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(Auction)Toy, Doll, and Advertising Auction Hits $1.4 Million
It was the condition and the original wooden box with a label that drove this Automatic Toy Works figure well past the $6000/9000 estimate. The paper label read "Automatic Toys/ Woman's Rights/ Patented October 13th, 1874." The little mechanical Black woman in perfectly intact attire pounded the podium and turned ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Legislators Seek New Protections for Consignors
by Sabrina Pry and Betty Flood Consignors and their heirs would gain increased protection for works of art under legislation sponsored by New York assemblyman Jonathan L. Bing and cosponsored by New York senator Elizabeth O'Connor Little, chair of the Senate Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks and Recreation Committee. "The legislation ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Whim Museum Celebrates 25 Years of Antiques Auctions
The Estate Whim Plantation Museum sign just outside the town of Frederiksted in St. Croix.Over 200 people attended the auction, and every seat in the big tent was taken. The overflow crowd found seating on all sides of the tent.St. Croix Landmarks Society, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islandsby Michael Connors, ... (Read More)
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(Show)April Showers Bring Antiques Buyers
Bruce "Butch" Hanes of Dad's Follies, Gibsonville, North Carolina, holds a vintage metal Popeye mold in his left hand and a postwar plastic Popeye mold in his right. Hanes and his sister inherited the passion for antique chocolate and ice cream molds from their parents more than 40 years ago ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Bowmanville Show: Then and Now
Two stunning ruddy ducks on a pond background, inexpensive at $400, were in the booth of Adrian Tinline of Bowmanville.A model of the first all-Canadian-built steel hull passenger ship, the Manitoba, launched May 4, 1889, was offered by Steve Harris of Portobello Road Antiques, Wiarton, Ontario, for $1850.Steve Harris wanted ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Kenos Seek Buried Treasure on Fox
by Lita Solis-Cohen In the works since last summer, Buried Treasure, a new reality show starring Leigh and Leslie Keno, has been given the green light at Fox. The show is described as "an unscripted series in which the identical twin brothers Leslie and Leigh Keno of PBS Antiques Roadshow ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Schultz Auction Sells Rare Chinese Moon Flask for $1,751,500
Photos courtesy Kelly and Benjamin Schultz.by Charles Wenner On May 7, an auction held by Kelly and Benjamin Schultz in Clarence, New York, led to a climactic bidding event that resulted in the sale of an 18th-century Chinese moon flask for $1,751,500 (includes buyer's premium). The early flask has a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Kensett Painting Tops at $310,500 in Americana Auction
The top lot of the sale was this unsigned and unframed 9" x 14" oil on canvas study for View of the Beach at Beverly, Massachusetts by John Frederick Kensett (1816-1872), dating from around 1860. Kensett did this study as preparation for the painting currently being exhibited in the Santa ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Herkimer Home Reopens
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(Auction)Majolica and Oyster Plate Auction
The top lot was this 34" high x 201/2" deep Minton floor jardiniere in the form of three putti with garlands crowning their heads, separated by pink shells with yellow centers supporting a large cobalt basket (shape No. 1281). With a professional repair to one foot, the rim on two ... (Read More)
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