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PLEASE NOTE: WE WILL BE SELLING AN ESTATE COLLECTION OF 50 ANTIQUE BISQUE DOLLS AT NO RESERVE AND OTHER COLLECTIBLE COMPOSITION DOLLS AT 4:00 P.M. AT 5:P.M. WE WILL SELL THE CONTENTS OF AN E. 74THST ESTATE, NJ ESTATE, PART 2 OF STORAGE AUCTION - 600 LOTS OF ART, ANTIQUES, FURNITURE, BRONZE ETC.
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ESTATE DOLL COLLECTION: 50 antique bisque dolls by Armand Marseille, Schoenau & Hoffmeister, CM Bergmann, Bruno Schmidt, Handwerck, Kestner, Heubach, Alt, Beck & Gottschalck, Gebruder Kuhnienz, Louis Wolf & Co, K*R Simon Halbig, Bahr & Proschild; along with a collection of collectible composition and other dolls, L.G.B trains
FURNITURE: early 19thc American Sheraton bookcase top fallfront desk; 18/19thc country Chippendale high chest, dropleaf table; 18/19thc Queen Anne birdcage tilt top table; late 18thc urn and floral motif overdoor architectural element 43"x17"; 19/20thc French walnut sofa; 18thc Russian French style trumeau mirror; Art Nouveau bamboo mirrored dressing table; pair 19/20thc throne chairs; Kindel Sheraton style 7 piece mahog.
Industry Update: Auction Industry Growth Continued in First ...
KANSAS CITY -- Gross sales revenues from auctions by NAA members in the first quarter of 2007 increased 2% over the same-time period one year ago, a study by the NAA has found. If this trend continues, this will translate into approximately $266 billion total revenue for 2007 for the entire auction industry, up from $257.2 billion in 2006, a projected 3.4% increase for all of 2007. This suggests the possibility of a slightly slower growth in the live auction industry in 2007 compared to 2006, when a 7.1% growth rate occurred for all of 2006 over the previous year. The first quarter growth last year was 5.7%. These are the findings documented in a quarterly report of auction industry growth being conducted by global market research firm MORPACE International on behalf of the National Auctioneers Association (NAA).
School Board Bids to Take Over Head Start
When it became apparent that Polk County Opportunity Council (PCOC) was going under, many wondered what would happen to the Head Start pre-kindergarten program. At a Tiger Bay Club meeting about the problems PCOC was facing, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Gail McKinzie was asked whether she was interested in taking over the Head Start program. With no hesitation, she said that she was very interested. On Tuesday, the school board voted 5-1 to put in a bid to run Head Start. Board Member Tim Harris said that the program to increase readiness of 3- and 4-year-olds provides a benefit to the school district because those children will soon be its responsibility. Public school officials know exactly what those children need to be ready for when they advance to kindergarten, he said.
Auctions | Americana sale reflects collector's pioneering spirit
The third weekend of April is shaping up to be such a busy one for area auctioneers that it makes sense to take advantage of the Easter lull and get a head start on the events scheduled for then - beginning with Pook & Pook's sale of the Pioneer Americana collection of Esther and Donald Shelley. Pioneer is the operative word in the two-session sale April 20 and 21 at Pook & Pook's Downingtown gallery. As Ron Pook writes in a foreword to the elegant 200-page hardbound catalog, there was little guidance for collectors of Americana when Donald Shelley, a native of York, set out to master the field after his graduation from Penn State in 1932 with a bachelor of fine arts degree. "Tulip Ware and Hornor's Blue Book documented furniture by means of local Philadelphia lineage," Pook writes, "but the majority of reference books of the period were long on pictures and conspicuously short on scholarship." Over the next 70 years, Shelley (along with his wife, whom he met in the 1930s at Columbia University Teachers College) pursued an academic career focusing on the origins of Pennsylvania decorative arts that took him to posts far and wide, notably a 24-year stint at the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village in Michigan, and finally in Oley Valley.
Emotional Aishwarya Rai bids farewell to parents
It was an emotional moment for Aishwarya Rai today as she bid farewell to her parents and relatives to embark on her new life as a member of one of India's most iconic families.
Clad in a cream-coloured lehenga, Ash cried as she hugged mother Brinda Rai during the 'bidaai' (traditional farewell) from her residence La Merin in suburban Bandra. Ash and Abhishek Bachchan had tied the nuptial knot in Mumbai Friday.
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