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38-B Maine Antique Digest, May 2015
- AUCTION -
A pair of German silver
articulated table birds with
hinged wings weigh 28.120
and 23 troy ounces and each
was stamped “Germany.”
The pair drew $2214 from
the Internet.
Two pages from a 15th-century French illuminated
manuscript book of hours were painted in northern
France between 1480 and 1500 and consigned from
a Westchester County, New York, estate. One page is
two-sided and contains text; the second is single-sided
with an image of Jesus on the cross. The lot includes
the 1954 translation and notes on the work by classics
professor Bernard M. Peebles of Catholic University,
who was also one of the World War II “Monuments
Men.” The pages sold online for $3998.
A Swiss fire-gilt carriage clock, circa
1880, with marks for Geneva, a sweep
second hand, and a half-hour repeater
was numbered #17609 and retained
the original key with the same num-
ber. Measuring 5 5/8" x 4 3/8" (7" high
including handle), it sold for $1800. A
tag attached to the clock described its
Lombard family ownership and the
whereabouts of its red leather case,
“upstairs in my bedroom,” and was
signed L. Linden Lombard.
Clocks attracted interest. An
English chinoiserie George III
tall clock with a gilt brass face
was inscribed “Marmd Storr,
London”
for
Marmaduke
Storr, who was active between
1724 and 1775. It has Roman
and Arabic numerals and a
separate second hand and a
calendar dial. The clock stands
83¾" tall but had been altered
to accommodate a lower ceil-
ing, and notes on its provenance
were attached. It sold for $4200.
Not shown, a 38" Howard &
Davis banjo clock sold online
for $2091.
The 30" x 16" x 12"
Regency mahogany
teapoy, circa 1825,
was missing a glass
bowl. It realized $720.
A Revolutionary War
field bed, 73½" x 31½"
x 39½", made of white
oak and white pine
descended in the Ste-
vens (textiles) family of
North Andover. It sold
to a left bid for $2400.
The Pennsylvania two-part corner cupboard,
painted in rosewood grain with smoke decora-
tion and with a cutout base, circa 1835, is 81½"
tall and 49" wide at the top of the cornice. It
sold for $600.
Le Cirque
(Circus), a 38¼" x 51½" oil on canvas by Edouard Legrand
(French, 1882-1970), was one of three by the artist and brought $7200.
The oil on canvas autumnal landscape by Connecticut
artist Mabel Bacon Plimpton English (1861-1944) sold
to the Internet for $984.
A Dunbar mid-20th-century walnut dining table, 114" (with its
additional two leaves) x 44", and six chairs was a very good buy
at $1200.