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Chadwick's sitting couple emerges at Florida auction
02 October 2023Lynn Chadwick’s (1914-2003) figure sculptures of the 1960s-80s consist largely of angular male and female couples – standing, sitting, walking or lying together.
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Tiffany’s less familiar artistic skill
02 October 2023Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) is best known for his work as a glassmaker and jeweller catering to the Gilded Age elite.
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The first images of native Americans emerge
02 October 2023The so-called ‘Four Indian Kings’ were not the first native Americans to visit Britain.
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Annie Oakley’s shotgun blasts its way to over $200,000
02 October 2023A shotgun built for sharpshooter Annie Oakley in 1888 and used during a significant period of her career has sold for $210,000 (£170,100) in Denver, Pennsylvania.
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Brunette not blonde Barbie in the pink at auction
02 October 2023With the blockbuster Margot Robbie-Ryan Gosling movie packing cinemas worldwide, this has been the summer of Barbie, and that also includes the toy-collecting world.
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Chinese export porcelain made for the Society of the Cincinnati
02 October 2023Two pieces made for members of the famed Society of the Cincinnati led a single-owner sale of Chinese export porcelain were sold by Grogan and Company (30% buyer’s premium) in Boston.
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Pick of the week: Music made with a touch of glass
25 September 2023The phenomenon of rubbing a wet finger around the rim of a wine goblet to produce a note is as old as glassmaking.
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Hindman holds first New York sales series
25 September 2023Hindman will hold its first sales in New York with a series of single-owner auctions from October 18-26.
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Glory days of Detroit cars can still drive consignments
25 September 2023Based in Detroit, DuMouchelles (24% buyer’s premium) still receives the occasional consignment from families tied to the glory days of the US car industry.
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Houdini ready to wow the crowds in Bolton
25 September 2023The sale of Vintage & Modern Magic at Potter & Potter (20% buyer’s premium) in Chicago on August 26 included this original theatre contract signed by Erik Weisz, the man better known as Harry Houdini (1874-1926).
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Roman torso last seen in public in 1948
25 September 2023This Roman marble torso, off the radar since 1948 but recently found in a private American collection, will be offered at the Potomack Company auction in Alexandria, Virginia, on October 4.
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Bear mask entranced medicine men
25 September 2023Items from the Robert and Nancy Nooter collection of ethnographic art come for sale at Ararity Auctions in Lorton, Virginia, on October 1.
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Archive tells story of the little-known Japanese Antarctic Expedition
25 September 2023A trove of material related to the Japanese Antarctic Expedition (JAE) of 1910-12 comes to market at Potter & Potter in Chicago on October 12.
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Gainsborough sketch on offer in Pennsylvania
25 September 2023The Americana & International sale at Pook & Pook in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, on October 5-6 includes a collection of art from a Delaware estate.
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Getty collection finale at Christie’s includes English furniture
25 September 2023Next month Christie’s New York will present the final sales of the remarkable Ann and Gordon Getty collection.
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Majolica amassed by collecting duo 'has it all'
25 September 2023Edward and Marilyn Flower’s substantial and impressive collection blossomed partly thanks to help from a London dealer
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Scotsman figure punches well above estimate
25 September 2023An early 19th century pearlware figure was the surprise performer when 200 lots from the Flower collection were offered by Lion & Unicorn (25% buyer’s premium) in Florida, on August 27.
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Gauguin's spoon ‘served as erotic symbol’
25 September 2023This wooden spoon worked with a recumbent fox is thought to have been carved by Paul Gauguin in Tahiti.
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Complete copy of Curtis' 40 volumes on offer at Hindman
25 September 2023Hindman in Chicago will offer a complete copy of Edward S Curtis’ seminal work The North American Indian as part of an auction of Fine Books from the Dorros Family Collection on November 9.
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Spectacular vases combined two great talents
25 September 2023Leading the Autumn’s Arrival Auction at Akiba Galleries (25/22/20% buyer’s premium) in Dania Beach, Florida, was this spectacular pair of French bronze and enamel vases of a type shown at the 1878 Paris Exposition Universelle.
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