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(Feature)Collecting 50 Years Ago
Arrow-back plank-seat chairs. Price in 1957: $10 for two. The going price in shops in 1957 was usually about $10 each.Queen Anne chair bought from a doorstep.Cast-iron clock. Price in 1957: $3.50. In 2010 it still works and bongs the hours.by Dave KrashesCollecting antiques 50 years ago was not like ... (Read More)
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(Show)Spring Show Is Well Established but Lacked Sales
This period ladder-back side chair was a low $85 from Stevens, Pennsylvania, textile dealer Wendy Christie. The folding tub stand was $125, and the lard tin underneath, $65. The yarn balls were $10 each, and the “tobacco hands” were $25 each. They are “organic relics,” remarked Christie, in reference to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Historic Firearms and Early Militaria
Henry Bowers’s engraved New York map powder horn with some highlights in red, 16" long, 2" crack at the bottom, very light scratches, $23,000.Pattern 1872 enlisted cavalry dress helmet, black wool body, brass planchet, plume holder with yellow horsehair plume, original white braided cords, wool surfaces heavily worn, $10,925.First Model ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Former Fruitlands Museum Executive Sentenced to Prison for Embezzling $1.3 Million
by Jeanne SchintoOn June 28, Peggy Kempton, the one-time deputy executive director and chief financial officer of the Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, Massachusetts, was sentenced to state prison and ordered to pay restitution after pleading guilty to stealing $1.3 million from her former employer. Worcester Superior Court Judge Richard T. ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Book Review: Art in Clay: Masterworks of North Carolina Earthenware
A Book Reviewby Lita Solis-CohenCeramics in America 2009Edited by Robert Hunter and Luke BeckerditeThe Chipstone Foundation, distributed by University Press of New England, 2009, 232 pages, hardbound, $65 plus S/H from University Press of New England, (800) 421-1561 or (www.upne.com).Ceramics in America 2009, like the 2007 Ceramics in America journal ... (Read More)
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(Show)Attendance Was Up, and Furniture Sold
Kay G. Previte Antiques, Aurora, Ohio, offered this 1790-1810 one-drawer table in its original black tar-paint finish for $650. With Hepplewhite legs, a scalloped apron, and dovetailed drawer construction, it was held together with wood pins. The scallopedged hand-painted tole tray with a central motif of a fountain and flowers ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Skinner Sells Unprecedented Horological Tool Collection
Skinner, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoPhotos courtesy SkinnerAfter the tools and books, a section of clocks from various consignors went up, including some from the Crom estate. The top lot of the day, a circa 1815 nine-month duration regulator by Jean Joseph Lepaute (1768-1846), clockmaker to Napoleon I, was Crom’s. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New President of AAWR
The Artists Archives of the Western Reserve has appointed Herbert Ascherman Jr. as its president. Ascherman is a fourth-generation Clevelander and the city's most prominent portrait photographer. A highly regarded artist, lecturer, writer, and photo-historian who has published and exhibited internationally, he brings more than 35 years of business acumen ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: This time of year, as has always been the case, sees my files of "Letter from London" selections—the certainties, probables, and possible—grow ever larger, and in writing this column at the end of June, I find myself still wanting to include material from sales held in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Lesson from Grogan & Company: Start Low, Aim High
The sale’s top lot, Study of a Woman by Adolf von Menzel (1815-1905), sold on the phone for $32,200 (est. $3000/5000). The 8¼" x 5½" pencil and charcoal on paper was initialed and dated “92.”The Little Love God by Charles E. Mills (1856-1956) made $7475. This 60" x 48" oil ... (Read More)
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