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36-C Maine Antique Digest, April 2015
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The teakettle with heating
stand, London, 1715, with a
mark by John Fawdrey, was
$38,000 from Robert Lloyd
Antiques, New York City.
Need to seat 16? The George III three-pedestal table, 48½" x 103" (closed), 150"
(open), was $24,000 from Roger D. Winter of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It had
two original leaves in mahogany, gun-barrel columns, and a tilt-top center. The set
of eight George III mahogany chairs with foliate carved seats and Marlborough
legs with egg-and-dart carving, English or Irish, circa 1800, was $16,500. The
19th-century Imari punch bowl with a scalloped edge, 18½" diameter, was $4800.
Stephen Score of Boston,
Massachusetts, offered an
illuminated tin man dating
from the 1940s-’50s that
once graced a hardware
store in West Medford,
Massachusetts. His eyes
light up. He was tagged
$7500. The row of Kew-
pie dolls above, originally
from a shooting gallery,
was $8500 and sold. The
sign, “Street Girls Bringing
Sailors into Hotel Must Pay
for Room in Advance,” was
$1200.
The Samuel Gragg chair is one of a
pair priced at $7600 by Andrew Spin-
dler Antiques & Design, Essex, Mas-
sachusetts. Deaccessioned from the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, one
(shown) was in original paint and the
other was in later paint.
The map of the “Provinces of New York and New Jer-
sey; with Part of Pensilvania and the Province of Que-
bec. Drawn by Major Holland Surveyor General” and
engraved by Thomas Jefferys, geographer to the crown,
was $9250 from D.M. DeLaurentis of Philadelphia. The
map details the early East Coast Colonies from the Del-
aware River bay to the St. Lawrence River in Quebec.
The Adirondack County area of New York is noted as
“Beaver Hunting Country of the Confederate Indians.”
Dutch-born Samuel Holland (1728-1801) was the sur-
veyor general for the northern district of North America.
Surveyor general for the southern district, beginning at
the Potomac River, was Gerard De Brahm.
The 17 ceremonial hats from an Odd Fellows
lodge in Long Island were being sold as a collec-
tion by Frank Gaglio of Rhinebeck, New York.
He asked $2500 for the set. They each had their
original labels—they were made by C.E. Ward—
and also had homemade labels for lodge use; one
was marked “Vice Grand.” The blue-painted fan
louvers above them, New England, were $5200.
“I think Brad Reh and Debbie Turi did an excel-
lent job of putting together an interesting group of
dealers. They certainly couldn’t have picked a bet-
ter week…. I liked my booth location—everything
was as I expected it to be. If there’s one thing I can
say in the way of constructive criticism is that they
didn’t have any food or beverage service. I think
they will get that corrected for next year. When the
show opened on Friday, I had an excellent day.”
Gaglio said a family emergency forced him to leave
his booth unattended on Saturday and Sunday.
The large (31" x 24½")
English silk and wool
portrait of a mother
and her four children
was
$18,000
from
Earle D. Vandekar of
Knightsbridge,
New
York City. It was silk
over a linen ground
with silk floss, worsted
wool yarn, Merino wool
yarn, and oil paint. It
had a painted sky back-
ground, and each figure
had a painted face and
hands. The design came
from a mezzotint after
John Hoppner (1758-
1810), who entered the
Royal Academy in 1775.
Six China trade watercolors of Chinese sampans and junks,
each 14½" x 18", circa 1850, were $15,000 from Earle D.
Vandekar of Knightsbridge. The frames are contemporary.
Trifles of Wiscasset, Maine, asked $5800
for the English desk-on-stand, measuring
only 27" wide, which was perfect for a New
York apartment. It was
burl walnut veneered with
oak secondary. We missed
the price of the small globe
on top.
Chances are if you’re of a certain age,
you’ve seen one of these before. It’s a bright
red “O” from an old Woolworth’s sign.
With the added mirror, it makes quite a
statement. Matthew and Helen Robinson of
Trifles asked $1200 for it.
The Wawbeek comforter, from Suna-
pee, New Hampshire, was $8500 and
sold. It looks contemporary, but dealer
Stephen Score had the history. It was
circa 1920, 78" x 80", and once in
Wawbeek, a summer home in Suna-
pee, New Hampshire, owned by Col-
onel William S.B. Hawkins, a lawyer
who served as assistant attorney gen-
eral in Worcester, Massachusetts. He
bought the land in 1880. The summer
home featured seven bedrooms, six
fireplaces, and a two-story porch, and overlooked the lake. The family used the sum-
mer home until 1937. Score irreverently called it a “Band-Aid quilt,” noting the strip
that appears to be a Band-Aid, but it actually was a design feature and not a repair.
The brownstone sailor,
probably a watch hutch, was
dated 1872 and $3500 from
Cottage + Camp, Philadel-
phia. It was lightly inscribed
on the bottom noting that
James Dougherty had pre-
sented it to his nephew in
Philadelphia in February
1872.
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