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Maine Antique Digest, May 2015 17-C
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A phone bidder took a good 19th-century rose medallion punch
bowl (18 5/8" diameter) for $4887.50.
The 18th- or 19th-century Japanese ceramic
Foo dog sold for $3162.50.
The 1815 watercolor mourning theorem by Abigail New-
man in memory of her grandfather John Hale of New-
bury went to a phone bidder for $5175. McInnis photo.
A rare 16" tall
1 8 t h - c e n t u r y
painted pine and
pierced tin lantern
in untouched con-
dition brought
$8050. McInnis
photo.
The sale opened with a 30"
long realistically carved
arm, mounted on a turned
and molded wall plate. A
later screw and wing nut
secures the American flag
with 48 stars. It sold for
$3162.50. McInnis photo.
The advertising sign for Pearson’s Red Top Snuff of
Byfield, Massachusetts, was printed on cloth (18" x
36") and framed under glass and sold for $546.25.
McInnis photo.
Here’s an early Harvard Clock Com-
pany nickel wall clock made in 1884,
the year that the Harvard Clock Com-
pany foundered and was replaced
by the Boston Clock Company. The
Boston Clock Company later became
the Eastman Clock Company and by
1897 it was Chelsea Clock Company.
The clock is inscribed “Crosby Steam
Gauge Co.” and was presented in 1884
to Steamer No. 1 of Haverhill, Massa-
chusetts. It realized $3450, and auction-
eer John McInnis told bidders, “It’s
going to a good local home.” McInnis
photo.
A late addition to the sale, the parlor
time and strike calendar clock (No.
3½) by Ithaca Clock Company was
20½" tall and brought $1840.
An
18th-century
Chippendale mahog-
any reverse serpen-
tine drop-front desk
by
Daniel
Osgood
(46" x 44½" x 23") on
ball-and-claw feet was
signed on two drawers.
It had descended in
the family of Charles
Tyler of Newbury and
realized $3450 from a
local buyer. McInnis
photo.
The 13¼" high Newburyport
leather fire bucket, bearing the
legend “Marine / M Lunt, Jr /
1776 / All Hands Hoa / No 1”
was decorated with an image
of a homeward-bound three-
masted ship and an image of
a burning house. It went to
the phones for $5175. The
Marine Fire Society of New-
buryport was organized in
1775 by the Marine Society of
Newburyport. McInnis photo.
The 22" high brass ship’s bell was supported by
cast-iron dolphin supports and engraved “Glit-
ner 1867.” Its provenance included Maudslay, the
estate of the Moseley family of Newburyport (now
a state park), and it sold for $4887.50. The
Glitner
was a Norwegian tug built in 1867 and lost in 1912.
A 16½" high pierced brass fireman’s
punty glass lantern was etched “S. R.
Rogers” and estimated at $200/300.
Bidders thought otherwise and pushed
it to $1725. The base and the top vent
were decorated with stars, and the
burner was signed “Reis PA June
1863.” McInnis photo.
A 58" wide 19th-century fireman’s
hand tub wooden banner proclaim-
ing “Prompt to the Rescue” was
topped by an obelisk. The carved
banner was found in Gloucester,
Massachusetts, and sold for
$4600. McInnis photo.