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Bibles, Library Dupes, and Cookbook Lead Americana Sale
by Jeanne Schinto

A number of items relating to the Arctic did well, including Joseph-Nicolas Delisle’s Nouvelles Cartes des Decouvertes de l’Amiral de Fonte, published in Paris in1753. With 60 pages and four folding maps, minus the final plate as well as (as usual) the final appendix, this early imagining of Alaska’s coast ... (Read More)

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First Lehman Bankruptcy Sale Big Success at Freeman's
by Lita Solis-Cohen

Georges Schreiber, Brooklyn Bridge, signed and dated “Schreiber 45,” 31½" x 43½", $20,000 (est. $4000/6000). Freeman’s photo.by Lita Solis-CohenPhiladelphia auctioneer Freeman's estimated that the consignment of 283 lots of framed prints, photographs, paintings, and one sculpture from the corporate art collection that once decorated Lehman Brothers offices in New York, ... (Read More)

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Behind the Facade: Moguls and Money at the Met
by Lita Solis-Cohen

A Book Reviewby Lita Solis-CohenRogues' Gallery: The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money That Made the Metropolitan Museumby Michael GrossBroadway Books, 2009, hardbound, 545 pages, $29.95This unauthorized book about the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "the most encyclopedic, universal art museum in the world," takes the reader behind the ... (Read More)

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Presentation Pieces from Old Ironsides
by Louis Arthur Norton

Block of wood, 9" x 5¼" x 4", with an imbedded medallion depicting the Constitution under sail and her significant naval victories listed in the margins. Its inscription indicates that the artifact is from the original hull of the Constitution. The stout 7¼" Paul Revere foundry copper spike is lodged ... (Read More)

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New Director at the Farnsworth
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Christopher J. Brownawell has been appointed director of the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine. He will join the museum on February 1, 2010.Currently, Brownawell is the director of the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland, a position he has held since 1993. "Chris Brownawell is a nationally recognized art ... (Read More)

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Confidence Shown at Americana Auction
by Lita Solis-Cohen

Four phone bidders competed for this exceptional and rare Philadelphia Federal satinwoodveneered mahogany games table, circa 1795. The 30" x 36¼" table has a serpentine top with line inlay, figured veneers, square tapering legs with bellflowers, and inlaid banded cuffs. It sold to a collector on the phone for $76,050 ... (Read More)

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Museums Taking On More Debt
by Daniel Grant

by Daniel GrantDonations are down; institutional endowments are still in recovery mode; and expenses haven't gone away—it's difficult to be a museum in this economy. Making things even more worrisome, however, is the level of indebtedness at many museums."Over the past decade, the amount of debt that museums have been ... (Read More)

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National Black Fine Art Show Goes on Hiatus
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The 13-year-old National Black Fine Art Show (NBFAS) will take a one-year hiatus, according to Keeling Wainwright Associates, producers of the event.Josh Wainwright, the show's founder, elaborated, "After thirteen years of excellence, the show will be taking a one-year 'breather' while the economy rushes toward a healthier state. We are ... (Read More)

(Auction)

Marklin Steam Pumper Blazes to $149,500 at Kaufman II Toy Sale
by Dick Friz

Bill Hill of Temperance, Michigan, knows his pressed steel pedal cars. We checked with Hill by phone after the sale, and he indicated he was impressed by the variety and quantity of the pedal cars (nearly 50 in total) with entries dating back as early as 1906. Hill said, “My ... (Read More)

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Whodunit? The Case of the Seymour Secretary
by Mark Sisco

Questions about the hardware had virtually no impact on the final outcome for this Boston secretary that sold for $49,450. The single-family provenance goes back to Andrew Wheelwright and possibly a generation or two earlier to Josiah Wheelright, both 19th-century Boston shipping magnates. “It’s Seymour,” winning bidder Gary Yeaton stated ... (Read More)
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