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(Auction)$767,000 Decoy Tops Sotheby’s Americana Auction
John James Audubon (1785-1851), Say’s Squirrel, inscribed in pencil: “2 female 1 male April 9 ’43 Female and male facing in long leaves of grass; St. Louis, MO,”watercolor, 14" x 19¾", 1831, tears, creases, and soil, sold on the phone for $137,000 (est. $80,000/120,000). The proceeds went to a nonprofit ... (Read More)
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(Show)Winter Weather Fails to Dampen Round Top Show
Gorgeous, rich greens come together in this Haitian painting from the 1970’s. Fred Cain of Naples, Florida, called it Children of Paradise and priced it at $1800.
“Whoever buys it gets to figure out how to open it!” Nancy B. Cooper of Austin, Texas, said of the secret drawer in this ... (Read More)
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(Show)Under New Ownership, the Armory Antique Show Holds Its Own
One of the first things visible to incoming shoppers was this hooked rug offered by folk art dealers Robert Snyder and Judy Wilson of Wiscasset, Maine. The semicircular circa 1930 work was $2850 and provided a graphic picture of Americana. Its eagle is surrounded by stars and stripes.
The first thing ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Maritime Paintings and Decorative Arts
Emma Heather by William Pierce Stubbs (1842-1909) depicts the three-masted schooner Emma Heather, built in 1871 in Milton, Delaware, and sunk in a gale off the Delaware Breakwater in 1893. Stubbs’s work and the work of so many other artists flattered and idealized its subject. She was a coal carrier! ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Americana Week
This scalloped-top Philadelphia tea table from the Eric M. Wunsch estate, probably made in the shop of Benjamin Randolph, with carving attributed to Richard Butts, brought $905,000. Christie’s photo.
This eider drake decoy from the legendary McCleery collection, from a rig probably made by an unidentified maker on Monhegan Island, Maine, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)American Silver, Furniture, Folk Art, and Chinese Export Art Bring $10.44 Million
The silver brandywine bowl, one of only two known with the mark of Cornelius Vander Burch, New York, circa 1690, has six lobed panels and a domed center with an embossed and chased flower head. The two cast scroll handles have caryatids and beading, and the body is engraved ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana at Bonhams
The highest Americana price of the day belonged to a carved and inlaid automaton hall clock commissioned from Tiffany & Co. and delivered in April 1901. Estimated at $40,000/60,000, it went at $100,000 to a phone bidder.
A phone bidder on the line with Madelia Ring paid $72,500 (est. $70,000/100,000) ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Metro Show 2014
Ricco/Maresca, New York City, asked $35,000 for renowned palmist Marianne Raschig’s collectionof original vintage palm prints that she collected between 1925 and 1935 in Berlin. The hands are those of leading artists, actors, scientists, and writers. Ink and graphite on paper, it measured 84" x 66".
Hill Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, asked ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Vermonter Charged with Library/Historical Society Theft, Again!
Patrick Rooney, 55, of Colchester was arraigned in Vermont Superior Court in Burlington on January 21 on charges of petty larceny and sale of stolen property. He pleaded not guilty and was scheduled to return to court on February 19.
Rooney holds an unusual place in recent Vermont history. He’s the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Leigh Keno’s Americana Week Business
The players in the drama of the sale of the Continental Congress document that sold for $912,500 at Keno Auctions on January 26. From left: Leigh Keno, the auctioneer; Dr. James Kerr, president of the Morris-Jumel Mansion board of trustees; Carol Ward, director of the Morris-Jumel Mansion; Emilie Gruchow, the ... (Read More)
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