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(Auction)Prior Tops Auction
The William Matthew Prior oil on board portrait sold for $10,350.Shelf clock by John Taber of Saco, Maine, $8625.Cyr Auction Company, Gray, Maineby Mark SiscoOn November 12, 2009, Cyr Auction Company held a solid Americana sale in Gray, Maine, anchored by a rare Maine-made shelf clock, a good Prior primitive ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: The Nicholas Hilliard miniature portraits of Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and the one real love of her life, which sold for $120,015 at Bonhams.Elizabeth and Leicester: An Unrequited Love Story?One of the three great questions of Europe, the King of France once ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Folk Art Reaches Maturity
Outdoor Art Show by Vestie Davis. Not exactly how Slotin started. Slotin’s first sale was in the basement of the Barbara Archer Gallery in Atlanta. This work was one of two by Vestie Davis offered, and it tripled expectations at $13,800.Perhaps the most unusual item in this sale was this ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Main Line Antiques Show
Paul Vandekar offered this Chinese export porcelain hunt bowl for $50,000. He said he gave up his gallery and does 12 shows a year and has had one good show after another.The Schwinds of Yarmouth, Maine, sold some jewelry at the preview.Walter Mullen of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, asked $6500 for ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New England Motel Upgrades Tents for Brimfield
New England Motel & Antiques Market in Brimfield, Massachusetts, is preparing for the upcoming antiquing season with an upgrade."Our Pavilion sites continue to be very popular," wrote Marie Doldoorian of New England Motel. "As a result we have a demand for the Pavilion sites and a wait list. Dealers in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Mikan Card Sold for $218,550
$218,550.On behalf of an anonymous client, SCP Auctions, Laguna Niguel, California, purchased what some call the most important and valuable basketball card known to exist: a 1948 Bowman George Mikan rookie card graded Gem Mint 10 by PSA (Professional Sports Authenticator).The card sold for $218,550 in an on-line auction conducted ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Firearms and Accoutrements
Inlaid wheel-lock rifle, European, 16th or 17th century, wrought-iron hardware and 33¼" long tapered and flared octagonal barrel, 26 bone inlays with scrimshaw detail and a sliding bone patch box, 45" long, key missing, pieced restorations, old repairs to splits in inlay, $11,163.Two inlaid wheellock pistols, European, 16th or 17th ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Garth's Breaks Record for Arthur Meltzer Painting
On January 30 Garth's Auctions, Delaware, Ohio, sold The Robe of Winter, a 42" x 46" oil on canvas landscape by Pennsylvania artist Arthur Meltzer, for $156,875 (includes buyer's premium) to Valerie and Kurt Malmberg of Greshville Antiques and Fine Art, Boyertown, Pennsylvania. According to the auction house, it's a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Collectors Go after Bargains
Summer Landscape by E. Charlton Fortune (1885-1969), 1914, 22¼" x 26", sold for $278,000 (est. $150,000/250,000) to a private collector from Northern California. It had been deaccessioned from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Paintings specialist Scot Levitt reminded us that a Fortune painting had sold at Bonhams & ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bittel to Manage Delaware Show
Diana Bittel is the new manager of the Delaware Antiques Show. Bittel manages the Newport Antiques Shows, the new Wayside Inn Antiques Show opening on May 14 to benefit the historic inn, and is the liason member of the Antiques Council which manages the Nantucket Historical Association Antiques Show. She ... (Read More)
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