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From the Wrist to the Mantel: The Ingenious Watchmaking of Jaeger-LeCoultre
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Few names in Swiss watchmaking demonstrate mechanical creativity quite like Jaeger-LeCoultre. From sophisticated automatic wristwatches small enough to disappear beneath a shirt cuff to clocks designed to run using tiny changes in atmospheric temperature, the manufacture has spent generations finding ingenious ways to measure time.
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Found an Old Binder of Pokémon or Magic Cards? Here’s What to Look for Before You Sell
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Perhaps you found it while cleaning out your childhood bedroom, sorting through an estate, or opening a box that hadn't been touched in 20 years. Inside are pages of Pokémon or Magic: The Gathering cards—some carefully organized, others stacked together with no apparent order. A few are holographic. Some look…
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Alderfer Auction Comes to Wayne: Auction Evaluations on the Main Line
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For more than six decades, Alderfer Auction has helped families, collectors, estate professionals, and individuals understand the objects in their care and determine what comes next. Now, that expertise is even more accessible to residents of Philadelphia’s Main Line. Alderfer Auction is pleased to introduce our new location at 303…
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Patek Philippe Gondolo Ref. 5009: The Art of the Form Watch
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For more than a century, the round wristwatch has dominated watchmaking. Its shape follows the natural sweep of hands around a dial, making it both practical and familiar. Yet some of the most memorable watches ever produced have challenged that convention.
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Benton Spruance and the American Scene: 5 Powerful Lithographs of Modern Life
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Benton Spruance found compelling subjects in the world around him. Football players racing across a field, commuters pushing through a station, crowds gathering in the city, and even the quiet architecture of a Pennsylvania street could become the starting point for an extraordinary lithograph.
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R.J. Horner & Co.: Inside the Extraordinary Furniture of America’s Gilded Age
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At the end of the nineteenth century, America’s most fashionable interiors were rarely understated. Dining rooms, libraries, entrance halls, and parlors could be designed as elaborate environments in which architecture, furniture, paintings, textiles, silver, and decorative arts worked together. For families with the means to furnish on a grand scale,…
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Alice Neel and the Art of Seeing: Why Her Portraits Continue to Resonate with Collectors and Museums
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Few 20th century artists transformed portraiture as profoundly as Alice Neel. While many portrait painters sought to flatter their sitters or commemorate status and achievement, Neel pursued something more elusive: the truth of the individual before her. Her paintings are not merely likenesses—they are intimate studies of personality, vulnerability, intellect,…
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The Enduring Appeal of Picasso’s Linocuts: Innovation, Color, and Le Vieux Bouffon
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Few artists have transformed as many artistic mediums as Pablo Picasso. While he is most closely associated with Cubism and modern painting, his achievements as a printmaker are equally remarkable. Throughout his career, Picasso explored etching, lithography, aquatint, drypoint, and linoleum cut printing, continually pushing the boundaries of what each…
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Bridging the Gap: How a Certified Senior Advisor® Enhances the Auction and Transition Experience
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At Alderfer Auction, we believe that every object has a story, and every life transition deserves a steady, compassionate hand. That is why we are incredibly proud to highlight the expertise of Annette, our Business Development and Estate Sales specialist, who holds the prestigious Certified Senior Advisor (CSA)® designation.
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The McIntosh Legacy: Why These American Audio Icons Still Set the Standard
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For more than 75 years, McIntosh Laboratory has defined what premium American audio should sound—and look—like. From the unmistakable glow of its blue watt meters to its uncompromising engineering, McIntosh has earned a reputation that extends far beyond the world of audiophiles. This July, Alderfer Auction is pleased to feature…
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