(Auction)
The first lot of the day did well. A commemorative life ring for the Americas 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)
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)
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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The Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School chapter of Citizens Scholarship Foundation of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, is seeking antiques dealers for its spring fund-raiser. On Saturday, April 24, CSF will hold an antiques show and sale at the high school to raise money for college scholarships for 2010 graduating seniors.Antiques dealers from all ... (Read More)
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by David HewettOn January 15, Woodbury, Connecticut, antiques dealer Harold E. Cole, doing business as Harold E. Cole Antiques, filed a Chapter 11 Voluntary Petition, seeking reorganization in the United States Bankruptcy Court, District of Connecticut.In initial forms filed with the court, Cole, through his attorney, Maximino Medina Jr., estimated ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
This icon, Mother of God of the Sign/ Znamenie, sold for $92,000. The European buyer felt reassured by the letter of authentication signed by Marina Bowater of Bowater Gallery in London in 1970.This Russian triptych icon painted in egg tempera on wood has Mary Magdalene in the center, flanked by ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)
A Book Reviewby Jonathan RickardSalt-Glazed Stoneware in Early Americaby Janine E. Skerry and Suzanne Findlen HoodThe Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, in association with University Press of New England, 2009, 272 pages, hardbound, $75 plus S/H from Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, (www.williamsburgmarketplace.com) or (800) 446-9240, or from University Press of New England, (www.upne.com) ... (Read More)
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