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Maine Antique Digest, March 2017 21-C
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Loch Ness
, a 20" x 30" oil on canvas view by British Royal Academy artist Alfred de
Bréanski (1852-1928), is unframed but signed by the artist and sold online for $1562.50.
A 1986 sculpture by Long Island, New York, artist Richard Gachot,
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, a kinetic work with a giant lab rat with miniature
human figures, 24" x 34" x 16", was a very good buy when it sold for a very
reasonable $360. Gachot’s work has been exhibited extensively.
A 19th-century Royal Navy rum tub with brass fittings and
an acorn finial would have been used aboard ship to dispense
daily rum rations. With brass lettering reading “The Queen /
God Bless Her,” the tub fetched $1750 online. It is pictured with
a 49" long Van Tromp foghorn made by the National Alarm
Company and patented in Boston in 1867 that sold for $240.
A 57" long model of a U.S. ship from the Spanish-American war with the
original case sold for $1200. Its brass has been polished, and the model was
accompanied by a period photograph of the vessel and two postcards. Marion
Antique Auction photo.
Cape Ann artist Wayne Morrell (1923-2013) was represented by
Nor’east Winds
off Camden, Maine
, a 24" x 36", oil on canvas that brought $2400. The painting
bears two labels from Roger King of Newport, Rhode Island, and is inscribed,
“This is one of my finest ship paintings I’ve ever painted.”
Robert Berglund’s 20" x 24" oil on canvas
Low Tide
sold online for $812.50.
The picture had been included in the Provincetown Art Association’s second
1948 exhibition and retains labels from that show.
Tables incorporating heavy brass marine
objects were in the auction. Two brass
portholes (one shown) marked “Wojidkow,
Sweden” and “Encast Securitglas” were used
to make a pair of 16½" x 21" tables. The
52-pound tables sold for $492. Not shown,
an even heavier 74-pound 40" long coffee
table with a Herreshoff folding anchor
brought $420.
Frank H. McNamee, left, and C. David Glynn, who run
Marion Antique Auctions, have deep roots in southeastern
Massachusetts, and their auctions bring to market
maritime objects with local history.