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(Auction)Rockport Art Association's Biggest Auction
Aldro Hibbard (1886-1972), Winter Stream, oil on canvas, 24" x 30", $17,250, the star of this auction. Collectors are fussy concerning the Hibbard paintings for which they will pay five digits. For example, a winter logging scene with plenty of snow and in Hibbard’s style, but without a sparkling stream, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Los Angeles Antiques Show
As first-time exhibitors at this show, but specializing in antique barometers for over 40 years, Derek and Tina Rayment Antiques, Farndon, Cheshire, U.K., displayed a collection of wonderful and decorative barometers from 1780 to 1940. Prices ranged from $250 to $20,000, making a barometer affordable to either a beginner or ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Alan Green, American Jazz, Ossining, New York
Alan Green with all he needs to do a show in Europe.A “bell and hammer” game from the third quarter of the 19th century complete with cards, dice, counters, hammer, and directions in English, French, and German. It’s $500. Green said, “This is a common type game. There were many ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Fake Rose Valley Table Exposed
“Rose Valley” table as shown in Freeman’s April 19 catalog. Freeman’s photo.These genuine Rose Valley chairs sold at Freeman’s on November 19, 2005. They are signed and dated (1902) and have a provenance of descending in the family of well-known Philadelphia architect Charles Klauder (1872-1938). One chair (right) has the ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received
by M.A.D. StaffThese are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or on-line orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or mail-order house is the place to look.Modern Women: Women Artists at the Museum of Modern Art, edited ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Collecting 50 Years Ago
Arrow-back plank-seat chairs. Price in 1957: $10 for two. The going price in shops in 1957 was usually about $10 each.Queen Anne chair bought from a doorstep.Cast-iron clock. Price in 1957: $3.50. In 2010 it still works and bongs the hours.by Dave KrashesCollecting antiques 50 years ago was not like ... (Read More)
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(Show)Spring Show Is Well Established but Lacked Sales
This period ladder-back side chair was a low $85 from Stevens, Pennsylvania, textile dealer Wendy Christie. The folding tub stand was $125, and the lard tin underneath, $65. The yarn balls were $10 each, and the “tobacco hands” were $25 each. They are “organic relics,” remarked Christie, in reference to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Historic Firearms and Early Militaria
Henry Bowers’s engraved New York map powder horn with some highlights in red, 16" long, 2" crack at the bottom, very light scratches, $23,000.Pattern 1872 enlisted cavalry dress helmet, black wool body, brass planchet, plume holder with yellow horsehair plume, original white braided cords, wool surfaces heavily worn, $10,925.First Model ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Former Fruitlands Museum Executive Sentenced to Prison for Embezzling $1.3 Million
by Jeanne SchintoOn June 28, Peggy Kempton, the one-time deputy executive director and chief financial officer of the Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, Massachusetts, was sentenced to state prison and ordered to pay restitution after pleading guilty to stealing $1.3 million from her former employer. Worcester Superior Court Judge Richard T. ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Book Review: Art in Clay: Masterworks of North Carolina Earthenware
A Book Reviewby Lita Solis-CohenCeramics in America 2009Edited by Robert Hunter and Luke BeckerditeThe Chipstone Foundation, distributed by University Press of New England, 2009, 232 pages, hardbound, $65 plus S/H from University Press of New England, (800) 421-1561 or (www.upne.com).Ceramics in America 2009, like the 2007 Ceramics in America journal ... (Read More)
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