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(Auction)Harnett's Golden Horseshoe Brings Good Luck
The Golden Horseshoe by William M. Harnett (1848-1892) was the sale's star lot, selling to a private collector on the phone for $552,000 (est. $300,000/500,000). Dated 1886, the 16" x 14" oil on canvas has been widely exhibited and published.Above: a 423/4" x 561/2" untitled oil on canvas by RolphScarlett ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Forums and Texting
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Let's Talk
Auction Law and Ethicsby Steve Proffitt"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..."Two hundred thirty-four years after Thomas Jefferson turned this phrase into the Declaration of Independence, these words ring with eloquence still. But while "all men" may be "created equal" within the flourish of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Consignors Lose in the J.C. Devine Bankruptcy
by David Hewett"We looked. There was nothing of value there," said Assistant Attorney General David A. Rienzo of the New Hampshire attorney general's office in mid-December 2010. With that statement, any hopes that consignors to a March 2010 J.C. Devine, Inc. auction would recover the money due them went out ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The J. Harlan Miller Estate Sale
A rare and very good condition four-color rainbow spatter loop pattern bulbous-form cream pitcher with yellow, blue, red, and green alternating bands, 31/2" high, sold to dealer John D. Querry for $17,600.This three-color red and blue Drape pattern spatter handleless cup and saucer with green dots is a rare pattern ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Fitz Henry Lane Catalogue Raisonne
The Cape Ann Museum has initiated the Fitz Henry Lane Catalogue Raisonne project. The museum, located in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Lane's birthplace and home for most of his life, has the largest collection of the artist's paintings, drawings, and related material. The catalogue raisonne project and the associated scholarship is central ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques & Art at the Armory
Milord Antiques, Montreal, Canada, asked $15,500 for the Leleu table with two 18" leaves. It is 49" in diameter without the leaves and 85" wide with the two leaves. The chairs by Robsjohn-Gibbings for Widdicomb, 1950, were $6500 for the four. The Bugatti desk, chairs, and table, a suite of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Sale at Doyle's
New York City dealer W. Graham Arader bidding from the back of the room paid $80,500 (est. $15,000/25,000) for Robert Havell Jr.'s Death of a Warrior: White Headed Eagle, Canvas Back Duck & Young, signed and dated 1871, numbered 78, titled in ink on the reverse, and faintly inscribed in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Failures Beget Success at Printed and Manuscript Americana Sale
The sale's top lot, an 1836 manuscriptpetition from the Cherokees pleading to be spared from relocation and a forced march along the Trail of Tears, sold for $78,000 (est. $30,000/ 40,000). It came from a private collector who'd had it about 30 years, said Rick Stattler.A South Carolina collector paid ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Antiques Auction in New York
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," 241/2" 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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