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SKINNER DISCOVERY AUCTION FEBRUARY 26TH AND 27TH
Highlights Include Books, Ephemera & Clocks
BOLTON, Mass. - February 3, 2004 – www.skinnerinc.com - Skinner, one of the nation's leading auction houses, will host a Discovery auction in Bolton on February 26th and 27th. Thursday evening's auction will commence at 6 p.m., and Friday morning's at 10 a.m.
The Thursday auction features books, collectibles, and ephemera, highlighted by a single-owner collection of Limited Edition Club books. The press (founded by George Macy in 1929) prints enduring classics printed in editions limited to 1500, these books are profusely illustrated (often by well-known artists), and finely printed and bound. Examples from this collection and others in the auction include Samuel Clemens' Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrim's Progress, and The Gilded Age, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life among the Lowly, Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, and Jonathan Swift's Travels of Lemuel Gulliver. Works by William Makepeace Thackeray, Somerset Maugham, Alexander Dumas, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, John Steinbeck, and Geoffrey Chaucer compliment these titles. Illustrating artists in the collection include John Tenniel, Alexander King, and Miguel Covarrubias. Also offered in this evening session are additional 18th, 19th, and 20th century titles, centering around topical works including history and travel books. The assortment of ephemera includes a Duke and Duchess of Windsor signed menu and signature card, maps, documents, and broadsides, among other selections.
The 10 a.m. auction on Friday will present a diverse offering of 18th to 20th century furniture, decorative arts, paintings, prints, and oriental rugs and carpets. Highlighting the offerings is a large variety of clocks from a Rhode Island collector, comprised primarily of Victorian shelf and mantel examples. Clocks from other owners include a Waltham Federal-style mahogany and reverse painted Boston State House banjo timepiece, and other American and European Victorian mantel clocks. All in all, the selection of clocks comprises over 50 lots.
Skinner holds Discovery auctions monthly. Prices at the two-day January sale ranged from $10 to $12,925.
Previews and Catalogue Information
Previews for the auction will be held Thursday, February 26th from 1 to 8 p.m., and Friday, February 27th from 8 to 9:30 a.m. A free PDF download of the printed catalogue for sale #2229 is available one week prior to the auction at Skinner's website at www.skinnerinc.com, or thumbnail images and descriptions for the auction may be viewed at the same site. This site also allows users to leave bids, and view prices realized during and after the sale.
Note to Editors: Photos available upon request. Contact Catherine Riedel at 978-779-6241 x 231.
About Skinner:With galleries in Boston and Bolton, Mass., Skinner is a full-service auctioneer and appraiser of antiques and fine art. Regularly seen on the PBS series, Antiques Roadshow, Skinner is one of the nation’s leading auction houses. Skinner conducts auctions year-round and has received world-record prices for many pieces sold at auction. Departments include American Furniture & Decorative Arts, Paintings & Prints, English & Continental Furniture & Decorations, Fine Ceramics, Jewelry, Couture, 20th Century Furniture & Decorative Arts, Fine Musical Instruments, Asian Art, Fine Judaica, Toys, Dolls & Collectibles, Science & Technology, Oriental Rugs & Carpets, American Indian & Ethnographica, and Discovery. For more information on upcoming auctions, visit Skinner’s web site www.skinnerinc.com.