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(Feature)December Jewelry Auctions
Platinum and diamond ring. It has one octagonal step-cut diamond of approximately 10.56 carats and two baguette-cut diamonds of approximately 0.30 carat total and it weighs 3.50 dwt. The ring was accompanied by a GIA diamond grading certificate stating, "color: G, clarity: VS2, polish: good, symmetry: fair, fluorescence: none." Drawing ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bidders Go for "Safe Bets"
Arizona Twilight by Dale Nichols (1904-1995), a 30" x 40" oil on canvas, brought $72,000 (est. $30,000/50,000). Shannon's had previously sold it for $50,400 in October 2007.Greenwood Lake, a 12" x 20" oil on canvas painted in 1873 by Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900), was the sale's top lot at $252,000 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dara Mitchell Leaves Sotheby's after 26 Years
by Lita Solis-CohenIn June 2011, Dara Mitchell, head of Sotheby's American art department and one of eight executive vice presidents of Sotheby's North and South America, decided to retire by the end of 2011. Her children, ages 18 and 22, are out of the house. It is not that she ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: Sign of the Times
During Memorial Day weekend 2011, Cincinnati, Ohio, landlord Jamie Hein banned a young African-American girl who was visiting her father from swimming in the pool at the duplex Hein owns. According to a complaint filed with the Ohio Civil Rights Commission (OCRC), Hein claimed that the girl used chemicals in ... (Read More)
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(Show)Tricks and Treats at York Show
Jewett-Berdan Antiques, Newcastle, Maine, asked $5500 for the architectural blanket chest with scalloping in original green paint decoration. The large wooden hatbox with freehand decoration was $2800.The Norwoods' Spirit of America wanted $995 for this cast-iron stove plate with door from the Oley Furnace.This brightly colored 20th-century hooked rug framed ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 75th Augusta Armory Show
A well-painted $550 Tammany nodding bank sat next to a square Columbian Safe Deposit bank at the booth of Doug and Tania Carnrick of Odds 'N Sodds, Winslow, Maine. The $900 Columbian was the black-painted version, a souvenir of the 1894 Chicago World's Fair, a.k.a. the World's Columbian Exposition, with ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Book Review: William Birch: Picturing the American Scene
by Lita Solis-CohenWilliam Birch: Picturing the American Sceneby Emily T. Cooperman and Lea Carson Sherk, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011, 340 pages, hardbound, $75 plus S/H from University of Pennsylvania Press, (www.upenn.edu/pennpress) or (800) 537-5487.This fresh look at the life and work of William Birch (1755-1834), one of the most ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Book Review: Expressions of Innocence and Eloquence
by Lita Solis-CohenExpressions of Innocence and Eloquence: Selections from the Jane Katcher Collection of Americana, Volume IIEditors Jane Katcher, David A. Schorsch, and Ruth Wolfe, catalog by David A. Schorsch and Eileen M. Smiles, photography by Gavin AshworthMarquand Books, distributed by Yale University Press, 2011, 452 pages, hardbound, $95 plus ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: The Lowdown on Underbidders
by Steve ProffittThe modern world is fast turning the bedrock concept of individual privacy into a relic that will be remembered only in history books. The increasing intrusiveness of government with its telescopic eyes in satellites, ubiquitous surveillance cameras, supercomputers for data mining, facial-recognition software, tracking devices of every kind, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Fall Fox Valley Antiques Show
This realistic copy of a mid-18th-century fireplace stopped us dead in our tracks. So we asked dealer Bob Jessen of Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, to stand next to it. According to Jessen and his partner, Jim Hohnwald, the color is "Nanking," a period hue.We admired the original green paint on the ... (Read More)
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