Marion Estate Auction | Maine Antique Digest

Marion Estate Auction
Saturday, June 10, 2017 at 10 AM
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Fri – 2 pm to 6 pm & Sat – 8 am to 9:30 am
Location: Music Hall, 164 Front Street, Marion, MA

Schoolgirl box

$5 Indian Head

T.J. Ralli

Featuring contents of historic Fairhaven Colonial Club, James Lunnon estate, important collection of whaling items including scrimshaw, logbooks, paintings, and other New England estates.

WHALING & NAUTICAL: 19th-c. scrimshaw whale’s teeth, busks, pie crimpers, canes, dippers, rolling pins, swifts, 2 whaling tripots. Nantucket basket by Reyes. Whaling journals from the Fairhaven whaleship Good Return and Eliza L. B. Jenney. Whaleship’s manifesto and account books, prisoner-of-war game boards. Eskimo whalebone items, telescopes, barometers, barographs, French Naval officer’s sword, Oceanic fans and baskets.

FURNITURE: 4 mid-19th-c. cast-iron Classical armchairs, 18th-c. Boston Chip desk, NY Federal worktable, 19th-c. Boston marble-top pier table, QA candlestand, Windsor chairs, Classical looking glass, 19th-c. Chinese and Japanese cabinets, Chinese export tip table.

TOYS & DOLLS: Jumeau, Lenci 19th-c. wax doll, German dolls, etc., wooden pull toy, tin windup and cast-iron fire pumpers.

TEXTILES: American 19th-c. coverlets and crazy quilt, great 19th-c. Fairhaven clothing, parasols, life-size wax head manikin.

STERLING: Shiebler, Tiffany, Gorham coin.

GOLD & JEWELRY: J. G. Hunt 18k gold vase, 14k gold Horticultural Society medals, 14k gold pocket watch, 18k gold lady’s cocktail ring, 18k gold Russian crown fob, 1913 U.S. five dollar gold piece, 1905 ten dollar gold piece, 1907 ten dollar gold piece.

CERAMICS & GLASS: Tiffany, Moser, Durand, Steuben, Hampshire, Delft, Smith Bros, Liverpool pitcher, Bride’s basket, flow blue, Chinese export, early Imari floor vases.

DECORATIVE ARTS: Fairhaven Academy samplers, early 19th-c. painted American schoolgirl box, G. Washington memorial needlework, Shaker sewing boxes, Native American beadwork, Woodlands quill work box, decorated stoneware including C. Columbus cooler, early baskets.

PAINTINGS: 3 Wm. Bradfords, C. H. Gifford, 6 L. D. Eldreds, R. S. Gifford, W. A. Wall, Louis Sylvia, J. E. Enneking, R.A. Blakelock, Ch. Patterson, E. Lambert, Geo. Newell, C. Moon, Ralli, James Lunnon.

BOOKS: Confederate $, trade notes, 18thc. commission documents, E. Bierstadt photos, C.W. letters, presidential signatures Lincoln, Grant, Tyler, Jackson, railroad broadside, maps, 17th and 18th-c. Fairhaven deeds, documents, and account books, nautical books, ASL Robert Kennedy, WWI postcards, children’s books, Ed Curtis photogravures, Benson etching.

ORIENTAL RUGS: Herez, Sarouk & Caucasian.

Directions: Take exit 20 off Rt 195 onto Rte 105 South towards Marion. Go straight at lights. Continue 8/10 mile to Music Hall on right.

Sale conducted by Marion Antique Auctions.
Frank McNamee, Manager,
C. David Glynn, Auctioneer, MA lic. #583,
tel. 508-748-3606 or 508-498-7136

Online catalog:
www.marionantiqueauctions.com

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