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Maine Antique Digest, April 2015 7-B
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Schelyn Flippin of Columbia, South Carolina,
attended the preview with her husband. She liked
Catesby’s
Natural History of Carolina
, a 1974 fac-
simile of the original 1771 publication. Numbered
and in a clamshell box, the set sold to an Internet
bidder for $750 (est. $700/1000). Prunkl photo.
Carew Rice was a master with scissors and black paper. Of the
eight lots of his silhouettes in the sale, the set with
My Money’s
Done Gone
(shown) topped all at $1140 (est. $500/800). The
five images in this lot, all titled and signed, ranged from 11" x
14" to 15¾" x 10".
Charlton Hall devoted an entire page in the color catalog to
Rel-
ics
, an 11¾" x 9¾" drypoint/etching by Martin Lewis. Absentees
and the phones took it from an opening bid of $25,000 to $48,000
(est. $25,000/35,000), a record for a Lewis etching.
Chance Meeting
, a 10½" x 7½" drypoint/etching by
Martin Lewis, sold to an Internet bidder for $10,000
(est. $7000/10,000).
Zolta Przestrzen
, a 40" x 34" acrylic on canvas (1965) by Tade-
usz Dominik (Polish, 1928-2014) went to a phone bidder for
$14,400 ($6000/8000).
Mary Lawson, whose shop the Polished Antique is
in Greenville, South Carolina, must have examined
every leather-bound book in this Egyptian Revival
carved mahogany and black lacquer secretary book-
case. She was the underbidder on six lots and won
one—a collection of 32 leather-bound poetry books
for $960 (est. $700/1000). The late-19th-century sec-
retary bookcase sold to a phone bidder for $4800
(est. $4000/6000). Prunkl photo.
Linda Whitlock, an on-line glass dealer from Germanton,
North Carolina, had no intention of bidding on the six-piece
set of 5" Tiffany Favrile glass shades. She just wanted to see
them in the light. The set far exceeded its $600/900 presale
estimate to sell to a phone bidder for $9000. Linda and David
Whitlock did succeed in buying a 26" x 15" Arts and Crafts
bronze and Quezal glass five-light chandelier (not shown) for
$2400 (est. $1000/2000). David said they might first put it in
their kitchen. Prunkl photo.
Decorated with a winter
scene, this 13½" tall circa
1910 signed Daum Nancy
enameled cameo glass vase
was the top lot from the
McConnell collection. A
phone bidder bought it for
$7200 (est. $2000/4000).
The same bidder also
took home a 14½" tall
late 19th-century Mt.
Washington Royal Flem-
ish vase decorated with
three ducks in flight (not
shown) for $3840 (est.
$2000/3000).
This Gallé hyacinth cameo
glass vase had the sec-
ond-highest selling price
among the 36 pieces in
the McConnell collection.
The 12" tall vase went to a
phone bidder for $6600 (est.
$4000/6000).
The sale concluded with 63 lots of Asian
works of art. As so often happens with
Asian artifacts, some estimates were far
too low. That was the case with a framed
58" x 36½" 18th- or 19th-century Tibetan
thangka, a painting on cotton or silk. It
sold for $19,200 on an estimate of $500/800.
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