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30-C Maine Antique Digest, December 2016
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This Silas Hoadley tall clock with wooden works, gilt
painting in the spandrels and tombstone arch, wooden
ball finials, minute and calendar dials, and a simple paint-
decorated case stopped dead at $440.
This 1930 Ford Model A deluxe roadster with a tan convertible top, in dark blue with black
fenders, looked as if it were about to roll off the showroom floor, with an odometer reading
of only 5035. It sold for $19,250.
Scores of paintings by Maine’s own Waldo Peirce (1884-1970) have popped up
at auction in the last few years. This 23½" x 29½" oil on canvas titled
Newbury
Garden, 1962
, with a cherub-like child hosing down the flowers, was signed both
lower right and on the back. But with a $3000/5000 estimate, it was one of only two
items in the auction that didn’t sell.
This crayon and pencil sketch on paper of a woman in Victorian attire strolling past a
house and garden is stylistically attributed to but not signed by Fritz Vogt (1841-1900).
The sketch is laid down on a solid backing, and it brought $770.
This Solon Francis Montecello Badger portrait of the fishing schooner
Flora L. Nickerson
headed out for $7700.
James King Bonnar (1883-1961), an artist from the North Shore, Massachusetts, produced
this 24½" x 29½" oil on canvas of a gentleman on a dirt lane passing through a grove of
autumn-hued trees. The final price of $770 looked very reasonable for a Bonnar landscape
of this size.