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(Show)The Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show Continues to Impress
Gene Rappaport of Strasburg, Pennsylvania, asked $55,000 for the hanging Haida Northwest Coast blanket.
Dealers Harry Hartman and Oliver Overlander II of Marietta, Pennsylvania, asked $38,000 for their paint-decorated miniature Soap Hollow lift-top chest dated "1856."
This hooked rug of a horse, chickens, and hearts, dated "1902," with initials "SG," was $18,500 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)R.S. Prussia Tankard Sells for $28,600
Ex-Barlock, a 101/2" Spring Season bowl, the only one known, brought $14,300. "Eileen was the only person who had a full set-all four seasons-in that bowl," Clark said.
The auction listing noted that the tankard had small chips to the base and a red mark. It sold for $28,600, an auction ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Staffers Leave Troubled Auction House, Form New Company
Two senior staffers at Ivey-Selkirk, the St. Louis, Missouri, auction house, gave their notice on January 27, resigning from the firm in order to start a new St. Louis auction company. Five other former Ivey-Selkirk employees also resigned.
Susan Kime and Terry Beye have founded Link Auction Galleries, named after architect ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Ralph Esmerian Sale
This 111/2" x 9" needlework sampler has been given the title from the worked words "Adam and Eve in Paradice" [sic] and was made by Lydia Hart in Boston in 1744. The stitched inscription reads, "Adam and Eve in Paradice That Was The/ir Pedigree They Had A Grant Never To/ ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bird Hunting on Madison Avenue
Plate 26, Carolina Parrot, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bonnie Parker's Pistol Fires National Attention
This item became a story picked up by national media. The .38 Colt Model 1902 pistol had been found on the body of Bonnie Parker at the Conger Funeral Home in Arcadia, Louisiana, after the law caught up with the infamous pair in 1934. Very well documented for outlaw memorabilia, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Crowded Ferrell Southern Stoneware Sale
"Phoenix/ Factory 1840" is written in fine script on the shoulder of this 191/2" stoneware jar. Master potter Thomas Chandler was employed at Phoenix in 1840 and may have turned this jar. Phoenix Factory went out of business in 1850. At $90,000, this was the sale's top lot (est. $50,000/70,000). ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Winter Antiques Show 2014
Library table and two chairs, Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company, New York City, 1891-93, made of primavera (similar to satinwood) and American ash with elaborate floral carving, varicolored wood, and metal micromosiac inlay; the chairs have glass ball and brass claw feet; $1,330,000 from Associated Artists. David Parker believes Samuel ... (Read More)
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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 193/4", 1831, tears, creases, and soil, sold on the phone for $137,000 (est. $80,000/120,000). The proceeds went to a ... (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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