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(Issue Story)George Washington Gets a Presidential Library
The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association announced on July 11 that it exceeded an ambitious $100 million capital campaign goal. The association raised more than $106 million in just over three years to build and support the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington.
Located just outside the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Taylor Sentenced to 71/2 Years in Prison and $1.2 Million in Restitution
Matthew Taylor, who sold paintings stolen from a Los Angeles art gallery and took elaborate steps to avoid paying taxes over several years, was sentenced on July 11 to 90 months in federal prison for the art-related and tax offenses.
United States District Judge John A. Kronstadt ordered Taylor, 45, of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Metropolitan Museum of Art to Be Open Seven Days a Week Starting July 1
In late March, the Met announced that beginning on July 1 the museum will open to the public seven days a week, for the first time in 42 years. The new schedule will go into effect for both the museum's main building on Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street in Manhattan ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)First Newspaper Printing of Declaration of Independence Sells for Record $632,500
A copy of the first newspaper printing of the Declaration of Independence sold for $632,500 (est. $500,000/750,000). This printing by Benjamin Towne on July 6, 1776, was preceded only by the official broadside published by John Dunlap on the day before. The newspaper is four 8" x 101/2" pages. The ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Surprises at Cobb Auctioneers and Canadian Cultural History at Dupuis
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
All prices include the buyer's premium
This Cartier, Paris, diamond men's tuxedo set, in white gold or platinum, is set with small diamonds on an opalescent stone. One cufflink back is not signed and is probably a replacement; the two smallest button backs are not signed and are ... (Read More)
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(Show)Annual Laudholm Farm Show
Woodview Antiques, Sandwich Village, Massachusetts, offered this primitive cranberry table and scoop from the Gristmill Hiller Farm, Rochester, Massachusetts, for $595.
Woodview Antiques asked $285 for this 19th-century nicely grained spice cupboard with seven drawers.
Tom Joseph of Limington, Maine, offered this late Federal mahogany fold-over card table with crotched mahogany bookmatched ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Virginia Pottery Record Set at Americana Sale
The high lot of the Evans sale was this grapefruit-size (5" high with 41/4" diameter rim) salt-glazed stoneware honey or sugar pot. The compressed ovoid form displays a stencil signature, "Emanuel Suter," within a freehand cobalt feather design in the center of the body. The reverse features a large brushed ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Lincoln and the Colonel
From the 1840 campaign, this William Henry Harrison silk flag shows Harrison's log cabin and cider barrel symbols, which some consider to be among the most effective political logos in the history of American campaigning. Collectors have always prized 1840 flags with this design above those with the candidate's portrait. ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Round Lake Antiques Festival
Robert Schicke of Reclaimed Memories, New Jersey, offered a school desk priced at $125, a jockey doorstop at $185, a coat tree for $105, and an oak rocker for $185.
Matthew Gosch of North Tonawanda, New York, found this beautiful tiger maple and cherry one-drawer stand and priced it at $325. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American History Sale
"The Same Old Coon/ Henry Clay and Frelinghuysen" flag, 1844 presidential campaign, previously unknown, printed silk in red, white and blue, 241/4" x 29", $49,350.
Gen. R.E. Lee and Staff by Mathew Brady, albumen photograph, 81/4" x 7" plus mount and frame, $19,975.
Carte de visite of First Lieutenant Holman S. Melcher, ... (Read More)
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