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(Auction)Strong Jewelry Sales and a Gallery Opening at MFA
This 21/4" x 1 3/8" platinum and diamond brooch with 94 marquise-shaped and 48 baguette and tapered baguette diamonds weighing approximately 15.00 carats, approximately 20.3 dwt., sold for $17,500 (est. $5500/6500), making it the top lot at the February 22 auction at Doyle New York.A 31/4" x 2" antique gold, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Native American Art
The catalog cover lot, a painted hide shirt from the Great Lakes region and dating from the first half of the 18th century, was purchased for $362,500 for the Minneapolis Institute of Arts by Joe D. Horse Capture, associate curator of Native American art, in the salesroom.Christie's, New York Cityby ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chinese Export Art at Auction
Found in an attic in Maine, a 24" x 361/2" Chinese school tea production scene from the first half of the 19th century, ink and colors on paper, sold for $116,500 (est. $20,000/30,000). Tobacco Leaf tureen and cover of lozenge form, enameled with tobacco leaves in Famille Rose colors, with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Superheroes Museum
Superman costume in the style worn by Kirk Alyn, light blue and brown, $2860. The outfit was among those Daniel E. Miller claimed he had loaned to the museum.Batmobile in the style used in Batman starring Michael Keaton, 1989, a replica built on a Corvette chassis with a 1985 Corvette ... (Read More)
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(Show)Richmond Academy of Medicine Celebrates 49th Show
This was Martin Chasin's first year at the Richmond Academy of Medicine show. The Fairfield, Connecticut, dealer trades as Martin Chasin Fine Arts, LLC and offers an array of British sporting art, silver, glass, and porcelain. In one of his cases were a large George I covered urn-form container, $2100; ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: This month's column, as I promised in the last issue, deals only with items sold this year-but before I kick off with my first "surprise" bid of 2011, a brief, follow-up note on the most spectacular, record-shattering result of last year.In the January issue, I illustrated ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Taxes 101: How to Fix a Broken Tax Return
by Caroline EvansSo you filed your income tax return, and you made a mistake. What do you do now?People who are self-employed in the antiques trade can have a lot of paperwork to sort through as they prepare their tax return. Making mistakes, forgetting an item, or finding out about ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Conroy Sentenced Again, Escapes Further Jail Time
by David HewettOn March 17 former auctioneer Tim Conroy, who pleaded guilty in March 2010 to stealing from his Onondaga County clients, escaped further jail time by making restitution of over $3000 to one of them.The 48-year-old Elbridge, New York, man received a sentence of five years' probation from state ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Alexander Gallery Moves--To Two Places
The Alexander Gallery has moved, after almost 40 years on Madison Avenue in New York City. The executive office is now located at 115 East 72nd Street near Park Avenue, and the interim exhibition space is off Madison Avenue at 34 East 68th Street.According to the firm, plans to move ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Twelve-Tune Clock Sells for $74,750
Photos courtesy Hudson Valley Auctioneers.by Lita Solis-CohenAt an estate sale at Hudson Valley Auctioneers in Beacon, New York, on Monday night, February 28, a bidding battle erupted between John Delaney Jr. of West Townsend, Massachusetts, and James Price of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, when a musical clock made by Frederick Heisely in ... (Read More)
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