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(Auction)The Lights Went Out in Georgia at Daniel's First Southern Pottery Auction
It’s a record. This large and rare ant trap storage jar is complete with the correct lid. The well at the top would be filled with water to keep ants from getting into the contents. It would have been used to store molasses, honey, or even cane syrup. It sold ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Oley Show
Marc Witus of Gladstone, New Jersey, offered more than the contents of most antiques shops all on one stand where collectors searched for treasures.Gene and Carol Rappaport of Strasburg, Pennsylvania, offered a lot of iron. Andirons ranged in price from $500 to $3500 for a pair with faceted heads. Skimmers ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques in the Gardens
The portrait of the Boothbay-built John G. Richardson byfather-and-son artists John and Frederick Tudgay, 27" x 42", was tagged $87,500 by Running Battle Antiques, Newagen, Maine. The John G. Richardson was launched on April 5, 1855, and carried cotton from Louisiana to Cardiff, Wales, then loaded up with coal, which ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collectors' Guide to Antiques Terminology
The Young Collectorby Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondWhen Hollie was small, she decided she needed a horse and began a campaign that only a grandfather would tolerate. She wrote horse auction dates on his wall calendar, counted the money in his wallet, and read aloud livestock ads from the weekly ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Auction of Attic, Basement, and Closet Treasures
Three views of a Wallace Nutting carved mahogany slant-front desk, branded with the Nutting name, that sold for $18,400 to a bidder in the room.Carl W. Stinson, Inc., North Reading, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoPhotos courtesy StinsonAn unassuming question about the number of sales that Carl W. Stinson, Inc. organizes annually elicited ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Tacoma Auctioneer Advertises Rarities, Authorities Confiscate Them
by David HewettSometimes you can toot your own horn a little too loudly.That may be the lesson learned by Tacoma, Washington, auctioneer Alan Gorsuch. He called us a few weeks ago to see if we could do a news article about some of the items he had scheduled to offer ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: Private Parts
EditorialThe auction numbers from the first half of the year are grim. Christie's announced in late July that worldwide sales were $1.8 billion for the first six months of 2009, down 35% from the same period last year. Expensive lots were in short supply—211 works of art sold for more ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Museum Exhibition as Installation Art: The Chipstone Collection
At the entrance to the cabinet of curiosities, the document chest that John Townsend made in Newport, Rhode Island, and signed “John Town[se]nd” in pencil on the outside of the bottom board emerges from a thicket of American elm to represent the vegetable of the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Gratz Gallery to Move
The Gratz Gallery & Conservation Studio is moving to Doylestown, Pennsylvania, effective September 2. The gallery has been in New Hope, Pennsylvania, for the last ten years.An e-mail sent from the gallery reads: “Our time in New Hope has been nothing short of extraordinary. We have watched the ebb and ... (Read More)
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(Feature)High Quality, Slow Sales
A 90" square 1890 Blazing Star quilt from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, priced at $950, brought a burst of color to the booth of Axtell Antiques, Deposit, New York. This was the third year at the Litchfield show for Sandra L. Axtell and Richard S. Axtell, and they pulled out all ... (Read More)
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