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(Fragment)Santa Fe Show Schedule Shakeup Scuttled
by Alice KaufmanThe more things change, the more they stay the same.The Whitehawk 30th annual Antique Ethnographic Art Show will open on August 8, 2013, and run through August 10. The Whitehawk 35th annual Invitational Antique Indian Art Show will open on August 11 and run through August 13. Both ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Antique Toys at Auction
Althof, Bergmann & Co. Santa in a sleigh pulled by goats, 9" high x 20" long, is the fourth one to turn up. Each is slightly different because they were made before the advent of mass production. This one had been the prized possession of a New York state family. ... (Read More)
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(Show)People Were Selling and Deals Were Getting Done
Thomas G. Boss of Salem, Massachusetts, offered a number of French books with Art Deco bindings, including this one, Daphne by Alfred de Vigny. Priced at $40,000, it was designed circa 1924 by F.-L. Schmied and executed by G. Cretté. Printed by pressman Pierre Bouchet, it is copy no. 3, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Sale on Cape Cod
“There has been a huge amount of interest in this full-plate daguerreotype,” said a member of the Eldred staff before the auction began. The circa 1845 image was big and colorful––four men in uniform, standing before crossed American flags. The flags were hand-colored by the photographer, according to catalog notes. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Queens Foundry Owner Charged with Trying to Sell Fake Jasper Johns Sculpture
On November 15, 2012, an indictment charging Brian Ramnarine, owner of Empire Bronze Art Foundry, with attempting to sell a bronze sculpture that he falsely represented to be a genuine work of art by Jasper Johns was unsealed in federal court in New York. Ramnarine was arrested at his home ... (Read More)
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(Show)Traditional Art Scoops Contemporary for a Change
The show’s coproducers, Robert Four (on left) and Tony Fusco.
An Early Snow by Walter Launt Palmer (1854-1932) was painted in 1887. The 22½" x 26½" oil on canvas was offered for $445,000 from Avery Galleries. Richard Rossello said it had been exhibited at the Chicago World’s Fair.
Boston-based Colleene Fesko, an ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Edison Reproduces Again
Symphonion Eroica music box, 72" x 28", style No. 37, featuring duplex combs with 100 teeth. Having its original door picture, it was in wonderful condition. Included with the lot was a walnut cabinet with shelves to store the accompanying 32 three-disc sets. Top lot of the three-day sale, it ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Overflow Crowd, Strong Prices Prevail at Labor Day Weekend Auction
The 20" x 24" oil on masonite by Eric Sloane (1905-1985) depicting a church in Grafton, Vermont, sold for $9350 to either an absentee or a phone bidder.The 1775 map of The Seat of the War in New England by an American Volunteer is the work of Robert Sayer and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Skinner's Americana Sale
The 22¼" x 33" oil on canvas by William Allen Wall (1801-1885) depicts the area known as Old Four Corners, at the junction of Union and Water Streets in New Bedford, Massachusetts, circa 1807. Wall's painting has to be a bit conjectural, since it depicts the Four Corners as it ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Back-to-Back Sales at Garth's
George III terrestrial globe, George Adams Jr., London, circa 1790, printed and hand colored, on an oak stand with cabriole legs and pad feet, the base mounted with a compass, the cartouche with Adams's standard dedication to the king, 31" high x 18" diameter, imperfections, $15,275.Map of the world by ... (Read More)
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