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(Auction)On-Site Antique Automobilia Auction
A 1930 Ford phaeton touring car in running condition sold for $24,200.Chevy convertible, 1940, with world's fair license plates, brown, $17,050.Hornet Sportabout AMC, beige, $82.50.Jon Lee Auction Services, Poestenkill, New Yorkby Betty FloodJon Lee Auction Services held an on-site estate auction in Poestenkill, New York, on September 12 of the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana, Round Two
This painted and comb-decorated dry sink brought $14,375. Cyr photo.A display for Dr. David Roberts's veterinary medicines sold for $5750. Cyr photo.A pair of primitive portraits by the same artist, each of the subjects seated insimilar red-upholstered chairs with just the corners visible and each in an original painted and ... (Read More)
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(Feature)A Summary of the Egerton Family and Their Furniture: What's Attributable, What's Not
by David A. Sperling(This is the third in a three-part series.)Matthew Egerton, Sr. and Jr., of New Brunswick, New Jersey, created some of the most elegant formal and country/formal furnishings for early America. They used the finest woods and matching veneers. Their cabinetwork, especially the clock cases, possessed superb form, ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Report All the Beans
by Steve ProffittLast month, I wrote about my experience recounting how I was requested to write a column about the buyer's premium for a group I didn't identify. I submitted an outline of points for the piece but ran into trouble when I stated that the money collected from a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)California and American Paintings Sale
The top lot, Roses by Franz A. Bischoff (1864-1929), sold for $798,000 (est. $600,000/800,000) to a private collector from Los Angeles. The actual vase depicted in the painting (shown right) was sold as part of the lot. There were multiple bidders in both cities and many on the telephone as ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Maine Antiques Festival: Still the Biggest and Going Strong
Paul Roberts of Carmel, Maine, featured a strong selection of cobalt decorated stoneware. He was partial to a Norton & Fenton two-gallon jug with a stylized rabbit under the stamp for $850.Millie the Moose (our name for her) had a return engagement here at the festival, this time for $2800. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)With an Artistic Eye
A glazed redware sugar bowl, signed circa 1876 by James Mackley of Thurmont, Maryland, or Winchester, Virginia, was made after he terminated his working relationship with Anthony Bacher.An unknown maker used watercolor and pen on sized cotton to create this Know-Nothing cartoon, circa 1859, probably Baltimore. It depicts the Washington ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Just Folk Offers Bill Traylor, "Unfiltered"
In January, Just Folk, a folk art and Outsider art gallery in Summerland, California, bought a collection of 28 works by Bill Traylor. The works had been owned by European collectors and had not been seen in the United States for more than a decade. Traylor has been among the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"...And a Little Child Shall Lead Them"
Betsy Bentley silk and satin sampler, $465,750. Thomaston Place photo.Jack Lorimer Gray, Out by the Bull, oil on canvas, 231/2" x 371/2" (sight size), $43,125. Thomaston Place photo.Careful research produced a modest profit on this painting that didn't sell at the June 26, 2009, Sisters of Mercy sale in Portland, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Second Day's a Charm
Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait's popular A Check-"Keep Your Distance," a 14" x 20" oil on canvas, is no lithograph, it's the original all right. It brought $381,000 from a phone bidder competing with a very determined North Carolina collector, who ran it as far as he could.The subject of presale speculation ... (Read More)
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