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(Show)"OK" Is the New "Good"
Nan Gurley, the show owner and manager, also sets up a booth with her husband, Peter Mavris. They displayed an enormous black-painted country store apothecary cupboard with 57 drawers plus four glass-covered slant-front bins for $5400.Marvin Weis of Baltimore, Maryland, showed a chorus line of dancing wooden jiggers, with Mutt ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Summer Decoy Sale
One of best decoys in the sale was this stick-up model hollow snow goose by John Tax (1900-1967) of Osakis, Minnesota. Tax geese rate among the finest standing decoys, and those in feeder position are highly revered. It had what is believed to be an old working second coat of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bonhams Adds Boston Representative
Bonhams has appointed Sarah Valelly as Boston and New England regional representative. Operating from Beacon Hill, Bonhams Boston is a liaison to the firm's resources, including specialists.Coming from the financial sector, Valelly was president of Compagnie Financiere Tradition, Buenos Aires, and later director of sales and marketing at Institutional Investors ... (Read More)
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(Feature)A Summary of the Egerton Family and Their Furniture: What's Attributable, What's Not
by David A. SperlingFigure 10. Silas Howell, New Brunswick, New Jersey, musical tall-case clock, labeled Egerton Jr., dial dated 1797. Courtesy Gary Sullivan Antiques, Inc., Sharon, Massachusetts.Figure 10a. Hood of Howell musical tall-case clock. Ornate brass capitals, small gilt rosettes in arch terminals, delicate broken arch, and use of bookend ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine and Decorative Arts Auction in Ohio
Anna Pottery pig flask, 1870-75, by Wallace and Cornwall Kirkpatrick, salt-glazed, incised and cobalt-highlighted map of Arkansas railroad, stagecoach, and riverroutes, anatomically correct, spout on pig’sback, small size at 4½" long, old chip on back leg, $12,337.50.Paint-decorated poplar blanket chest with folky decoration, likely Mid-Atlantic, 1830-40, with large flowers in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Latest Issue of "The Acorn"
The 15th volume of The Acorn, the journal of the Sandwich Glass Museum, is now available at the museum's gift shop.Contents of this issue include the following articles: "The Richlands Flint Glass Company and Its Products?" by Kenneth W. Lyon; "A Matter of Serendipity" by Leonard P. Sipiora; "Pressed Glass ... (Read More)
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(Feature)George M. Hathaway
A Maine coastal scene by Hathaway depicting a lighthouse, perhaps a view of Portland Head Light, oil on board, 6" x 10¼", brought $2300 at Eldred's in East Dennis, Massachusetts, on July 28, 2006. Eldred's photo.A Maine marshland scene by Hathaway, oil on academy board, 10" x 12", sold at ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York Begins Collection of Reregistration Fees for Sales Tax Certificates of Authority
by Betty FloodAntiques dealers and auctioneers, along with owners of other types of small businesses, are facing a $50 reregistration fee for their tax vendor number. According to Tom Bergin, spokesman for the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, the $50 fee is for sales tax collectors that ... (Read More)
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(Auction)August Sale on Nantucket
There were five phones and several serious potential buyers in the audience for this mid-19th-century whalebone carved walking stick. The scrimshanded whalebone was in the form of a clenched fist holding a serpent that wraps around. The serpent had an extended forked tongue and stone eyes, and the fist had ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Auction Company Formed in Ohio
Jo Valentine (left) and Cynthia Schillig, partners in The Antiques Auction Gallery in Sunbury, Ohio.Jo Valentine, cofounder of central Ohio's multi-dealer Valentine Antique Gallery, has established a new offshoot company in partnership with Ohio auctioneer Cynthia Schillig. Known as The Antiques Auction Gallery, the new business will base its operation ... (Read More)
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