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(Auction)Clements Library Buys Strachey Papers at Third Copley Library Sale
The Henry Strachey papers, 1775-83, approxi-mately 480 pages, sold for $602,500 to the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, with dealer William S. Reese acting as agent. “The purchase of the Strachey papers at Sotheby’s auction was a remarkable collaborative effort,” Clements Library director ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana at Garth's
Lieutenant Commander James Parker’s flag from the Second Battle of Fort Fisher, hand sewn with 34 appliquéd stars, signed “James Parker” on the fly, approximately 8½' x 16½', $29,375. Sold with a hand-sewn naval pennant with 13 embroidered stars, approximately 25' long, as well as Parker’s appointment to lieutenant (signed ... (Read More)
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(Show)Greenbrier Hosts First Annual Antiques Show
The Greenbrier is referred to as one of the “grand” hotels. No argument.Father and daughter David and Elizabeth Lindquist of Whitehall Antiques, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, offered a George III open-shelf oak dresser/cupboard from the English Midlands, 1765-80, for $22,000. The drawer fronts feature mahogany crossbanding and inlay details. On ... (Read More)
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(Show)Autumn Hartford Antiques Show Seems to Be a Winner
C. Neville Lewis was one of the six exhibitors chosen to give what Frank Gaglio termed booth chats, mini-lectures under the general heading “Knowledge Is King.” The lectures were more successful than he had imagined, Gaglio said later, and will be used again in the future.Roberto Freitas American Antiques & ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: This month's column contains some very expensive things indeed and news of record prices for English furniture, Audubon's The Birds of America, and the flower paintings of Pierre-Joseph Redouté, but I will kick off with something much more modestly priced but directly relevant to this New ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Greek Maiden Lights Up Evans Sale
The high lot of the sale was this single caryatid-form candlestick in a strongly marbled deep sapphire blue pressed as a single unit. The catalog noted that this piece may be unique, as no other examples of this form in this color have been noted. The central Greekinspired form features ... (Read More)
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(Feature)"Antiques Roadshow" Schedule
Antiques Roadshow, PBS's most-watched prime time series, has announced its summer 2011 tour destinations. Stops and dates include Eugene, Oregon, June 4; El Paso, Texas, June 18; Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 9; Tulsa, Oklahoma, July 23; Atlanta, Georgia, August 6; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 13. Programs taped in those locations will ... (Read More)
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(Feature)New Wing at Boston Museum: Worth a Trip from Anywhere
Museum of Fine Arts, Bostonby Jeanne SchintoA view of all four levels of the new wing from the Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Family Courtyard. Photograph © Chuck Choi.The Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Family Courtyard on the morning of the press conference and donor/guest reception. Constructed almost entirely of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Furniture and Decorative Arts and the Fifth Pennsylvania Sale
This circa 1755 clock in a walnut case, carved probably by Nicholas Bernard of Philadelphia, has works by Edward Duffield. Estimated at $80,000/120,000, it sold in the salesroom to dealer Jim Kilvington of Dover, Delaware, for $193,000. Edward Duffield is much revered. A friend of Benjamin Franklin, he was executor ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Old-Fashioned Auction at Grogan--"The Way It Should Be"
The sale’s top lot at $57,500 (est. $300/500) was a Chinese carved pale green jade bowl, 7½" in diameter. It came from the Cecile Parker Carver estate.Grogan & Company, Dedham, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoPhotos courtesy GroganGrogan & Company pulled in more than $2 million at its annual fall two-day auction on ... (Read More)
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