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A hand-painted porcelain vase went for $7.28. The iconic dolphin statue that sat out front of the Ocean View Bank of the Commonwealth branch fetched $2,120. // Even the bank's ATM at Harbor Park found a buyer. // These are just a few of more than 1,800 items sold in recent weeks at online auctions of the failed bank's assets. // State and federal regulators shut down the bank in September as concerns over mounting losses reached the breaking point.
...Most of the merchandise was office furniture. But Commonwealth's president and chairman, Edwardd J. Woodard Jr., was known to fill his branches with oil paint...
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Regional Report: Eastern - Brief Article
MAXTON -- Furniture maker Woodard, a division of Chicago-based C.C. In...
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By Terry Kovel
SPRING means gardens again have bulbs in bloom. Crocuses, daffodils, tulips, narcissuses and other bulbs need weeks of cold weather to start to grow and flower. But even the warm Southern states now have bulbs blooming that were kept in a refrigerator for a time before they were planted. Our 18th century ancestors understood how to force bulbs and grew them in their gardens and in pots in the house. The most popular bulb pot was made with many small openings. It was filled with an inch or so of water, the bulbs were dropped into place and soon each bulb sent leaves and flowers up through its own hole. The result was an attractive arrangement of a mass of blooming flowers. Because bulbs shrink a little after they bloom, it is possible to fish out the spent bulbs and store ...
Q. I bought a Lee L. Woodard Sons rocking chair for $5 at a garage sale. It has...Woodard, who founded a furniture company named Woodard Brothers in Owosso, Mich., i...
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...[bullet] Woodard Station Lofts LLC. Inversión: 17. 5 millones de d... del antiguo edificio de Woodard Furniture. Reducción en impuestos de la ciudad de Owosso: $...
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By Terry Kovel
IF YOU LOOK UP THE DEFINITION of "folk art," you'll run into confusion. That's because the term's meaning has changed since the 1920s, when it gained widespread use thanks to Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948). She was a collector of crude but charming paintings, sculptures and other folk art. Her husband, John D. Rockefeller Jr., helped restore Colonial Williamsburg. Abby's fame and her art selections determined what followed in the world of folk art. The paintings she collected were done by untrained artists whose works lacked perspective, used bright colors and simple lines, and often did not flatter the subject. Carvings were large cigar- store figures, carousel figures or weather vanes. Also considered folk art in those early days were everyday items such as furnit...
...Its label reads "Dean C. Woodard Furniture Co., Owosso, Mich.". A: The Dean C. Wood...
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... II-28 Craftmade Acquires Assets of Woodard II-28 Thomasville Rolls Out First Outdoor Furnitur...
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Campaign backers spending in Maine
...By Colin Woodard cwoodard@pressherald.com. Staff Writer. Early fina... Creative Fabrication in Scarborough, a furniture maker ($5,000); Patrick Gilgallon, project manager...
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BECKLEY - Anyone who has ever purchased an appliance, electronic device or component of any kind in the last 20 years has been offered the chance to buy an extended warranty.
Carl Pack, buyer for National Furniture, Electronics & Appliances in Beckley, says he is still asked the same question today, "Are extended warranties worth it?
...Ken Woodard, manager at National Furniture, Electronics & Appl...
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... II-28 Craftmade Acquires Assets of Woodard II-28 Thomasville Rolls Out First Outdoor Furnitur...