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(Feature)Collecting 50 Years Ago
Arrow-back plank-seat chairs. Price in 1957: $10 for two. The going price in shops in 1957 was usually about $10 each.Queen Anne chair bought from a doorstep.Cast-iron clock. Price in 1957: $3.50. In 2010 it still works and bongs the hours.by Dave KrashesCollecting antiques 50 years ago was not like ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Historic Firearms and Early Militaria
Henry Bowers's engraved New York map powder horn with some highlights in red, 16" long, 2" crack at the bottom, very light scratches, $23,000.Pattern 1872 enlisted cavalry dress helmet, black wool body, brass planchet, plume holder with yellow horsehair plume, original white braided cords, wool surfaces heavily worn, $10,925.First Model ... (Read More)
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(Show)Spring Show Is Well Established but Lacked Sales
This period ladder-back side chair was a low $85 from Stevens, Pennsylvania, textile dealer Wendy Christie. The folding tub stand was $125, and the lard tin underneath, $65. The yarn balls were $10 each, and the "tobacco hands" were $25 each. They are "organic relics," remarked Christie, in reference to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Former Fruitlands Museum Executive Sentenced to Prison for Embezzling $1.3 Million
by Jeanne SchintoOn June 28, Peggy Kempton, the one-time deputy executive director and chief financial officer of the Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, Massachusetts, was sentenced to state prison and ordered to pay restitution after pleading guilty to stealing $1.3 million from her former employer. Worcester Superior Court Judge Richard T. ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Book Review: Art in Clay: Masterworks of North Carolina Earthenware
A Book Reviewby Lita Solis-CohenCeramics in America 2009Edited by Robert Hunter and Luke BeckerditeThe Chipstone Foundation, distributed by University Press of New England, 2009, 232 pages, hardbound, $65 plus S/H from University Press of New England, (800) 421-1561 or (www.upne.com).Ceramics in America 2009, like the 2007 Ceramics in America journal ... (Read More)
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(Show)Attendance Was Up, and Furniture Sold
Kay G. Previte Antiques, Aurora, Ohio, offered this 1790-1810 one-drawer table in its original black tar-paint finish for $650. With Hepplewhite legs, a scalloped apron, and dovetailed drawer construction, it was held together with wood pins. The scallopedged hand-painted tole tray with a central motif of a fountain and flowers ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Skinner Sells Unprecedented Horological Tool Collection
Skinner, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoPhotos courtesy SkinnerAfter the tools and books, a section of clocks from various consignors went up, including some from the Crom estate. The top lot of the day, a circa 1815 nine-month duration regulator by Jean Joseph Lepaute (1768-1846), clockmaker to Napoleon I, was Crom's. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New President of AAWR
The Artists Archives of the Western Reserve has appointed Herbert Ascherman Jr. as its president. Ascherman is a fourth-generation Clevelander and the city's most prominent portrait photographer. A highly regarded artist, lecturer, writer, and photo-historian who has published and exhibited internationally, he brings more than 35 years of business acumen ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: This time of year, as has always been the case, sees my files of "Letter from London" selections-the certainties, probables, and possible-grow ever larger, and in writing this column at the end of June, I find myself still wanting to include material from sales held in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Lesson from Grogan & Company: Start Low, Aim High
The sale's top lot, Study of a Woman by Adolf von Menzel (1815-1905), sold on the phone for $32,200 (est. $3000/5000). The 81/4" x 51/2" pencil and charcoal on paper was initialed and dated "92."The Little Love God by Charles E. Mills (1856-1956) made $7475. This 60" x 48" oil ... (Read More)
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