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(Auction)"Restaurant" Tops Maine Auction
George Grosz (1893-1959), No. 73 Restaurant, watercolor, 17" x 24", sold for $180,000 to a buyer in house. The painting is headed for the Lunder collection at the Colby College Museum of Art.
At the Fountain, a 101/4" x 14" oil on canvas by Arthur Frederick Bridgman (1847-1928), produced a frenzy ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2013 San Francisco Fall Antiques Show
A group of seven split earrings (five shown) from 5th- century B.C. Dong Son (Vietnam/Cambodia) was $7000 for the group at Susan Ollemans, London. Ollemans is a 12-year show veteran.
Sarah Stocking, whose gallery is in Jackson Square, San Francisco, was asking $16,000 for this special edition of an 1897 framed ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Historic Firearms and Early Militaria
This German FG 42 paratrooper's rifle from World War II was the top lot of the sale at $143,750. It was described in the catalog as a Heinrich Krieghoff Waffenfabrik, 8 mm, with bipod, magazine, sling, scope and mount, and excellent bore and wood.
Stoner 63A machine gun by Knight's Armament ... (Read More)
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(Show)The "New" California Country Antiques Show
At East Meets West, Los Angeles, the 1900-10 hand-hooked rug from Centre County, Pennsylvania, was priced at $2850, and the 19th-century Bradley & Hubbard rooster doorstop with "fantastic paint" was $1250.
Faith Viland of Phoenix, Arizona, was asking $1295 for this pre-1800 Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, geometric paint-decorated child's chest with ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 39th Fall Fox Valley Antiques Show
The show entrance was, as always, welcoming. The theme for this show was "Folk Art: Simple Pleasures."
The circa 1930 racing game banner with oilcloth coating was $1150 from Bruce and Lynda Tomlinson of Alexandria, Minnesota. The catcher's helmets were $115 at top and $195 for the circa 1910 version underneath. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Furniture, Decorative Arts, and 19th-Century Paintings
William Trost Richards (1833-1905), Atlantic Coast, 1898, signed and dated, watercolor and pencil on paper, 24" x 471/2", $28,125 (est. $10,000/15,000).
Benjamin Champney (1817-1907), View Near Conway, New Hampshire, 1881, signed and dated, oil on canvas, 20" x 32 1/8", $37,500 (est. $6000/8000). It was commissioned by Daniel Nute Stanton, who ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Cheddar and Red
The Star of Bethlehem quilt shown here has a large central star surrounded by appliques of a reel variation, making it different from other quilts of this type that normally repeat smaller stars in the corners. This was the only quilt in the exhibition that used a cream-colored fabric or ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$18 Million Worth of Firepower
One of Julia's auction employees reverently pointed out that the prevailing opinion on these Renwick-Locke gold-inlaid flintlock dueling pistols by James Haslett of Baltimore, Maryland, circa 1810, was that they were absolutely unparalleled in firearms lore. "These are without a doubt the finest pieces of their kind in the world," ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Nisbet and Art Shine
This sofa table in mahogany with pine as secondary wood was made by Saint John, New Brunswick, cabinetmaker Thomas Nisbet (1777-1850). ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Paulette and John Peden, Dawn Hill Antiques, New Preston, Connecticut
Paulette and John Peden.
Shop entrance.
View of one small corner of the shop.
Rare set of blue-transfer covered canisters in the Spode's Tower pattern, $3200.
Paulette sells candles, fragrances, and other products from the tony Parisian firm Diptyque. They make good host gifts (which once upon a time were called "hostess gifts"). They ... (Read More)
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