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(Auction)Snavely Eagles Soar at Sale
This George Hoff, Lancaster, Pennsylvania,30-hour movement withpewter dial in a country Chippendale softwood tall case sold for $16,500. The clock had some restoration, and the light brown- and yellow-painted decoration on the case was old but not original.The pair of Carl Snavely spread-wing eagles with finely detailed cross-hatching and feather ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Glass Museum Opens
The grand opening celebration of the New Bedford Museum of Glass (NBMOG) will be held the weekend of September 10-12. More than 1000 examples of the glassmaker's art are now housed in 50 monumental display cases at the new facility in New Bedford, Massachusetts.Collection highlights include a core-formed Eastern Mediterranean ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Watercolor Scroll Tops Auction
A Chinese watercolor scroll by Pan Tianshou (1897-1971), depicting an eagle standing on a rock, 20th century, 67" x 231/2", generated the highest bid of the auction, $203,150.A color aquatint, Bacchanale, after PabloPicasso, circa 1959, framed 251/2" x 301/2",sold for $10,755.A Steuben plum jade glass vase, created in the 1920's, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Burton Antiques Market Is Back
Dealers were set up outside and inside the track and on the infield at the June 12 Burton (Ohio) Antiques Market. The fall show will be held September 25.Phillip Ball, the business manager for Dr. W.H. Smith Antiques, Butler, Pennsylvania, shows how a patient would have been positioned when one ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Auctioneer Sentenced
Anthony Bonneau, 46, former owner of T's Family Auction in Cairo, New York, was sentenced to two and one-third to seven years in prison after Bonneau failed to pay Valerie Ducos after auctioning her art.According to Greene County District Attorney Terry Wilhelm, Ducos had commissioned Bonneau to sell some artwork ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sorger Sale at Freeman's
by Lita Solis-CohenThere is an old adage that auctions held on site bring a third more than in a salesroom. With this in mind, Freeman's in Philadelphia is doing the next best thing: holding the presale exhibition for the estate of the late Joseph Sorger in his elegant townhouse at ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Santa Comes to Town and Bags $161K
Althof, Bergmann & Co. Santa sleigh and goat team, $161,000. Julia photo.Tin equestrian toy attributed to Althof, Bergmann & Co. by Julia, $26,450.James D. Julia department head AndrewTruman predicted that this double Caillemachine with the original music would goover the top, and it did. It was retrieved from Kentucky where ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Highs and Lows, Hits and Misses at Inuit Art Auction
The catalog cover lot, Hooded Figure by John Pangnark (1920-1980) of Arviat, was his best minimalist carving among the eightin the sale. Auctioneer Duncan McLean praised its "beautiful size and strength." Estimated at $6000/9000, the 71/4" high sculpture earned $14,400 ($14,209).Polar Bear and Cub in Ice, a skin stencil print ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Spring American Paintings Auctions
Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009), Off Shore, 1967, signed lower right, tempera on masonite, 211/4" x 511/2", $6,354,500 (est. $1.2/1.8 million). The three men, one of them Wyeth's neighbor, are going clam digging on the Georges River in Cushing, Maine, which was the view from Wyeth's front lawn. A large painting, it ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Civil War Auction Hits $1.16 Million
Confederate Brigadier General Lloyd Tilghman's presentation flag, the inscribed sword he was wearing when killed at the Battle of Champion Hill in 1863, and his sword belt generated the top bid of the auction, $59,750. These artifacts had been in the possession of the direct lineal descendants of General Tilghman ... (Read More)
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