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Inlaid wheel-lock rifle, European, 16th or 17th century, wrought-iron hardware and 33¼" long tapered and flared octagonal barrel, 26 bone inlays with scrimshaw detail and a sliding bone patch box, 45" long, key missing, pieced restorations, old repairs to splits in inlay, $11,163.Two inlaid wheellock pistols, European, 16th or 17th ... (Read More)
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On January 30 Garth's Auctions, Delaware, Ohio, sold The Robe of Winter, a 42" x 46" oil on canvas landscape by Pennsylvania artist Arthur Meltzer, for $156,875 (includes buyer's premium) to Valerie and Kurt Malmberg of Greshville Antiques and Fine Art, Boyertown, Pennsylvania. According to the auction house, it's a ... (Read More)
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Summer Landscape by E. Charlton Fortune (1885-1969), 1914, 22¼" x 26", sold for $278,000 (est. $150,000/250,000) to a private collector from Northern California. It had been deaccessioned from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Paintings specialist Scot Levitt reminded us that a Fortune painting had sold at Bonhams & ... (Read More)
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Diana Bittel is the new manager of the Delaware Antiques Show. Bittel manages the Newport Antiques Shows, the new Wayside Inn Antiques Show opening on May 14 to benefit the historic inn, and is the liason member of the Antiques Council which manages the Nantucket Historical Association Antiques Show. She ... (Read More)
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by Betty FloodMore transparency in the world of New York auctions will result if legislation introduced in the state legislature is passed. The proposed law would require auctioneers to provide detailed information about any items sold as well as disclosure if there is a "reserve price." Under the proposed law, ... (Read More)
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A double portrait by Ammi Phillips (1788-1865) of Theron Simpson Ludington (1850-1922) and his older sister Virginia Ludington (1846-1865) with a cat and shaggy dog, circa 1855, oil on canvas, 43" x 40", sold for $782,500 (est. $300,000/500,000) to Atlanta dealer Deanne Levison in the salesroom for a client. It ... (Read More)
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The big fish of the Farmer sale was this fish-form bitters bottle, described as light yellow-olive in color and marked W.H. Ware/Patent 18XX on its bottom. The bottle is approximately 11¾" high and when viewed along its long axis appears to slump slightly to the left. There is illegible lettering ... (Read More)
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Bill Stahl at the podium on September 26, 2008, for Sothebys sale of the Americana collection of Rear Admiral Edward P. Moore and Barbara Bingham Moore. The carved walnut compass-seat stool, Philadelphia, circa 1750, estimated at $200,000/500,000, sold for $5,234,500 (including buyers premium). Photo courtesy Sothebys.by Lita Solis-CohenOn December 3, ... (Read More)
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Circa 1900 39" wide Black Forest carved tableau of a Saint Bernard dog and pups, $30,590. Auctions Neapolitan photos.At Auctions Neapolitan's January 23 sale in Naples, Florida, a 39" wide Black Forest carved tableau of a Saint Bernard dog and her three pups sold for $30,590 (includes buyer's premium). Attributed ... (Read More)
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Leigh Keno (right) at his Friday night preview at the Regency Hotel to launch Keno Auctions.by Lita Solis-CohenOn Friday evening, January 22, Leigh Keno invited friends old and new to the Regency Hotel, five blocks down Park Avenue from the Winter Antiques Show, for a glass of champagne and a ... (Read More)
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