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(Show)Vintage Holiday Show at Craven Farm
The venue is small but always well attended. This crowd continued to circle the floor for a good long while at the one-day show.
Fabric panels such as this one were once a popular and inexpensive way to have a "Grandma Moses" in one's home. Nadia Mered of Seattle, Washington, brought ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tiffany Garden Museum Contents Sold
A Tiffany Studios parakeet and goldfish bowl tea screen sold for $324,500, which was the auction day's highest price. Michaan called the screen "very special, unique, a small version of a famous Tiffany window." It is 8" tall including its 18k gold frame and was estimated at $400,000/600,000.
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(Auction)Tiffany Garden Museum Contents Sold
A Tiffany Studios parakeet and goldfish bowl tea screen sold for $324,500, which was the auction day's highest price. Michaan called the screen "very special, unique, a small version of a famous Tiffany window." It is 8" tall including its 18k gold frame and was estimated at $400,000/600,000.
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(Auction)Prolonged Bidding Takes Dutch Still Life to $666,000
The sale's top lot, Still Life with Tazza, Peeled Lemon, and Roemer by Willem Claeszoon Heda (Dutch, 1594-c. 1680), went to a phone bidder at $666,000 (est. $30,000/50,000). The 151/2" x 221/2" oil on cradled panel dates from 1630.Tabletop Still Life with Fruit by Robert Spear Dunning (1829-1905), signed and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Christie's Americana
From the Philadelphia Museum of Art, this mahogany easy chair with carving attributed to the Garvan carver, Philadelphia, 1760-65, 44 3/4" high, sold on the phone for $1,116,500 (est. $600,000/900,000) to dealer Todd Prickett of C.L. Prickett, Yardley, Pennsylvania, for a client. A similar chair sold at Christie's in January ... (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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(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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(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. Crette. Printed by pressman Pierre Bouchet, it is copy no. 3, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Outsider Art Fair Sold
The Outsider Art Fair, the annual show in New York City that showcases Outsider, self-taught, and folk art, has been sold by Sanford L. Smith and Associates, LLC to Wide Open Arts, LLC.In addition to a new owner, the January 31-February 3, 2013, show will be held in a new ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York Consignor Protection Law Signed
by Betty FloodLegislation to provide protection for a consignor or his or her heirs when the consignor's works of art are in the care of a consignee or an art merchant has been approved as Chapter 450 on the 2012 Chapter Law List. It was signed into law by New ... (Read More)
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