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This Fresnel lens set in a bronze frame was said to
have come from Boston Light. It had been given an
interior light and a wood top for service as a table.
It realized $1652.
Polly Warren acquired three carved bird heads from her
summertime neighbor on Cape Cod Anthony Elmer Crowell.
They brought $236.
A mid-19th-century pair of carved
wood ship cathead ends in the form of
lion heads realized $2006 on a left bid.
This 18th-century
Queen Anne
mahogany drop-
leaf table was all
original—except that
its hinges had been
moved—and brought
$3540.
Nantucket artist Jan Pawlowski was born in 1949 in Poland and arrived in the U.S. in
1988. His 9" x 12" oil on canvas view of a Beetle Cat with two figures and a dog aboard
brought $472.
An 18th-century William and
Mary burl walnut lowboy with a
serpentine X-stretcher sold to a
left bid for $4956.
A set of four 1809 large folio lithographs, each 19" x 25¾", after
drawings by British artist and Egyptologist Henry Salt (1780-
1827) and engraved by D. Havell (presumably Daniel Havell), was
published by William Miller of London. The images depict the
Vale of Calaat, the Mountains of Samayut, the interior of the Fort
of Monghyr, and an Abyssinian view. The lot brought $1416.
This 18th-century Boston Chippendale mahogany blockfront chest of
drawers was cataloged as appearing to be in all-original condition and with a
contraction crack on the top and side. It sold for $2596.
Polly Warren has been involved in the antiques
business, among other ventures, for much of her life.