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(Fragment)Eric M. Wunsch Award for Excellence in the American Arts
The presentation of the second annual Eric M. Wunsch Award for Excellence in the American Arts will be held at Christie's in New York City on January 22, 2014.
This year's award recognizes the dedication and contribution of three major collectors and philanthropists to the preservation of American decorative arts. Linda ... (Read More)
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()Willard House and Clock Museum Hosts Exhibit of Rare Musical Tall Clocks
Christian Eby, ten-tune musical tall-case clock with highly inlaid cherry case, Manheim, Pennsylvania, circa 1804.
The Willard House and Clock Museum in North Grafton, Massachusetts, is hosting Keeping Time: Musical Clocks of Early America, 1730-1830, an exhibit of nearly three dozen early American musical and chiming clocks. These fully functioning ... (Read More)
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(Show)Museum and Collectors Help Spark ADA/Historic Deerfield Antiques Show
Elliott and Grace Snyder of South Egremont, Massachusetts, showed this Moore County, North Carolina, stand in poplar with a red paint finish and a Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts label in a drawer. It's 263/4" high and $9500. The 91/4" diameter round box, paint-decorated on a yellow ground, is ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2013 Ohio Country Antique Show
Made of painted wood, the double-sided "Ice Cream Social" sign was priced at $450. The bonnet chest in walnut had cherry drawer bottoms and was $795. The items were shown by Joseph Jarvis of Jarvis Antiques, Georgetown, Kentucky. "Smalls are doing good, but the big stuff didn't move today," he ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Blue Plate Special and Oriental Buffet
This 1883 Royal Worcester plate is 7 7/8" in diameter and is intricately honeycombed and hand painted and has a center scene of a gilt mountain landscape in Oriental style attributed to George Owen. It closed at $20,400.
This Chinese Kangxi period water pot, cataloged as in the taibo zun form, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Record Price Paid for Almshouse Painting
This oil on tin by Charles C. Hofman (1821-1882), labeled and titled in the painting Views of the buildings & surroundings of the Berks County Alms House, has a central oval bird's-eye view of the complex within an ornate border surrounded by eight smaller vignettes of the outbuildings and with ... (Read More)
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(Show)Shenandoah Antiques Expo Slogs through a Rainy Weekend
Tom and Mary Jo Riggs are from Greensboro, Maryland. They trade as Country Sampler Antiques and are proud that they have "the biggest truck in the parking lot." The couple has configured a very large box truck to function as both their motor home and cargo carrier. The Arts and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Successful Sale in Spite of Storm Delay
President Ashton Thomas said the auction house likes to schedule fine jewelry on Sunday morning, just to wake everyone up. Top lot of the entire sale was this platinum and diamond ring with a central stone of over 10.46 carats flanked by smaller baguettes. The ring sold for $196,800. The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Fred Thompson Hand-Colored Photo Brings Thousands
$3520. Photo courtesy Michael Ivankovich.
At Michael Ivankovich's October 11, 2013, auction in Allentown, Pennsylvania, a Fred Thompson hand-colored photo sold for $3520 (includes buyer's premium).
Fred Thompson was a photographer from Portland, Maine, who, like his contemporary Wallace Nutting, sold hand-colored photos during the early 20th century. Thompson visited Nutting's Southbury, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Avenue Antiques, Art & Design Show
Bridges Over Time, Newburgh, New York, sold several pieces of furniture including a petrified wood table with an iron base to a design firm. In the above picture is a bronze sculpture on a Formica base by Elizabeth Strong-Cuevas, a great-granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller. The asking price was $9500. ... (Read More)
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