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$1,185$1,000
Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2412Location: BostonDate / Time: June 08, 2008 11:00AM
Description:
Three Items Related to New Hampshire Artist and Poet Celia Thaxter, New Hampshire, late 19th century, including a cane which belonged to the artist with silvered copper top, the terminal engraved "Thaxter," a framed poem and lithograph image of "White Island Light" with an oval printed image of Celia Thaxter; a veneered mirror frame ornamented with a floral spray painted by Thaxter with applied silvered metal thermometer engraved and made by "Charles Wilder Peterborough, N.H.," poem 6 x 9 (sight),cane lg. 37 3/4, mirror frame 9 x 7 in.
Estimate $1,000-1,500
the thin wood veneer on cardboard is separated on the left and l.l. edge, the silver is wearing off the cane top.