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Photo courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The William Crolius incised and cobalt blue decorated heart-shaped inkstand on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for the past 22 years has recently been made a promised and partial gift to the institution. Purchased by Pennsylvania collector ... (Read More)
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Sandy Raulston and Ted Birbilis, owners of Roadside America in Pasadena, California, have taken over the management and promotion of the California Country Antiques Show in Los Altos, California. The show, now renamed the New California Country & More Antiques Show, will be held on June 9 and October 20.Raulston ... (Read More)
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On February Christie's and Sotheby's announced new buyers' premiums.
Christie's new buyer's premium in the United States is 25% of the hammer price of each lot up to and including $75,000; 20% of the hammer price from $75,001 up to and including $1,500,000; and 12% above $1,500,000.
Sotheby's new fees are 25% ... (Read More)
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Tax authorities in Philadelphia, in a clumsy and shortsighted move, have decided that dealers exhibiting at the Philadelphia Antiques Show, one of the most prestigious shows in America, are tax scofflaws who haven't been paying enough tax to the city (see Lita Solis-Cohen's report on page 12-A). The city is ... (Read More)
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In February the Seward House Museum and the Fred L. Emerson Foundation jointly announced that Thomas Cole's landscape Portage Falls on the Genesee, 84" x 61", had been removed from the museum and was going to be sold.
The Fred L. Emerson Foundation, incorporated in Delaware in 1943, was the former ... (Read More)
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No, it's not an Oreo cookie! This 2 5/8" diameter carved walnut butter print, or stamp, came from the collection of Frederick S. Weiser, a Lutheran pastor and authority on Pennsylvania German culture and artifacts who died in 2009. The print is sitting on page 123 of Weiser's Butter Prints ... (Read More)
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This circa 1830 15-gallon stoneware storage jar signed by Harvey Drake of the Edgefield District, South Carolina, was the top lot of the sale at $168,000. See story for details.
A circa 1830 hunt board from Forsyth County, North Carolina, 41 3/8" x 541/4" x 191/2", was the top furniture lot ... (Read More)
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Soap Hollow blanket chest by Peter K. Thomas, dated 1862, poplar with its original stenciled decoration and red ground, trimmed in black and yellow, 28" high x 471/2" wide, missing escutcheon inlays, replaced period glass pulls, $14,460.
Decorated Chippendale blanket chest, Pennsylvania or Virginia, dated 1791, pine and poplar, original paint, ... (Read More)
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This 36" x 36" silkscreen was the second Andy Warhol print offered at the sale. This image uses a photograph of flowers as its basic design. It is brightly colored with hot pink, yellow, and light blue blossoms and with green as the background. Signed by Warhol in graphite, it ... (Read More)
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Hubley coupe, 63/4" long, $1003.
Excellent Kenton vehicles abounded. This sprinkler tank truck, 7" long, made the biggest splash at $1534.
Kenton city bus, 6" long, $1100.
Arcade yellow cab panel van, 8" long, restored, $1200.
From a bumper crop of farm equipment, three tractors, 51/2" to 8" long, sold for $1000.
Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, ... (Read More)
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