(Auction)
General Dwight D. Eisenhowers uniform Ike jacket, 38 regular, custom tailored by Clipper Craft Clothes as indicated by a label on the interior breast pocket with the typed identification Gen. D. Eisenhowerand the date 3/45. The jacket has a patch for SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force) upper left, shoulder ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)
by Jeanne SchintoBirds in Wood and Paint: American Miniature Bird Carvings and Their Carvers, 1900-1970by Joseph H. EllisUniversity Press of New England, 2009, 184 pages, hardbound, $60 plus S/H from University Press of New England, Order Department, 1 Court Street, Lebanon, NH 03766 or (800) 421-1561 or from the Web ... (Read More)
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(Show)
We photographed the 38¾" wide bowfront tambour desk before the show opened when there was no price on it. By the time we got back, the first customers had entered, and it had sold. Martin J. Ferrick Antiques, Lincolnville, Maine, was the exhibitor. Fellow exhibitors said that Ferrick had a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
This 17" x 25" oil on board by Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) brought the top price of the sale, $235,750, from a New York City gallery on the phone, bidding against at least seven other phone bidders. The lot also included the first edition of the book We, the People ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)
by Daniel GrantMuseums are full of stuff, and they are always trying to get more. Sometimes they buy objects for their collections (from dealers, auction houses, and collectors), and more often they receive things as donations.There is, however, a whole realm of other ways of acquiring additional items. One way ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Navajo Horse Race by Frank Tenney Johnson (1874-1939), signed and dated 1927, oil on canvas, 26½" x 32½", minor craquelure, light surface soiling and slight yellowing of varnish, $196,250.Smith & Wesson Model 3 Russian second model revolver, mid-19th century, .44 caliber, 7" barrel, with floral engraving, ivory grips with relief-carved ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondForgive us. We're often not sure where we are, or, at least, not sure of where we've been. One of the hazards of so much business travel is that we're constantly trying to remember with whom we had a particular conversation and where we were ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)
Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, former director of the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich, has been appointed director of the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, Washington. The Frye was established in the 1950's as a private foundation and museum. Its founding collection focuses on late 19th- and early 20th-century European art with ... (Read More)
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Show promoters Melrose & Duddy have announced plans for a new show to be held in Charlottesville, Virginia. Antiques in Charlottesville will be held January 22-24, 2010, at the University Center Holiday Inn in Charlottesville."We are confident our brand of show is a great fit for the Charlottesville market," said ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
An 8½" x 7" bound book of 22 Native American pictographs in pencil, colored pencil, and ink sold to a phone bidder for $34,365. Doug Deihl said a collector bought it and added that it may end up in a museum someday. The images were mostly of mounted Brule Lakota ... (Read More)
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