63 Dyke Road, Setauket — Waterfront Estate at Auction
Six-bedroom waterfront estate on 2.76 acres in Strong’s Neck with 1,000 feet on Little Bay and a private dock. Reserve auction, $3.9M opening bid. Three Village schools.
Auctions
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Reserve, Withdrawn, Bought In: The Hidden Language of Failure at Long Island’s Estate Auctions and the Appraisers Who Learned to Read It
The lots that didn’t sell at Long Island’s Gold Coast estate auctions tell a sharper story about taste, value, and the art market than the hammer prices that did.
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The Appraiser Who Appraised the Appraisers: How a Cold Spring Harbor Estate Attorney Spent Thirty Years Documenting the Systematic Undervaluation of American Craft Furniture at Long Island Probate Auctions
A Cold Spring Harbor estate attorney spent three decades documenting a quiet pattern: fine American craft furniture appraised low at probate, then clearing auction at multiples — with dealers who recommended the appraisers collecting the difference.
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The Underbidder’s Notebook: What the Handwritten Auction Records of a Huntington Antiques Dealer Reveal About Who Was Actually Buying Gold Coast Furniture Between 1955 and 1975
Handwritten auction notebooks kept by a Huntington antiques dealer may hold the most granular record of how Gold Coast estate furniture dispersed across Long Island after World War II.
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The Hammer Price and the Empty Lot: How the 1983 Collapse of a Long Island Estate Auction Rewrote the Region’s Fine Art Market for a Generation
What happened when a high-stakes Oyster Bay estate auction collapsed in 1983 — and how the fallout quietly reshaped how North Shore families sold art for decades.
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Lot 47, Provenance Unknown: The Unresolved Question of Whether a 1947 Peconic Bay Fishing Camp Produced the Most Forged Regionalist Paintings Ever to Clear a Long Island Auction Block
Between the 1970s and 1980s, a cluster of suspect Regionalist paintings passed through Long Island estate auctions with nearly identical provenance language. What the record suggests.
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The Chandelier Clause: How a Single Disputed Fixture at the Mackay Estate Auction Established the Legal Precedent That Still Governs What Long Island Auctioneers Can Sell as “Part of the Property”
When Harbor Hill’s contents went to auction in the early 1960s, a Venetian glass chandelier sparked a legal dispute that quietly became Nassau County’s working definition of fixture versus chattel.
