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July 24, 2017SALEM, MASS. — It takes a level head and a great deal of coordination to raise a 22-foot, 2,700-pound ocean liner model up to the third floor exhibition gallery at The Peabody Essex Museum. The Queen...
July 24, 2017SPARKS, MD. — Crocker Farm’s July 22 sale achieved a world auction record result for an American face jug as an Edgefield stoneware face harvest jug soared to $100,300 including the buyer’s...
July 21, 2017NEW YORK CITY — On July 20, the 48th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the bag used by Neil Armstrong to bring back to Earth the very first samples of lunar material sold to applause...
July 20, 2017EAST DENNIS, MASS. —– The first lot to cross the block at Eldred’s July 20 marine sale, the Edward Burdett tooth, considered among many in the collecting community as the scrimshander’s masterpiece,...
July 18, 2017It takes a little game of smoke and mirrors to trick an animal onto your dinner plate, but we’ve gotten rather good at it over the course of time. So good, in fact, that the smoke worked itself into...
July 18, 2017OTTAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA – In conjunction with the July 11 departure parade for Canadian Forces members participating in this year’s Nijmegen Marches, a pair of miniature wooden shoes was presented...
July 18, 2017Review and Photos by Laura Beach MADISON, CONN. – If you went looking for a place to hold an outdoor summer show, the town green in the shoreline village of Madison is as good as it gets. A bust...
July 18, 2017CHATHAM, MASS. – In the late 1920s, Ellen Briggs’s great-uncle Herbert W. Briggs began collecting whaling ship artifacts, as well as old ship beams, ship’s knees and more – all used...
July 18, 2017By Kristin Nord OTTAWA – At the National Gallery of Canada’s entrance, a mini-landscape of pine, dogwood, wild grasses and iris evokes the smells and vegetation one would encounter in the boreal...
July 18, 2017OAKLAND, CALIF. – The top seller at Clars’ July 15-16 auction was this 14-drawer commode designed in 2002 by Ingrid Donat (French, b 1957) that sold over high estimate to attain $72,600, including...
July 18, 2017DETROIT – Marshall Fredericks’s (1908-1998) two-part bronze sculpture “Nordic Swan And Ugly Duckling” swooped in to lead a selection of fine art and decorative art offered by DuMouchelles...
July 18, 2017ONLINE – A winning bid of $40,124, including premium, captured a Lincoln parade flag of 1860 at Hake’s online auction of Americana and collectibles, which closed on July 13. It was a record...
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