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(Auction)Blunt and Hartwell Lead Foster Auction
An oil on canvas portrait of a lady in black dripping with jewelry and seated on a red couch was attributed to John Samuel Blunt and brought $20,900.A primitive oil on canvas portrait solidly attributed to George G. Hartwell (1815-1901) of a young gentleman in three-quarter pose, with several style ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Santa Fe Show: Objects of Art
This group of dolls from the collection of Pat Hatch was priced at $2700 for the group at J. Compton Gallery,Wimberly, Texas.Terry Schurmeier, who owns Cowboys and Indians Antiques on Central Avenue in Albuquerque, was asking $28,000 for the pair of ram and ewe kachina dolls made by Jimmy Koots.Jan ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Jonathan Fisher House Antique Show
A new book by CUNY professor Kevin D. Murphy, Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, Maine: Commerce, Culture, and Community on the Eastern Frontier, published by University of MassachusettsPress, was $49.95 at the Jonathan Fisher House booth.This cribbage board with a drawer for the pegs was $875 from Patricia Stauble of ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The National Museum of American Illustration Celebrates Tenth Anniversary
Newport, Rhode Islandby Lita Solis-CohenThe exhibition Norman Rockwell and his Mentor J.C. Leyendecker begins in the loggia. The ceiling panels were painted by muralist James Wall Finn of Tiffany Studios. They were restored over two summers by conservators from Winterthur and from Paris.Two Santas. Left, J.C. Leyendecker's 1918 Santa, wearing ... (Read More)
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(Show)Annual Zoar Harvest Festival Antiques Show and Sale
A field of soybeans banked the white tent that is the trademark of the Zoar Harvest Festival Antiques Show and Sale.The tent housed the majority of the dealers.Found in the booth of Deborah FisherAntiques, Lebanon, Ohio, were a two-drawer, two-door jelly cupboard in original red wash, $2800; a bulk garden ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Mythbuster
Auction Law and Ethicsby Steve ProffittThere are myths in auctions that some auctioneers don't recognize. An "auction with reserve" seems like a simple concept, but its nuances cause confusion for many. I'm reminded of that whenever I address an audience of auctioneers on the subject, as I did recently while ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Joe Lincoln Widgeon Drake Highlights Decoy Sale
A rigmate pair of mergansers with slightly turned heads by Keyes Chadwick of Oak Bluff, Martha's Vineyard, sold for $19,550 (est. $11,000/14,000). The hen had a crack on the underside, and they both had some light discoloration to their original paint.A decorative preening old squaw drake with lifted wings by ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Asian Art Strong at Chicago Auction
These handsome George II painted and parcel-gilt pedestals sold for $6710 the pair. Hindman photo.The pair of Neoclassical cast metal urns sold for $2928. Fitting for midsummer, the sale had a good amount of outdoor and garden ornamentation. Hindman photo.The Chinese oil on canvas of Hong Kong harbor, measuring almost ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Difficulties in Overseas Transactions
by Daniel GrantThe Asian art and antiques sales at Eldred's in East Dennis, Massachusetts, generally have gone quite well-with occasional exceptions. Some of the mainland Chinese buyers, who may not have read the contract when they registered to bid, or perhaps didn't understand what they read, as soon as they ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Thomas R. Longacre Antiques, Marlborough, New Hampshire
Beverly Weir-Longacre and Tom Longacre.The Marlborough, New Hampshire, cape where Tom Longacre has lived since the 1970's was built by a schoolteacher named Levi Gates who, coincidentally, came from Marlboro, Massachusetts. Lumber for the 1795 house was cut and milled on the property, and the granite foundation blocks were quarried ... (Read More)
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