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28-A Maine Antique Digest, December 2016
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“Sugar Puff Waffles” trade sign, early 20th century, red,
yellow, and black on a gray ground, 38¾" x 65½", $1440.
Two-drawer
stand with
drop leaves,
pine with chrome-
yellow paint with a
black game board
top, 1830-40, $1680.
Sheet-iron weathervane of an
Indian followed by two dogs, late
19th or early 20th century, good
paint on both sides, 50" high
(excluding rod), $2760.
Hooded
dry sink,
first half of the 19th
century, poplar, cleaned down
to powder-blue paint over an orange-
salmon paint, 42" high x 48½" wide, paint loss and
wear, feet with wear and edge loss, loss to sides, $4200.
Historical blue
Staffordshire Arms of
Georgia vegetable
dish by “T. Mayer,”
English, second
quarter of the
19th century,
12" wide, knife
scratches, $3240.
American folk art stork, carved
wood with original paint, late
19th or early 20th
century, 32"
high, crazed
surface,
$2040.
Pennsylvania
stoneware crock,
three gallons,
impressed mark
“…Boughner,
Greensboro,”
$2220.
Paint-decorated Dutch cupboard in pine, mid-19th
century, cleaned to its existing surface of chrome-
yellow paint with sienna splashes, new molding
around the base of the upper section, breaks at the
base, $2400.
Decorated apple box attributed to Jacob Knagy
(1796-1883), red paint with stenciled gold stars
on the posts, 8¼" high x 10" square, $3000.
Delft tobacco jar,
blue “Maryland
Taback” and
tin glaze, the
Netherlands, 17th
century, 8½" high,
wear, repair to foot and
back, $1680.
Four-gallon stoneware jug with a stenciled
merchant’s label, “John Reid Jr. Grocer &
Wholesale Liquor Dealer ...Wheeling W. Va.,”
freehand flourishes, some imperfections, $2625.
Twelve-gallon
stoneware crock
with stenciled
designs of an
eagle encircled
by “A. Conrad
/ New Geneva /
Fayette Co. Pa.”
and an eagle with
a banner lettered
“Lion Pottery,”
second half of the
19th century, some
freehand accents,
repair at the base
near the cobalt
design, $4920.
“T. Harrington, Lyons,” New York, two-
gallon stoneware jar with lid, freehand
cobalt deer, impressed maker’s mark, mid-
19th century, in-the-making defect below
the deer, other minor damage, $3360.
Elijah Pierce (1892-
1984), carved wood
and painted calico
cat and kitten,
signed and dated 1976,
4½" high x 9"
long, $2760.