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Swann Galleries, New York Cityby Richard de ThuinPhotos courtesy Swann'sAccording to Swann, no record could be found of this Union Pacific Sun Valley poster appearing at auction in the last 20 years. The wait for this 35" x 23" condition A- (punch holes in the top margin) paper poster by ... (Read More)
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Christie's, New York Cityby A.J. Peluso, Jr.Photos courtesy Christie'sOne from a set of four 19th-century French celestial charts that sold on January 15. Your decorator would have encouraged the $1875 for these handsome colorful images.The schooner yacht Brilliant sold for $80,500. For those who built and sailed her, there was ... (Read More)
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Skinner, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoPhotos courtesy SkinnerThe front door with the familiar Skinner typography. Schinto photo.Discovery items, including some of the many smalls. The sale was billed as featuring country Americana, but there were many formal period pieces, along with quilts, weathervanes, folk art, and trade signs. There were ... (Read More)
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Some of Skinners most attractive decorative carpets suffered from high estimates and reserves, or had extensive restoration, and didnt sell. Its two most successful carpets were a 24'6" x 14'2" Indo-Persian that brought $23,700 (not shown) and this very decorative 19'4" x 13'2" Persian Bahktiari that sold for $18,960.There were ... (Read More)
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There were five phone bidders for this Berks County, Pennsylvania, dower chest, dated 1788. The lid and front are profusely decorated with stylized tulips and hearts. It is similar to a chest in the Titus Geesey (1895-1969) collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art with the same date, but the ... (Read More)
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by Ian McKay, e-mail: This Is Now, That Was ThenThis month's column is in two parts. It begins with reports on five sales of recent weeks, under the general heading "This Is Now," and then rushes headlong through what is left in my file boxes of last year's sales. I ... (Read More)
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by Nancy Smoak, Projects Director, Rufus Porter MuseumA Hebron, Maine, couple has some advice for all owners of early homes with wallpaper wallslook under the wallpaper to see what is on the plaster. When they bought their home two years ago, they knew it had a long history, having been ... (Read More)
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It's a sure sign of spring, seeing the lines of buyers ready to enter the Burlwood Antique Center in Meredith, New Hampshire, on May 1.This year, spring will surely come, but there will be no line. Last fall, the husband-and-wife owners of Burlwood, Mark Diette and Mary Di Maria, announced ... (Read More)
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by David HewettManhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau announced on March 26 that a grand jury had voted to indict Lawrence Salander and his art gallery, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, LLC, on 100 counts. The counts include grand larceny of $88 million from investors and collectors, falsifying business records, scheming to defraud, forgery, ... (Read More)
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