Word: edgecomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...here, dealers prowled around it, old predators who carried their age with arrogance. Kenneth Hammitt, a veteran dealer from Woodbury, Conn., ran his eye approvingly over its shaped serpentine top and guessed that it would bring about $25,000. Then Jack Partridge, an old friend and adversary from North Edgecomb, Me., showed up with a couple of Withington's helpers. As the auction hands turned the chest over so that Partridge could check its construction, Hammitt laughed and said, "It's junk, it's all new. Go home, Jack." Partridge, an Englishman, haw-hawed delightedly. "Yes," he said. "Dreadful stuff...