This circa 1915 Lyon & Healy concert harp arrived at auction from the estate … Philharmonic and found a large audience, realizing $11500. …
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This circa 1915 Lyon & Healy concert harp arrived at auction from the estate … Philharmonic and found a large audience, realizing $11500. …
Circa-1900 Goyard steamer trunk purchased at yard sale for $20, sold at Clars Auction Gallery’s Aug. 8 sale for $5,629. Image courtesy Clars.
OAKLAND, Calif. – It can still happen. The $20 garage sale buy can still become the undercover treasure that turns into $5,600+ at auction. That’s exactly what happened at Clars Auction Gallery’s Aug. 8 Fine Estate Sale.The consignors bought at a local garage sale what they thought was a charming old trunk for just $20. When they later decided to downsize their possessions, they consigned the trunk to Clars for their August sale. Decorative Arts specialist Deric Torres evaluated the piece, identifying it as a circa-1900 E. Goyard trunk, still laden with original decals from an era long past. Travel decals included Cunard White Star and Pullman Golden Arrow, while other labels indicated the trunk had visited France, Italy and England, including London’s Victoria Station.
The steamer trunk itself, produced by the French luxury luggage maker, Francois Goyard, measured 22 inches high by 32 inches wide and 19 inches deep. The latches were signed “Goyard Aine, Monte Carlo, Biarritz, Paris,” and “G.N.F., S.F. No 4” was painted on the exterior.
The consignors believed that the trunk may have been owned by a San Francisco opera star who traveled the world. Unable to confirm this provenance, Torres and the staff at Clars assigned the conservative presale estimate of $1,500 to $2,500 on the piece. Possible provenance aside, the bidding went crazy when the trunk came up. Quickly surpassing its high estimate, the trunk sold for an astounding $5,629 – a new auction record for a single Goyard trunk of this style. Needless to say, the consignors were thrilled with the result.
thank you to Liveauctioneers.com for the story of the Goyard trunk!
Roadster silver purse, $24,000, Perfume Bottles
An Austrian enameled sterling silver purse shaped as a 1920s roadster sold for $24,000 at a Perfume Bottles Auction held April 30 in conjunction with the International Perfume Bottle Association’s annual convention in Reston, Va. Also, a Rene Lalique bottle in its original box for the company Gabilla chalked up $11,400; a Baccarat bottle for Madhva brought $24,000; a Lucien Gaillard circa 1910 bottle for the company Clamy rose to $30,000; and a Czech Ingrid bottle, ruby jeweled glass with ivory stopper, made $9,600. Prices include a 20 percent buyer’s premium.
I promised I would share Leo Oaks and his brother Michael Oaks book The 1882- 1886 Diary of Charles T. Anderson A Foots Creek Placer Miner. This is a fascinating book and I loved reading it. It begins in October of 1882 when Charles T. Anderson a young 25 year old miner and farm laborer went to work for Nelson Hosmer on his Foot’s Creek farm. You can purchase the book from the Josephine County historical society. What is great about this story is an antique store made sure the diary was placed in the proper hands. It is truly wonderful when antiques are placed with people that appreciate the story and document the story so that it can be shared with future generations. The book begins with “By valuing the past we define the present giving us a vision of the future”. If you recall from one of my earlier post Mr Leo Oaks is the gentleman who found the Conrad Chapman painting. What a find that was! Here is an excerpt from the story: The pickers found a 16 7/8 inches x 23 7/8 inches oil on canvas face up in the shed’s rafters. Though it was filthy, they planned to take it to a secondhand shop where they frequently sold things.
Oaks intercepted them and bought the painting for the princely sum of $25. The canvas was loose, and there was a piece of corrugated board jammed in the stretcher. (Oaks knows corrugated board. He worked for 40 years as a shift supervisor in a wood products plant that produced plywood.) For a year after he bought it, the painting sat dirty and untouched
“The image was so familiar, maybe because I have so many Civil War books,” said Oaks. “I didn’t recognize the monogram.”
When Oaks eventually took the backboard off, he discovered, written on the back, “Camp of the 3rd Kent., nr. Corinth, Miss. May 11th 1862. Painted by C.W. Chapman Co. D.”
C.W. Chapman was Conrad Wise Chapman, an artist well known for his Civil War pictures and Mexican landscape scenes. Oaks said that the writing on the back is in Chapman’s own hand. Oaks knew it was a find of some importance. “I said, `God Darn, that’s him!’ Then I got excited,” said Oaks. “I’ll tell you, my hair stood up.” He took the painting to a West Coast restorer who cleaned it up and repaired a small hole.
Not only was it a rare find, but it is the image that made Chapman famous. You can see the painting in one of my earlier stories. 
Thanks Leo for letting me share your book and your stories!
Like most old sayings, this one probably originated from several different stories, but my favorite is the story of an early 1800s farmer who heard a circus with elephants was coming to town. He’d always wanted to see an elephant, so he loaded up his grain in his wagon and drove to town. On the way, he encountered the circus train. His mules saw the elephants, went ballistic, bolted and upset the wagon, spilling his grain all over the road. When asked if he regretted coming to see the circus, the farmer said he didn’t care, for he’d “seen the elephant.”
The saying came to mean seeing or doing something exotic. It could describe the experience of gold seekers who went west during the Gold Rush hoping to hit pay dirt or the young trailhands going from Texas to the wild Kansas cowtowns. If they happened to meet trouble, hardship or failure when they got there, they didn’t regret it, for they’d “seen the elephant.”
The expression was also popular during the Civil War. Soldiers used it to describe having experienced combat. When one had been in a battle, he could tell those he encountered who had not as yet been under fire that he’d “seen the elephant”.
Thanks to True magazine for letting me repeat this great story!
.” “In from a stroll” (estimate: $400,000-$600,000) depicts a well-dressed young woman, who has seemingly just returned from collecting roses. At a glance it is readily clear that the artist is less interested in capturing the psychology and minute details of the figure than in conveying the idealized beauty of the figure and a general sense of calm in the atmosphere. Makovsky’s dynamic brushstrokes and emphasis on light are evidence of the influence that Impressionist paintings and artists had on his technique following his visit to Paris earlier in his life. The painting seems to disassociate the enchanting young woman from reality. Perhaps Konstantin Makovsky’s son Sergei Makovsky, aptly described his father’s approach to reality and his working method when he wrote: “. . . he would lay his hands upon the brushes and immediately settle on the task—he would find the composition and color spectrum, and transfer to canvas that which he saw or that which he wanted to see in nature.” I could not find the price realized on this painting, it may not have sold. It was for sale at Christies. Beautiful!
1907
So, what did you say was “the greatest thing in the world?”
Scotsman Henry Drummond insisted he knew the answer based on what he considered the highest authority. He spoke of the “greatest thing” often. In fact he was invited all over the world to talk about it. The title of his little talk was simply The Greatest Thing in the World. You can read it in ten or fifteen minutes. It has never been out of print in the 120 years since first published and maintains its status as a classic of spiritual inspiration.
What did Henry say was the greatest thing? You probably guessed it:
The greatest thing in all the world is Love.
http://www.christianhistorytimeline.com/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps153.shtml
The Luxury of being able to sit and read! One wonders if we truly live in a better time?
by Jared Paul Stern May 24th 2010 at 9:01AM
The cases feature myriad compartments and leather boxes for spirits, smoking accessories, writing instruments , notepaper, perfume bottles, cosmetics, playing cards, jewelry, small tools, sewing items, brushes and more, with some items finished in sterling silver and tortoise shell. However, Hermès notes the the items appear to be unused and probably never made it to Kenya, where Blixen established a coffee plantation at the foot of the N’gong Hills; and therein lies something of a mystery. Noting that by December of 1930, when the first case was ordered, Blixen was somewhat down on her luck and preparing to leave Africa, Hermès thinks it unlikely she ordered it for herself and the archives are unclear. Could it perhaps have been intended as a gift from her lover, dashing big game hunter and pilot Denys Finch Hatton?
This is my favorite honey you can Buy it online.
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Lavender + Lemonade + LOVE!
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An early piano believed to have been played by Mozart in Germany. (AFP)
An early piano believed to have been played by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has surfaced in Germany and could be worth millions.
Public broadcaster SWR reports the instrument was built in 1775 and acquired in the 1980s by piano manufacturer Martin Becker in the southern German city of Baden-Baden from an antiques dealer in Strasbourg, eastern France.
When Mr Becker decided to auction the fortepiano, a music historian noticed the offer and “had a hunch it could be the same long-lost instrument Mozart played whenever he was in Strasbourg”, SWR said.
“I had the idea to offer it on eBay and maybe get between 30,000 and 40,000 euros for it,” Mr Becker told the radio station.
A historic oil painting in Vienna shows composer Joseph Haydn – a Mozart contemporary – playing what appears to be the same instrument.
The fortepiano, built by Christian Baumann, is one of eight known examples.
Mozart was said to be a fan of Baumann’s work.
SWR said auction house Christie’s confirmed the piano’s provenance in 2003 but a company spokesman said its US-based musical instrument specialists had never examined it.
The piano could be worth millions if its illustrious pedigree is established.
– AFP
  One of the largest ever finds of Roman coins in Britain has been made by a man using a metal detector. About 53,000 coins were found buried in a field in SomersetA hoard of more than 52,500 Roman coins discovered in a Somerset field has been declared treasure. Dave Crisp, from Wiltshire, found the coins – dating from the 3rd Century AD – in April buried near Frome. “I’ve been metal detecting since 1988 and it’s the most exciting and important find I’ve made,” he said. A British Museum spokesman said the 160kg find was the largest single coin haul found in one pot and was probably intended as a religious offering. Most of the coins, which are made from debased silver or bronze, are currently at the British Museum in London and includes examples from AD286 to 293 during the reign of Carausius who was the first Roman emperor to strike coins in Britain. A small selection has gone on display at Frome Library. Mr Crisp had earlier found a hoard of 60 silver coins in the same field before he discovered the larger pot of coins. Read full story here! |
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Having lunch one weekend at the Wolfcreek Inn my husband and son in-law were approached to be in a music video! This is one of the pictures I took! My hubby is very comfortable at a poker table.
During the 1800s there weren’t many forms of entertainment available so men turned to card games because they were easy to understand and cards were portable.
Renegade Banker Big Iron Directed by Marc Bousatt & Produced by Brent Pearson.
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Author. Well known as the author of “Gone with the Wind,” she began working as a journalist, using the name of Peggy Mitchell for the Atlanta Journal as a feature writer. It took her ten years to write “Gone With The Wind,” then titled “Tomorrow is Another Day.” She also changed the name of the heroine, the beautiful and manipulative Southern belle, from her original choice of “Pansy” to the more evocative “Scarlett”. In addition to its staggering sales, the novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1937
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