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(Auction)Rookwood Holiday Sale 2010
Rookwood Vellum glaze scenic plaque by E.T. Hurley, showing a lake with mountains and trees, 1942, 11½" x 8½" plus frame, no crazing, a few unobtrusive burst glaze bubbles, factory chip to a rear edge, $12,075.The top lot of the sale was a Rookwood Black Iris glaze vase by Kitaro ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Blackie and Bulfinch
A beat-up but very salvageable painting of the ship John Harvey sold for $5500.Another oil painting representing the John Harvey, this one on a small document box with one of Captain H.H. Lovell's letters home shellacked to the inside of the lid, sold for $539.The signed Bernard Langlais wooden sheep ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Museums in 2010
by Daniel GrantIf 2008 and 2009 were years filled with anxiety and cutbacks (of staff, salaries, hours, programming) within the museum field, then 2010 was a year in which institutions worried about some gaping holes in the tax code. The lack of an estate tax in 2010 and the repeal ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Freeman's Opens a Boston Office
Kelly Wright. Photo courtesy Freeman's.by Jeanne SchintoFreeman's, the Philadelphia-based auction house, has opened a Boston office and will celebrate its launch with an invitation-only event at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on April 21.The office at 20 School Street in Old City Hall is under the direction of Kelly ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Museum Returns Costa Rican Antiques
by Betty FloodThe Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York, will give the National Museum of Costa Rica 983 ceramic vessels and figurines that had been donated by Minor Cooper Keith (1848-1929).Keith was born in Brooklyn and later became vice president of the United Fruit Company. He worked 30 years on ... (Read More)
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