Maine Antique Digest, March 2017

Maine Antique Digest, March 2017 29-E

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DK Farnum, an estate jeweler from New York City

and Lakeville, Connecticut, asked $9000 for this fish

lighter with pink and blue sapphire eyes, designed by

Schlumberger. Owner Dana Kraus said she has a new

website and added, “Good jewelry is a good place to

put your money.”

Mid-century modern furniture by designers such as Karl Springer, Tommi

Parzinger, and Florence Knoll remains popular. Glen Leroux Antiques,

Westport, Connecticut, offered several pieces, including the table lamps by

Pierre Cardin, tagged $5400 the pair; the sofa and two chairs by Florence

Knoll, with an asking price of $12,500; and the Art Deco coffee table by Brown-

Saltman for $5400. Leroux also sells jewelry and reported that “big and serious

chunky 18-karat gold” jewelry is what his customers are eyeing.

A broadside dated September 18, 1883,

announcing a public auction by D.A. Ambler of

a house, barn, carriage house, and other outlying

buildings on King Street in Greenwich was

priced at $650 at the booth of Frank S. Oppel.

“It’s the only one I’ve ever seen,” he declared.

Village Braider, Essex, Massachusetts, was a first-time exhibitor at the show.

This stone planter found a home, as did a life-size carved horse from Rhode

Island (not shown).

This carved wood owl, circa 1880,

found in Southwest Harbor, Maine,

was available from Georgian Manor

Antiques, Fairhaven, Massachusetts,

priced at $2400.

Poirier Schweitzer of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, asked

$9850 for this Madoura ceramic plate with a corrida scene

by Pablo Picasso. It is 12" x 14½" and dated “25. 9. 53.”

This Tibetan bell from the early 19th century with

the original mallet was priced at $4000 from Kairos

Gallery, Palisades Park, New Jersey.

A Greenwich policeman spent time perusing

local maps at the booth of Frank S. Oppel,

a map and print dealer from Stamford,

Connecticut. Oppel said, “Basically I’m

showing maps of where we are, and on the far

wall, where you want to be, like the Hamptons,

the Cape, Nantucket, and coastal Rhode

Island.”

This silver wine coaster with wood inlay came from the

Harlem Yacht Club and was available at the booth of

J. Gallagher, North Norwich, New York, priced in the

$3500 to $5000 range.