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May 28, 2019“View of The Hudson River” by Jasper Cropsey, dated 1886, with a very strong provenance, topped Bill Smith’s annual Memorial Day auction on May 27. The painting had been given by Cropsey...
May 28, 2019BOUCKVILLE, N.Y. — Steve Allman, owner of Allman Promotions, announced that the property on which they have been conducting their show, The Big Field Antiques Show at Bouckville, N.Y., for these past...
May 28, 2019BEVERLY, MASS. – The April 27-28 sale at Kaminski Auctions featured a selection of Chinese porcelains from the estate of Robert Ledford of Charlotte, N.C., which attracted a sizable audience of Asian...
May 28, 2019MYSTIC, CONN. – Mystic Seaport Museum explores the maritime origins of streamlined design and its journey from naval architecture and engineering into our everyday vocabulary in a new exhibition,...
May 28, 2019By Laura Beach SALEM, MASS. – Even if they do not know him by name, many Americans will recognize Peter S. Lynch as the former television spokesman for Fidelity Investments, where he was best known...
May 28, 2019New Yorker Michael Diaz-Griffith (@michaeldiazgriffith) is living proof that interest in historical art and design survives, even thrives, among millennials. Married for five years to painter Alonso Díaz-Rickards,...
May 28, 2019Edward Gorey, the famous artist and illustrator of self-proclaimed literary nonsense, sure had a way with words. In a 1992 story with The New Yorker, Gorey told Stephen Schiff, “If you’re doing nonsense,...
May 28, 2019MUNICH, GERMANY — Bidders went to battle at Hermann Historica May 20–24 for more than 3,600 lots of German historical collectibles, military orders, antique arms and armor and modern firearms. Leading...
May 28, 2019LOS ANGELES — Abell Auction Company’s May 19 fine art, design and jewelry auction also featured a rare Abraham Lincoln 1860 campaign portrait flag with a picture of Lincoln as a young man without a beard...
May 28, 2019BOSTON — Bringing more than five times its low estimate ($60/80,000), a cushion-cut 4.74-carat sapphire ring with old European-cut diamonds topped Skinner’s May 21 jewelry sale when it sold for $339,000....
May 28, 2019Lots of activity across the block this week. Selling at Milestone Auctions for $10,500 was an Eighteenth Century Pennsylvania flintlock .45 caliber rifle featuring a tiger maple full stock, brass with...
May 28, 2019Review and Onsite Photos by Rick Russack, Additional Photos Courtesy of Skinner, Inc BOSTON – On Saturday, May 18, Skinner offered over 550 lots of Native American material from the collection of Jim Grievo...
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