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(Show)April Showers Bring Antiques Buyers
Bruce "Butch" Hanes of Dad's Follies, Gibsonville, North Carolina, holds a vintage metal Popeye mold in his left hand and a postwar plastic Popeye mold in his right. Hanes and his sister inherited the passion for antique chocolate and ice cream molds from their parents more than 40 years ago ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Bowmanville Show: Then and Now
Two stunning ruddy ducks on a pond background, inexpensive at $400, were in the booth of Adrian Tinline of Bowmanville.A model of the first all-Canadian-built steel hull passenger ship, the Manitoba, launched May 4, 1889, was offered by Steve Harris of Portobello Road Antiques, Wiarton, Ontario, for $1850.Steve Harris wanted ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Kenos Seek Buried Treasure on Fox
by Lita Solis-Cohen In the works since last summer, Buried Treasure, a new reality show starring Leigh and Leslie Keno, has been given the green light at Fox. The show is described as "an unscripted series in which the identical twin brothers Leslie and Leigh Keno of PBS Antiques Roadshow ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Schultz Auction Sells Rare Chinese Moon Flask for $1,751,500
Photos courtesy Kelly and Benjamin Schultz.by Charles Wenner On May 7, an auction held by Kelly and Benjamin Schultz in Clarence, New York, led to a climactic bidding event that resulted in the sale of an 18th-century Chinese moon flask for $1,751,500 (includes buyer's premium). The early flask has a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Herkimer Home Reopens
The Herkimer Home State Historic Site in Little Falls, New York, which had closed for the winter with no plans to reopen, has been reopened. Barbara Mielcarski, president of Friends of Herkimer Home, said, "The site is reopened. We now have two staff on board, and filling in with volunteers, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Heisey Collection Highlights Spring Sale
This Wedgwood "Florentine" dinnerware service, comprising 12 place settings and 130 pieces total, all in good condition, according to the catalog report, sold for $2200.This tiny three-masted ship model with a village diorama in the background sold for $1980. It was inside an 11" long clear glass whiskey bottle with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Majolica and Oyster Plate Auction
The top lot was this 34" high x 20½" deep Minton floor jardinière in the form of three putti with garlands crowning their heads, separated by pink shells with yellow centers supporting a large cobalt basket (shape No. 1281). With a professional repair to one foot, the rim on two ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Perkins Stepping Down as Executive Director of Bennington Museum
Stephen Perkins, executive director of the Bennington Museum in Bennington, Vermont, is stepping down at the end of June. The director of public programs, Deana Mallory, has been named interim director and will take over management of the museum upon Perkins's departure. Perkins joined the museum on June 18, 2001, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Auction Firm Pleads Guilty to Tax Charges
by Sabrina Pry and Betty Flood Pneuco, Inc., owned by well-known and popular auctioneer R. Cash Cunningham, 59, of Buffalo, New York, pled guilty to underreporting more than $164,000 in sales tax, according to New York State Department of Taxation and Finance Commissioner Thomas H. Mattox. The corporate plea to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rural Material Culture: Selections from Indiana and Borders
Among the most expressive works by Marcus Mote, a devoted Quaker, is an 1884 oil on canvas, 18" x 28", inscribed "Old Indiana Yearly Mtg. trying to count her chickens."Using wood as a canvas, Hosea Hayden expressed views on women's suffrage in the incised decorations and text of this tripod ... (Read More)
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