(Auction)
This painted and comb-decorated dry sink brought $14,375. Cyr photo.A display for Dr. David Robertss veterinary medicines sold for $5750. Cyr photo.A pair of primitive portraits by the same artist, each of the subjects seated insimilar red-upholstered chairs with just the corners visible and each in an original painted and ... (Read More)
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David Rudd and Debbie Goldwein.A very partial view of Daltons large shop.A pair of rockers from 1902-04 in original finish, $10,500 the pair, flank a circa 1907 Gustav Stickley cedar-lined blanket chest with its original surface and iron hardware, $32,000. Rudd said the pair of rockers has always been together. ... (Read More)
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by David A. Sperling(This is the third in a three-part series.)Matthew Egerton, Sr. and Jr., of New Brunswick, New Jersey, created some of the most elegant formal and country/formal furnishings for early America. They used the finest woods and matching veneers. Their cabinetwork, especially the clock cases, possessed superb form, ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)
by Steve ProffittLast month, I wrote about my experience recounting how I was requested to write a column about the buyer's premium for a group I didn't identify. I submitted an outline of points for the piece but ran into trouble when I stated that the money collected from a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
The top lot, Roses by Franz A. Bischoff (1864-1929), sold for $798,000 (est. $600,000/800,000) to a private collector from Los Angeles. The actual vase depicted in the painting (shown right) was sold as part of the lot. There were multiple bidders in both cities and many on the telephone as ... (Read More)
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Paul Roberts of Carmel, Maine, featured a strong selection of cobalt decorated stoneware. He was partial to a Norton & Fenton two-gallon jug with a stylized rabbit under the stamp for $850.Millie the Moose (our name for her) had a return engagement here at the festival, this time for $2800. ... (Read More)
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In January, Just Folk, a folk art and Outsider art gallery in Summerland, California, bought a collection of 28 works by Bill Traylor. The works had been owned by European collectors and had not been seen in the United States for more than a decade. Traylor has been among the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Betsy Bentley silk and satin sampler, $465,750. Thomaston Place photo.Jack Lorimer Gray, Out by the Bull, oil on canvas, 23½" x 37½" (sight size), $43,125. Thomaston Place photo.Careful research produced a modest profit on this painting that didnt sell at the June 26, 2009, Sisters of Mercy sale in Portland, ... (Read More)
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A glazed redware sugar bowl, signed circa 1876 by James Mackley of Thurmont, Maryland, or Winchester, Virginia, was made after he terminated his working relationship with Anthony Bacher.An unknown maker used watercolor and pen on sized cotton to create this Know-Nothing cartoon, circa 1859, probably Baltimore. It depicts the Washington ... (Read More)
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People at the ADA (Antiques Dealers' Association of America, Inc.)/Historic Deerfield show on October 10 in Deerfield, Massachusetts, were amazed (and at least a couple shed a tear or two) to see Hillsboro, New Hampshire, dealers Cheryl and Paul Scott make a surprise appearance. Most had not seen Paul since ... (Read More)
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