![A Primitive Drop Front Country Desk Dated Feb 14, 1890: This desk has seen its share of hard times, bearing the scars of active living & love. Signed R.T. Smith, Feb 14, 1890. No it wasn't built by a master carpenter, it was built by someone who worked wit](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/8050/328421/176939362_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1714605816)
Primitive Chairs
![A Primitive Drop Front Country Desk Dated Feb 14, 1890: This desk has seen its share of hard times, bearing the scars of active living & love. Signed R.T. Smith, Feb 14, 1890. No it wasn't built by a master carpenter, it was built by someone who worked wit](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/8050/328421/176939362_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1714605816)
![Chair Lot: Lot including Victorian rocking chair and 19th c. primitive rocking chair with latticed deer skin seat.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1122/332252/179210619_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1717432170)
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![William Edmondson: the man compelled to carve](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Rago-crucifixion.jpg)
William Edmondson: the man compelled to carve
NEW YORK – Like several other famed self-taught artists, William Edmondson (1874-1951) came to art late in life after having a spiritual calling. The Nashville-born man, a son of freed slaves, first worked as a manual laborer on farms, the railroad, and in a hospital. He began his career as a sculptor in 1932 after […]
![Antique toy collection of Curtis and Linda Smith heads to Bertoia March 16](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/22.jpg)
Antique toy collection of Curtis and Linda Smith heads to Bertoia March 16
VINELAND, N.J. – Antique toy collectors who dream of time-traveling to the 1970s and ’80s when now-legendary toy shows and auctions took place have an opportunity to bid on items originally collected then. The breathtaking collection of Linda Smith and her late husband Curtis Smith will be offered in a single-owner auction (the first of […]
![Paintings by women are the focus at Eldred’s March 13](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/171665547_1_x.jpeg)
Paintings by women are the focus at Eldred’s March 13
EAST DENNIS, Mass. — More than 150 paintings by women artists head to market as part of Eldred’s Women In The Arts sale scheduled for Wednesday, March 13. The complete catalog is now available for bidding at LiveAuctioneers. Theresa Ferber Bernstein (1890-2002) lived a remarkable — and remarkably long — life, creating paintings alongside her […]
![Miller & Miller’s first Canadiana and folk art sale of 2024 runs Feb. 10-11](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/170104339_1_x.jpg)
Miller & Miller’s first Canadiana and folk art sale of 2024 runs Feb. 10-11
NEW HAMBURG, Canada — Saturday, February 10 and Sunday, February 11 mark the first Canadiana and Canadian folk art sales of 2024 for the specialists at Miller & Miller, with high-estimated works from primitive folk artist Maud Lewis once again leading the way. The catalogs are now open for bidding at LiveAuctioneers. Nova Scotia’s Lewis […]