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(Feature)Whitaker Couture Auction Filmed by Bravo
Estimated at $800/1200, the Chinese embroidered throne cover, 18th or 19th century, sold for $33,600. The 411/2" x 511/2" yellow-gold silk tapestry was elaborately embroidered with a gold dragon in couched metallic threads surrounded by cloud bands and Buddhist symbols enclosed by a border of chrysanthemums within couched gold thread, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)NEA Grant to Help Winterthur Digitize
The Winterthur Museum is one of 788 not-for-profit national, regional, state, and local organizations nationwide to receive a National Endowment for the Arts Works grant. Winterthur will use the grant to scan, photograph, and digitize its collection of prints, maps, watercolors, and other paper arts.With the grant, Winterthur will employ ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Outsider Art Fair Moves to New Location
Sanford L. Smith's Outsider Art Fair in New York City will take place January 31-February 3, 2013, at a new location in Chelsea: Center548 (548 West 22nd Street), the former DIA Center for the Arts.In a press release, Smith wrote, "Twenty-one years ago, when the Outsider Art Fair debuted at ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Summer Writing Contest with an Antiques Twist
A 19th-century doll carved from a bedpost is one of seven items suggested for the "Biography of an Object Writing Contest." Visit the contest page on Garth's Web site for a complete list. Contestants may also select their own object by utilizing a 30-day trial membership offer from Prices4Antiques.com, an ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Lily Pad Master Salt Sells for $38,700
Yellow olive-amber master salt, 21/2" high, circular bowl with folded rim, body decorated with superimposed gather, tooled into a type 2 lily pad design, applied funnel foot with folded rim, tubular pontil scar, attributed to the Lancaster Glass Works, New York, circa 1852, possibly the work of John Lambrix, ex-David ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)James Johnston's Composite Audubon
Full-sheet composite.by Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy Antique Nature PrintsPrint dealer James Gilbert Johnston, who has a shop in Birmingham, Alabama, and a Web site (www.antiquenatureprints.com), is proud of a discovery he made in November 2010. Viewing a Skinner auction catalog on line, he found an undercataloged Audubon print."Lot 628 looked strange, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Variety Is the Spice of Success
Marklin (Germany) stationary traction engine steam toy, early 1920's, the crown jewel from the late Klaus Grutkza's steam toy collection, base 141/2" x 26", $19,550.Hubley Popeye on motorcycle, cast iron, 1928, includes factory tag, ex-Bob Brady, 63/4" long, $19,550.Arcade parlor coach, cast iron, circa 1926, deemed the finest example known, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Tool and Its Money
This Stanley No. 340 furring plane was the top money-getter at $10,350.This open screw thread micrometer is in "like-new" condition, despite the patent date of April 23, 1878. It was patented by George M. Pratt of Middletown, Connecticut, and produced by the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company of Providence, Rhode ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"We went to Europe and well, bought a few things for the house," The Chinqua-Penn Sale
*Margaret "Betsy" Penn, as quoted in the Leland Little catalog.This is the front entrance to Chinqua-Penn as seen from the pagoda. The Penns purchased the Chinese carved stone Ming Dynasty style Spirit Road animals-the camel on the left and the reclining horse on the right-in China in 1923. The camel ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tall Clock Leads Rhode Island Auction
A trip to a home in Jamestown, Rhode Island, was the source of this stunning tall clock with a Goddard case and brass dial that read "Thos. Stretch Philadelphia." The clock features a classic Goddard-carved shell and measures 101" tall. It opened with a $10,000 bid and, with several phones ... (Read More)
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