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(Auction)Ken Farmer Sells Contents of Forest Oaks
Forest Oaks This English oak William and Mary chest-onframe was the high lot of the sale at $2185 (est. $2000/ 3000). The 66" x 44" x 22½" chest dates from 1740 and exhibits nailed construction. The upper case is topped with a simple cornice above a two-over-three-drawer case with fluted ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Antiques Auction in Connecticut
The top lot of the sale was a marine painting by Fitz Henry Lane (1804-1865), A Smart Blow: Ships Passing, signed and dated on the lower right “F.H. Lane 1856,” 24½" x 36 3/8". Lane worked in a style that would later be called Luminism for its use of pervasive ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fifth Annual Country Living Fair
David T. Smith of the Workshops of David T. Smith, Morrow, Ohio, is known for his museum-quality reproduction 18th- and 19th-century furniture, pottery, Windsor chairs, and kitchens, but at the fair he also had on hand this wonderful slip-decorated redware charger with a central floral design with green leaves and ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Martin Webster, West Branch Antiques, Delhi, New York
Martin Webster.Two molds with carved blossoms, fruit, leaves, and vines, with some of the motifs suggesting an Asian origin, are $185 each.A large wallpapered box, covered inside with well-preserved black and white posters advertising the third annual cattle show and fair of the Farmington Valley Agricultural Society in Otis, Massachusetts, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Indian and Western Art
Apaches and Sioux and Pueblos of New Mexico, two leather-bound photograph albums from Joseph Henry Sharp and John Hauser’s 1893 trip west, with a handwritten partial inventory, loose binding, very minor losses and fading to some images, $66,975.Apache painted rawhide playing cards in red, yellow, and blue, set of 37, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Rosenbach Museum & Library Acquires Gratz Family Portraits
Rebecca Gratz (1781-1869) was 50 years old when she sat for Thomas Sully (1783-1872) in 1831.Joseph Gratz (1785-1857) was painted by George Peter Alexander Healy (1813-1994), who studied in Paris and was encouraged to paint portraits by Thomas Sully.by Lita Solis-CohenTwo rarely seen portraits of Rebecca Gratz and her brother ... (Read More)
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(Show)Marburger Farm Antique Show
This signed Gustav Stickley Arts and Crafts V-back armchair, model #354, was built between 1904 and 1906. It is made of quartersawn oak; the finish is original, but the leather is reupholstered. Tom and Karol Streling of Strelings Antiques, Kewadin, Michigan, priced the set at $1750 for the chair and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Name's Bond. William Bond
William Bond & Son, regulator No. 396, with single-arm gravity escapement and remontoire invented by Richard F. Bond. It sold to a private collector for $539,500 (est. $300,000/ 500,000). The two only other examples, No. 394 and No. 395, are in institutions—Harvard's Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments and Liverpool's Merseyside ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Zephyr Crosses the Line
The oil on canvas ship portrait of the merchantman Zephyr by Samuel Walters, launched in 1854 in East Boston and staying afloat until at least 1891, sold for $21,850.“You couldn’t ask for anything more state of Maine,” Bourgeault announced. Imagine a full-size drop-front desk with wooden knobs, four grain-painted burl ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Julia Sells Roosevelt Shotgun
Roosevelt’s F grade A.H. Fox shotgun, presented by Ansley Fox to Theodore Roosevelt, was taken on several expeditions by Roosevelt and his son Kermit. It sold for $862,500. Sisco photos.This cased Colt Model 1860 Army percussion revolver, serial number 151385, was engraved by Gustave Young with foliage and arabesques, wolf ... (Read More)
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