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Berks County, Pennsylvania, Schrank Sells for $818,500
by Lita Solis-Cohen

by Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy Pook & Pook.A colorful Berks County sponge-painted schrank in a small, desirable size (81" high x 60" wide) and in exceptionally good condition sold for $818,500 (includes buyer's premium) at Pook & Pook's auction of the collection of Richard and Joane Smith on October 30 in ... (Read More)

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Joe Lincoln Widgeon Drake Highlights Decoy Sale
by By Karl H. Pass

A rigmate pair of mergansers with slightly turned heads by Keyes Chadwick of Oak Bluff, Martha’s Vineyard, sold for $19,550 (est. $11,000/14,000). The hen had a crack on the underside, and they both had some light discoloration to their original paint.A decorative preening old squaw drake with lifted wings by ... (Read More)

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Asian Art Strong at Chicago Auction
by Danielle Arnet

These handsome George II painted and parcel-gilt pedestals sold for $6710 the pair. Hindman photo.The pair of Neoclassical cast metal urns sold for $2928. Fitting for midsummer, the sale had a good amount of outdoor and garden ornamentation. Hindman photo.The Chinese oil on canvas of Hong Kong harbor, measuring almost ... (Read More)

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Annual Zoar Harvest Festival Antiques Show and Sale
by Susan Emerson Mellish

A field of soybeans banked the white tent that is the trademark of the Zoar Harvest Festival Antiques Show and Sale.The tent housed the majority of the dealers.Found in the booth of Deborah FisherAntiques, Lebanon, Ohio, were a two-drawer, two-door jelly cupboard in original red wash, $2800; a bulk garden ... (Read More)

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Auction Law and Ethics: Mythbuster
by Steve Proffitt

Auction Law and Ethicsby Steve ProffittThere are myths in auctions that some auctioneers don't recognize. An "auction with reserve" seems like a simple concept, but its nuances cause confusion for many. I'm reminded of that whenever I address an audience of auctioneers on the subject, as I did recently while ... (Read More)

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Peter Seibert Joins Cordier Part Time
by Lita Solis-Cohen

by Lita Solis-CohenPeter Seibert, who served as president of the Heritage Center of Lancaster County Inc. from 1993 to 2008 and is currently the executive director of the National Council for History Education, has a weekend job as a consultant and catalog specialist at Cordier Antiques & Auctions in Camp ... (Read More)

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Difficulties in Overseas Transactions
by Daniel Grant

by Daniel GrantThe Asian art and antiques sales at Eldred's in East Dennis, Massachusetts, generally have gone quite well—with occasional exceptions. Some of the mainland Chinese buyers, who may not have read the contract when they registered to bid, or perhaps didn't understand what they read, as soon as they ... (Read More)

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Impressive Decoy Sale Yields Positive Results
by Karl H. Pass

This Canada goose in hissing pose by George H. Boyd (1873-1941) of Seabrook, New Hampshire, was from the Carter collection. It has a crooked neck, strongly turned head, and canvas over frame body construction. One of three known examples, it is illustrated on the cover of Jim Cullen’s recently published ... (Read More)

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Whitehawk Antique Indian Art Show
by Alice Kaufman

A circa 1910 Santo Domingo bowl was priced at $18,500 at Michael D. Higgins & Son, Tucson, Arizona.Santa Fe, New Mexicoby Alice KaufmanThe Whitehawk Antique Indian Art Show in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is always beautiful to look at, but the 32nd annual, held August 15-17, seemed to be more ... (Read More)

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In the Trade: Thomas R. Longacre Antiques, Marlborough, New Hampshire
by Frank Donegan

Beverly Weir-Longacre and Tom Longacre.The Marlborough, New Hampshire, cape where Tom Longacre has lived since the 1970’s was built by a schoolteacher named Levi Gates who, coincidentally, came from Marlboro, Massachusetts. Lumber for the 1795 house was cut and milled on the property, and the granite foundation blocks were quarried ... (Read More)
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