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16-D Maine Antique Digest, April 2015
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Contemporary California and Virginia artist
Armand Cabrera (b. 1955) was represented by
three paintings in the sale. He is best known for
his landscape and fantasy paintings. He is also a
production artist for computer games and enter-
tainment, and his clients include LucasArts, Dis-
ney, and Paramount Pictures. Above left, a 15½"
x 19½" (sight size) oil on canvas titled
Nicasio
,
indicating the Nicasio region of Marin County,
California, sold for $550. Above right, an 11¾"
x 15½" (sight size) oil on panel called
Mt. Burdell
from Novato Creek Marsh
, also a Marin County
painting, sold for $220. Right, an 11¾" x 15½"
(sight size) oil on panel of an unspecified moun-
tain meadow brought $275.
There isn’t much on record about 20th-century New York artist John
Hawkins. This 24½" x 31½" (sight size) seascape of pounding surf by
Hawkins was worth $247.50.
Born in England, artist Samuel Peter Rolt Triscott
(1846-1925) immigrated to Massachusetts in 1871.
In the 1870s, he worked as a surveyor and painted
throughout most of New England. In later years he
painted frequently on Monhegan Island, Maine. This
17" x 25¼" (sight size) watercolor scene of an unin-
habited coastal wetland drew $302.50.
Painted sea chest illustrating the Cunard Line’s R.M.S.
Cam-
pania
, graphically painted, dated 1914, sold for $247.50.
Dark red and black grain-painted Sheraton drop-leaf harvest table,
$550.
Apleasantly small 36" pine chair table with
a well-worn stretcher, a dry red paint fin-
ish, pegged mortise and tenon construction,
and a top that was scrubbed down to bare
wood broke into four figures at $1045.
Painter, photographer, animator, and folk art sculptor
Maurice “Jake” Day (1892-1983) is probably Damariscotta,
Maine’s best-known “favorite son” artist. This 14" x 20¼"
(sight size) comic watercolor was titled
Nancy Rollins in
her Bunker Hill Bedroom
. I couldn’t determine who Nancy
Rollins was, but Bunker Hill probably refers to the Bunker
Hill area of nearby Jefferson, Maine. The amusing painting
brought $220.
A heavily crackled primitive portrait of
a very attractive young woman in profile
before a red curtain drape, unsigned and
unattributed, 29¾" x 24¾" (sight size), drew
$1100.
Red-painted folk art wall box
with relief carving of horses
flanking an eagle and shield,
$137.50.
A shot of sterling silver opened the auction as
this signed Tiffany & Co. bowl, weighing in at
11.7 troy ounces, brought $165.
This pressed steel riding toy by Keystone is
probably from the 1920s or early 1930s. The
“KEYSTONE AIR MAIL” decal was gone, as
was a good part of the paint, but the “NX-273”
designation remained on the tail, and the pro-
peller spun as the wheels turned. It flew off for
$302.50.
A set of four fine cut crystal decant-
ers, of which three retained ster-
ling identification tags and chains,
topped out at $3080.