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(Fragment)Turned Southern Chairs
Circa 1790 lamp-black and oil painted Warren County armchair with original split oak seat. Pinned with wooden dowel on top splat.East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, announces an upcoming exhibition of seating furniture from North Carolina and Virginia, "Have a Seat": Early Turned Chairs of the Tar-Roanoke Basin. Twenty-five ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Richard and Joane Smith Sale
The Berks County (Pennsylvania) schrank, inscribed "17 Philip Detuk 75," has a blue and red cornice with dentil and diamond molding and green-sponged molding above a red- and yellow-sponged frieze with ivory astragal for the name and date. It has raised panel doors and sides with sponged panel fields framed ... (Read More)
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(Show)USArtists 2010
Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) painted this 533/4" x 403/4" oil on canvas Portrait of a Young Girl and Her Dog in England in 1776-$275,000 from Tillou Gallery. That's Peter Tillou on the left and his son, Jeffrey, on the right. "We formed a new company to sell paintings at USArtists. We ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: Last year, for lack of anything on which to hang it, I had to abandon my usual practice of kicking off this issue with something on the Christmas theme and a seasonal greeting. Last year a copy of Dickens' immortal tale, A Christmas Carol, came too ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector's Guide to Last-Minute Gifts
The Young Collectorby Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondWe've been watching our annual round of holiday specials including How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the original cartoon, not that ghastly thing with Jim Carrey), and we've decided that there is a great deal of symbolism in that scene where the Grinch's little ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Instant Ancestors: The Market for Portraits
Signed and dated 17th-century panel painting by Hendrick Berckman. Photo courtesy Lawrence Steigrad.Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A., Portrait of Mary, Countess of Wilton, oil on canvas, 57" x 45". Estimated at GBP400,000/600,000, it will be offered at Christie's in London on December 7. Christie's Images Ltd. 2010.by Daniel GrantMost homes are ... (Read More)
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(Show)Western Reserve Academy Antiques Festival
Multiple booths, buyers, and even a bicyclist crowd just one of the many venues filled with dealers at the 29th annual Western Reserve Academy Antiques Festival, held on the campus of Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio.Debbie Schlichter of Mustard House Antiques, Greenfield, Ohio, holds a massive wooden trencher whose ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Walker Homestead Named to 1000 Great Places List
The Walker Homestead has been named to the 1000 Great Places list by the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism out of over 12,000 nominations.The Walker Homestead is a 1698 colonial saltbox on 30 acres in central Massachusetts and most likely the oldest standing house in Brookfield. The property is ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Whistler Print Soars
Nocturne, an etching and drypoint printed in black on Japan paper, 1879-80, 8" x 113/4", second state (of five), signed with the butterfly and inscribed "imp" in pencil lower left, inscribed "Paris Memorial Ex, finest known" in pencil on the reverse, $282,000 (est. $80,000/120,000).A Swann Galleries auction on October 27 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Mandated Changes in Appraiser Qualifications on the Horizon
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