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(Auction)American Furniture Auction in Texas
The Philadelphia walnut high chest of drawers from the Lippincott/ Smith family of Salem, New Jersey, sold for $53,775 (est. $5000/10,000) to a dealer on the phone.The cherry sugar chest, circa 1800, topped its high estimate at $2987.50.Dallas Auction Gallery, Dallas, Texasby Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy Dallas Auction GalleryWhen Dallas Auction ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Marine Paintings and Decorative Arts
The first lot of the day did well. A commemorative life ring for the America’s Cup defender Enterprise, 1930, with an unsigned portrait of Enterprise in the center hole, inscribed to both designer W. Starling Burgess and Captain Harold S. Vanderbilt, and with a New York Yacht Club burgee, sold ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Winter Antiques Show, 2010
Patrick Bell and Edwin Hild of Olde Hope Antiques, Solebury, Pennsylvania, asked $95,000 for the white, black, and gold painted fireboard (on the wall at left) from a house in Long Island, New York. The painted chest below is from Kentucky, 1820-40, 30¼" x 57½" x 20", and $110,000; it ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: A coloured ink drawing of Sissinghurst Castle in 1761, seen at a time when it was used to house French prisoners of war. Today, all that remains of this once great house are the tall Elizabethan towers, the long building in the foreground, part of which ... (Read More)
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