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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Perception Is Reality
by Steve ProffittA reader contacted me about a bad auction experience that resulted in an exchange of e-mails between us. I've edited and condensed the reader's complaint, which I'm using to make an important point.-AuctionThe reader made a long trip to view several lots in an upcoming auction. He couldn't ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Map Sells for $1.15 Million in Maine
A 13½" x 24" detailed map of the Battle of Yorktown, executed by Lieutenant Colonel Jean Baptiste Gouvion on October 29, 1781, sold at James D. Julia's auction in Fairfield, Maine, on February 5 for $1,150,000 (includes buyer's premium).
The buyer was a private collector.
The map had the original red coloring ... (Read More)
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(Show)Holiday Show Spreads a Little Cheer
Every year for this show, Beverly A. Weir-Longacre and her husband, Thomas Longacre, of Marlborough, New Hampshire, split their booth so she can devote her side to vintage Christmas items. Her booth attracted a lot of buyers who were ready to get into the holiday mood. “I have a lot ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Paintings Are Highlight of Annual Fall Estates Sale
A 30" x 24" oil on canvas American folk art portrait from the 19th century, inscribed on its back “Henrietta Josepha Myers/ AE 18 m./ J.(?) B. Gregory Artist,” sold to the trade for $184,000 (est. $30,000/50,000).Phone bidders drove this 16" x 12½" oil on panel of Venice by Rubens ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)In the Trade: Dan and Karen Olson, Newburgh, New York
Karen and Dan Olson at home with a blue New York state cupboard they bought in the 1970’s.The Olsons’ home, the Silas Gardner House, circa 1783. The shop is out back.The birch and white pine chair table with original red paint and a just under 50" scrubbed top is $3200. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Amish Quilts Exhibition
The Tailgate Antique Show and Antiques at Music Valley, to be held February 11-13 at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds, will feature an exhibition of Amish quilts from the Darwin D. Bearley collection.Bearley's collection, put together over the last 30 years, consists of over 150 quilts made by the Amish community ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Chris Jussel Resigns from Freeman's
Chris Jussel, the original host of the PBS television series Antiques Roadshow, has resigned as senior vice president of Samuel T. Freeman & Co. in Philadelphia.Jussel, former president of the National Antique & Art Dealers Association of America, helped to establish the International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show at ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings Sale at Bonham's
Paul Howard Manship (1885-1966), Dancer and Gazelles, 32½" high, signed and dated 1916 on the base and inscribed “Roman Bronze Works NY.” The bronze sculpture has a green and gray patina. It sold in the salesroom to Alice Levi Duncan, the director of sculpture at Gerald Peters Gallery, New York ... (Read More)
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(Show)Bottle Spirits Rise in Fall
The sun rose, leaves fell, and bottle spirits soared at the annual Norman Heckler bottle lollapalooza on Saturday, October 10, 2009, as 70 to 80 dealers set up in the pasture. Your reporter (in the odd sweatshirt in the foreground) searches for rare target balls and good quotes.by Ralph FinchPhotos ... (Read More)
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(Show)The San Francisco Fall Antiques Show
Berkeley, California, dealer Thomas Livingston was asking $12,500 for this American Aesthetic Movement gilt and marble-top console that had been sold in San Francisco on November 22, 1884. The initials “WF” are stenciled on the back; Livingston wondered if they stood for Wells Fargo. The top of the console is ... (Read More)
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