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(Show)Hot Time in Rockport
Greg Hamilton of Stone Block Antiques, Vergennes, Vermont, sits behind a large gilded wooden pilothouse eagle that he would sell for $6500.New England Antiques, Bath, Maine, displayed a bandbox covered in early wallpaper, about 12" high, for $950.Rockport, Maineby Mark SiscoOutdoor summer antiques shows in Maine can have their challenges, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Settle's In for Almost Twenty Grand
Early hooded pine settle bench, with a high four-board back and great old original surface, $19,550.Tall clock signed by New Jersey maker Isaac Brokaw of Bridge Town, probably built after 1790, $13,800.Devin Moisan, Dover, New Hampshireby Mark SiscoWhat makes a beat-up old pine bench worth nearly 20 grand? Devin Moisan's ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Guilford Antiques Show Date Change
Barn Star Productions and the Dorothy Whitfield Historic Society have announced new dates for the Guilford Antiques Show. The annual show will be held Saturday, April 14 and Sunday, April 15, 2012, at the Elisabeth Adams Middle School in Guilford, Connecticut.For the past several years, the show has been held ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Genealogy of an Antique Can Yield Unexpected Results
Shown hanging on a barn door, this circa 1820 full-stock single-barrel 12-gauge shotgun is in well-used condition and unremarkable at first glance. Long at 62" with a 47" barrel, it was first a flintlock and later converted to percussion. It was likely used for waterfowl hunting, given its Chesapeake Bay ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Newport Antiques Show
Roger King Fine Art, Newport, Rhode Island, asked $24,500 for Marginal Way, Ogunquit, Maine by Charles Woodbury (1864-1940). King said he had a good show and sold five paintings.Aileen Minor of Centreville, Maryland, specializes in garden furniture and decorations. Minor asked $2900 for Le Semeur (the sower), a French zinc ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Back in the Saddle Again with Illustration Art
A woman sitting with two men in the rear of the salesroom won this 20¾" x 20½" oil on board by Joseph C. Leyendecker (1874-1951), signed lower left, for $92,000, its low estimate and the auction's highest price. Leyendecker depicts a young woman in church wearing a bonnet. It appeared ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sicklebill Curlew Decoy Brings $111,550
A pair of 1918-22 racy swimming red-breasted mergansers by A.E. Crowell of East Harwich, Massachusetts, sold for $37,375. Decoys Unlimited photo.A canvas-over-frame hissing Canada goose made in the early 1900's by George Boyd of Seabrook, New Hampshire, sold for $60,375. Decoys Unlimited photo.A spectacular and rare sicklebill curlew decoy, found ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Internet Exploration
Label of a 1910 phonograph record that revolutionized Russian copyright law and inspired music for a modern American movie.Computer Column #274by John P. Reid, [email protected] computer on the Internet is a good source of information when straying into unfamiliar corners of the antiques world. As an example, let's use the ... (Read More)
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(Show)Masterpiece London
The architecture of the fair created a quiet, airy space, never crowded, ideal for leisurely shopping. People stayed for hours, stopping for a drink or lunch and then continuing up and down the ten arched cross aisles and four side aisles, all with trees planted at intervals.Witney Antiques, Witney, Oxford, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American History Auction
A copy of General Sherman in California 1846-1850, bound in half-leather and pebbled cloth over boards, presented to Colonel Joseph C. Audenried, March 1871, written entirely in Sherman's hand and copied by his aide-de-camp, some shelf and handling wear, $36,425.Twelve albumen photographs (two shown), studio portraits of Sioux Indians by ... (Read More)
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