Maine Antique Digest, March 2017

30-C Maine Antique Digest, March 2017

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Oil on canvas, signed “F. Berlingieri,” $920.

Another single-drawer bracket-base blanket chest, this one with oval brasses

and muddy brown paint that just wasn’t as appealing as the blue, ended at

$345.

Blanket chest in original blue-gray paint, $1725.

The form was nice on a two-

drawer lift-top blanket chest

(right) with two faux drawer

fronts. But the splotchy green

paint, well worn through an

undercoat to bare wood, wasn’t

all that thrilling, and it went

for $345. A yellow and brown

sponge-painted single-drawer

blanket chest (left) with nonorig-

inal pulls on a bootjack base was

somewhat more appealing but

only slightly more valuable at

$402.50.

Small oil on board by Willis Henry Plummer, $345.

A flock of duck decoys stretched

out over a long table. The best of

the group included an uniden-

tified black-and-white bird in a

diving position, signed “K. Kautz”

for carver K. William Kautz of

Hartland, Vermont, that brought

$235.75, and two large Maine

eiders by an unknown carver that

sold for $661.25 and $632.50.