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(Auction)A Tool and Its Money
This Stanley No. 340 furring plane was the top money-getter at $10,350.This open screw thread micrometer is in "like-new" condition, despite the patent date of April 23, 1878. It was patented by George M. Pratt of Middletown, Connecticut, and produced by the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company of Providence, Rhode ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Variety Is the Spice of Success
Märklin (Germany) stationary traction engine steam toy, early 1920's, the crown jewel from the late Klaus Grutkza's steam toy collection, base 14½" x 26", $19,550.Hubley Popeye on motorcycle, cast iron, 1928, includes factory tag, ex-Bob Brady, 6¾" long, $19,550.Arcade parlor coach, cast iron, circa 1926, deemed the finest example known, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tall Clock Leads Rhode Island Auction
A trip to a home in Jamestown, Rhode Island, was the source of this stunning tall clock with a Goddard case and brass dial that read "Thos. Stretch Philadelphia." The clock features a classic Goddard-carved shell and measures 101" tall. It opened with a $10,000 bid and, with several phones ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"We went to Europe and well, bought a few things for the house," The Chinqua-Penn Sale
*Margaret “Betsy” Penn, as quoted in the Leland Little catalog.This is the front entrance to Chinqua-Penn as seen from the pagoda. The Penns purchased the Chinese carved stone Ming Dynasty style Spirit Road animals-the camel on the left and the reclining horse on the right-in China in 1923. The camel ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Paintings Sale Deemed "Robust"
Southern Plains Indian Warrior by Henry F. Farny (1847-1916), a 16" x 11" gouache on paper, sold for $362,500 (est. $100,000/150,000) to a dealer in Santa Fe who was on the telephone. When he heard the opening bid of $100,000, he immediately bid $200,000. Levitt said the "very rare" painting ... (Read More)
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(Show)Woodstock Antique Show Reborn
Kelly Taylor of Kelly Taylor's American Country Antiques, Davenport, Iowa, stands by a $6300 early American lounging sofa of poplar, pine, and chestnut with original surfaces and exposed base construction. Dating it to around 1810, based on the square nails used, Taylor thinks it functioned as a resting spot at ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Orientalia Still Hot
Eighteenth-century Japanese wooden Buddha, seated in the lotus position on a lotus-shaped giltwood base, $7475.There didn't seem to be one particular standout in this small collection of four miniature jade carvings, all in white or celadon nephrite jade. The largest was only about 2" long. They obliterated the $300/600 estimate, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)East Meets West on the Shores of Lake Pontchartrain
Top lot of the sale was this pair of simple, elegant Chinese huanghuali stools from the New Orleans estate of Irene S. Chandler that sold for $69,310 (est. $10,000/15,000).Distinguished by its unusual subject matter, a very large (43½" x 66¾") painting of Prisoner's Escort, A Scene from the Crimean War ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Spring Marburger Farm Antique Show
This lovely pre-Civil War pull cart is all original except for its new canvas canopy. Dick and Mary Flynn of Country House Antiques, Marshall, Michigan, brought it for their 35th trip to Marburger, saying "It's one of our best shows...plus the people are so nice!" They priced it at $1895.Mary ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Coca-Cola Soda Fountain Wows at Auction
The marble soda fountain built by the Liquid Carbonic Company for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 sold for $5,175,000 to an anonymous phone bidder. The front counter is 3'6" high x 21' long, and the back bar is 10' high overall x 19'9" long.The work involved to ... (Read More)
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