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(Auction)Autumn Auction of 20th- and 21st-Century Design
Frederick Hurten Rhead's 203/4" square four-part tile panel with a peacock is one of two such panels that were a gift from Rhead to his friend, and Weller Pottery colleague, Levi Burgess for his Zanesville, Ohio, house. They were installed facing each other. This one was removed from the house ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: The Loaner
The pawnshop is going highbrow. A press release from the collateral loan company borro (www.borro.com) recently caught our eye. The company, with offices in London and Manhattan, gives short-term loans against fine art, antiques, luxury cars, wine, and other valuables. According to a CNN report in June, customers can borrow ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Santa Fe Show: Objects of Art
Buffaloe Hunting, an 1844-45 hand-colored lithograph by George Catlin (1796-1872), cost $12,000 at Arader Galleries, San Francisco.A very large zebra mask from the Sukuma people of Tanzania was priced at $7200 at Kip McKesson African Art, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.Santa Fe, New Mexicoby Alice KaufmanThe first weekend of the Santa ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Historic Firearms and Early Militaria
Krupp 5CM 50 mm mountain howitzer, 291/2" rifled barrel with front sight, metal carriage with iron-banded and wood-spoke wheels, accompanied by tools, trail handle, 24 brass shell casings in a Krupp box, 30-plus projectiles, and a mold for projectiles, $34,500.
Cased Webley-Fosbery target revolver, .455 Eley caliber, 71/2" barrel, marked "Webley-Fosbery" ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Giant Opening Night
This circa 1920 wood weathervane of a dog resting on a shotgun, with untouched, original paint, from American Garage, Los Angeles, cost $13,500. Michael Ogle said business was "really good."
These late 19th-century Odd Fellows badges cost $2400 for the group at Galen Lowe Art and Antiques, Seattle.
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(Book Review)A Book Review: Inventing the Modern World
by Lita Solis-CohenInventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World's Fairs, 1851-1939by Jason T. Busch and Catherine L. FutterCarnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, in association with Skira Rizzoli Publications, Inc., New York City, 2012, 304 pages, softbound, $45.World's fairs-there were 92 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Lee B. Anderson Sale
Meeting between General Clive and the Nawab Mir Jafar after the Battle of Plassey illustrates the dominance of the British East India Company in South Asia for a century. It relates to a series of four decorative canvases painted in 1762 by Francis Hayman for the Rotunda of Vauxhall Gardens. ... (Read More)
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(Show)Labor Day Weekend Show in York
This unusual pair of Amish repurposed lift-top cigar boxes with paint decoration attributed to Leah Zook Lapp, dated 1942, was $780 from Alice and Art Booth of Wayne, New Jersey.Stephen-Douglas Antiques, Rockingham, Vermont, offered this early applique rug for $9500.York, Pennsylvaniaby Karl H. PassThe 159th Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Cleveland Connection Attracts Collectors
Clyde Singer (1908-1999), The Old Swimming Hole, 1937, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left, 46" x 401/4", very good condition, $27,140. Exhibited: Clyde Singer's America, Canton (Ohio) Museum of Art and Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 2008-09; Illusions of Eden: Visions of the Heartland, Columbus ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 38th Fall Fox Valley Antiques Show
As we stopped to admire the country cupboard with original paint from Raccoon Creek at Oley Forge, Oley, Pennsylvania, waves of lookers came to run their fingers over the surface and admire the bubble glass. Described as "High Country circa 1830," the piece was $28,800. The scalloped bentwood folk ... (Read More)
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