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The top lot of the sale was a marine painting by Fitz Henry Lane (1804-1865), A Smart Blow: Ships Passing, signed and dated on the lower right F.H. Lane 1856, 24½" x 36 3/8". Lane worked in a style that would later be called Luminism for its use of pervasive ... (Read More)
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The walnut platform bed made for the Shahns by their good friend George Nakashima is signed with the name Ben Shahn. It sold for $34,160 (est. $5000/7000). "It was an unusual form and had its base," said Robert Aibel of Moderne Gallery, Philadelphia, who deals in Nakashima pieces, but its ... (Read More)
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They aren't putting up the numbers that the local heavyweights do, but Heritage Auctions, the Dallasbased auction house, has stepped into the New York City auction market, most recently with five specialty auctions in three days in early December 2010.From December 3 to 5, Heritage staged sales for fine timepieces, ... (Read More)
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Forest Oaks This English oak William and Mary chest-onframe was the high lot of the sale at $2185 (est. $2000/ 3000). The 66" x 44" x 22½" chest dates from 1740 and exhibits nailed construction. The upper case is topped with a simple cornice above a two-over-three-drawer case with fluted ... (Read More)
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The top lot of the sale was a marine painting by Fitz Henry Lane (1804-1865), A Smart Blow: Ships Passing, signed and dated on the lower right F.H. Lane 1856, 24½" x 36 3/8". Lane worked in a style that would later be called Luminism for its use of pervasive ... (Read More)
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David T. Smith of the Workshops of David T. Smith, Morrow, Ohio, is known for his museum-quality reproduction 18th- and 19th-century furniture, pottery, Windsor chairs, and kitchens, but at the fair he also had on hand this wonderful slip-decorated redware charger with a central floral design with green leaves and ... (Read More)
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Martin Webster.Two molds with carved blossoms, fruit, leaves, and vines, with some of the motifs suggesting an Asian origin, are $185 each.A large wallpapered box, covered inside with well-preserved black and white posters advertising the third annual cattle show and fair of the Farmington Valley Agricultural Society in Otis, Massachusetts, ... (Read More)
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Apaches and Sioux and Pueblos of New Mexico, two leather-bound photograph albums from Joseph Henry Sharp and John Hausers 1893 trip west, with a handwritten partial inventory, loose binding, very minor losses and fading to some images, $66,975.Apache painted rawhide playing cards in red, yellow, and blue, set of 37, ... (Read More)
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Rebecca Gratz (1781-1869) was 50 years old when she sat for Thomas Sully (1783-1872) in 1831.Joseph Gratz (1785-1857) was painted by George Peter Alexander Healy (1813-1994), who studied in Paris and was encouraged to paint portraits by Thomas Sully.by Lita Solis-CohenTwo rarely seen portraits of Rebecca Gratz and her brother ... (Read More)
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This signed Gustav Stickley Arts and Crafts V-back armchair, model #354, was built between 1904 and 1906. It is made of quartersawn oak; the finish is original, but the leather is reupholstered. Tom and Karol Streling of Strelings Antiques, Kewadin, Michigan, priced the set at $1750 for the chair and ... (Read More)
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