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Paint-decorated Voting Box
Lot: 212Sold for: $738$600Paint-decorated Voting Box, probably England, 19th century, constructed in the form of a small square building, the sides painted in faux brick with leaded windows, angled roof with painted more ...
Printed and Framed Keep Family Record
Lot: 213Sold for: $800$650Printed and Framed Keep Family Record, America, early 19th century, hollow-cut silhouettes of Alice Keep and Simeon Keep above a family record listing birth and death dates for them and their seven more ...
Elizabeth Downs Needlework Sampler
Lot: 214Sold for: $1,107$900Elizabeth Downs Needlework Sampler, England, c. 1818, stitched in silk on a fine linen background, six lines of verse from the poem "To A Friend Under Affliction" above a finely rendered image of more ...
Needlework Sampler
Lot: 215Sold for: $1,169$950Needlework Sampler, England, early 19th century, worked in silk on a fine linen background, depicting a stag under a tree at the top, lines of verse, and an Adam and Eve scene, all surrounded by more ...
American School, 19th Century Portrait of a Child with a Black Kitten
Lot: 216Sold for: $1,169$950American School, 19th Century Portrait of a Child with a Black Kitten Unsigned. Oil on canvas, 30 x 24 1/2 in., in a putty-painted frame. Condition: Relined, repaired tear through subject's more ...
American School, 19th Century Portrait of a Bull
Lot: 217Sold for: $1,845$1,500American School, 19th Century Portrait of a Bull Unsigned. Oil on canvas, 23 x 24 in., in a grain-painted frame with gilt liner. Condition: Scattered retouch. more ...
Theorem on Silk of a Basket of Fruit
Lot: 218UnsoldTheorem on Silk of a Basket of Fruit, 19th century, basket with pineapple, peaches, grapes, pears, and apples, on a green surface, in a gilt molded frame, ht. 24 1/4, wd. 31 1/2 in. more ...
Watercolor Theorem on Paper
Lot: 219Sold for: $615$500Watercolor Theorem on Paper, America, 19th century, basket overflowing with roses and greens set on a green foreground, in a molded giltwood frame, ht. 19, wd. 25 in. Provenance: The Garbisch more ...
American School, 19th Century Slice of Watermelon on a Plate
Lot: 220Sold for: $1,968$1,600American School, 19th Century Slice of Watermelon on a Plate Unsigned. Pastel on paper, 9 1/2 x 13 in., in a molded giltwood frame. Condition: Water stain along bottom edge and lower left more ...
Watercolor Theorem on Paper
Lot: 221Sold for: $984$800Watercolor Theorem on Paper, America, 19th century, depicting a basket of fruit with grapevines on a gray marble surface, in a brown-painted molded frame, ht. 17 1/2 x 24 in. more ...
Carved and Painted Panel
Lot: 222Sold for: $2,583$2,100Carved and Painted Panel, c. 1837, the central oak tree painted brown, green, and white, flanked by a man carrying a basket and a woman in a gown carrying a basket and pail, partially legible dated more ...
American School, 19th Century Still Life with Fruit on a Marble Table
Lot: 223Sold for: $800$650American School, 19th Century Still Life with Fruit on a Marble Table Unsigned. Oil on canvas, 21 x 26 in., in a gilt molded frame. Condition: Laid down on aluminum, retouch. more ...
American School, 19th Century Still Life with Fruit
Lot: 224Sold for: $2,337$1,900American School, 19th Century Still Life with Fruit Unsigned. Pastel on paper, 18 x 23 1/4 in., in a gilt molded frame. Condition: Minor abrasions. more ...
Pair of Polychrome Painted Panels
Lot: 225Sold for: $1,353$1,100Pair of Polychrome Painted Panels, 19th century, decorated with a pineapple in an urn against a gray/green background and leafy acorn border, in black-painted molded frames, ht. 22, wd. 13 in. more ...
Sheet Copper Fish Weathervane
Lot: 226UnsoldSheet Copper Fish Weathervane, America, late 19th century, full-body fish with applied dorsal fin, lg. 22 1/4 in. more ...
Large Sheet Copper Bannerette Weathervane
Lot: 227Sold for: $861$700Large Sheet Copper Bannerette Weathervane, America, 19th century, old gold-painted surface, on a metal stand, lg. 49 1/4 in. more ...
Hand-made Sheet Iron Rooster Weathervane
Lot: 228Sold for: $431$350Hand-made Sheet Iron Rooster Weathervane, late 19th/early 20th century, silhouette form with custom turned wood and metal stand, ht. 21 1/2, wd. 15 in. more ...
Fred Alten Carved and Painted Leopard
Lot: 229Sold for: $984$800Fred Alten Carved and Painted Leopard, Wyandotte, Michigan, c. 1930, long body with painted spots and facial features, the paws mounted on wide base strips, lg. 9 in. more ...
"Niagara Falls" Wallpaper Panels
Lot: 230Sold for: $8,610$7,000"Niagara Falls" Wallpaper Panels, Zuber et Cie., Rixheim (Alsace),France, mid-20th century, six contiguous panels with a panoramic view of Niagara Falls, each with a Zuber emblem at the bottom, more ...
American School, Mid-19th Century Bay & Harbour of New York from Bedlow's Island
Lot: 231Sold for: $5,228$4,250American School, Mid-19th Century Bay & Harbour of New York from Bedlow's Island Unsigned, titled on the reverse. Oil on board, 11 x 14 in., in a mahogany veneer frame. Condition: Craquelure more ...
American School, 19th Century Charleston S.C. USA
Lot: 232Sold for: $2,091$1,700American School, 19th Century Charleston S.C. USA Indistinctly signed "W.O. Bla[?]/Painter" l.r., titled l.c. Oil on panel, 19 x 27 in, depicting ships in a harbor with city in the background, more ...
Painted Wood and Tin Model of Sloop
Lot: 233Sold for: $461$375Painted Wood and Tin Model of Sloop, America, late 19th century, the black and green-painted hull supporting two masts with sheet tin sails and wire rigging, on custom stand, ht. 29 1/2, lg. 32 1/2 more ...
Carved Fist Whalebone and Whale Ivory Cane
Lot: 234Sold for: $3,998$3,250Carved Fist Whalebone and Whale Ivory Cane, 19th century, clenched fist, baleen spacer, on a diamond-, flute-, and spiral-carved tapering shaft with diamond-shaped shell inlay, lg. 32 5/8 in. more ...
Two Wood and Whale Ivory Yardsticks
Lot: 235Sold for: $277$225Two Wood and Whale Ivory Yardsticks, 19th century, one rosewood, the other cherry, both with whale ivory ends and inlaid division marks, lg. 36 in. more ...
Carved Fist and Snake Whalebone and Ivory Cane
Lot: 236Sold for: $984$800Carved Fist and Snake Whalebone and Ivory Cane, 19th century, the snake with carved scales, ruffled shirt wrist, on a tapering fluted and spiral-carved whalebone shaft, lg. 36 1/2 in. more ...
Carved Whalebone and Whale Ivory Cane
Lot: 237Sold for: $3,075$2,500Carved Whalebone and Whale Ivory Cane, 19th century, Turk's head and spiral top on a diamond- and spiral-carved shaft with iron top, lg. 35 1/8 in. more ...
Carved Fist Whalebone and Whale Ivory Cane
Lot: 238Sold for: $2,214$1,800Carved Fist Whalebone and Whale Ivory Cane, 19th century, cuffed fist clenching bar top on a diamond-carved tapering whalebone shaft with shell inlaid dots, hearts, diamonds, stars, and moons, lg. more ...
Carved Whalebone and Whale Ivory Cane
Lot: 239Sold for: $3,567$2,900Carved Whalebone and Whale Ivory Cane, 19th century, turned top on an alternating spiral and fluted tapering whalebone shaft, decorated with inlays of shell diamonds and dots, lg. 35 1/2 in. more ...
Carved Whalebone and Whale Ivory Cane
Lot: 240Sold for: $3,444$2,800Carved Whalebone and Whale Ivory Cane, 19th century, octagonal top with round metal plate engraved "THE/BISHOP/OF/NORFOLK/ST," baleen spacer on a deeply fluted and spiral carved tapering whalebone more ...
Carved Fist Whalebone and Whale Ivory Cane
Lot: 241Sold for: $6,150$5,000Carved Fist Whalebone and Whale Ivory Cane, 19th century, fist grasping a dark hardwood baton, baleen spacer, on a tapering octagonal to round whalebone shaft, lg. 34 7/8 in. more ...