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(Auction)The Moore Collection
Edward Hicks’s Peaceable Kingdom with Quakers Bearing Banners, 1829-30, a 17½" x 23¼" oil on canvas in a cherry veneer frame hand lettered by the artist, sold for $1,314,500 (est. $2/3 million) to a phone bidder, underbid by Pennsylvania dealer Kelly Kinzle in the salesroom. One of five painted between ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chests Big and Small Impress at Fall Sale
John Palm Boyer (1833-1901) of Brickerville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, made this slant-lid seed chest with porcelain drawer pulls, shaped skirt, and high arched cutout feet. The elaborately decorated surface was in very good condition. One dealer in the salesroom commented, “It is right as rain.” There was one scallop missing ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Computer Column: A Good Accounting
Computer Column #240by John P. Reid, [email protected] month is all about antiques businesses. Seldom in the past 20 years has this column discussed bookkeeping or accounting software. Setting up an accounting system is complicated. Good computer skills alone do not make a good accountant. People spend years in college or ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Washington Miniature Soars at Last Skinner American Furniture Sale of 2008
by David HewettPhotos courtesy Skinner.On November 1 and 2, Skinner sold the Herbert Nilson collection of clocks, followed by American furniture and decorative arts from several sources, at its Boston galleries. The entire 900-plus-lot sale brought just under $2.2 million.Several lots sold on one bid, and the entire sale had ... (Read More)
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(Feature)American Furniture, Folk Art, Maritime Art, and Prints
Christie's, New York Cityby Lita Solis-CohenRare Monhegan Island-style red-breasted merganser drake carved by Augustus Aaron Wilson (1864-1950) of South Portland, Maine, circa 1900, with carved crest and eyes, relief-carved wings, and a slightly turned head, 16½" long (est. $100,000/150,000). One of three knownfrom the same rig, it was purchased from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Buechler Auction
Chris Huntington, Blockhouse, Nova Scotiaby Chris BeckettBy mid-afternoon the crowd had thinned, and bargains were to be had.All prices in Canadian fundsLarry and Ruby Buechler were originally from Ontario. In Blockhouse, Nova Scotia, where they ended up, that's the sort of thing everybody knows. Their name, however, was solidly German, ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Pet Peeves of an Auction-Goer
by Steve ProffittWhere has the year gone? While my watch runs the same, each year seems to pass quicker than the one before, and this year was no exception. I'm using a reader's letter to close out 2008. An advantage of writing this column is that I regularly receive interesting ... (Read More)
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(Show)After the Crash, Exhibitors at ADA Show Expected the Worst! (But Were Pleasantly Surprised!)
Deerfield, MassachusettsAfter the Crash, Exhibitors at ADA Show Expected the Worst! (But Were Pleasantly Surprised!)by David HewettKaren DiSaia is one of the hardest workingshow managers in the country and isalways there early and leaves late. WithDeerfield wrapped up, she’ll head for ashow in Minneapolis next. DiSaia andher husband, Ralph, operate ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings and Sculpture
Sotheby's, New York Cityby Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy Sotheby'sSotheby's sale on September 24 of mid-priced American paintings and sculpture, held the day before its Americana sale, was a two-session event that dispersed 181 of the 271 lots offered for a total of $4,009,001, a 66.8% sold rate by lot and 76.5% ... (Read More)
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(Auction)N.C. Wyeth Illustration Leads September Art Auction
Skinner, Inc., Boston, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoThis 30" x 29¼" oil on canvas by N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945) sold for $225,150. The catalog listed its title as That Endless Stream across the Dubuque Ferry Was Flowing on Ahead of Me, and the Fast-Going Part of It Was Passing Me Every Hour like ... (Read More)
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