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(Auction)N.C. Wyeth Illustration Tops Paintings and Prints Auction
And They Did Their Trading from the Top of Battlemented Walls, a 38" x 26" signed oil on canvas, was one of four illustrations by Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945) that accompanied a story by Arthur E. McFarland, "An Antiente Greate Companie," published in the November 11, 1905, issue of the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antique Glass: Color Makes the Difference
About 30 collectors of Millersburg glass were among the bidders to show up for the sale. Disappointed though they were about the color of the Cosmos pattern bowl, devotees stayed to buy, bidding on the 80 pieces that ranged from common and selling in the low hundreds up to the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)2011 Peabody Essex Museum Antiques Show Canceled
The Peabody Essex Museum antiques show will not be held in 2011.A letter sent to exhibitors in early March by executive director and CEO Dan L. Monroe reads: "The Peabody Essex Museum's Antiques Show has been a major part of Thanksgiving weekend for the last 38 years. Several of the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Grogan Sells Russian Book for $83,375
The book with its silk embroidered dust jacket folded back. Grogan cataloged it only as "Russian Book on Byzantine Art; in Russian; N. Kohaakoba, bears date on title page 1892; limited edition numbered 175 out of 200 copies; white cover with black and gold decoration, 141/2"." Bidders found it anyway. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Marine Paintings and Decorative Arts
Robert Salmon (1775-1845), Drying Sails in Boston Harbor, 1831, oil on canvas, 161/2" x 241/4", signed lower right and inscribed on the reverse. Was this top lot at $458,000 a sign of greater sales to come? If so, we can thank Alan Granby of Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, for leading the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Million-Dollar-Plus Painting Forfeited
Leda ed il Cigno (Leda and the Swan), oil on copper, 16 7/8" x 113/4".Leda ed il Cigno (Leda and the Swan), an oil on copper by Italian Renaissance painter Lelio Orsi (1511-1587), was ordered forfeited to the United States government as property brought into the U.S. in violation of ... (Read More)
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(Show)An "Off" Year at the Peabody Essex Museum
W.M. Schwind Jr. of Yarmouth, Maine, posed with this 1780-1800 Maine country Chippendale 571/4" tall six-drawer chest in birch with traces of old red finish and its original brasses. Descended in the Nathan Weston family, the chest was $7500.Stephen Score posed with this 1920-30 New England hooked rug depicting a ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law & Ethics: Problems with Property
Auction Law and Ethicsby Steve ProffittAn auctioneer sells property of some type at auction. That is obvious. What is not so apparent are all the particulars involved with the property and relevant to its sale. This is one of the aspects of auctioneering that makes it a lot more difficult ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Karen and Mark Wheaton, Maria's Pond Antiques, Mariaville, New York
Karen and Mark Wheaton at home.Store counter of unusually small size (32" high x 41" wide x 16" deep), in old white paint, with both the edge of the top and of the open shelf in the back grain-painted,$725.Vibrant multicolored hooked rug with the initials "AW," $595.Black-and-white carved horse with ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)It Takes a Village
The Young Collectorby Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondShortly after Hollie's labor ended, Andrew began one of his own, one that proved far more protracted than any childbirth. Approached late last spring by the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio in Lancaster with an opportunity to serve as a guest curator of ... (Read More)
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