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(Auction)Famed Polaroid Photo Collection Takes in Record $12.4 Million
Andy Warhol wonders never cease. His Self-Portrait (Eyes Closed), a 1979 Polaroid Polacolor print, in a civilized 24" x 201/2" format, was estimated modestly at $10,000/15,000, but the bidding never stopped until it tipped the scales at an astonishing $254,500.Sotheby's, New York Cityby Dorothy S. GelattPhotos courtesy Sotheby'sLet's hear it ... (Read More)
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(Show)Pickers Market Draws Crowds for First Looks
Baker & Co. Antiques, Soquel, California, arranged an overflowing booth full of country accessories that looked right at home in New Hampshire. Among this array of cloth dolls and animals are some of the sought-after dolls from the Amish. The price range of the dolls was $495 to $1895.In a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Northeast's Annual Sale Gets $2.753 Million in Manchester
A very clean Boston Queen Anne walnut highboy, 691/2" high x 39" wide, had an Israel Sack provenance and no problems. It sold at Christie's on October 5, 2000, as lot 75 where it brought $204,000. Here, ten years later, it sold at the top end of its $75,000/150,000 estimate ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Johnson Clockmakers of Sanbornton: Highly Regarded, Little Known
Figure 1A. Patent timepiece, Johnson Brothers, Sanbornton, New Hampshire, circa 1875. Courtesy Tom and Diane Bartlow, California.Figure 1B. Eight-day bronze and brass movement.Figure 1C. Rear view of the movement. Note the two "dog-ear" attachments on the rear plate.Figure 1D. Reverse-painted tablet "Constitution's Escape From a British Squadron."Figure 2A. Photo of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Jane Stickle Quilt on Display
The quilt that inspires quilters all over the world will be on its yearly display at the Bennington Museum in Bennington, Vermont, until October 14. Brought to the museum 60 years ago, the Jane Stickle quilt is shown only for a short time each year because of the fragility of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Farnham Nautical Collection Auction
A 64" x 42" blue-back chart of "Vineyard Sound & Nantucket Shoals," surveyed by George Eldridge and published by "S. Thaxter & Son," sold for $2200. Samuel Thaxter founded the marine instrument supply company in 1792, and the Boston firm remained in business until 1919.Chart of the "Gulf and River ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Auctioneers Request Immunity
by Elizabeth DinanAttorney Harry Starbranch (left) and auctioneer Stephen Bennett in Portsmouth District Court on August 3.Two New Hampshire auctioneers, accused of rigging the bidding for the sale of an S.F.M. Badger nautical painting in order to collect a commission, have asked a judge to allow them to appear as ... (Read More)
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(Show)Americana Celebration
Greg Hamilton of Stone Block Antiques, Vergennes, Vermont, offered this Northwest Coast gathering basket for $1500. Hamilton, who said he found the basket in an Addison, Vermont, barn, also displayed primitive wood boxes, sterling bowls, and candelabra. He sold a schoolmaster's desk to another dealer the first morning of the ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Korean Painting Tops American Primitive
Park Soo-Keun mixed media painting, $460,000.Oil on canvas portrait by J.B. Gregory, $46,000.Frank Shapleigh oil on canvas, $31,625.John Mcinnis Auctioneers, Ogunquit, Maineby Mark SiscoTwo paintings from polar opposites of the artistic spectrum provided the major sparks at John McInnis's two-day auction in Ogunquit, Maine, on July 16 and 17. One ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Sale Exhibits Irregular Pulse
The auction's top lot was the portrait of the ship Rappahannock, a 311/2" x 42" unsigned oil on wood panel that sold for $35,550 (est. $2500/3500).This was the best seller among the dozens of vanes. The 19th-century flattened full-bodied molded copper ram with weathered gilt surface and its original horns ... (Read More)
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