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Maine Antique Digest, May 2015 35-B
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This 39" x 30"
(overall) oil on can-
vas
Portrait of a
Boy Wearing a Red
Dress and Carrying
a Whip
, circa 1845,
attributed to George
Gassner
(1811-
1861), restretched,
rebacked, and prob-
ably with its original
frame, was $18,500
from Samuel Her-
rup of Sheffield,
Massachusetts. An
article by David
A. Schorsch in the
Winter 2015 issue of
Antiques & Fine Art
identifies the artist
and illustrates many
works but does not
picture this one.
Libby Wojcik of adLib, Raleigh, North Carolina,
asked $9500 for the 41½"x 51" x 25" Sampson
County, North Carolina, hunt board of pine;
$2200 for the bottle case (right); $2800 for the
liquor dispenser (left); and $2200 for the hooked
rug (above).
Bill Kelly of Limington, Maine, asked $4650 for the pair of
fancy chairs made in Baltimore or Pennsylvania. The mahog-
any games table with a checkerboard painted on the top was
$4800.
Scott Bassoff and Sandy Jacobs of Swampscott, Massachu-
setts, asked $16,500 for this 12½" x 31" x 12" stagecoach
trunk, the interior paper lining painted with a frieze of
houses and trees, ex-Ralph Esmerian collection.
A Bird in Hand Antiques, Florham Park, New Jer-
sey, asked $5800 for this circa 1942 “Shadows”
Grenfell mat designed by Stephen Hamilton that
depicts a dog sled crossing the ice. It had been
made from silk stockings and marketed by Grenfell
Labrador Industries, St. Anthony, Newfoundland,
Canada.
Joseph Lodge of Lederach, Pennsylvania, asked
$3950 for the grain-painted dry sink and $1975 for
the hooked rug with a dog. On the dry sink is a
wallpapered rectangular box priced at $895; the
painted mortars and pestles cost (left to right) $995
for a small one in blue paint, $895 for another one
in blue, and $975 for a green one. The two pantry
boxes in red paint were $725 each. The pair of mir-
rored sconces was $1350.
Blue spatterware plate with a rare yellow
acorn pattern, $875 from Teresa and Bill
Kurau of Lampeter, Pennsylvania.
Anderson-Breish Antiques, Fort Washington,
Pennsylvania, and Ann Bedics of The Cat Lady
Antiques, Bangor, Pennsylvania, asked $850 for
these McLoughlin lithographed knockdowns
from the 1890s.
Found in Mas-
sachusetts,
this
large oilcloth rag
doll in outstand-
ing condition with
painted face and
original clothes,
including garters
for her stock-
ings, circa 1880,
was $3850 from
Stephen-Douglas
Antiques, Rock-
ingham, Vermont.
Sally Good of Dresher, Pennsylvania, asked $750
for this pearlware soup tureen. H.F. du Pont had
bought it from Philip Bradley, and it had been
owned by the antiquarian John Snyder.
Shaker-style staved keeler for washing the butter-
milk from butter, $2500 from John Rogers of New
London, New Hampshire.
James Price of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, asked
$6250 for this diminutive (57" high) Maryland
tall chest of walnut, circa 1790, with original
sheaf-of-wheat brasses. It was one of several tall
chests at the show.