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From left are Tammy Gebhart, Jeff Burk, and Donna Burk. Jeff and Tammy are Donna's children and help her run the Greater York Antiques Show. Behind them is a painted corner cupboard in the booth of Kelly Kinzle. It sold on Saturday.James Kilvington of Dover, Delaware, put together an impressive ... (Read More)
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Childe Hassam (1859-1935), Paris, Winter Day, signed and dated 1887 lower right, oil on canvas, 173/4" x 32", $2,322,500 (est. $1.5/2.5 million). In May 2008 at Sotheby's, it sold for $3,961,000 (est. $2.5/3.5 million). Sotheby's photo.Christie's catalog cover lot, Sketching by the Sea by Milton Avery (1885-1965), signed and dated ... (Read More)
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Andrew Wyeth graphite and charcoal drawing, $155,250.A pair of 18th-century Claudius du Paquier Viennese vases, $258,750 for the pair.Hochst faience baluster covered vases, $138,000. Thomaston Place photo.Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maineby Mark SiscoSubtract the four top lots that totaled over three quarters of a million dollars at Thomaston Place ... (Read More)
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Photo by Alan Lehman. Courtesy Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, Virginia."Old Jake" is home. The 72" high x 62" wide molded copper weathervane of a fireman, covered in silver-gray paint, went on display at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley in Winchester, Virginia, in early July.The weathervane was estimated ... (Read More)
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The highest-priced lot from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation consignment was this Yves Saint Laurent couture leather and fox coat. It had a wide black leather belt and front and back fox panels. The hood had a full fox mask and ears lined in black silk. It had an Yves ... (Read More)
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It's a sour story. In U.S. District Court in San Francisco, a museum/store is under legal attack by the manufacturer of the very item the museum celebrates, an iconic collectible.Food giant PEZ Candy claims the Burlingame Museum of PEZ Memorabilia is in violation of California trademark law, partly because the ... (Read More)
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One really does see everything at a Hindman auction. The European mounted Cape buffalo skull with horns intact, 35" wide, sold for $244.A pair of George III painted and gilt torcheres, 35" high, brought $13,420. Hindman photo.The catalog cover lot, an Italian micromosaic table top with a C. Roccheggiani paper ... (Read More)
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The preview party at the Brandywine River Museum Antiques Show is one of the most festive of the season. Good food, gorgeous weather, and a charming setting in the courtyard is where it begins, but it continues inside the museum with more food, music, and three floors with dealers' stands.Lee ... (Read More)
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First Lady Michelle Obama cut the ribbon inaugurating the new American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 19. Dignitaries from left: Michael R. Bloomberg, mayor of New York City; Emily K. Rafferty, president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Kirsten Gillibrand, senator, state of New York; Michelle ... (Read More)
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Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshireby David HewettPhotos courtesy Northeast AuctionsWill the real rarity stand up, please? Why did both of these porcelain figures bring such heated competition and high prices, and what makes one worth nearly twice the price of the other? The figure of a seated harlequin with a ... (Read More)
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