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24-B Maine Antique Digest, March 2015
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Hanes & Ruskin Antiques, Old Lyme, Connecti-
cut, new to the show, offered for $1150 this 12"
high Victorian mahogany miniature tilt-top tea
table on a tripod base with snake feet and an
unusual serpentine top.
This Isfahan rug, 7' x 5', in the Tree of Life
pattern was available for $11,000 from Shaia
Oriental Rugs, Williamsburg, Virginia, a new
exhibitor at the show.
American Spirit Antiques, Shaw-
nee Mission, Kansas, asked $2100 for
this New England sack-back Windsor
chair, circa 1790, in old brown varnish
over earlier red, seat height 17½". Also
offered was an American hollow-body
copper and zinc horse weathervane,
15" x 30", $4500, which sits on a Fed-
eral cherry and bird’s-eye maple veneer
card table, 28" x 36" x 17", also $4500.
The paintings are by (top) Franklin
Benjamin DeHaven (1856-1934)
and Charles Curtis Allen (1886-
1950). They were priced at
$1400 and $2000, respectively.
Knollwood Antiques, Thorndike, Massachusetts, offered
this mid-19th-century English boot rack of solid walnut
for $2500. It measures 46" x 43" x 12". Sales made but
not shown included a pair of circa 1865 Gothic Revival
tables, an English copper vessel, and a 19th-century
Indian base for a table made from a balcony baluster
from Bombay, with a glass top that was affixed later.
Fletcher/Copenhaver
Fine Art, Fredericks-
burg, Virginia, dis-
played these and other
bronze sculptures by
French artist Guy Fer-
rer (b. 1955). Seen on
top is Ferrer’s
Egyptic
Erin
, artist’s proof II/
II, 14" high. It sold.
On the bottom is
Petite
Conversation
, artist’s
proof I/II, 24" high,
with an asking price of
$18,000.
This mid-19th-century
English burl walnut can-
terbury, circa 1850, was
$3450 from Zane Moss
Antiques, New York City.
New to the show, Nancy Steinbock Vintage Posters, Chestnut Hill,
Massachusetts, displayed this scene of
Newport Harbor
, circa 1915,
from the Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Co., Boston. She
asked $3600 for the 29" x 41" poster.
This painted fire bucket with kel-
ly-green
background,
trimmed
and decorated with scarlet red and
chrome yellow, was available from
Jeff R. BridgmanAmericanAntiques,
York County, Pennsylvania. The
dealer asked $3850 for the 1810-30
traditional-style ovoid bucket, with
the abbreviation “Mech’s.,” proba-
bly for Mechanicsburg, Pennsylva-
nia, in Cumberland County. Bridg-
man’s booth was busy. He sold for
five figures a 34-star handsewn cot-
ton flag (not shown), 1861-63, in an
“exceptionally rare pattern,” with
stripes that begin and end with white
instead of red.
This trio of American flexible bangle bracelets, circa
1890, was available from Lawrence Jeffrey Estate Jew-
elers. The Litchfield, Connecticut, dealer remarked,
“2500 years ago the Etruscans liked these bracelets,
and 2000 years ago the Romans were still wearing
them. Then 150 years ago the Victorians brought them
back, and now we’re still wearing theirs—must be
some kind of chic thing going on with these bracelets!”
The 14k gold bracelets were $1650, $1200, and $1450,
left to right.
The Jolly Flat Boat Men
, a mezzotint by George Caleb Bingham
(1811-1879), engraved by Thomas Doney, published by Powell &
Co., 1847, was $12,500 fromArader Galleries, Philadelphia, New
York City, San Francisco, and Houston. It measures 31 7/8" x
35½" framed. Arader Galleries photo.