gold coast estates

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Reserve, Withdrawn, Bought In: The Hidden Language of Failure at Long Island’s Estate Auctions and the Appraisers Who Learned to Read It
ByPawli March 13, 2026April 5, 2026

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
ByPawli March 12, 2026April 5, 2026

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
ByPawli March 10, 2026April 5, 2026

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.

Read More 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