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Folk Sculpture Sold for $770,000: A 19th-Century weather vane was sold for $770,000 at a New York auction Saturday, a record for an American folk sculpture, Sotheby’s announced. The copper-and-zinc weather vane, which portrays a well-dressed rider on a horse, was purchased by Stephen Score, an Essex, Mass., dealer, said Matthew Weigman, a spokesman for the auction house. It was the top lot in the sale of the collection of Bernard M. Barenholtz, who co-founded the toy manufacturer Creative Playthings and was a widely respected collector and author. Barenholtz died last August. The collection brought a total of $2.6 million at the auction, a record for an American folk art collection, Sotheby’s said.