BENJAMIN WILLIAMS LEADER 1831-1923 Conway Bay – Lower Water oil on board signed lower left B. W. Leader 1894 titled and signed on reverse Charles Roberson & Co. label on reverse 8 x 12
IGNAZ MARCEL GAUGENGIGL 1855-1932 Going to the Ball oil on panel signed lower right I.M. Gaugengigl 12 x 7 3/4 sold at Sotheby’s New York March 14, 1996 for 4,600
EUGENE BOUDIN 1824-1898 Biarritz watercolor and charcoal on paper titled lower left Biarritz initialed lower right E.B. 4 5/8 x 8 3/4 Stamp on reverse: Hammer Galleries New York #20208-4 Provenance: Hammer Gallery 1968 Current private collection Exhibited: Hammer Galleries – Drawings by the Masters December 9 through December 27, 1968 Included Documentation: Hammer Galleries original bill of sale June 14, 1968 and letter from Hammer Galleries dated May 22, 1968. Copy of Hammer Galleries Drawings by the Masters December 1968 edition with this painting pictured on page 11. Original catalogue description and artist’s biography #20208-4. Letter from Hammer Galleries dated May 22, 1968 along with colored transparency image of painting.
JOHAN J. BARTHOLD JONGKIND 1819-1891 River Scene watercolor and pencil on paper signed lower left Jongkind Hammer Galleries stamp on verso #20408-4 8 1/4 x 9 3/4 Provenance: Hammer Galleries 1968 Current Private Collection Exhibited: Hammer Galleries – Drawings by the Masters December 9 through December 27, 1968 Included Documentation: Copy of Hammer Galleries original bill of sale June 14, 1968. Copy of Hammer Galleries Drawings by the Masters December 1968 edition photograph #34. Also being sold with original folder from Hammer Galleries containing letter with Hammer Galleries #20408-4, title, artist name and biography, and photograph.
Queen Anne desk on frame having slant lid desk on lower section with one drawer and scalloped skirt on turned legs with flat X stretcher set on suppressed ball feet, pine and hard pine, 18th century. ht. 39 1/2 in. lower case wd. 27 in. dp. 17 3/4 in.
Chippendale cherry chest having cornice molded top over fan carved center drawer flanked by two short drawers on either side over four long drawers on cutout bracket feet, with original hardware, circa 1760. ht. 43 in. wd. 35 1/2 in. dp. 19 1/2 in.
Garofano Faenza Blue Carnation Italian Pottery dinner set, setting for 18 to include 18 dinner plates, 18 dessert plates, 18 bread plates, 20 cups, 17 saucers, 6 small plates, and 8 bone dishes, 105 total pieces.
B. Bordoli wheel barometer having inlaid mahogany case with conch shell and sun inlay, dial marked B. Bordoli Andover Warranted. ht. 38 1/2 in. wd. 10 in.
CURRIER & IVES Autumn in New England Cider Making marked lower left Painted by G. B. Durrie marked lower right Currier & Ives Lith, N.Y. foxing and staining image size 14 5/8 x 24 7/8
Needlework sampler, Ann Magdalen Yates, her work with several people, houses and trees including a cherry picker, silk and linen, probably N.Y. City, early 19th century. 19 1/8 x 15 5/8 Featured in Antiques Magazine, February 2005 as N.Y. Born April 6, 1790 1800-1805.
Pair of Chippendale cherry side chairs each with shell carved crest rail over pierced carved splat with crossed bars over fully upholstered seats on square legs joined by H stretchers, attributed to Eliphalet Chapin, East Windsor, Connecticut circa 1780. Chairs closely resemble side chair #242 in CT Furniture, 17th and 18th centuries in Wadsworth Atheneum Collection. ht. 38 1/4 in. seat ht. 16 1/4 in. Provenance: Nathan Liverant & Son The Estate of Sylvia Leven Included Documentation: Copy of Original Bill of Sale 1993
Chippendale cherry tilt top tea table having round top above bird cage unit over trumpet formed turned shaft with ring turning, all set on tripod base ending in snake feet, attributed to Eliphalet Chapin, East Windsor, CT circa 1775. ht. 28 1/2 in. dia. 36 3/4 in. Provenance: Nathan Liverant & Son The Estate of Sylvia Leven Included Documentation: Copy of Original Bill of Sale 1990 and photographs.
Autograph Letter J.P. Van Nest, 3 pages front and back, Berwick City, November 15, 1863, this letter is to his wife Mary in Ohio, with the stamped, autograph envelope, written after he learned of a plot in his home state. Van Nest writes …I was pained…to notice an account of Conspiracy which has just came to light in Ohio in which they intended to proceed to Columbus, release the rebel prisoners confined there, liberate the notorious Rebel and Scoundrel John Morgan, seize the State Arsenal and tear up the Devil generally…I hope they may catch the leaders…and torture them as the Indians do their white captives, for hanging is entirely too good for such nefarious scoundrels…If those men are so keen for war, why…do they not come down South and fight, here they can have war to their hearts content, but no those men…are not fighting men. I call them cowards…I took a solemn oath this beautiful Sabbath morning as I stood and listened to the Brass Band…to give me strength in obliterating every Rebel and Traitor both North and South… then he discusses the upcoming court martials of two deserters and his imminent departure for the Gulf of Mexico. 15 x 10
Zane Grey, angry letter to his fiance defending his ambitious nature, four pages front and back, New York, NY, September 28, 1902, to Lina E. Roth, with original envelope. In part: My dear little girl-/ I am very sorry I acted as I did last night and hope you will forget all about it./I don’t know exactly what was wrong with me, but I imagine it was the usual case of the blues. Why I should always make you feel so badly is something beyond me…You tell me to look at the bright side of things. My dear, there is no bright side for me. You will say this is absurd. I can prove it is not./ Were my temperament and disposition such that I could be satisfied and content with work, and work all the time, without any real life, there might be a bright side to things./ But I love to be free. I cannot change my spots./ The ordinary man is satisfied with a moderate income, a home, wife, children and all that./ That is all right and just what a man ought to be./ But I am a million miles from being that kind of a man no amount of trying will ever do any good./ I want to be somebody. I want fame. I do not want much money, but I want enough to keep me from worrying to death all the time, as I have for years…. Grey closes with a brusque, Last night you failed, for the first time, to understand me. signed Pearl, dropped in favor of Zane when he began to publish.
Set of eight Riggs and Co. checks signed by Ethan Allen Hitchcock, a Major General in the Civil War from Washington, DC May 23 to Oct 23, 1868, cancellation cuts to all checks and all are written to self. 7 3/4 x 3
Rosewood tea caddy, rectangular shape with canted sides and fitted interior containing two hinged lid boxes, knob handles, and bun feet some veneer lifting. ht. 8 in. lg. 12 in.
ATTRIBUTED TO MARCUS CLAYTON STONE 1840-1921 The Lads Letter oil on panel unsigned part of old paper label stating Sketch Marcus Stone in old faint writing on reverse 10 1/2 x 12 1/2
Mahogany Victorian drop leaf tuckaway table with roll top and rectangular drop leaves set on turned supports on downswept legs ending in claw feet, 19th century. ht. 30 1/4 in. top open: 31 x 34
Two South American clay pottery figures, large paint decorated figure holding a spear and smaller figure holding a mixing bowl. ht. 12 in. ht. 6 1/2 in.
Two red clay pottery pieces including a dog and a vessel with black paint and handle .dog has crack and repair dog: ht. 10 1/2 in. lg. 17 1/2 in. vessel: ht. 6 in.
Four piece lot to include a carved mask and three Pre-Columbian and South American pottery vessel figures, one depicting a figure seated with hands on his knees, one having remnants of yellow glaze in the form of a four legged animal, and the last in the form of a bottle with a face. mask: ht. 13 in. vessels: ht. 6 1/2 in., ht. 8 in., and ht. 12 in.
Two painted Folk Art game boards including one double sided painted with black and red checker board and mustard color border on one side and red, white, and blue Parcheesi on the other side having breadboard ends, the other board painted black and white with red border, 19th century. 13 x 13 and 13 1/4 x 13 1/2