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(Fragment)Christie's Posts $5.8 Million Fall Sale
Queen Anne walnut compass-seat side chair, circa 1750, with carving by a contemporary of Samuel Harding, who carved architectural elements in the interior of the Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall), sold for $579,750 to a phone bidder, underbid by dealer Leigh Keno on the phone. It was from the estate ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Goodyear Collection at Auction
William Hart & Son created a series of five episodes of boxing squirrels in the 1850's. The squirrels are stuffed. Each box is 143/4" x 19" x 7". A set was displayed at the Crystal Palace exhibition in 1851. Interestingly, the squirrels wear gloves, which became mandatory only after 1867 ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Variety Prevails at Quinn & Farmer Sale
The high lot of the Quinn & Farmer sale was this pair of Nakashima Conoid chairs. Oral history has it is that these chairs were ordered directly from the Nakashima studio in New Hope, Pennsylvania. George Nakashima (Japanese/American, 1905-1990) is frequently referred to as the father of the American craft ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Indian & Western Art
Crow Encampment by Joseph Henry Sharp (1859-1953), oil on canvas, signed, 22" x 261/2" plus original southwestern frame, relined, otherwise in fine condition, $309,000.
Red River Metis quilled-hide knife sheath, 131/2" long, with an unmarked Sheffield-made dag knife, circa 1830, $54,000. Sinew-sewn on softly tanned buckskin and quilled using porcupine quills ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fitz Henry Lane Sells for $1.3 Million; Dance Collection Leaps and Soars
Camden Mts. from the Graves by Fitz Henry Lane (1804-1865) sold to a private collector from the South for $1,384,000. The 13" x 22" oil on canvas was inscribed to the artist's close friend: "...F.H. Lane to J. L. Stevens Jr./ Gloucester 1862/ A Souvenir of our excursion to Penobscot ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Skinner Sells a Fitz Henry Lane View for $1,384,000
Camden Mts. from the Graves by Fitz Henry Lane (1804-1865) sold to a private collector for $1,384,000. The 13" x 22" oil on canvas was signed and dated "FH Lane 1862" on the front and inscribed on the reverse: "... F.H. Lane to J. L. Stevens Jr./ Gloucester 1862/ A ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Thieves Hit Antiques Center
Police are looking for the public's help in trying to identify three people who stole an estimated $10,000 in antique silver flatware from the Cambridge Antiques Center in Cambridge, New York, on September 18 at about 4 p.m. Thieves took from a locked case more than a dozen Tiffany and ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques in Indian Lake
Jon Magoun of South Paris, Maine, had a large 30" x 40" Indian wool basket for $900; an Indian dual-colored drying basket, 24" x 21", for $395; a Penobscot decorated wall basket for $185; a rocking chair by Snowcraft Company, Norway, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay, [email protected]
This month's "Letter," I indicated last month, might include quite a few paintings and drawings, some clocks, some silver, and a few furnishings. There are indeed a number of old master drawings and a few Dali concoctions in this "Letter," along with a superb bronze and a lot ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Hunterdon County Clock Case and the Enigmatic John Guild
Fig. 1A. Cherry tall-case clock made for Judge Joseph Reading, attributed to John Guild. Courtesy of the Sully Historic Site, Chantilly, Virginia, Fairfax County Park Authority Resource Management Division Historic Collections, Sully Foundation, Ltd.
Fig. 1B. Signature on the dial of figure 1A, "Joseph Reading Hunterdon County New Jersey."
Fig. 1C. Pediment ... (Read More)
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