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Painted Cast Iron Owl Doorstop
Lot: 758Sold for: $1,169$950Painted Cast Iron Owl Doorstop, Bradley & Hubbard, early 20th century, realistically cast and painted mostly in white, the figure perched on a green/gray-painted pedestal, old surface, (minor more ...
Cast Iron Clown Door Stop
Lot: 759Sold for: $677$550Cast Iron Clown Door Stop, early 20th century, dressed in a red and white-painted costume with blue had and shoes, ht. 10 1/4 in. more ...
Cast Iron Eagle Gallery Target
Lot: 760Sold for: $6,765$5,500Cast Iron Eagle Gallery Target, W. Wurfflein, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, late 19th/early 20th century, eagle-form with painted body details, and red, white, and blue bull's-eye target in center, on more ...
Large Polychrome Painted Owl Target
Lot: 761Sold for: $4,305$3,500Large Polychrome Painted Owl Target, late 19th/early 20th century, with bull's-eye holes in the eyes and chest, with custom stand, ht. 19 3/4, wd. 10 3/4 in. more ...
Three Steel Plate Animal-form Gallery Targets
Lot: 762Sold for: $523$425Three Steel Plate Animal-form Gallery Targets, early 20th century, in the form of a duck, squirrel, and goose, each on hinged base, ht. to 6 5/8 in. more ...
Rosette-decorated Iron Plate
Lot: 763Sold for: $431$350Rosette-decorated Iron Plate, late 19th century, with thirty-one attached iron rosettes, (oxidized surface),ht. 19 5/8, wd. 15 5/8 in. more ...
Steel Steam Locomotive Gallery Target
Lot: 764UnsoldSteel Steam Locomotive Gallery Target, mid-20th century, painted black with bull's-eye holes in the wheels, on custom stand, lg. 21 in. more ...
Ten Bird Gallery Target
Lot: 765Sold for: $738$600Ten Bird Gallery Target, 20th century, ten white-painted birds with red centers hinged to a rack and reset mechanism, with custom mounting brackets, lg. 51 in. more ...
Five Gold-painted Cast Iron Arms from Opera House Seats
Lot: 766Sold for: $615$500Five Gold-painted Cast Iron Arms from Opera House Seats, second half 19th century, designed as grotesque bird heads, four fixed to one mount, one fixed to a smaller mount, lg. of each 22 1/2 in., more ...
Cast Iron Paint-decorated Patriotic Architectural Fragment
Lot: 767UnsoldCast Iron Paint-decorated Patriotic Architectural Fragment, America, late 19th century, eagle, flag, an foliate device above a plate with cutout slots and racks of pins, plate painted with foliate more ...
Cast Iron Railroad Mail Bag Sign and Bracket
Lot: 768UnsoldCast Iron Railroad Mail Bag Sign and Bracket, America, 20th century, circular sign lettered "CAUTION/LOOK OUT/FOR/MAIL BAG/WHEN/TRAIN PASSES," with mounting socket at base, (repainted),dia. 14 3/8 more ...
Cast Iron Tree Trunk-form Hitching Post
Lot: 769Sold for: $431$350Cast Iron Tree Trunk-form Hitching Post, America, late 19th century, painted brown with green-painted vines winding up the post, approx. ht. 48 in. more ...
Illustrated J.W. Fiske Iron Works Stable Fixtures Catalog
Lot: 770Sold for: $215$175Illustrated J.W. Fiske Iron Works Stable Fixtures Catalog, New York, New York, c. 1930, 71-page catalog marketing all manner of hardware for stables including three pages of weathervanes, ht. 11, more ...
Two-sided "Union House" Tavern Sign
Lot: 771Sold for: $17,220$14,000Two-sided "Union House" Tavern Sign, New England or New York, mid-19th century, spreadwing eagle with shield and flag panoply within an oval lettered with "UNION HOUSE" with foliate spandrels housed more ...
Paint-decorated "Meat Market" Trade Sign
Lot: 772Sold for: $2,091$1,700Paint-decorated "Meat Market" Trade Sign, America, late 19th century, the black letters with gray shadowing on a white ground, with foliate embellishments at upper left and lower right, signed more ...
Painted "UNDERTAKER" Double-sided Trade Sign
Lot: 773Sold for: $1,353$1,100Painted "UNDERTAKER" Double-sided Trade Sign, America, late 19th century, lettered in gold and bordered in white on a black smalt ground, with applied black-painted molding, (paint wear, losses to more ...
"AW FLYE" Carved and Painted Jeweler's Sign
Lot: 774Sold for: $677$550"AW FLYE" Carved and Painted Jeweler's Sign, America, 19th century, in the form of a pocket watch, the copper dial with gilt numbers and letters, (old repaint),ht. 27 1/4, dia. 19 1/2 in. more ...
Painted Wood Watch-form Trade Sign
Lot: 775Sold for: $1,046$850Painted Wood Watch-form Trade Sign, America, 19th century, two sided, old weathered surface, ht. 29, wd. 21 in. more ...
Two-sided "JOHN PHELAN" Tavern Sign
Lot: 776Sold for: $8,610$7,000Two-sided "JOHN PHELAN" Tavern Sign, America, late 19th century, shaped sign with concave cut edges, centering a polychrome depiction of a frothy mug of beer against a tan background with gilt more ...
Carved and Polychrome-painted "Punch" Figure
Lot: 777UnsoldCarved and Polychrome-painted "Punch" Figure, England or America, 19th century, full-body figure with realistically carved facial and clothing details, wearing a clown suit and hat, mounted on a more ...
Polychrome Decorated Oak Parcheesi Game Board
Lot: 778Sold for: $2,460$2,000Polychrome Decorated Oak Parcheesi Game Board, America, early 20th century, brown and red borders surrounding the playing surface of dark green, yellow, red, and blue, (paint wear),19 1/2 x 19 1/4 more ...
Painted Wheel of Fortune Gaming Wheel
Lot: 779Sold for: $2,091$1,700Painted Wheel of Fortune Gaming Wheel, late 19th/early 20th century, with wheel with red, white, and blue segments and numbered sections, wheel dia. 14 1/2 in. more ...
Polychrome Decorated Two-sided Game Board
Lot: 780Sold for: $3,321$2,700Polychrome Decorated Two-sided Game Board, 19th century, one side painted with a Parcheesi playing surface in red, puce, and black, the home square with a foliate design within a geometric surround, more ...
White, Red, and Green and Gold-painted Whimsy
Lot: 781Sold for: $246$200White, Red, and Green and Gold-painted Whimsy, Attributed to Joan Scholl, composed of five uprights with geometric motifs supporting turned finials, on a green-painted base, (paint wear and loss),more ...
Tramp Art Mirrored and Carved Vanity
Lot: 782Sold for: $1,599$1,300Tramp Art Mirrored and Carved Vanity, America, late 19th century, the carved cutout crest removes to allow the mirrored lid to be opened to an interior, all above four drawers, on a projecting more ...
Tramp Art Mirrored Bureau
Lot: 783Sold for: $984$800Tramp Art Mirrored Bureau, America, late 19th century, the elaborately notch-carved and layered frame with beveled mirror and serpentine cresting on a case of two short drawers, two long drawers and more ...
Large Gilt Tramp Art Frame
Lot: 784Sold for: $800$650Large Gilt Tramp Art Frame, possibly Buffalo, New York, late 19th century, of deep layered construction, with fifteen apertures housing a variety of late 19th century photographs of American more ...
Tramp Art Frame with Two Apertures
Lot: 785Sold for: $707$575Tramp Art Frame with Two Apertures, reportedly Sparrow Bush, New York, c. 1880, the shaped and floriform frame composed of individually shaped and applied pieces, the apertures canted and more ...
Tramp Art Church
Lot: 786Sold for: $584$475Tramp Art Church, late 19th century, of generally Gothic form and layered construction, composed of one arched section and a taller tower, on a canted plinth with stairs leading to the doors, more ...
Tramp Art Pedestal Box with Red- and Green-painted Highlights
Lot: 787Sold for: $677$550Tramp Art Pedestal Box with Red- and Green-painted Highlights, c. 1920, ht. 10, wd. 8, dp. 8 in. more ...