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Antiques in the Valley
by Lita Solis-Cohen

Ruth Rogers of School House Farm Antiques, New Holland, Pennsylvania, offered kugels, or German Christmas balls, priced from $50 to $1500.This never-used rag rug in blues, yellows, and orange, 11' long x 3' wide, was $95 from Dennis Moyer of The Pennsylvania Farmer, Zionsville, Pennsylvania.William and Teresa Kurau of Lampeter, ... (Read More)

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Brandywine River Museum Show Marks Its 41st Year
by Karl H. Pass

During preview night, the courtyard outside the museum was set with a bar and food stations. Other catered stations were on each floor inside the museum.The Norwoods' Spirit of America took out a full-page ad in the show catalog for this framed needlework sampler. It reads "Brandywine March 1798" and ... (Read More)

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Asian and Fine Art Pace Thomaston Auction
by Mark Sisco

Top money of the sale went for this 20" x 25 1/2" (sight size) oil on panel of The Rape of Europa by Flemish baroque artist Hendrik van Balen (c. 1575-1632), signed and dated 1610. With a repaired and retouched crack in the panel, it sold for $21,850.Zitan wood and ... (Read More)

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American Indian Auction
by Lita Solis-Cohen

The Naskapi painted hide hunting coat, in the manner of an 18th-century riding coat, has a high collar, narrow waist, and flaring peplum. It's made of tanned caribou hide and painted in red, cream, and black. The front and back are decorated with symbols, probably of caribou. Estimated at $250,000/ ... (Read More)

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Sizzling Sale
by Marty Steiner

This unusual carved and painted trade sign was found in an abandoned building in Newark, New Jersey. It appears to be an address, "41144," formed by the carved and painted black musicians and dancers. "Good Policy to Trade at the Hub" is written below the address. It measures 31" x ... (Read More)

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Moody Maine History Is the Mainstay
by Mark Sisco

As far as we can tell, this is only the fourth example of the first edition of The American Coast Pilot, dated 1796, to come to the auction market. It had the original owner's inscription on the front endpapers, "Lemuel Moody's 1796/ Portland." It sold for $48,875, the top price ... (Read More)

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Claus Toy Boats Rule the Waves
by Dick Friz

Marklin New York Series II clockwork battleship #1092/115, circa 1905, with gilt embossed figurehead, 271/2" long, $109,350. The auction's top performer, a Marklin Providence clockwork tinplate paddle-wheeler #1071, 1900-02, with captain on the foredeck, 26" long, went at $247,250. Marklin battleship Maryland #5128D/9, circa 1915, flies U.S. flag, modeled after a proposed ... (Read More)

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A Life Not Quite Forgotten
by Scott Keuler

I believe no one really "owns" anything-we are simply caretakers for objects from the past that we hope will be cared for by others in the future. My experience with a recent antique purchase has only strengthened my hope that others will one day care for my treasured objects as ... (Read More)

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The Whim Museum's 26th Antiques Auction
by Michael Connors

The highlight and highest price of any lot of this year's auction (and all previous Whim Museum auctions) was this 36" x 48" painting by Dove, Under the Xmas Lights. The painting depicts a bird's-eye perspective of the waterfront area and Strand Street in Frederiksted (one of two towns in ... (Read More)

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A Bill Not Paid in Full Leads to Court Action
by Daniel Grant

by Daniel GrantThe upside of the increasingly global art and antiques market is that dealers, galleries, and auction houses in the United States and Europe have been able to find new buyers on every continent (but Antarctica), which has helped buoy their revenues at a time of sluggish economic growth ... (Read More)
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