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(Feature)Solomon Bell Cats Bring $73,000
Earthenware cats with lead and manganese glaze. "These are probably the best example of Strasburg, Virginia, redware figures that have ever been offered or sold in public," the buyer told us. Photo courtesy Burt Long.
A pair of redware cats made by Strasburg, Virginia, potter Solomon Bell sold for $73,000 (no ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Are Massachusetts Show Exhibitors Due a Dose of Philadelphia-Style Tax Medicine?
A fresh threat from a state taxation entity has emerged to bedevil show dealers, many of whom have not yet recovered from the Philadelphia dispute that cost them dearly last year.
The Philadelphia episode occurred when exhibitors at past shows began receiving dunning notices from a collection agency seeking retroactive "business ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Recipient of the 2012 American Ceramic Circle Book Award
A Book Review
Liverpool Porcelain 1756-1804 by Maurice Hillis Maurice Hillis, 2011, 570 pages, hardbound, GBP60 plus S/H from (www.TheLiverpoolPorcelainBook.weebly.com)
In his foreword to this groundbreaking tome, Geoffrey Godden leaps from his long-occupied English porcelain pedestal to exclaim, "This is the most welcome and eagerly awaited of books." Godden, who is ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stoneware Jug with Acrobats Goes to New York State Museum
A Fulper Brothers four-gallon stoneware jug depicting acrobats, offered at the 2013 Winter Antiques Show in New York City for $295,000, is now part of the Weitsman Collection of American Stoneware at the New York State Museum (NYSM) in Albany. It was acquired for the museum by stoneware collector ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Needlework from Hunterdon County, New Jersey
When Dan Campanelli sold his Halloween collection at Noel Barrett's in 2003, he said that he and his wife, Marty, were changing the direction of their collecting. Now we know that their next passion was samplers. When they bought an old house in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, they narrowed ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Vazzana and Steele to Assume Cord Shows
From left: Ed McClure, Beth Steele, Rich Vazzana, and Vivien Cord.
Cord Shows Ltd. events will be assumed in 2014 by the father/daughter team of Richard Vazzana and Beth Steele of Ridgefield, Connecticut, according to Vivien Cord, president of Cord Shows Ltd., and her partner, Edward McClure.
Cord and McClure will continue ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)More on Rockwell's Willie Gillis: Package from Home
Drama surrounding the sale of Norman Rockwell's 1941 painting Willie Gillis, Package from Home appeared to sputter to a close in mid-April when Chicago auctioneer Sean Susanin chose a curious way to announce that he had sold the painting for $1.75 million. That sum is millions below the $3/5 million ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Trail to Follow
Editorial
The antiques business could use a helping hand, and Connecticut State Senator Rob Kane is trying to get his state to lend one.
Kane, a Republican who represents the 32nd District, which includes Woodbury and ten other towns, has sponsored a bill in the General Assembly to expand the existing Connecticut ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The London Foundling Hospital's Textile Tokens, 1740-70
John Styles, a research professor in history at the University of Hertfordshire in the U.K. and an honorary senior research fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, researched ordinary people's clothing for his book The Dress of the People: Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-Century England, published in 2007. Very ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Arader Offers Audubon Prints and More in Unusual Auction
Pierre-Joseph Redoute, Hoop Petticoat Narcissus, Narcissus bulbocodium, watercolor on vellum, 183/4" x 141/4", signed lower left, $61,000 (est. $40,000/50,000). It had a retail price of $175,000.
Snowy Owl, Plate 121, sold for $134,200 (est. $100,000/150,000), the auction's highest price.
Pierre-Joseph Redoute, Intermediate Daffodil, Narcissus radiatus, watercolor on vellum, 183/4" x 141/4", $48,800 ... (Read More)
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