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• Drexler Painting Exceeds Expectations At Swann

  18-11-2024 21:42 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  NEW YORK CITY — Lynne Drexler’s (American, 1928-1999) 1962 painting, “Expectant Passage” rose above its $50,000 high estimate to lead Swann’s Modern & Post-War Art auction on November 12. The abstract oil on canvas, which measured 16 by 20 inches, was bid to $57,500 including buyer’s premium. It had provenance to Esther Robles Gallery of Los Angeles, Calif., and the consignor, who was also based in California. The auction offered 139 lots and had a sale t
  
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• 75th Anniversary Vitali Tea Service Scores Big At Heritage

  18-11-2024 21:42 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  DALLAS — Heritage Auctions conducted its Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu Signature Auction on November 13, offering 281 lots from six different prominent collections across the US, including the Ruth Nelkin collection, the estate of Toni Chapman Brinker and the collection of Leah Gordon, among others. Leading the sale was a five-piece silver tea and coffee service, including a tray, by Ubaldo Vitali, which served up a $45,000 finish. The 1985 set weighed a collective 371.73 troy ounces
  
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• De Smet Pastel Rests At Top For Mid-Hudson

  18-11-2024 21:41 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  NEW WINDSOR, N.Y. — On November 16, Mid-Hudson Auction Galleries conducted its Antiques, Art, Toys, Bronzes, Oriental, Taino auction, featuring 381 lots of fine art, works on paper, bronzes, photographs, estate glassware, costume jewelry, sterling silver and a collection of New York Yankees ephemera from a 1960-1980s collection, among others. Leading the mixed bag of offerings was a pastel on paper work by Léon de Smet (Belgian, 1881-1966) titled “Repose.” Signed lower
  
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• Louis Vuitton Trunk Packs Up At New England Auctions

  18-11-2024 21:40 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  BRANFORD, CONN. — Fred Giampietro and New England Auctions offered 848 lots across two days of sales: a European and South American Estate Collection on November 13 and Modern, Asian, Jewelry, Silver and Accessories on November 14. Packing in with the highest price overall was a Louis Vuitton steamer trunk sold on the second day. This monogrammed French trunk from the mid Twentieth Century measured 18¼ inches high by 31¾ inches long by 18½ inches wide and came from th
  
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• Rare Leica Camera Snaps Top Price At Dana J. Tharp Photography Sale

  18-11-2024 21:39 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  WILLOUGHBY, OHIO — A rare Leica M2 rangefinder by Ernst Leitz GmbH of Wetzlar, Germany, jumped its $600-$2,500 estimate and sold for $20,910, including buyer’s premium, at Dana J. Tharp’s rare cameras and photographic equipment auction on November 9. The Leica M2 is a 35mm rangefinder camera that was introduced in 1957. Approximately 82,000 M2s were manufactured in the decade between 1957 and 1968. These cameras were considered professional, discreet and unobtrusive, said Thar
  
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• ‘Cherry Blossoms’ Bloom To Highest Price At Butterscotch

  18-11-2024 21:39 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  BEDFORD, N.Y. — Butterscotch Auction presented 578 lots from multiple important estates worldwide in its November 17 Fall Estates auction. Lots on offer included books, furniture and fine art descended through the McDonnell family of Copped Hall (Essex, England), a collection of custom-made arch-top electric guitars from a Stamford, Conn., estate and an array of art glass from a Scarsdale, N.Y., collector, among others. Blooming to $14,640, the highest price of the sale, was Mary Nimmo Mo
  
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• Rare Double-Deer Crock Tops Off At Crocker Farm

  18-11-2024 21:38 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  SPARKS, MD. — A six-gallon stoneware crock by J. & E. Norton, elaborately decorated with a stag and doe in a landscape, achieved $45,000 and top-lot status in Crocker Farm’s November 6-15 auction. The 14-inch-tall vessel had slip-trailing characteristic of John Hilfinger, a German-born artisan considered one of America’s leading Nineteenth Century stoneware decorators, and combined with a rarely seen double-deer motif. What Crocker Farm described as “among the finest
  
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• Shutter Closes For Leica M2 At Auction Team Breker

  18-11-2024 21:36 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  KÖLN, GERMANY — Auction Team Breker’s Specialty Auction on November 9 featured 460 lots of technical antiques including science and technology, office antiques, mechanical music, photographica and film and more. Achieving the sale’s highest price was a circa 1958 Leica M2 camera body. Coming from Leica’s first series of the black-painted M2, this example had a rewind button but no self-timer. Its shutter, viewfinder and rangefinder were tested to be working and accu
  
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• Tiffany & Co. Sterling Silver Flatware Service Is Elected Top Lot At Paul McInnis Auction

  18-11-2024 21:35 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  NORTH HAMPTON, N.H. — Paul McInnis’s fall estate sale, on November 13, offered Tiffany flatware, Civil War uniforms, choice jewelry, a Paul Revere spoon and much more. At the top of the sale was a Tiffany and Company sterling silver flatware service designed for Alvan T. Fuller, former governor of Massachusetts, who had a special pattern created in 1908 with his initials entwined in the design. The bespoke service was popular with bidders, who took the set to $15,375, including buye
  
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