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This Snap Wyatt seven-part oil on canvas circus banner for “Clarke Bro’s. Circus” that
illustrated world’s tallest giant, a tattooed lady, a snake charmer, a pin head, a fire eater, and
Irene the fat lady, 21" x 87", sold on the phone for $8400 (est. $2000/3000).
This circa 1760 Berks County, Pennsylvania, painted
walnut stretcher-base tavern table has an oblong top
with battened ends secured to the base with internal
cleats; the base has a central drawer flanked by two
small utensil drawers, all supported by boldly baluster
turned legs, joined by molded outside stretchers, all
resting on ball feet. The 29" x 60" x 33" table with
rare old blue paint sold on the phone for $16,800 (est.
$12,000/15,000).
This circa 1770 Pennsylvania
Chippendale
mahogany
tea table, 28" x 33¼", has
a dish top over a suppressed
ball standard, supported by cabriole
legs terminating in ball-and-claw feet. With
a Philip Bradley provenance, it sold for $6000
(est. $4000/6000) to dealer Skip Chalfant in the
salesroom.
This 8" high
Pennsylvania
redware sugar
jar with a cover
and moss-green
glaze, dated 1841
and inscribed
“Zucker / Ich bin der
frauen freund,” ex-Donald Shelley, sold for $9600
(est. $3000/5000). At Pook & Pook in April 2007, it
had sold for $10,530. (Shelley had bought it from
Edgar and Charlotte Sittig in 1956.)
This circa 1825 tall-case clock from the Pittsburgh area
has a broken-arch bonnet, turned feet, and bulbous
finials. The hood has a boldly striped tiger maple door
and inlaid rosettes at the tips of the horns. A star design
is inlaid at the top of the tiger maple waist, and the
door is banded with mahogany and has a central oval
mahogany panel. The tiger maple base is also banded
with mahogany and has an oval mahogany panel inset
in its center. The one-day weight-driven movement is
made of wood and metal. It has a painted wooden dial
and is 100" tall. It sold on the phone for $5040 (est.
$5000/10,000). It’s ex-Joel J. Einhorn.
Two phone bidders competed for this
5¾" high cup by Joseph Lehn (1798-
1892) of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The
turned and painted lidded saffron cup,
inscribed on the underside “Presented
to Lizzie B. Huber by Camelia Bollinger
May 16, 1886,” sold on the phone for
$1680 (est. $400/600).
From southeastern
Pennsylvania, this
2" x 5½" painted
oval bentwood box
with leaf and dot
decoration on an
orange ground sold for
$3840 (est. $3000/4000). At the
sale of the Donald Shelley collection at Pook
& Pook on April 20, 2007, it had sold for $6435.
This Pennsylvania redware
pie plate, 19th century and
attributed to the Diehl
Pottery, with yellow,
green, and brown
slip decoration, 8½"
diameter, had sold
at Pook & Pook at
the Flack sale on
October 27, 2012,
for $11,258 (est.
$5000/10,000). It sold
this time for $6000
(est. $4000/8000) to
dealer Greg Kramer.
There was a lot
of competition
for this late
18th-century
tiger maple
candlestand,
27½" x 15½",
and it sold on
the phone for
$4080 (est.
$800/1200).
This 6" wide octagonal redware plate,
19th century, has yellow slip and green
splashes. Its provenance includes
Thomas and Nancy Tafur of
Roxbury, Connecticut; David
Schorsch of Woodbury, Con-
necticut; and Howard and
Catherine Feldman of Bethle-
hem, Pennsylvania. It sold for
$10,800 (est. $8000/12,000) on
the phone to the buyer of the
other 6" octagonal plate deco-
rated with a slip grid with dots,
which sold for $9000.
A 13'' x 7¾" printed broadside, attributed to printer
Nikolaus Hasselbach of Baltimore, 1765, titled “Zwey
Wahrhafte Von Gantz Besondern Himmels-Zeichen” has an
emblematic woodblock illustration of signs of Heaven and
God’s warning, with a hymnal verse below. One of three
known examples, each of a slightly different variation,
it sold for $5520 (est. $1500/2500).
This Philadelphia bright-cut silver ladle, circa 1800,
bears the touch of Richard Humphreys. The 14½" long
ladle weighs 5.9 ounces and sold online for $1169 (est.
$400/600). A late 18th-century silver ladle by Joseph
Richardson (not shown), 6.3 ounces, 14" long, sold to
another online bidder for $861 (est. $300/500).