Salient Items, starting at Lot #608, include: approx. 145 fabulous folk art musical instruments in a variety of forms and materials (many with cases); pair of unique Moravian carved & painted wooden wedding chairs; bluepainted pie safe; folk art cradle; outsider art; incredible Tramp Art secretary; 19th C. bicycles; American Native stone effigy pipes; Dutch East India trade figure; African American figures; cigar store Indian figure; Cameroonian & Javanese figures; full-size Amish or Mennonite figures; hurdy-gurdy; carved twig canes & pointers & much more.

Paintings, over 250 works by: Wm. McGregor Paxton, Jane Stuart, Albert Bierstadt, Brother Frank Herold, J. Fairman, R. Cahoon (6), Wm. Davis (3), J.F. Cropsey, J.G. Tyler, J.J. Enneking, J. Platt (attrib.), V. Vasarely, E.W. Greacen, G. Carmignani, G.H. McCord, W.T. Richards, C.D. Cahoon (2), M. Cahoon, E.S. Field, A.V. Diehl, R.F. Bolles, W. Macy & more.

Furniture: antique American: Queen Anne lowboys & chest-on-frame, rare China trade slant-front desk, Federal two-drawer worktable, Chippendale desks and bed, Hepplewhite cherry chest & dining table, William and Mary chest-on-stand, rare sea chest, E. Wheeler highboy & canopy bed, R. Cahoon decorated trunk & suite & much more.

Clocks: tall-cases by I. Brokaw & “S. Lyon”, Kittinger banjo & others.

Silver: Irish coffeepot by J. Hamilton, Gorham, Lunt & other flatware sets, Tiffany vase & charger, 19th C. yachting trophy, pieces by P. Revere III, J. Burt, Z. Bridgeton & others.

Decoys: A. Elmer Crowell oversize black duck, gunning mallard, gunning Canada goose, other black ducks & minis, 20th C. whistling swan. Other makers: Joe Lincoln, M. Borrett, M. McNair, T. Ward, J. Lapham & others.

Masonic: framed fraktur dated 1804, several early 19th C. aprons, sashes, seven I.O.O.F. collars & more.

Weapons: late 19th C. Belgian percussion punt gun & carriage, rare Nickels & Child’s percussion revolving carbine, KY flintlock rifle, two U.S. Model 1872 presentation swords & scabbards, pair of flintlock travel pistols & more.

Chinese Export porcelain: Mandarin cider pitcher, Monteith bowl, coffee & tea service, Rose Medallion, Canton.

Textiles: samplers: important Conn. needlework dated 1755. Others dated 1780, 1810 & 1820 as well as 19th C. examples; quilts & contemporary works.

Also: set of eleven English brass county bushel measures; brass & cast-iron andirons; pewter includes mid-18th C. English tankard, London chargers, measures & more. Rare cased salesman’s sample of a Ford Model T wheel; upstate NY whirligig; interesting lot of Mark Twain memorabilia; Grover Cleveland ephemera; New Haven RR Co. travel poster; Anthony’s Pier 4 signs with Guinness advertising; fire wagon canvas parade panel; Nantucket & Cape Cod signs; birdhouses; 19th C. southern ceramic drain pipe head; Staffordshire; Mason’s ironstone; Paris porcelain; stoneware; Picasso; Pierce & Benton prints; woodenware; American Native items; sculpture by J. De Creeft, C.E. Dallin, A.L. Zorn, & others. Sandwich glass; Jumeau & other dolls; E. Winter enamels; weathervanes; toys; ship models; U.S.S. Vanderbilt print & presentation lantern; Nantucket baskets; rare framed double-sided 1799 Mass. marriage certificate; books; Boston Harbor map; memorial brooch/pendant dated 1795; Oriental rugs in room and scatter sizes; & much more–over 1,200 lots.