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Courtesy Independence Seaport Museum. In late September, the Independence Seaport Museum (ISM) of Philadelphia received two substantial grants to fund new research in recognition of its work in preserving and sharing the history of the Delaware River waterfront. Both grants, one from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and the other from the William Penn Foundation, will support ISM’s forthcoming African American oral history project. Separately, the Naval History and Heritage Command awarded ISM its 2022-2023 Maintenance Excellence Pennant for work done to preserve Cruiser Olympia. ISM’s president and chief executive officer,

“It would have gone much higher if it had not been restored,” Lynda Cain said of the sale’s top lot, this glazed slip and sgraffito-decorated redware plate by Berks County’s Solomon Grimm, circa 1815. The provenance and design of the plate more than made up for its condition issues and it sold to a private collector for $37,800, the sale’s highest price ($15/25,000). Review by Madelia Hickman Ring; Photos Courtesy Freeman’s PHILADELPHIA — Nearly 85 percent of the 171 lots Freeman’s offered in its American furniture, folk and decorative arts sale on November

“Isn’t it wonderful? There was institutional interest,” Josh Eldred said about the top lot of the day, this circa 1860s 12¼-inch-tall stoneware double-handled molasses jug that sold to collector Adam Weitsman for $69,300 ($3/5,000). Review by Madelia Hickman Ring; Photos Courtesy Eldred’s EAST DENNIS, MASS. — Back in the day, three of the leading auction houses in Massachusetts were run by Bob Skinner (Skinner’s), Robert C. Eldred Sr and Jr (Eldred’s) and Richard “Dick” Bourne (Richard A. Bourne’s). And so, it seemed to Josh Eldred, son of Robert C. Eldred Jr, that a