Maine Antique Digest March 2015

38-C Maine Antique Digest, March 2015

- AUCTION -

Were it not for some major

paint loss on the églomisé

painted tablet, showing a

naval battle with one ship

flying a Union Jack, this

unsigned banjo clock would

have brought a lot more

than $115.

This 12" x 18" oil on artist board by Massachusetts landscape and por-

trait artist Walter Gilman Page (1862-1934) is titled on the back

Old Well

Sweep, Nantucket

and signed lower right. An applied tag on the back read

“The old Pollack Home, now gone.” Page is known to have lived on the

island in his later years, and the painting brought $632.50.

The artist’s signature on this dramatic

shipwreck oil on canvas was “Bramhall,”

indicating William Dexter Bramhall (1914-

1985). He was born in Massachusetts, died

in California, and is known to have spent

considerable time in the Camden, Maine,

area. The dismasted vessel was shown

driven toward a rocky headland with the

wreckage of the ship and cargo scattered

amid frothing waves. The painting sold for

$460.

The restored and unframed 19th-century oil

on canvas, roughly 30" x 24", of an unidenti-

fied lawyer who looked for all the world like an

ancestor of former Maine Governor John Balda-

cci sold for $51.75. At that price, if the poor guy

were still alive, he’d be turning over in his grave!

A set of six caned and decorated fiddle-back chairs with dark grain paint and

gilt pinstriped lines left at a paltry $189.75. That’s only $31.63 apiece.

An unsigned oil in a lemon gold frame, about 20" x 28", of the

famous Leaning Tower of Pisa and other buildings making up the

cathedral complex of the Piazza dei Miracoli (Square of Miracles)

including the Battistero (Baptistry of St. John) and the Cattedrale

(cathedral) sold for $431.25.

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Among other artifacts from the Babbitt and Hyde

families was a flush-mounted Mathew Brady photo-

graph of four Civil War soldiers at Harpers Ferry,

from the series titled “Incidents of the War,” pub-

lished in 1861 and 1862. The photo sold for $345.

Some of the soldiers, probably Babbitt/Hyde rela-

tives, were identified with inscriptions on the back.