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Gail Lettick.The 1775 barn.Sawbuck table with chestnut base, original red stain, and scrub top, $3000. "It's from Howard and Priscilla Richmond's kitchen," Lettick said. The set of four bow-back Windsors, black over salmon, is $3200.An early Plymouth County, Massachusetts, six-board chest in original red paint with gouge carving on the ... (Read More)
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Cari Cucksey owns Re·Purpose, a shop in Northville, Michigan, but she is best known for her HGTV series Cash & Cari. It was her first time setting up at the show.European paintings offered by Ken Kelleher of Kelleher Fine Art, Twain Harte, California, included Le Jeu de Dames by Auguste ... (Read More)
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When the consignor acquired Howard Sykes's property and safari collection, the collection was displayed in the property's "Game House," specially designed and built to house and display the specimens collected on a 1937 safari. Remember, the giraffe is 16'3" tall. Photo courtesy Katherine van Diest.The high lot of the sale ... (Read More)
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$63,600The International Perfume Bottle Association (IPBA) recently concluded its 24th annual convention in Jacksonville, Florida, where members from 19 countries converged to share their collective interest. The keynote address was provided by award-winning perfume bottle designer Marc Rosen, author of the recently published Glamour Icons: Perfume Bottle Design.One of the ... (Read More)
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Sold for $230,510 in a Bonhams sale of May 17 was an intricately worked cloisonné enamel and partial plique à jour bowl, roughly 7½" square and 3¾" deep. The work of Ando Jubei and dating to the Meiji period (1868-1912), the bowl with its base decoration of a swimming carp ... (Read More)
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A line was evident most of the morning on opening day Saturday outside the Rauch Fieldhouse. Early buyers' time was from 8 to 10 a.m., and regular show hours ran from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.Show manager and promoter Norm Schaut is shown standing outside the fieldhouse, where he stated ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
The top lot of the sale at $2,882,500 was Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian in 20 volumes and 20 portfolios. Its intent, in Curtis's words, was to document "the old time Indian, his dress, his ceremonies, his life and manners." Between 1896 and 1930, he photographed every major ... (Read More)
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(Show)
About noon on Sunday, the show had been open for two hours, and there were still shoppers on the floor. Not bad. We've seen shows at comparable times that were empty after the first shoppers hit the floor and left. Those places looked like ghost towns. There was a decent ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
From the Buechner estate, this signed oil by Jules Joseph LeFebvre (French, 1836-1911), Diana, Chasseresse, sold for $97,750 (est. $20,000/40,000) to a European collector.The William Bradford (1823-1892) painting of a sailing vessel with icebergs was in original condition and never had been on the market before. It opened at $50,000 ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)
by Steve ProffittLife is full of negotiations.A young fellow had just gotten his driver's license. He asked his daddy, a pastor, if they could discuss his using the car. His daddy took him to his study and said, "I will make a deal with you. If you bring your grades ... (Read More)
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