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18-C Maine Antique Digest, May 2015
A 19th-century maple drop-leaf harvest
table (29" x 70" x 18") with turned legs
washed in red sold for $8625. McInnis photo.
The 19th-cen-
tury copper cow
weathervane sold
in the gallery for
$4600. McIn-
nis photo.
A Chelsea Clock, serial no. 59436,
had a 10" dial and was made for
the U.S.S. Skipjack, submarine
no. 24, launched in May 1911
at Quincy, Massachusetts. Its
first commander was Lieutenant
Chester W. Nimitz, and it later
entered active duty in World War
I. Its clock sold for $8050. A 6"
U.S. Coast Guard nickel-plated
ship’s clock (not shown) made
by Chelsea Clock Company bore
the serial number 114360 and
brought $4600 (est. $300/600).
McInnis photo.
The playful carved and painted
wood baby penguin from about
1920 was 9½" tall and sold for $2070
against the estimated $400/800.
A pair of 80" wide cast-iron butcher’s meat racks,
decorated with sausage links, a cleaver, and a carving
knife, made in 1888 by the Bernard Gloekler Com-
pany and patented by Charles A. Gloekler, son of the
founder of the company, sold on the phone for $2875.
McInnis photo.
A 12" x 15" 19th-century scrolling
iron fire hose wagon emblem
emblazoned “Major Chase”
and “4” came from Danvers,
Massachusetts, and sold in
the gallery for $4600. The
emblem was accompanied
by a framed photograph of
the wagon with firefight-
ers, some of whom were
in turnout gear. McInnis
photos.
The sign for the Dockum & Moulton barge service in Newburyport
reads “Leave for B and M [Boston & Maine Railroad] Depot in N.
Port at 11 AM and 4 PM” and was painted red, white, green, and blue.
The back was red, white, and green. It sold in the gallery for $4312.50.
McInnis photo.
Rogers also collected novelty clocks
such as the 9" tall clock in the form
of a GE refrigerator, made by Henry
Warren’s Telechron Company, that
sold online for $150, and the 4"
high enameled tin Little Red Riding
Hood hanging clock that sold in the
gallery for $201.25. McInnis photos.
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