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A pie safe in blue paint with 12 tins, featuring the profile of Andrew Jackson, the owner’s name, “Hero! of Orleans,” and more, sold for $102,500 (no buyer’s premium charged) at the July 19 sale by Nicely’s Auction in Clifton Forge, Virginia.The pie safe was made by Matthew S. Kahle (1800-1869), a Pennsylvania-born cabinetmaker of Lexington, Virginia, sometime between 1824 and 1828. (Lexington is about 30 miles from Clifton Forge, Virginia.) The tinsmith was Lond