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This is how the Hannan merchandise (plus a few similar additions) looked as it was displayed in one of the rooms in the reconstructed French house. Now imagine about 20 would-be buyers squeezed into the room and see what it was like during Saturday and Sunday mornings' inspection periods. The ... (Read More)
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Ken Aubrey of Ottawa, Ontario, asked $350 for this 1950's pedal car in green, yellow, and black by an unknown maker.
Bisback Family Antiques sold a circa 1880 file cabinet with 32 drawers from the Ayton, Wellington County, Ontario, municipal office for $2650. An artist needing storage space bought it.
George Lehto ... (Read More)
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Edward and Lillian Miller of Pioneer Folk Antiques, Ellsworth, Maine, have a good eye-well, actually four-and they spot the whimsical and the colorful, such as this metal tractor part, $450, that looks almost like spokes of a game of chance, and the 1940's metal "Candy-Soda" sign, $675.
This wonderful old 1840's ... (Read More)
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This is a rare 18th-century brass dog collar for Israel Morris's dog with his address on it, 67 S. Second Street in Philadelphia. Having a lock but missing the key, it was $1100 from Tucker Frey.
Steven Still of Manheim, Pennsylvania, asked $5400 for this set of six birdcage bamboo ... (Read More)
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First presented at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1909, two years before the debut of the Indianapolis 500, the Prest-O-Lite trophy was eventually incorporated as an award for the Indy 500. Nine engraved silvered plaques commemorate winners and various driving accomplishments, such as lap leaders, from 1910 through 1940. The ... (Read More)
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Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Blackwell's Island, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 341/2" x 591/2", painted in the fall of 1928, sold for $19,163,750 (est. $15/20 million). The subject-the island in the East River now known as Roosevelt Island-embodies the quiet tensions of Hopper's best work. In 1928 it was the ... (Read More)
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John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), Marionettes: Behind the Curtain, oil on canvas, 29" x 20 7/8", painted in 1903, sold for $5,205,000 (est. $5/7 million) on one bid to a buyer who had placed an irrevocable bid.
Max Weber (1888-1961), Soloist at Wanamaker's, 291/4" x 181/2" gouache on paper laid down on ... (Read More)
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Ludwig Bemelmans (1898-1962), Chef, watercolor and ink on paper, 131/2" x 10", signed lower right and bearing estate stamp (on the reverse), sold for $7500 (est. $3000/5000).
Theodore Earl Butler (1861-1936), New York Harbor, oil on canvas, 311/2" x 44", ... (Read More)
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This Northwest Coast polychrome wood headdress (est. $175,000/225,000) sold for $425,000 to Vancouver, British Columbia, and New York City dealer Donald Ellis, bidding in the salesroom. At 101/2" high, it has flaring nostrils and exaggerated wide-set, pointed oval eye rims beneath thick arching brows. It is painted in black with ... (Read More)
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Art dealer Glafira Rosales of Sands Point, New York, was arrested on May 21 for filing false tax returns and for failing to disclose foreign bank accounts to the IRS.
Rosales allegedly failed to report at least $12.5 million from the sale of works purported to be by celebrated Abstract Expressionist ... (Read More)
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