(Auction)
The top furniture lot and the second-highest lot of the sale was a two-piece French cabinet with scrolled and carved crown, open shelves, and two doors above. Below were one small drawer, two angled doors, and a carved skirt. It sold for $1485. The top lot of the sale at ... (Read More)
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(Show)
The pillar and scroll shelf clock from Allentown, Pennsylvania, had a Black Forest movement from Europe. The dial and tablet were original and on tin. It was priced at $12,500 from New Oxford, Pennsylvania, dealer Kelly Kinzle. The Severin Roesen still-life painting was $55,000, and the inlaid cutlery box was ... (Read More)
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(Feature)
by Jeanne Schinto"You've sold all my things. You've sold my mother's china. You sold the rugs. You sold the portraits. You've made a business out of itselling the past. What kind of a business is thatselling the past?"from "Publick House," John Cheever, The New Yorker, August 16, 1941The cover of ... (Read More)
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by Fran KramerCracker Box Palace, a farm animal haven in Alton, New York, is well underway to saving an essential piece of Shaker history.Alasa Farms, on the site of what was the Sodus Shaker community from 1826 to 1836 (the Sodus Shakers then moved 90 miles southwest to Groveland and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
At the Grand Prix by Childe Hassam (1859-1935), an 11½" x 8¼" (sight size) pastel and graphite on paper/board, brought the top price of the day, $699,000 (est. $150,000/200,000). Signed Childe/Hassam, it was inscribed given to me by A.L.A. for Victorian Room on a label from the Worth Avenue Gallery, ... (Read More)
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(Show)
Moylan-Smelkinson/The Spare Room found a way to solve the universal case crunch dilemma. Faced with showing 21 Chrysanthemum pattern plates by English maker Herculaneum, they mounted themon a wall. From about 1810, the plates were $17,000 for the lot or $850 each.Merchandise Mart seller Richard Norton brought a set of ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)
The Woolloongabba Antique Centre in Brisbane, Australia looks like something you might find anywhere in the U.S.Computer Column #260by John P. Reid, e-mail: [email protected] the past six months, this column has discussed serious stuffsoftware for dealers and antiques malls, inexpensive office software, running Windows programs for antiquers on a Macintosh ... (Read More)
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The spring meeting of the Vermont Antiques Dealers' Association was held at the South Station Restaurant in Rutland on June 7. The board accepted, with regret, the resignation of James Dunn, who has guided VADA for the past three and a half years. Dunn will remain on the antiques show ... (Read More)
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