955), The Muses, circa 1935, each 151/2" x 10", priced at $125,000. In the center is a 1934 ... (Read More)
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A group of Scottsdale, Arizona, art gallery owners say they are being crippled by a sales tax that kicked in at the beginning of this year. The new regulation adds the transaction privilege tax (TPT), Arizona's sales tax, to fine art sales to out-of-state buyers who purchase the art in ... (Read More)
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Don Toth of Richfield, Ohio, trades as Parkside House Antiques. Toth set up on the infield and offered this group of Americana items. The honey-color dry sink is constructed of pine and features a high back with a shelf and two drawers. The sink was tagged $825. The wooden toolbox ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
The high lot of the von Eldik sale came from the fine arts category. This pair of large oil on canvas naturalistic scenes is by Peter Caulitz (German, circa 1650-1719). First is an avian group with strutting cocks, hens, turkeys, and pigeons in a yard before a stone dwelling. The ... (Read More)
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Jeff Holabird of Western Americana, Reno, Nevada, was asking $8000 for this circa 1872 pocket watch made by a Virginia City, Nevada, jeweler.
Helena, Montana, dealer Don Grimmer was exhibiting but not selling this vintage advertising bulldog, something he had long coveted at Desert John's Saloon Museum, Deer Lodge, Montana. It ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Stutz coupe, Gendron, circa 1926, pedal car, pressed steel, 281/2" long, ex-Don Kaufman, near mint, the sale's top seller at $22,420.
This Batman car by Yanoman, Japan, zoomed to $10,030, doubling the high estimate.
Broadway & Central Park omnibus, George Brown, 1880s, painted tin, 121/2" long, $10,620.
Electric Packard pedal car, American National, ... (Read More)
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Police are still looking for a break in a case involving the theft of political campaign memorabilia, worth about $120,000, taken from a locked ballroom at the Met Troy, in Troy, Michigan. The burglary at the hotel occurred between 11 p.m. on May 8 and 6 a.m. on May 9, ... (Read More)
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