2021 Antiques and Decorative Arts Function 
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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
This example sold for $16,250 in 2021. Pie crimpers are valued today as decorative kitchen implements and pieces of folk art by collectors who are willing to pay thousands of dollars for the best examples. Many surviving pie crimpers were carved in the form of mythical creatures, including unicorns, which are rare and desirable.
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OCTOBER 4, 2024
To hold their kimonos in place and be able to tote essential items, men hung decorative inro (small cases) that were suspended from their kimonos’ waist sashes. The two-gallon crock is decorated with a horse in cobalt blue and is salt-glazed, one of the hallmarks of antique stoneware.
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APRIL 24, 2024
The vast American folk art tradition offers authentic, innovative, and captivating creations whose reach spans generations and modes of creative expression. Despite this diversity, American folk art does share some core characteristics: Hand-Craftsmanship American folk art typically incorporates materials that can be wrought by hand.
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APRIL 24, 2024
The vast American folk art tradition offers authentic, innovative, and captivating creations whose reach spans generations and modes of creative expression. Despite this diversity, American folk art does share some core characteristics: Hand-Craftsmanship American folk art typically incorporates materials that can be wrought by hand.
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MAY 29, 2024
Taxidermy is an art absolutely essential to be known to every naturalist since, without it, he cannot pursue his studies or preserve his own materials” British zoologist William Swainson in his 1840 Treatise on Taxidermy Walter Potter – Kittens’ Tea & Croquet Party. And so the art of taxidermy was born… and then embalmed.
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MARCH 10, 2025
Sold for 4,600 GBP via Apollo Art Auctions (December 2024). The occult practices of Ancient Egyptians involved incantations and the widespread use of magical amulets, which served varying functions, from healing to protection. Sold for 2,000 GBP via Apollo Art Auction s (January 2022). Huge Egyptian Faience Wedjat-Eye Amulet.
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APRIL 9, 2025
The leather and steel deconstructed club chair looked like an abstract piece of art that had its roots in the Bauhaus principle of form and function, but then again Martins chair had a reclining feature, so 1961 Ebony Model M Steinway Piano. Sold for$8,000 via William Smith Auctions (June 2021).
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