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32-A Maine Antique Digest, March 2017
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Probably from New York, the Isaac Perkins family
Federal eagle-inlaid five-legged mahogany card table,
1800-15, sold to an online bidder for $100,000 (est.
$30,000/50,000). It was underbid by Clark Pearce. Its
surface is old and has a rich color. The 29¾" x 35¾"
x 17¾" table had crossed the block before; Northeast
Auctions sold it in 2002 for $206,000. The table is said
to have been a gift to Isaac Perkins (1780-1840) from
his fellow brothers of the Masonic St. John’s Lodge #4.
A phone bidder on the
line with Jill Waddell
paid $47,500 for this late
19th-century cast and
painted zinc figure of
Liberty by J.L. Mott
Ironworks of New
York. It measures
75½" x 19¾" x
17¼" and was
estimated at
$30,000/50,000.
From the Jay Altmayer family collection but sold in the
general sale, this oil on board of George Washington at
Dorchester Heights, after John Trumbull (1756–1843),
ex-Kennedy Galleries, 20
⅜
" x 25
⅜
" including frame, sold
to an absentee bidder for $21,250 (est. $3000/5000).
Ex-Garbisch, this small (23" x 22" x
11¼") Chippendale cherry chest, probably
southeastern Connecticut, 1765-85, sold to
a phone bidder for $27,500, underbid by
a collector in the room. The construction
is unusual because the drawer sides taper
and the front wood becomes thinner
from bottom to top. Similar construction
appears on the Devotion family dressing
table, pictured in
Expression of Innocence
and Eloquence: Selections from the Jane
Katcher Collection of Americana
, Vol. II,
p. 80. The last time this chest crossed the
block in May 1980, it sold for $8250.
This late 19th-century Black Hawk weathervane,
attributed to J.W. Fiske and Co., sold to an order
bidder for $12,500 (est. $10,000/15,000). The 26½" x
34" vane previously had sold at Christie’s as part of
the Kendra and Allan Daniel collection on January
20, 2001, for $25,850.
This 1859 portrait of George Washington by Rembrandt Peale
(1778-1860), oil on canvas, 35¾" x 29", ex-Kennedy Galleries, sold
to Charleston, South Carolina, dealer Robert Hicklin for $235,500
(est. $150,000/250,000). It was from the Jay P. Altmayer family
collection but was sold in the general sale.
A Pennsylvania
walnut chest, 1760-
80, of small stature
(31½"x 33
⅝
" x
20¼"), ex-Gary
Sullivan, with four
drawers and a
dressing slide, sold
to a phone bidder
for $32,500 (est.
$25,000/50,000).
Pennington photo.