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(Auction)Collector's Mementos of Nicholas & Alexandra on the Block
A 6½" x 8½" circa 1905 gelatin silver print of the Russian imperial family aboard their yacht Standart brought $2640 (est. $1000/1500).
A 1912 menu from the yacht made $2160 (est. $500/700). It was signed by dinner guests.
This 6 5/8" x 3½" circa 1907 photogravure of Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna in ... (Read More)
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(Show)If You Fill It, Will They Come?
This vividly colored print was in the booth of Chloe and Jim McKinney of Chloe’s Antiques and Fine Collectibles in the Seattle area. It quickly caught the eye of one passerby and sold early in the show. The 48" x 48" framed artist’s proof, signed “Tarkay,” was priced at $750. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana, Paintings, and Decorative Art Sold on the Cape
Cape Cod artist Ralph Eugene Cahoon (1910-1982) painted this seaside scene with three sailors carrying two mermaids in nets. In the background a train pulls into an active seaport. A hot air balloon, often seen in Cahoon’s paintings, is in the sky. The painting sold quickly at $22,420 (est. $15,000/20,000).
This ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Chester County Show
Paul J. DeCoste Antiques, West Newbury, Massachusetts, offered a large collection of early wine glasses, which he said he had bought at Skinner. The earliest have baluster stems; later ones have air twist stems. Champagne glasses were $500 and $600 each; engraved glasses, $700 and $800 each; and common ones, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Indian Art
Eastern Plains three-bladed knife club, 39" long, circa 1870, $180,000. The club has beveled edges and a serrated back ridge. The haft is painted in red, blue, and yellow pigment and studded with tacks. Four open hands or paws and four stylized thunderbirds are carved on opposite sides of club. The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Judge Tosses Lawsuit over Detroit Institute of Arts Admissions Policy
On April 3, Judge John C. Foster of the Macomb County (Michigan) Circuit Court dismissed a lawsuit filed against the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) over its admissions policy.
On August 7, 2012, voters in the Michigan counties of Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb had approved a ten-year millage increase to support ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Decision Reached: Sotheby’s to Sell Esmerian Folk Art Bonanza
It’s as final a word as any could be about the often up-in-the-air business. Sotheby’s will offer the 212 pieces of folk art formerly at New York City’s American Folk Art Museum at a public auction at the end of this year or early in the next. The possibility that ... (Read More)
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(Show)Bowmanville Antiques and Folk Art Show Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary
David and Mary Jo Field of Croydon House Antiques, Enterprise, Ontario, offered this circa 1890 Cree chief’s jacket with blue, yellow, and green beads, horse hair, and ermine pelts for $7500.
Clay and Carol Benson of Port Hope, Ontario, had no trouble selling this open-top dish dresser, Nova Scotia, circa ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Casablanca Poster Sells for $107,550
$107,550. Heritage Auctions photo.
A six-sheet movie poster for Casablanca, one of just two copies known, sold for $107,550 (includes buyer’s premium) in Heritage Auctions’ March 23 and 24 movie poster auction in Dallas, Texas. The sale totaled approximately $1.72 million.
Grey Smith, director of movie posters at Heritage, said of the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Repaired Butter Churn Brings $19,500
$19,500.
A rare circa 1825 N. Clark & Co. (Nathan Clark, Athens, New York) six-gallon salt-glazed stoneware butter churn, decorated with a large cobalt deer and tree, brought $19,500 (no buyer’s premium charged) at Rhonda’s Auction and Event Center in East Bloomfield, New York, on March 23. According to the auctioneer, the ... (Read More)
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