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(Show)The Bedford Spring Antiques Show
A circa 1900 still life by Émile Godchaux (1860-1938) was available from David Brooker Fine Art, Southport, Connecticut. Brooker said he bought it at an estate sale in Larchmont, New York, and was asking $12,500 for the 45" x 35" oil.
These Chinese watercolors on pith paper of fruits and vegetables, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tall-Case Clock Expands Scholarship in Lower Southern Piedmont
Note the fine reeded panels on this circa 1815 tall-case clock attributed to James Mattison, Anderson County, South Carolina. See article for the full story. Dealer Keith McCurry bought the Mattison clock for $22,800 (est. $4000/6000). It was the top lot of the sale.
Provenance was conspicuously displayed on the face ... (Read More)
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(Show)New Book and Ephemera Fair for NYC
The New York City Book and Ephemera Fair will have its debut on Saturday, April 11, at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola’s Wallace Hall on Park Avenue. The fair will host more than 50 dealers and is designed as a satellite event of Rare Book Week, the annual spring ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)David McCullough Receives ADA Award of Merit 2015
David McCullough and Arthur Liverant.
America’s best-known historian, David McCullough, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and winner of two National Book Awards, received the Antiques Dealers’ Association of America (ADA) Award of Merit on Saturday evening, April 11, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It was the first time the ADA ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Prepare to Gather
Auction Law & Ethics
“Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.”
Canadian author Janette Oke needed just nine words to explain why some of the biggest blunders are committed and to warn others that unrestrained enthusiasm can lead to the same mistakes. Impatience is seldom the right path for an ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Indian and Western Art
Central Plains wool dress, thread-sewn navy wool, ten rows of dentalia create the yoke, sunburst designs on sleeves, 51" long, fourth quarter of the 19th century, $18,000.
Crow beaded hide rifle scabbard, sinew-sewn, beaded using white, dark blue, light blue,red white-heart, greasy yellow, pea-green, and pink beads, red wool strips, 41" ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)In Defense of Pattern Glass
The Young Collector
What a winter. Everyone seems to be talking about the weather. We’ve been lucky here, keeping mostly warm and never losing power—until the day after Hollie wrote this sentence. There’s hardly an experience more jarring to young Americans than losing power (unless perhaps losing Internet access), especially to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Ellis Antiques Show Closes Again
Changing demographics have killed off another venerable antiques show. Boston’s Ellis Memorial Antiques Show saw 49 years as the city’s premier antiques show before closing up shop in 2008.
It was picked up and run as the Ellis Boston Antiques Show in 2011 by producers Tony Fusco and Bob Four of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Lowdown on Highboys
This tiger maple Queen Anne highboy, attributed to New Hampshire furniture and clock case maker David Young, showing Dunlap influence around the carved molding and cornice, sold for $34,500.
This 19th-century trade sign reading “7 MILES TO BACONS / JEWELERY [sic] STORE / 8 CENTRAL ST. / DOVER, N. H.” made ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Historic Firearms and Early Militaria
This original Colt Texas Paterson .36-caliber revolver with a 7½" octagonal barrel and matching serial number 718 on the barrel and cylinder has a folding trigger, and the barrel is marked “Patent Arms M’g. Co. Paterson, N.J. – Colt’s Pt.” The cylinder roll is engraved with a scene of a ... (Read More)
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