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Maine Antique Digest, May 2015 37-B
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It’s Brenda Stinson who keeps it all together at Stinson auc-
tions. Wife to Carl, mother to Ned and Doug, and grand-
mother to William, she has her hands full.
William Stinson, who is 12, is learning
the antiques business. He is an excep-
tionally competent spotter and can
wield a gavel as well as the next man.
A China trade sewing table, circa 1890,
whose interior was fitted with carved ivory
accessories realized $1200.
A pair of satinwood armchairs (one shown) dec-
orated in the Adam style and with caned backs
went to a phone buyer for $840.
Two dozen lots of items by Dedham Pottery inspired
themost energetic bidding on the part of sale attend-
ees, and much of it was divided among four buyers
in the gallery. The most desirable was the 9¾" plate
with the rare double moth design (shown) that sold
for $2040. Not shown, an 8½" poppy plate designed
by J. Lindon Smith, who with Alice Morse created
the rabbit that typifies the Dedham Pottery, sold for
$960. An 8¾" plate depicting the Fairbanks House
in Dedham was bordered with rabbits and sold for
$960. One lot of four pieces that included a bowl
(5½" x 2") decorated with a frieze of elephants, a
cup and saucer with an elephant design, a cup with
an iris decoration, and a cut corner bowl (8½" x
3½") decorated with stylized flowers sold for $900.
The same buyer in the gallery paid another $900 for
a lot of four plates that included an 8½" example
with a dolphin decoration, an 8½" example deco-
rated with ducks, a 7¾" example decorated with an
elephant and a baby elephant, and a 6" example
decorated with turtles.
The 19th-century Maine bird’s-eye maple chest, circa 1840, was 43½" x 45"
x 19½". With minor imperfections, it sold for $1680.
The half-plate
d a g u e r r e o -
type (5¾" x
4") of Wil-
liam Jackson
(1783-1855) of
Newton, Mas-
s a c h u s e t t s ,
was made by
John Adams
Whipple
of
Boston
and
sold online for
$2460. Jack-
son was a local
politician and
represented his
district in Con-
gress between
1833 and 1837. The lot was accompa-
nied by an image of family members
and related paperwork.
The 18th-century walnut corner cabinet
stands 78" high and is 29" across the
front, and it sold for $900.
A brilliantly colored suzani needlework (67" x 86") from about 1920
had some condition problems and realized $1320.
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