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(Fragment)Quinn & Farmer Sell Indian Camp Plat by Jefferson
This document brought $35,400. Photo courtesy Quinn & Farmer.
The December 14, 2013, sale at Quinn & Farmer Auctions, Charlottesville, Virginia, included several lots from the estate of Robert W. Daniel Jr. (1936-2012) of Brandon Plantation, Prince George, Virginia. Daniel had served Virginia as a member of the U.S. House of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Numbers Stack Up Quickly at Auction of American Brilliant Cut Glass
Even without an advertised pattern, a signature on a desired shape can edge bidding way above the highest estimate, as was the case with this signed Hawkes 6" tall and 11¾" wide punch bowl without stand from the collection of the Reverend Young. However, an ACGA member later identified the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rutz Clovis Point Sells to Texas Collector for $276,000
The Rutz Clovis point of sea-green obsidian, 9¾" long, was discovered by Les Ira Kreis in the early 1950’s in a wheat field on Badger Mountain near the community of Badger Creek Springs, Washington. It had been in a family collection ever since until it sold for $276,000. Photo courtesy ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Native American Art
This 9" tall San Ildefonso sienna and black lidded vase by Tony Da (with a hand-carved wooden finial on the lid) sold to a private collector for $18,750 (est. $8000/10,000).
This 22¾" high Apache olla, decorated with geometric, human, and animal figures, sold for $22,500 (est. $10,000/15,000) to dealer and basket ... (Read More)
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(Fragment) Olympic Gold Medal Sets World Record
An Olympic gold medal presented to Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics broke an auction record at SCP Auctions in Laguna Niguel, California, on December 8, 2013, It was one of the four Olympic gold medals that were presented to athlete Jesse Owens at the 1936 games, held in Hitler’s ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists
Fairfield Porter (1907-1975), Morning after a Storm, signed and dated “Fairfield Porter ’73” bottom left, also signed and inscribed with title, medium, dates, and dimensions on the back, oil on board, 18" x 22", sold on the phone for $158,500 (est. $80,000/120,000).
William Trost Richards (1833-1905), A Long Island Beach, signed ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Maine Primitives and Southern History
“The finest example of cooperage we have ever seen. As tight as the day it was crafted,” was how Gould’s listing described this blue-gray-painted firkin with a double ring of locking bands on the upper rim, a single ring at the 9" diameter bottom, and square side buttons attaching the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Jewelry Show at Pratt Mansions
JMK Shows held its winter jewelry show at Pratt Mansions across the street from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“Pins are coming back,” said Jacob Gipsan of Jacob’s Diamond & Estate Jewelry, Los Angeles. He displayed these Victorian, Art Deco, and mid-20th-century coral and shell cameos of scenes and portraits. They ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Greenwich Winter Antiques Show
This silver-gilt royal presentation racing trophy was offered by Robert Lloyd, New York City, for $85,000. It is the Brighton Gold Cup from 1833 with a maker’s mark of Rundell, Bridge & Rundell. On the wall behind the cup are some of the original oils painted for Guinness advertisements in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Dylan Goes Electric to the Tune of $965,000
On display at Christie’s were Dylan’s Fender Stratocaster, its case, and some of his lyrics. The guitar, which is dated May 2, 1964, still has its original flat-wound strings. On the wall is a photo of Dylan holding the guitar at a concert at Forest Hills Stadium, Queens, New York, ... (Read More)
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