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Consigned by the High Museum of Art, the French silver, marble, and bronze three-piece garniture was the catalog cover lot. It sold for $134,200. Hindman photo.The letter rack marked "1030" and a "920" frame, both in the Zodiac pattern from Tiffany Studios, brought $2440. Hindman photo.Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago, Illinoisby ... (Read More)
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An Eastern Shore of Virginia one-piece corner cupboard, AccomackCounty or Northampton County, 1750-75, with a red, white, and blue painted surface, its paint restored by Ned Hipp based on a nearly identical cupboard at MESDA, retaining its early glass, 813/4" x 41" x 21", sold for $70,800 (est. $12,000/18,000), a ... (Read More)
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"The Goddard-Townsend highboy was fresh. It's always been in the family, and everybody came for it," auctioneer Joseph Kabe said of the chest he sold for $431,250 (includes buyer's premium) on April 10 in Milford, Connecticut. The buyer was Ohio and Massachusetts dealer Bill Samaha. Other bidders for the highboy ... (Read More)
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Auctioneers Stephen J. Bennett and Harold French were disciplined by the New Hampshire Board of Auctioneers on May 3.In April, both were arrested by Portsmouth, New Hampshire, police, accused of rigging the bidding of a Solon Francis Montecello Badger ship portrait in order to obtain a commission (see M.A.D., May ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Louis Comfort Tiffany cabbage-shaped ceramic vase with polychrome mottled matte glaze, incised "LCT," 81/2" x 8", restoration to underside of one foot, $50,020 (est. $19,000/24,000).Tiffany Studios table lamp with Daffodil shade over a three-socket Secessionist base, 24" x 20", base and shade stamped "Tiffany Studios New York," shade numbered 1497-18, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
A hand-colored lithograph of City of New York, published by Nathaniel Currier in 1856, 24 1/8" x 30 5/8", framed, sold for $12,500 (est. $1500/2500).Appropriately, the last lot in the sale was a woodcut of the New York Stock Exchange, signed "Davis." It sold for $8750 (est. $400/600). It was ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)
by John P. Reid, e-mail: [email protected] or catalog cover for an imaginary event being designed with free Scribus page layout software.As the number of unemployed increases in these troubled times, some of those people join the self-employed. But a new business requires resources, not the least of which is the ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondSome time ago, we talked about how we believe the "good, better, best" paradigm had run amok with "best" becoming the focus, as the paradigm seemed to be moving toward "junk, less junky, worth owning." Now we've started wondering if the whole idea of connoisseurship ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)
by Steve ProffittM.A.D.'s publisher, Sam Pennington (1929-2008), sent me a letter a couple of years ago that he had received from a reader. I came across it recently in my file and am using an edited version to address some of its points:"Dear Sam,"Steve Proffitt writes in M.A.D. about disposing ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Coca-Cola porcelain globe sign, $6875.Bruce Gamage Jr., Rockland, Maineby Mark SiscoBruce Gamage Jr. held a compact two-day midwinter auction in Rockland, Maine, on January 23 and 24. No records were set that we're aware of, but he did bring forth some interesting art from a Maine island family, some nice ... (Read More)
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