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(Auction)Record Benton at American Paintings Auction
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(Feature)Antique Ice Skates in America
Bone skates are mostly found in museums and date back 1500 to 1700 years ago.Snow skate, $100 and higher; uncommon 10", $150 to $200.Maple or beech skate with attached rounded blade, 10", $200 to $350.Skating scene showing crowds and old-time skating clothing. Skating, 1885, Boston by Henry Sandham, from a ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Autumn Americana Sale at Doyle's
This 22" x 25 7/8" oil on board by Grandma (Anna Robertson) Moses (1860-1961), Sugaring Off, 1942, sold for $28,125 (est. $5000/7000). It was the most expensive painting in the sale, but it brought less than it had at Sotheby's in December 1998, when it sold for $34,500.This set of ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Computer Column: FastTrack for Dealers
Inventory item screen for antiques dealer software from AAIN, Inc.Computer Column #254by John P. Reid, e-mail: [email protected] latest edition of Collectorpro for Antiques was reviewed last month. This month, a new edition of Antique Dealers FastTrack Inventory and Business Management Professional Software from the Antique and Art Information Network, Inc. ... (Read More)
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(Show)Barn Star Steps into Tough Territory with New Autumn Hartford Show
Port 'N Starboard Gallery, Falmouth, Maine, asked $15,000 for the eagle with an 84" wingspan that had been carved by Lloyd Hansen Thomas of Camden, Maine.Salt Box Antiques, Sugarloaf, Pennsylvania, asked $675 for this cradle in an interesting form; it had been found in Connecticut.V.L. Marcos/ Whimsy, Centerbrook, Connecticut, showed ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dealer Charged with Selling Fake Picasso
Tatiana Khan, a West Hollywood, California, antiques dealer, has been named in a federal fraud case involving the $2 million sale of a fake Pablo Picasso that she allegedly paid an artist $1000 to fabricate.FBI agents seized a $700,000 de Kooning painting from Khan that prosecutors allege was purchased with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Crocker Farm Fall Sale Full of Treats
A private collector from Florida bidding in the salesroom bought the small stoneware gemel for $24,725 (est. $15,000/25,000). The underbidder was on the phone. Made in Manhattan, or possibly New Haven, Connecticut, the piece with conjoined jugs is a true rarity of American stoneware. It has a single applied handle ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pfizer Mocks Antiques Collecting
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is being hard on the antiques business. In Canada, a 15-second television commercial that takes aim at antiques collecting recently hit the airwaves. The product? Viagra.A middle-aged man speaks to the camera, saying, "My wife and I couldn't control our antiquing-porcelain figurines, oil lamps, those tiny spoons. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: A Celtic copper-alloy comb with "armadillo" motif, A.D. 40-70. Found by a metal detectorist in a field in England, it sold for $43,825 at Bonhams.Two Roman cameos from the Bonhams antiquities sale of October 28. That of the Empress Livia sold for $159,360, and the little ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sales of Corporate Art Increasing
by Daniel GrantThe auction world claims it receives most of its consignments as a result of the three "d's"-death, debt, and divorce-but more recently it has added a new "d" of woe to its revenue stream-downsizing. A growing number of financially troubled corporations that have long collected art have been ... (Read More)
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