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(Fragment)Tom Miano, Founder of Serious Toyz, Joins Morphy Auctions
Tom Miano.
Tom Miano of Serious Toyz has joined Morphy Auctions, based in Denver, Pennsylvania, as its pop-culture expert. Miano will be responsible for acquiring consignments and managing sales of vintage toys and pop-culture collectibles, starting with a September 6 auction of character, postwar, and space toys.
"Tom's auction house, Serious ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Jacobsen Reviewed
Herbert D. Maxwell, four-masted schooner, 28" x 48", oil on canvas, signed "Antonio Jacobsen, 31 Palisade Avenue, Hoboken, NJ, 1905." In March 1912, she sank in Chesapeake Bay after a collision with the steamship Gloucester5 with the loss of four lives. Photo courtesy Vallejo Maritime Gallery, Newport Beach, California.
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(Fragment)Jewish Folk Art Samplers: A Trip to Amsterdam and Germany Answers Some Questions
Darning sampler, dated 1809, the maker is "MH." The Hebrew alphabet appears two times-the top line and again the sixth line. Martin Ex thinks the letters at the end of the Hebrew alphabet on the top line may be a name, a group of initials, or something in Yiddish. The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Ty Cobb Tin Sells for $18,720
The Ty Cobb tobacco tin, one of fewer than 20 known to exist, drew only two bids and went for $18,720 (est. $30,000/40,000).
The 12" beer tray advertising C. Eulberg & Sons pilsener beer of Galena, Illinois, went to an on-line bidder for $2700, way above the $100/200 estimate.
A glossy 30" ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bidders See Less Than Seymour in Sideboard but See More in Table
Possibly a John and Thomas Seymour Federal mahogany sideboard. It was not one of their best works but still was strong enough to draw $4025.
The rustic round glass-topped Adirondack table topped the sale at $11,500.
A Sheraton sewing table in brown mahogany with bull's-eyes over the turned and reeded legs hit ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Dawn of the Planet of Hounds and Horses
The sale's top lot was Run to Earth by John Emms (British, 1843-1912). It was sold by Sotheby's in 2005 and was included in a New York exhibition early in 2014. Elizabeth and Graeme Lang of Lexington, Kentucky, purchased the 36" x 281/2" oil on canvas for $59,000 (est. $40,000/60,000).
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(Auction)Final Single-Owner Historic-Documents Auction Is "White Glove" Sale
A group of eight letters and documents by American and English writers including Jack London, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Fenimore Cooper, and Rudyard Kipling sold for $16,800 (est. $5000/8000). London's letter to a high school friend says in part that he often harks back to those teenage years, "but the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Collectors of Americana Shop in London
$7,051,842.
$826,795.
Serious collectors of Americana found some treasures to bid on in London this summer. Gilbert Stuart's portrait of Mohawk Chieftain Thayendanegea, known in English as Joseph Brant (1742-1807), sold at Sotheby's old masters sale on the evening of July 9 to an American private collector for GBP4,114,500 ($7,051,842) including ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Times Change, and the Cobbs Change with the Times
This 1861, 3" wrought-iron Civil War ordnance rifle by the Phoenix Iron Company, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, led the auction at $37,200.
Two similarly sized 10" x 16" oils on canvas by Frank Henry Shapleigh (1842-1906) each show a farmyard scene viewed through a typical Shapleigh perspective from a shadowy barn interior. At ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Three-Day Maurice "Jake" Day Art Show
Fuchsia Flyers, a 201/2" x 161/2" watercolor by Jake Day, 1950-70.
Maurice "Jake" Day of Damariscotta, Maine, is best known for his work on the Walt Disney movie Bambi as well as magazine and book illustrations and whimsical paintings of woodland animals. He also carved sea shanties and birds out ... (Read More)
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