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(Auction)January Firearms Auction Earns $1.8 Million
Selling for nearly double its high estimate at $19,200 was a Smith & Wesson .44-caliber revolver known as the No. 3 First Model. Made in the early 1870s prior to the advent of the Colt six-shooter, these popular guns were carried by both lawmen and law-breakers. Its serial number is ... (Read More)
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(Show)Washington Winter Show
Doug and Bev Norwood of Timonium, Maryland, trade as Norwoods’ Spirit of America. Their booth always offers unusual and interesting pieces of Americana. Here are a group of violin-related items. The 19th-century trade sign offering lessons was priced at $2800. The violin on the left has a handwritten fingering chart ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Winterthur Acquires the Pastor Frederick S. Weiser Collection
Religious text by Andreas Kolb, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, circa 1785. Winterthur Museum purchase with funds provided by the Henry Francis du Pont Collectors Circle; photo, Jim Schneck. This extraordinary fraktur is a masterpiece from the hand of Andreas Kolb, a Mennonite schoolmaster and fraktur artist who taught in Montgomery and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Not Keeping a Promise in Texas Costs $1.2 Million Plus Interest
The untitled 93 1/8" x 80 1/8" oil on canvas by Mark Rothko, signed and dated 1961.
Is it reasonable to expect that the chain of provenance can be kept secret when a major work is consigned to auction? How about when the piece in question is a humongous (93 1/8" ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Mixed Bag at Gamage Auction, but Mêne Bags Nearly Six Grand
This bronze sculpture by Pierre-Jules Mêne of a country gentlewoman on her mount sold for $5750.
This sterling silver tea set of two teapots, a creamer, and sugar and weighing in at 55.2 troy ounces sold for $960.25.
This beautiful pair of mahogany knife boxes, probably George III, late 18th or ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Garth's Americana Auction
English spatter plate, paneled yellow border with a red-outlined tulip, second quarter of the 19th century, 8½" diameter, repaired outer edge, $4920.
English rainbow spatter pitcher in five colors with shell spout, second quarter of the 19th century, 9" high, with a 3" to 4" line in the body, a spout ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Maud Lewis Tops New Year’s Day Auction
A small (10" x 14") painting by folk artist Maud Lewis (Canadian, 1903-1970) was the highlight of a New Year’s Day auction at the King’s Theatre in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, when it sold for Can$11,500 (US$10,807). The buyers, a couple who recently made Nova Scotia their home, were in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Mesda Launches On-Line Craftsman Database
On January 1, the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) at Old Salem Museums & Gardens in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, launched its full-text, on-line Craftsman Database, a powerful resource for historians, collectors, and those researching their family histories.
MESDA’s database contains information about artisans gathered through primary research in public ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Robert Foster Opens the New Year
Two mahogany tall-case clocks produced widely divergent prices. The darker clock above stopped at $550, but the lighter one on the right sailed all the way to $5170.
What made this $550 Native American Shasta basket most interesting was the original Hudson Bay Fur Co. label. A gentleman named Moritz Gutmann ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Emerald Expositions to Acquire George Little Management
Emerald Expositions, Inc. has agreed to acquire George Little Management LLC (GLM) from Providence Equity Partners for $335 million. The deal was announced on December 20, 2013.
U.S. Antique Shows, a division of GLM Shows, produces nine antiques shows, including the Miami National Antique Show, the Armory Antique Show, the Original ... (Read More)
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