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(Auction)Highlights of Americana from Two Estates
Once again, a powerful piece of music memorabilia was top lot at a Case auction. This time a 1964 copy of Meet the Beatles with a handwritten tribute to Dr. Jules Gordon and the signatures of all four members of the band climbed to $75,400.A. Welling LaGrone Jr. was a ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, [email protected] Merry Christmas, One and All…I looked hard for something appropriate and Christmassy with which to open this month's "Letter," but nothing presented itself, and in the end, the closest I came—and even then it occurred to me only after I had written the piece—was De Nova ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Sales of Magnificent Jewels
Circa 1925 Art Deco diamond brooch of geometric motif, mounted in platinum, centering upon a bezel-set old-European-cut diamond, with an openwork old-mine-cut and old-European-cut diamond plaque, in a burgundy leather case signed "Casa Weil, Santiago." It sold for $25,000 (est. $15,000/20,000). Christie's.The signed Tiffany & Co. circa 1930 Art Deco ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Indy Ad Show
Donna and Bruce Weir of B & D Promotions with one of their new banners touting the 2012 season of the Indy Antique Advertising Show.Tobacco pocket tins: Gold Dust, $3000; Taxi, $6000; Blue Badge, embossed, $8000, from Sandy Rosnick of Manchester, Massachusetts.McKinley cast-iron bootjack, $350, and McKinley ribbon, $75, from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Breininger Sale
Fraktur artist Johann Conrad Gilbert painted this birth certificate for Eliesabeth Kunckel, dated 1815, 8" x 13¼". The central script is flanked by two trumpeting male angels with striped coats and stylized flowers in bright yellow, red, green, and blue. Estimated at $15,000/25,000, it sold to collectors in the salesroom ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sale at New Orleans Auction Galleries
Opening the Sunday session was a collection of Mexican gold coins from the estate of Fernando Jimenez-Torres of Laredo, Texas, that brought a total of $238,790. This lot of three 50-peso pieces—approximately 112.5 grams of pure gold—sold for $6150.An exquisite seven-piece Paris porcelain tea set, with a rare paper label ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Executive Director at Hyde Hall
Dr. Jonathan Maney is the new executive director at Hyde Hall in Cooperstown, New York, a National Historic Landmark, on the National Register of Historic Places, and a New York State Historic Site. Dr. Maney brings extensive experience in event and conference planning, education outreach, program development, historic preservation, and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Copake Sells Uecker Nail Sculpture for $372,900
Sett (left) and Mike Fallon with the $372,900 Günther Uecker relief sculpture of nails.A 1964 nail sculpture, found in an estate in Tivoli, New York, led Seth Fallon of Copake Auction in Copake, New York, to travel to Germany to meet with the artist. It led ultimately to a big ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Two to Tango
by Steve ProffittThe prize at the end of an auction should be the seller's satisfaction with the auctioneer's work. Auctioneers need to focus on the process required to achieve that result, and a major component is teaming with the seller to work jointly for auction success. This effort is complicated ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fall Shenandoah Antiques Expo
Don Toth of Parkside House Antiques, Brecksville, Ohio, used this open kitchen storage rack to display some of the items from his infield booth. The dealer offered a painted tin candle lantern, $135; a paint-decorated valuables box with a lock but no key, $75; another tin candle lantern, $75; a ... (Read More)
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