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Maine Antique Digest, December 2016 29-D
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This 18th-century Goddard & Engs Rhode Island Hepplewhite sideboard, 41" x 67",
has “spectacular” crotched mahogany veneer. It dates, according to Smith, from
1790 to 1810 and sold for $9430.
This New Hampshire 60" gate-leg table, with a drawer and bold Spanish feet, attributed to
the Gaines workshop, has a Withington provenance and brought $5175.
Bill Smith at the podium for his September sale.
Sideli photo.
This Federal New Hampshire
tall clock, with an inlaid
cherry case and quarter
columns, signed “P. Brown,
Hopkinton [NH],” stands 86"
high. It is, according to Bill
Smith, a hard-to-find New
Hampshire clock, and it sold
for $7187.50.
This elegant Art Deco diamond and sapphire bracelet, set in platinum, with 2.5 carats
of diamonds, 7" long, sold to a buyer at the sale for $4887.50.
This early 19th-century banjo
clock, the dial signed by John
Stowell and the tablet signed
“Fisherfield Pond, N.H.,”
has a weight and pendulum.
Measuring 33", it was found
in an attic in Greenwich,
Connecticut. Opening at
$3000, it quickly reached
$9775.
Catalog notes describe
this three-part tiger maple
Chippendale-style secretary
desk as “spectacular.” The
lavish interior has seven
carved fans and a latticework
crest. The secretary was
made by Donald Dunlap
and measures 81" x 36".
After competitive bidding, it
brought $13,800.
A buyer at the sale won the 18th-century William and Mary
two-part highboy with an old grain-painted case for only $2990.
The catalog described this stunning
19th-century Black Forest tall clock
with carved bears and a three-weight
brass movement as “exceptional.”
Measuring a substantial 93" high x 27"
wide, it sold for $17,250.