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(Fragment)Heritage Heads to the Big Apple
Heritage Auction Galleries will open new exhibition galleries in New York City in September. The ground-floor space located at 445 Park Avenue, between 56th and 57th Streets, has been leased for 11 years.Heritage does not plan to hold sales in the space, but the Big Apple does figure in the ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Book Review: Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong
by Jeanne SchintoEverything You Know about Indians Is Wrongby Paul Chaat SmithUniversity of Minnesota Press, 2009, 193 pages, hardbound, $21.95 plus S/H from University of Minnesota Press, (www.upress.umn.edu) or (800) 621-2736.Anyone who has been dissatisfied, to say the least—or confused and annoyed, to say the most—by a visit to the ... (Read More)
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(Show)Stella Pier Show Starts New Year with a Bang and Some Bucks
“Don’t call them tractor seats,” said Leslie A. Segal of East Hampton, New York. “They’re cast-iron farm implement seats! They were used with horse-drawn rigs.” Gee, I was going to call them sculpture. The seats, clockwise from top, were $500, $250, $200, $300, $250, and $600. The starred one in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Stephen Gray Collection Causes a Stir
The 21" high Gustav Stickley Damascus plant stand #9, circa 1901, has a wonderful octagonal form and a Grueby tile at top. From Catalog No. 1 “New Furniture,” the refinished stand sold for $26,400. Gray collection.Important pieces can turn up just about anywhere. A church on the south side of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Family Finds in the Finger Lakes
by Fran KramerWestern New York, a lush rolling countryside, has long attracted "go west" New Yorkers, especially after the Big Ditch (the Erie Canal) was dug. It's horse and wine country, where the bluebloods of the Genesee River valley drink the red and white wines of the vineyards between the ... (Read More)
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(Show)What a Difference a Drape Can Make: Greater Boston, Tweaked
Steele & Steele asked $2600 for the pair of newly reupholstered fireside wing chairs. They displayed photos of the chairs’ bedraggled “before” condition. The circa 1830 oil on board portraits of Thomas and Margaret Andrews Steele (no relation to the dealers) were $3200 for the pair. They had a chalked ... (Read More)
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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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