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(Feature)The New Art of Flying
Edwin Levick's business card, circa 1909."Fig. 45.—The Santos-Dumont 'Demoiselle' monoplane is the smallest flying-machine that has ever flown successfully with a man. In the later 'Demoiselles' fabric propellers are supplanted by wooden screws of the usual type.""Fig. 84.—The Santos-Dumont 'Demoiselle' in flight.""Fig. 80.—The Wright biplane of 1910. The elevating rudder ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Chest Attributed to Johannes Spitler Sells for $350,500
$350,500. Photo courtesy Freeman's.by Lita Solis-CohenLate on Monday afternoon, April 30, toward the end of Freeman's long spring American furniture, silver, folk, and decorative arts sale, a painted pine blanket chest came up. The circa 1800 chest, decorated with tulips, hearts, compass flowers, and birds in red, white, and black ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Shop and Gallery News
-Avalon Celebrates Ten Years.Avalon Antiques Marketplace in Wiscasset, Maine, recently cited as one of "10 Favorite Antiques Stores, Flea Markets and Salvage Shops" in Yankee Magazine's "Best of New England" (May/June 2012), celebrates its tenth anniversary in June. To celebrate, Avalon is having a storewide sale, June 9-17, with discounts ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana and Art at Auction
This 40½" x 29½" oil on canvas portrait by Charles Webster Hawthorne (1872-1930), labeled on the back Venetian Lady, signed lower left, came from a private collection in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and sold for $20,700.Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc., East Dennis, Massachusettsby Jackie SideliPhotos courtesy Eldred'sFor more than 50 years, the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Cooperstown Antiques Show Reaches Half Century
The Cooperstown (New York) Outdoor Antique Show will celebrate its 50th anniversary on Sunday, July 1.Originally a fund-raising project of the now-defunct Tri-County Antique Dealers Association, the show was first held on association member Bob Cook's field in Coopers-town. In the early 1980's the show was moved to the grounds ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Clarke and Barbara Comollo, Manchester Center, Vermont
The Comollos' shop. It may look like an average little roadside shop. It's not.Barbara and Clarke Comollo.This photo hints at how diverse the Comollos' inventory is. The Ethan Allen vane ($3800) has a nice green-yellow patina. The painting of Mt. Monadnock depicting various farming activities is signed "TSW" and is ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Townsend Collection, Part 1: Prehistoric Native American Art
Butterfly-form bannerstone named "Sunset Glory," ferruginous quartz, 3¼" x 5½", found in Missouri, $245,700.Hourglass-form bannerstone with single face, ferruginous quartz of good color, 3 5/8" high, found in St. Louis County, Missouri, $62,100.Popeyed birdstone with oval expanding eyes and flattened, flaring tail, green-speckled hardstone porphyry, 3¼" long, found in 1936 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Grapes of Wrath
A rare René Lalique "Courges" vase, circa 1914, 7½" high x 7½" diameter, in dark red glass with double-molded signature at the base and incised "France," raced past the $6000 high estimate to command a winning price of $57,000.Gorham bombé-form sterling silver bowl, 9" x 18", with spot-hammered surface, flanked ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Best Sale Ever for African-Americana at Swann
The sale's top lot was a 30" x 25 1/8" oil painting, a contemporary copy of The Slaves by Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883). Produced in London in the 1830's to 1850's, the painting went to a collector on the phone for $72,000 (est. $60,000/80,000). It was that buyer's only purchase.Two pairs ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Appeals Judges Finally Wipe the Slate Clean on "Russian Schoolroom"
by David HewettOn March 27 three U.S. Court of Appeals judges re-confirmed the decision reached by a federal judge in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2010. They denied the appeal of art dealer Jack Solomon, who had claimed that he remained the owner of a painting by Norman Rockwell, Russian Schoolroom.It ... (Read More)
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