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(Auction)Sold: Copy of the Law that Made the Dollar Almighty
An Act Establishing a Mint, and Regulating the Coins of the United States, signed by Thomas Jefferson, sold for $118,750 (est. $50,000/75,000). Five pages on three 15" x 9¾" sheets, produced by the press of Francis Childs and John Swaine in Philadelphia on April 2, 1792, it is a first ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Missouri Attorney General Shuts Down Ivey-Selkirk Auctioneers
In our March issue (p. 10-A), we told you that the senior staffers at the venerable St. Louis, Missouri, auction house Ivey-Selkirk left in January to form a new firm, Link Auction Galleries. We can now add to that news.
In February, the doors of Ivey-Selkirk closed, and Malcolm Ivey, president ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bonhams Sells Treasures from the Caren Archive for $1.3 Million
Paul Revere (1735-1818), The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King-Street Boston on March 5th 1770..., engraved, printed, and sold by Paul Revere, but printed by Edes & Gill around March 28, 1770, engraving on laid paper with hand-coloring, laid down, with restored losses, matted and framed, sold for $100,000 (est. $25,000/35,000). ... (Read More)
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(Show)Downtown's "Shadow Show" Makes Its Mark
Eager shoppers at the entrance to the show before the opening.
Brooklyn Books wanted $1500 for this 1916 illustrated promotional booklet for the TE Ranch of William “Buffalo Bill” Cody (1846-1917) in Ishawooa, Wyoming. It was signed by Cody in pen on the title page.
Our Firemen: A History of the New ... (Read More)
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(Show)Lights! Heat! Action!
Peter Storey Pentz of Woodinville, Washington, enjoys bringing higher-end American country furnishings to display and, he hopes, to sell. He knows that many customers who attend the show are looking for other wares but still enjoys presenting items that could be called “the good stuff” so that people will know ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The John and Lil Palmer Americana Collection
The high lot from the Palmer collection was this folk art decorated stoneware jar attributed to James Miller of Alexandria, Virginia, and Georgetown (Washington, D.C.). The salt-glazed ovoid-form jar is boldly decorated with a single spreadwing, shield-breasted Federal eagle. The cobalt image is brushed and slip-trailed. The circa 1825 jar ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Scottsdale Art Auction
Blue Bonnet Landscape, a 24" x 33½" oil on board by Jose Arpa (1858-1952), signed lower right and inscribed “San Antonio, Texas,” sold for $322,000 (est. $30,000/60,000). This impressionistic image exemplifies why Arpa was known as the “Sunshine Man.” His love of and skill at handling bright light in his ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Eldred's Americana and Decorative Art Auction
Delivering the New Hat by British artist Edmund Blair Leighton went to the New York trade for $70,800.
This 18th-century Boston silver pear-shaped cann with a double scrolled handle decorated with an acanthus leaf, a molded flared rim, and circular splayed foot was marked with a cursive “P.R.,” a mark similar ... (Read More)
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(Show)Chester County Historical Society Show
Roger Winter of Solebury, Pennsylvania, offered this George III pedestal dining table with two original leaves. It seats 16 comfortably. It was $39,000. The eight George III chairs with Marlborough legs were $16,500.
Donald Cresswell of the Philadelphia Print Ship offered Currier and Ives’s popular Winter in the Country, 1864, for ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Aetna Reverse-Painted Glass Sign Sells for $51,300
Aetna Insurance Co. reverse-painted glass sign with mother-of-pearl inlay, $51,300.
“That Aetna sign was one of the most impressive reverse glass signs we’ve ever seen, just beautiful,” said Mike Eckles of Showtime Auction Services.
Eckles was speaking of an Aetna Insurance Company reverse-painted glass sign with mother-of-pearl inlay, 34" square, in excellent ... (Read More)
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