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Cowan Jazz bowl designed by Viktor Schreckengost, made circa 1930, marked, 12" high x 16¼" diameter, professional repair to a horseshoe-shaped crack on the base and a tight line on the rim, $60,375.Rookwood Decorated Porcelain vase, Kitaro Shirayamadani, 1927, molded red tulips, green leaves, and stems, 10¾" high, uncrazed, $10,925.Rookwood ... (Read More)
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The California Lumber Schooner "Mary E. Russ" by Joseph Lee (1827-1880), 32" x 48", sold to a private collector, a southern California doctor who is a regular at Levitt's auctions, for $48,800 (est. $40,000/60,000). Levitt said the price for this painting illustrates the weakening of demand for historical paintings. "The ... (Read More)
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by Daniel GrantThe U.S. Court of Appeals will consider an appeal to a district court ruling that appropriation artist Richard Prince violated the copyright of French photographer Patrick Cariou when the artist produced his own collage paintings incorporating Cariou's images of Jamaican Rastafarians. On September 14 the court denied Cariou's ... (Read More)
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Antique advertising and character toy expert Michael Karberg has joined Morphy Auctions of Denver, Pennsylvania, as acquisitions associate. Karberg, based in the Chicago area, will represent Morphy's at various shows around the Midwest, including the Indy Ad Show, the Chicago Toy Show, and other events.Married and with two daughters, Karberg ... (Read More)
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Deborah Solon and Alissa Ford have joined Heritage Auctions. Solon will be Heritage's West Coast director of American art and will be working out of Heritage's Beverly Hills offices. Ford will act as the company's director of California art and will be stationed in the company's recently opened San Francisco ... (Read More)
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This joined and painted oak and pine chest with drawer, 32½" high x 46½" wide x 21½" deep, attributed to Thomas Dennis (1638-1796) of Ipswich, Massachusetts, sold for $506,500 (est. $200,000/400,000) to Todd Prickett in the salesroom, underbid by a phone bidder. According to the catalog, it is the only ... (Read More)
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by David HewettSkinner's October 30 sale in Boston was delayed a week by the snowstorm that blanketed the entire East Coast and brought widespread destruction of power lines and telephone poles from Maine to Virginia.Faced with loss of phones and Internet, Skinner postponed the sale twice, finally holding it on ... (Read More)
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USA Theatres, which operates drive-in and outdoor theaters in central Pennsylvania, is launching the American Antique Toy & Coin-Op Show, which will feature exhibitors buying, selling, and trading a wide array of antique and collectible toys and coin-ops."I like to tell people I'm a recovered 'collectiaholic,'" said Ronald Vastola, outreach ... (Read More)
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by Lita Solis-CohenThe Transferware Collectors Club, Winterthur, and Historic New England have launched a free interactive on-line exhibition, Patriotic America: Blue Printed Pottery Celebrating a New Nation. These images of English pottery, transfer-printed in the 19th century, celebrate the new United States. The dark blue printed wares made between 1818 ... (Read More)
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Samuel Herrup of Sheffield, Massachusetts, solidly attributed this portrait on academy board of a young girl in a light blue dress, 1840-50, to William Matthew Prior (1806-1873), a seminal primitive-style artist. The frame was of the period as well. Herrup priced it at $35,000."Last night was scary," said Roger Williams ... (Read More)
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