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28-D Maine Antique Digest, May 2015
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This early 19th-century Salem,
Massachusetts, two-drawer sewing
stand of figured mahogany, with
acanthus-carved and fluted legs,
brass cup casters, and a gadrooned
and cookie-cut top, has the orig-
inal lion’s-head brasses. Despite
one rear leg’s having been broken,
it sold for $5750 to dealer Stanley
Weiss. Ex-Walter Vogel, it was esti-
mated at $1500/2000.
Three sack-back Windsor chairs, old refinish, ex-Vogel collection, a good
buy at $1092.
Revolutionary
War-era
powder horn, 12½" long,
inscribed “Liev Bennedick
/ Satterlee His Horn / Fort
Eadward Oct,” $10,580
(est. $1500/2500).
Charming painted small
blanket box, circa 1824,
dovetailed, in original
paint, 11" x 21" x 15",
$5462.
This rare miniature Nantucket chest is initialed “E C” for
Elizabeth Coffin, the wife of William Coffin, a descendant of
Tristram Coffin, who purchased and settled Nantucket Island.
It had its original brass and a nice patina. Measuring just
12½" x 12" x 7" and from a Buffalo, New York, collection, the
piece went to the phone for $14,375.
Massachusetts Chippendale blockfront chest-on-chest, restorations
to feet, 6'11" x 42" x 22", $18,975 to the phone.
Cottone offered a number
of lots of Rose Medal-
lion and Chinese porce-
lain that descended in
the family of President
Ulysses Grant; many
pieces had been used in
the White House. The
top price was for this
6½" high x 16" diameter
punch bowl—$12,075.
Diminutive mahogany drop-leaf table, Boston, old refinish and
some restorations, 26¾" x 41" x 13" (closed), just $1150. Condition,
condition!
A 20th-century piece of metal
sculpture that did very well was
this one made by Albert Paley (b.
1944) of Rochester, New York. At
5'10" and with some oxidation, it
was estimated at $10,000/15,000
and sold for $15,525 to a phone
bidder. It was consigned by Rich-
ard Brush.