2016 SUMMER FEATURE AUCTION

1: REDWARE BOWL - Shallow Round Bowl with yellow swirl work, 19th c. Norwalk, Connecticut, 2 1/2" x 13" diam. Edge chips.

2: REDWARE BOWL - Deep Oval Trencher, 19th c. Pennsylvania, having yellow pine tree and river decoration, 3 1/4" x 11 1/2" x 16 1/2". Edge chips.

3: REDWARE OYSTER JAR - Rare Early 19th c. Atlantic Mid-Coast Pottery Oyster Jar in fabulous pear green glaze having ochre dots and border, rolled rim. 8" x 4 3/4" diam. Some loss to glaze.

5: COLONIAL PEWTER CANDLE MOLD - 24 Hole Candle Mold, late 18th c., probably Southern, having a yellow pine mortise and tenon frame holding twenty-four screw-in pewter candle molds, having hand cut threads, the peaked en...

6: 19TH C. SCHOOL GIRL MAP - "A Map of the World" by Hannah Comstock, Danbury (Connecticut), Sept 1815, ink and gouache on paper, the map based on Hondius's "Nova Totius Terraum Orbis" as first published 1633 edition of ...

7: FLOCK OF SHOREBIRD DECOYS - Cape Cod Carved and Painted Wood Flattie Decoys, six Sandpipers and two Plovers, drilled for gig rope and set into a piece of driftwood.Unmarked. Late 19th to early 20th c. 6" to 10" long e...

8: PAIR OF DECOYS - 19th c. New York Marbled Godwit Decoys with early mahogany integral stands, glass bead eyes, wooden bills, 10 1/2" x 18 1/2" x 3 1/2". Nice age patina, one bill repaired.

9: SEGUIN SIGN - Sign from the Light Station, or possibly the Dock Sign for the Ferry, with 16" gilt carved wood letters on black sand textured wood panel field, set into black painted pine box frame, with one vertical s...

10: COLONIAL CHAIR TABLE - New England Pine and Maple Chair Table with turned arm supports and single drawer below the seat having a turned wooden knob, wood peg construction, raised on square legs, with the original turn...

11: (2) GRENFELL MATS - Hooked Mats, 12" Round with Husky Sled Dog & 16" Square with Polar Bear on Ice Floes, finely hooked, retaining the original cloth tags marked 'Grenfell Labrador Industries, Hand-Made in Newfoundlan...

12: (2) GRENFELL MATS - Hooked Mats, finely hooked, including: Two-Mast Schooner with pink sky, in round gold molded frame, matted and glazed, with tag window verso, OS: 21" diam., SS: 11" diam., loss below one spar, mino...

13: FRAMED SAMPLER - "Advice to Young Ladies", signed Sarah Farnsworth, Washington (Maine), silk on linen, with floral border on top and sides. The poem reads (as spelt): "Ye lovely fair whose Gentle minds incline/ To pol...

14: FRAMED SAMPLER - Rhode Island Alphabet, Number and Sentiment Sampler, mid 19th c., with ivy border, silk on coarse linen, signed "Mary Chamberlain, Age 10", with stanza that reads "To move me For to Watch and Pray/To ...

15: COUNTERTOP SPICE CABINET - 19th c. Country Store Fixture in Pumpkin Pine, with white ceramic knobs, having six ranks of six drawers in graduated pairs of ranks, 24" x 26" x 5", excluding the 3/4" deep pulls. Good cond...

16: ANTEBELLUM AMERICAN SCHOOL - Portrait of Two Sisters, circa 1840, oil on canvas, unsigned, the two depicted in an interior, the younger holding a peacock feather fan, 'mourning' bracket upper left representing a lost ...

17: COLONIAL CANDLESTAND - Fine 18th c. Cherry Stand with square molded edge tray top, single pass-through dovetailed candle drawer with brass button pulls, resting on a well-proportioned ring and urn turned shaft with th...

18: NAIVE NEW ENGLAND PORTRAIT & (2) FAMILY FRAMED PHOTOGRAPH & DRAWING - Waist Length Portrait of a Prosperous Gentleman, oil on canvas, unsigned, circa 1845, probably by an itinerant painter, possibly Joseph Goodhue Cha...

19: COUNTRY TAP TABLE - Lozenge Shaped Tavern Table, Maine or Canada, second half 18th c., pine in remnants of the original red paint, two board top, beaded edge trestle base, with mortise and tenon stretcher and foot res...

20: RARE 18TH C. MASSACHUSETTS TAVERN SIGN - Painted Pine and Wrought Strap Iron Frame with Gilded Points on later stand, double-sided, the oval plank having cresent moons and star above inscription "D.W. Taylor", prancin...

21: FOURTEEN FOOT WINCHESTER GUNS TRADE SIGN - Carved Flame-Grained Pine Rifle Exterior Store Sign, Philadelphia, circa 1890. The rear section of the stock is made from two pieces of pine, the front section which begins j...