Maine Antique Digest April 2015

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Maine Antique Digest, April 2015 29-C
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Fern Isabel Coppedge (1883-1951), oil on
canvas, Golden Screen, signed lower left, 16"
x 16", sold for $11,400 (est. $5000/10,000).
George Henry Story (1835-1923), oil
on canvas portrait of Abraham Lin-
coln, signed lower right and dated
1918, 30" x 25", sold for $20,400 (est.
$8000/12,000). It has a Joseph Duveen
and John R. Thompson provenance
and was owned by the Pook family; the
proceeds were divided by eight heirs.
Schtockschnitz-
ler Simmons (Berks
County, Pennsylva-
nia, active 1885-1910),
carved and painted
walking stick with
hound grip, original
dotted surface, 32¼"
long, sold for $3360 (est.
$2000/3000).
Four phone bidders competed
for this miniature Pennsyl-
vania stoneware cake crock,
19th century, with brushed
cobalt decoration, the case
incised “C.S.,” 1½" high x 3"
wide, that sold for $9000 (est.
$500/1000).
Four Tucker porcelain scent bottles, all with
floral and gilt decoration, the tallest 2¾", sold
to a Maryland collector in the salesroom for
$4560 (est. $500/1000), underbid on line.
Philadelphia Tucker
porcelain pitcher, circa
1825, painted with
roses, 9¼" high, with
a hairline crack and a
chip, sold for $600 (est.
$500/700).
Philadelphia Tucker por-
celain vase-shaped pitcher,
circa 1825, with unusual
overall floral decoration,
9¼" high, in excellent
condition, with a Philip
H. Hammerslough prove-
nance, sold for $2280 (est.
$1500/2500).
Red pine tricorn hatbox, late
18th century, with original
wrought-iron hardware and a
later beaver skin tricorn hat.
The box is 7½" high x 19¾"
wide x 17" deep. From the
Titus Geesey collection, it sold
for $3360 (est. $1000/2000).
It sold for $22,800 at Pook &
Pook in October 2014 and was
returned when the wood was
identified as red pine, which is
said to be an English wood and
not American as cataloged,
and the hat is of indetermi-
nate age. Some at the January
sale said red pine does grow
in northern North America,
but the market spoke loud and
clear.
New England burl bowl, 19th
century, with molded rim, 5¼"
high x 16¾" diameter, sold for
$3360 (est. $1000/2000).
Southeastern Penn-
sylvania watercolor
fraktur of a bird,
4" x 6½", early
19th century, sold
for $19,200 (est.
$800/1200) in the
salesroom to dealer
Philip Bradley. It
was underbid on
the phone.
Philadelphia Sheraton mahogany
sideboard, circa 1810, 39½" x 72",
sold for $3840 (est. $1000/2000) to
dealer James L. Price of Carlisle,
Pennsylvania, who immediately
sold it to the underbidder.
Hooked rug, 34" x 58", dated 1898, with a vase of flow-
ers, sold on the phone for $2040 (est. $800/1000).
Philadelphia walnut chest of drawers, circa 1770, with
notched corner top, two short drawers over three long
ones, and bracket feet, knocked down to a pleased col-
lector in the salesroom for $6000 (est. $3000/5000). The
brasses and some foot pads were replaced.
This 1912 Ford Model T Torpedo, four-cylinder, the body in dark blue with
black fenders, with brass trim and accessories, serial #97857, was deacces-
sioned from the Sandy Spring Museum in Sandy Spring, Maryland, and
sold for $43,200 (est. $10,000/15,000) to a man in the salesroom who said
he was a car dealer, auctioneer, and now a collector! When the car was
donated to the museum in 1997, it was in running condition. It has been
stored indoors ever since, but Pook did not guarantee it was in running
condition.
German Noah’s ark, late 19th cen-
tury, with Noah, his wife, and 62 ani-
mals, the ark 9" high x 18½" wide,
sold for $2880 (est. $1500/2500).
Downingtown; the lots were put out in the back
room and in the basement.
The on-line sale offered some reproduction and
period furniture and pottery. For example, a repro-
duction painted Dutch cupboard sold for $1538;
a period 19th-century dry sink, 47½" x 47", with
an upper shelf with two drawers with remains
of yellow paint, sold for $3936 (est. $400/600);
a three-gallon stoneware crock decorated with
a chicken pecking at corn sold for $517 (est.
$150/250); a bowl of stone fruit sold for $1722; a
copper cowweathervane, $3137 (est. $300/400); a
Log Cabin quilt, $713; anAthabascan copper dag-
ger, 11 5/8" long, $1476 (est. $100/200); a Navajo
striped rug, 66" x 57", $2091 (est. $200/400); two
ruby-red kugel Christmas balls, 4" and 5¾" in
diameter, $836; and a single egg-shaped red kugel,
2¼" high, $1009. A Greg Shooner redware char-
ger with slip decoration, signed and dated 1998,
16¾" in diameter, sold for $320 (est. $100/150);
a Daniel and Barbara Strawser carved and painted
pine eaglet, signed and dated “’72,” 11" high,
sold for $935 (est. $100/200); and a Bryce Ritter
contemporary painted Windsor settee, 71" wide,
sold for $886 (est. $200/300). There were 870 bid-
ders, of whom 325 were new to Pook & Pook. An
on-line sale is a lot cheaper than a catalog sale, and
it works the same way: you log on, and it is sold
in order; it is not a timed auction, so bidders feel
as if they have been to a sale but have not left their
computer, iPad, or phone, and they can leave bids
if they cannot bid live.
Illustrated catalogs with prices of the January
17 sale and the January 19 on-line sale can be
browsed at the Pook & Pook Web site. Pook will
sell Americana from the estate of J. Jefferson and
AnneWeiler Miller on Friday,April 24, andAmer-
icana from various owners on Saturday, April 25.
Call (610) 269-4040 or see .
com) for more information. The Chester County
Antiques Show in Malvern, Pennsylvania, opens
on Friday, April 24, and runs through April 26.
See ) for more
information.
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