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(Feature)The Wistar Bottle: A Cautionary Tale
by Lita Solis-CohenA federal grand jury in Philadelphia is hearing testimony regarding a glass wine bottle with the initials "RW" that was made at the Wistarburgh Glassworks in the mid-18th century and has been on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) for over 20 years. According to an ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Show for Greenwich, Connecticut
A new show, Antiques & Art Avant-Garde Greenwich, will launch December 14-16 at the recently renovated Eastern Greenwich Civic Center in Greenwich, Connecticut. The show is a fund-raiser for two Fairfield County organizations, the Bruce Museum and the Greenwich Historical Society. The show will be managed by Frank Gaglio.The event ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Peter Seibert Named New Executive Director of the Millicent Rogers Museum
by Lita Solis-CohenPeter Seibert has been named the new executive director of the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos, New Mexico. The museum focuses on the Native American, Hispanic, and artistic traditions of northern New Mexico."I was blown away by the incredible collections that were assembled by Millicent Rogers and her ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Whimsical Carnival Glass Vase Brings $50,000
Jim Wroda Auction Service, Millersburg, Ohio
by Nick Sabo
Photos by Sean Hoxworth
A giant rosebowl in green sold for $32,000. It is prized for its outstanding green color and blue iridescence.
This Hobstar and Feather vase was a whimsy made from a giant green rosebowl. The only such whimsy known ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Decorative Arts with a Dose of History
Top lot of the sale was the Shenandoah Valley bookcase on bureau. It sold for $93,600 to a private collector, edging out a southern museum, which had pursued the lot for its permanent collection. Sporting an old untouched surface, the case piece was attributed to the Frye-Martin cabinetmaking school ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Good Day to Buy
Two bidders on the phones and two bidders in the salesroom vied for this 33" x 40" oil on tin View's of the Buildings & Surroundings of the Berks County Almshouse by Charles C. Hofmann (German-American, 1821-1882). Dated June 6th, 1879, the central bird's-eye view is surrounded by six vignettes ... (Read More)
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(Show)Weston Perseveres with Aplomb
Joy Ruskin Hanes and Lee Hanes of Hanes & Ruskin Antiques, Old Lyme, Connecticut, called this the Rolls-Royce of baby carriages. Made in Gardner, Massachusetts, by the Heywood family of manufacturers and dating from the 1860’s-90’s, it was priced at $475.
Offered by Robert Perry Antiques, Orchard Park, New ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Earthenware Kitten Roars at Evans Sale
This molded and decorated earthenware cat figure is small (5" x 2¼" x 3½"), but it set the tone for the Evans sale. The figure has a solid body and a lead and manganese glaze over a yellow slip wash. The seated cat with its tail wrapped over its haunches ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Annual Maine Antiques Festival
This wonderful document box in grain-decorated red, brown, and ocher wavy comb pattern, with a red-painted interior, was $395 from Roger and Elizabeth Ayscough of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.A dramatic nautical oil on canvas by James Hamilton (Irish-American, 1819-1878), After the Gale, was $14,500 with Day's Antiques, Brunswick, Maine. Hamilton painted ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Pickers Market
Alan R. Pereske Antiques, Lake Placid, New York, had this double-sided "White Birches" camp sign, made from birch bark, for $1095.Doris Marks of Doris Marks Antiques, New Hampshire, is shown with some hand-hooked mittens she said were made in Maine or the Maritimes, probably in the late 1880's or a ... (Read More)
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