Maine Antique Digest, March 2017

Maine Antique Digest, March 2017 5-B

AUCTION -

5-B

Dresden tree ornaments, in this case about 50 lots. An

early silver

open touring car with glass headlamps and spoke wheels, 3" high,

made $1534. A candy container train emerging from a tunnel, 2½"

high x 3½" wide, brought $2655. An ornament of a bearded elf-

like Santa on a silver reindeer, 3" high, made $1770. The Dresden

ornament that glimmered with the greatest promise was a detailed

silver-on-gold birdcage, rated pristine, 3½" high, that brought a

mystifying $531 (est. $1500/2500).

As for Halloween fare, it was a hoot. A saucy bobble-headed

composition pumpkin lady with enormous lips and tongue stuck

out, 6½" high, flounced to $1062. AGerman candy container in the

form of a hissing fuzzy black cat with green eyes, 7" long, made

$1534. The ripped-ear feline seemed spooked by a seldom-sighted

circa 1915 mechanical pumpkin-head man candy container that

devours a pumpkin flower when the crank is turned. At 6" high, it

was chased to $944.

For further information, contact Bertoia Auctions at (856) 692-

1881 or go to

(www.bertoiaauctions.com

Boston State House still bank, Smith &

Egge, late 1800s, red, green, and gold,

restored, 7" high, $4130.

Coast Defense, Louis Marx, 1940s, boxed,

lots of action with three anti-aircraft guns

and revolving zeppelin over hangar, 8½"

wide, $1298.

Baker and chimney sweep, Lehmann, boxed, circa

1900, with a pair in the cart who exchange blows,

5¼" long, $5015.

Heubach girl sitting on snowball candy

container, Germany, spun cotton body,

hand-painted face, feather sprig, pressed

cardboard snowball that opens for

candy retrieval, 6" high, $2006.

This 1950s Linemar

Juggling Popeye and Olive

Oyl lithographed key-wind

toy, 9½" high, led a merry

band of 150 comic toys in

the sale at $1298.

Double horseback riders wheeled

platform toy, Hull & Stafford,

1880s, 9" long, $4425.

This 1880s William F. Goodwin carriage with

woman and girl is the only known example with

the girl as pictured in Blair Whitton’s

American

Clockwork Toys

1862-1900

. In painted tin with

cast-iron wheels and a composition child, the

11½" long toy made $8260.

Gymnast, patented by

W.L. Lubbing, 1878,

10" tall, $3245.

Echo clockwork cyclist, No. 725, Lehmann, boxed, early

spoke-wheeled model, hand-painted, 6½" high, $11,210.

Eight-man scull, Gunthermann, Germany, lithographed tin, syn-

chronized rowing action, ex-Dick Claus, 28" long, $20,060. Not

shown, a Bing two-man scull, 30" long, sold for $10,620.