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MAR 23, 2007
Antiques and The Arts Weekly
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Portrait of Mary Almira Ballard (1818-1905)
Pastel and Graphite...original frame, glass and backboard
By Ruth Henshaw Bascom (1772-1848)
Signed on verso: Miss Mary Ballard, Gill, Mass
Sketched Nov. 1836
By Mrs. R.H. Bascom - SOLD
Rarely do portraits present themselves in such fine original condition. The work is without compromise; frame, backboard and glass are original.
On November 10, 1836 the artist makes her daily journal entry-Thursday, pleasant/ “painted in Mary Ballard”.
This work, a sensitive and beautiful form of expression reduced of technical complexity is honest and direct...
Ruth Henshaw Bascom, a woman of many talents kept a daily journal for 57-years providing an interesting account of her life as a Pastor’s wife. Bascom combined her domestic roles, motherhood, needlework, business and travel while affording herself time for taking profiles. The Image of Bascom’s journal courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society. (Worcester, Massachusetts)
Overall dimensions: 20.5 by 15.5-inches; view area: 17.5 by 12 5/8-inches.
Queen Anne Highboy...in the tradition of Peter Bartlett
Curly Maple-In Old Mellow Finish
Salisbury, New Hampshire
Circa 1760
A most stylish and successful example with very good curl throughout...
Remaining In A High State Of Originality
The base with a single long drawer above a well developed blocked 14-lobe carved fan; “spoon handle” lobes with stop fluting...compound and incised molded flanked by two short drawers, one each side-all with molded edges. The cabriole legs having sharp ridge, molded inner edge and turned pad feet with well defined hocks associated with the uppermost North Shore of Massachusetts-Southern, New Hampshire area...
The top case with outstanding crown molding is received by the base by a sophisticated compound waist molding and contains five graduated long drawers with molded edges.
The idiosyncratic spacing of drawer dovetails and other construction techniques further suggest Bartlett as the maker of the terrific country high-chest.
Most brasses are original; overall the condition is superb with only minor drawer lip repairs...acorn drops are as expected, replaced.
Purchased at the Mireau auction in Doylestown, Pennsylvania in 1953 by George Samaha then sold at Garth’s in 1999 to New Hampshire Collectors.
Width: 37-inches; cornice measures: 22.5-inches by 43-inches; height: 73.25-inches.
Price: $78,000
Dealer inquiries invited
Tilt-Top Table
In Superb Original Surface...maple with some figure
Coastal Essex County, Massachusetts
Circa 1785 - SOLD
In outstanding condition...a most popular tilt-top table design from Boston to Newburyport and in native wood. The two-board top retains its original undisturbed molded cleats and iron latch; upper edge of tapering turned pillar, having urn and ring design forms a square tenon and has two wedges that tighten the joint where let into the square block. The pillar with scalloping beneath receives cabriole legs terminating with snake feet having central crease and pads. The splendid surface is of brown paint that we believe to be original.
Diameter of top: 31.75-inches; height: 27.75-inches.
Chest-On-Chest
Maple...and curly maple
Late 18th Century
An Untouched Survivor
Ancient and possibly original surface
Original brasses
For the collector who appreciates nearly perfect two-to-one proportions, small size...a dry and possibly first surface and original brasses surrounded by a halo caused by 200 years of polishing. Yes, there are a six or seven drawer lip imperfections...that are not offensive to one who appreciates and desires such survivors; base is sans half of rear left foot profile...these losses are easily restored and colored. Constructed of maple; drawer fronts with some striping-white pine secondary wood including backboards. Great color and patina...Shipping is not a problem.
Height: 76.5-inches.
Top case measures 34 by 17 5/8-inches.
Bottom case measures 34 by 17 5/8-inches.
Price: $32,500
Queen Anne Country Tavern Table
New England
Circa 1720-1760
An outstanding black painted tavern table with a generously overhung oval scrubbed top projecting above a straight skirt with quarter round returns, on tapering cylindrical legs with delicate pad feet. (Ex Collection of Lilly Lemieux)
Price: $38,750
Chippendale Slant-Lid Desk With Fan Carved Interior
Curly Maple With White pine Secondary Wood
New England
Circa 1790
This boldly striped example has a case width of 38 ¾ inches and a depth of 19 ¼ inches; writing height is 30-inches. The applied bracket base with successful profile is original as are the backboards. The interior although simple has two concave center drawers having blocked ends and a fan carving are balanced by two “pigeon holes” with shaped valances either side of the “fan carved drawer” which is above a single drawer then above a row of five drawers then above an open horizontal central document or paper storage flanked by a single drawer each side. The lid hinges have been replaced or reset long ago and the case was pleasingly refinished yet retains a depth of color; interior probably remains in original or ancient surface.
Price: $18,500
Sheraton Inlaid One-Drawer Stand
Circa 1815
Tiger maple top with four turret corners over a square case with flame birch panels surrounded by line inlay and mahogany cross-banding. Supported by four delicately turned tiger maple legs. New Hampshire origin. 28.75-inches high by 18-inches wide by 6-inches deep.
Price: $21,000
Massachusetts Walnut Oxbow Chippendale Desk
Probably North Shore
Circa 1760-1780
The case with bold reverse serpentine profile and blocked ends having for graduated drawers rests on a superb molded ogee base retaining all returns; the shaped and molded center drop is pierced.
The sloping lid opens to an interior fitted with a central raised panel prospect door behind which is a single shaped and blocked drawer beneath a cubbyhole. Flanking the prospect door are very good pilaster drawers; four valanced pigeon holes above three drawers each side of the prospect complete the interior. The old brasses are perhaps the third set. Nice color and patina; only the most minor “as expected” imperfections.
(Width: 42-inches; depth: 22-inches; height: 42-inches; writing surface height: 30-inches.)
Price: $16,500
AN EARLY LINCLON AUTOGRAPH LEGAL BRIEF SIGNED AT
THE CONCLUSION, AND SIGNED AGAIN: “HAINES AND LINCLON”
ABRAHAM LINCLON (1809-1865). Sixteenth President. (8 by 12-inches.) An approximately 60-line legal brief, the first 40-lines all in Lincoln’s hand and signed by Lincoln at the conclusion “Lincoln p.d. and “Haines and Lincoln”.
Price: $7,500
Marshall's The Life of George Washington
Maps and Subscriber's Names (Atlas Only).
Philadelphia, Published by C. P. Wayne 1807
A very rare printing of the Atlas Book of 10 fold-out maps and 22 pages of subscriber's names. Book measures approx 9-inches by 11-inches, and maps fold out to double size including borders. All maps and pages present and attached, with the usual minor tears, wear, chipping, and loss. Good copy of a rare piece of history.
Price: $2,000
An Important Piece Of Americana
George Washington, ALS
Important war-date manuscript letter signed “G. Washington”, as Commander of the Continental forces.
Two pages, folio.
Morristown, New Jersey
May 7, 1777
To General Parsons
AFTER DEFAETING THE BRITTISH AT THE BATTLE OF PRINCETON, WASHINGTON WORRIES ABOUT THE LOSS OF SUPPLIES AND THE LANDING OF THE ENEMY
“IT IMPORTS US HIGHLY TO COLLECT A RESPECTABLE FORCE...FOR US TO SECURE...THE OBJECTS OF THE ENEMY’S ATTENTION”
This historic letter is blood stained and worn, from carriage by courier and capture by the British, yet remains a fine bold signature of Washington. Equal to the importance of it’s military content. Washington writes:
“Dear Sir, I have been favored with your letter of the 2d inst., and am happy to hear the order for assembling men is likely to be attended with so great success. The loss of the flour at Danbury is to be regretted, but I cannot consider it in the important light you seem to do. Those at Derby are to be removed by a resolve of Congress and I hope the work is begun ere now having wrote Gen. G. McDougal and Clinton pressingly upon the subject. Such as are at New Haven and other places contiguous to the [Long Island] Sounds, should be removed as expeditiously as possible to some interior part of the country when they will not be liable to be destroyed on any sudden debarkation of the enemy. It would give me pleasure if the situation of our Army would justify the leaving of strong guards of Continental Troops at every place, subject to the landing of the Enemy, but as it will not, it imports us highly to collect a respectable force at such posts and passes, as are most important and material for us to secure, and which from their consequence, in all probability, are and will be the objects of the Enemy’s attention. I must therefore request that you will continue to forward on, all the hale and effective troops to Pecks Hill without loss of time. Such as are invalids or too weak to proceed yet from Inoculation or other Causes might remain, till they recover more strength, at the places where the Stores shall be removed to: they will serve as a guard and will aid in repelling any incursion the Enemy may attempt to make for their destruction. However I am inclined to believe they will pursue such measures with a great degree of caution. For tho’ they afforded themselves the stores at Danbury, yet it was with considerable loss and they are convinced whenever they make an impression, the Country will recur to arms. Respecting the sentence against Thompson, I wrote you fully and the matter is with you. The letter was certainly opened as you supposed, because the superscription on the cover you sent, is not the writing of any of my Family and Mr. Tilghman wrote the original. I am Dear Sir, your most obedient servant, G. Washington”.
Price: $42,000
Presentation Cased Pair of Flintlock Dueling Pistols
Said to have belonged to Captain Daniel Tyler...
Case Handle Inscribed “Captain Daniel Tyler-Pomfret 1778”
With silver thumb-piece engraved “DT”
Signed Tatham on lockplate...one of the great London gunsmiths
Label for Tatham and Egg, Circa 1800
Belonging to Captain Daniel Tyler (b. 1750; d. 1832)
Brooklyn Parish of Pomfret, Connecticut
We have extensive information gleaned from historic records and some provenance; it has been long believed that the brace of pistols was presented to Tyler as recognition of his patriotic acts during the Revolutionary War...the 1778 date is probably related to Tyler’s involvement in The Battle Of Rhode Island.
We know the pistols are some twenty years later and speculate that they were presented as a gift.
The engraved thumb-piece with “Tyler’s” initials, the engraved handle, the fact that the pistols were made by one of the Magnificent Seven...support by town/state and family records supporting the “generations old” legacy of ownership by Daniel Tyler.
CAPTAIN DANIEL TYLER
He fought through the Revolution and was in active service as late as 1780
Daniel Tyler was born 21 May 1750...son of Daniel Tyler and his second wife Mehitable Shurtleff. The senior Tyler, along with his friend Israel Putnam was an important figure in the Brooklyn parish of Pomfret, CT.
After graduating from Harvard College in 1771, young Daniel married Putnam’s daughter Mehitable. Both Tyler’s were involved with the Committees of Correspondence.
When news of the fighting at Lexington and Concord reached Pomfret, Israel Putnam and his son-in-law rode to Boston for orders. Daniel Tyler served as Putnam’s adjutant in the 3rd Connecticut Regiment during the Battle of Bunker Hill and the Siege of Boston.
In 1777 Tyler, along with 35 other “...Spirited gentlemen of Brooklyn...” formed an independent matross company that would only be under the command of the Commander-in-Chief, or major or brigadier generals of the state of Connecticut. They apparently provided “...3 or 4 light constructed field pieces...” as well as horses and men. Tyler was elected Captain and the unit served in Connecticut and Rhode Island opposing British raids. Some accounts have Tyler’s matross company serving with the Colonial Militia at the Battle of Newport, Rhode Island.
Returning to civilian life Daniel Tyler became a very successful businessman. He was a member of the first Board of Selectmen when Brooklyn (CT) was incorporated in 1786. After his father’s death in 1802 he owned a thousand acres of land and had interests in the Ohio Company. Yale voted him an M. A. in 1807. In 1813 he became involved in a schism in the local church between those turning toward Unitarianism and other, like himself, who followed more orthodox preaching. Daniel Tyler died in Brooklyn on 29 April 1832.
His home, Mortlake Manor, would become one of the summer homes of the Theodore Roosevelt family. Roosevelt’s second wife, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt was a descendent of Tyler.
DANIEL TYLER served on Gen. Putnam's staff and was Adjutant at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Two years later he raised an artillery company of matrosses, which he equipped at his own expense. He fought through the Revolution and was in active service as late as 1780.
IV.5. Orderly book, Boston, 14 June-11 September 1775
Unit name/number: 3rd Connecticut Regiment of 1775, Continental Army
Recordkeeper: Daniel Tyler
No. of frames: Approx. 70
Call Number: Ms. SBd-210
General, brigade (General Israel Putnam) and regimental (General Israel Putnam and later Colonel Experience Storrs) kept for Daniel Tyler, Adjutant, 1st Company of the Regiment 14 June-11 September 1775 during the Siege of Boston. In this period immediately after the Battle of Bunker Hill, general orders from Artemas Ward post guards on the road to Bunker Hill and ordered detailed returns on all regiments. Later orders from General Washington announced the organization of the besieging army into brigades and the "grand divisions" and call for courts-martial of several officers accused of dereliction of duty at Bunker Hill. Brigade orders send troops to Prospect Hill (Cambridge) and to Sewall's Point (Brookline). Regimental orders assign duty stations and prescribe daily exercise for the troops. The book also contains returns on Captain Waterman's company (the 1st company of the regiment) and lists of personnel.
Israel Putnam, Tyler’s Father-In-Law
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes"
General Israel Putnam at the Battle of Bunker Hill
After Lexington and Concord, Putnam hastened to Boston and became colonel of a Connecticut regiment and brigadier of Connecticut militia. He was one of the two principal commanders at the battle of Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill, where his personal courage showed to good advantage. Congress appointed him as one of the original major generals of the Continental Army within days of the battle. When Washington moved the army to New York, Putnam was given command at Long Island.
THE PISTOLS
These .70-caliber pistols are fully stocked to the muzzles in very good walnut with great patina. Grips are finely checkered...All steel parts remain in fine condition having No rust or pitting. The breech and tang are engraved as are all screws, buttcap, rear pipe, lockplate and trigger guard.
The iron butt caps with engraved bands around the foot are affixed with engraved screws set within conforming engraved collars.
The trigger guards are engraved with a panoply of arms and armor; front end of trigger guards are beautifully formed engraved pineapples.
Two iron ramrod pipes fitted beneath the fore-ends contain original wooden ramrods; one sans screw tip...both with horn tips.
The engraved locks are the original side-lock flintlocks; locks have rainproof type pans; safety catches are behind the engraved and fully developed cocks. The flints are enclosed in leather washers. Touch holes retain original gold bushings.
The pistols have .70-caliber round barrels with one flat top-rib, small blade shape foresights and V-shaped rear sights and a trace of brown color...the metal is clean and smooth.
The walnut case is of dovetail construction; scratch-molded lid with engraved brass handle let into the case...fitted interior appears to retain original baize. We have a period label that has accompanied the case for many years; it is mounted to cardstock; the label affixed to inside of case is a copy of a period label.
Covered compartments containing a number of cast-lead balls a few flints and a very good ebony cleaning rod. Also a good flask with compartment in bottom for spare flints and a screwdriver.
CONDITION: Very strong original condition with one pistol having a small amount of fill within a sliver of a fissure at the forend...all wood in the mentioned area appears to be original. The case is also in superb condition with only typical “in use” dings and wear.
Price: $33,500
Kentucky Rifle
By Joseph H. Faust
Berks County, Pennsylvania - SOLD
.44 caliber smoothbore rifle with 39-inch octagonal barrel. Flintlock with curly maple full stock. Brass furniture and 11 silver inlays. The stock is raised carved around the tang and incised carved ahead of and behind the cheekpiece. It has an exceptionally long toe plate, which completely meets the rear of the trigger guard. Nicely signed "J.H.F." Original sights. This gun will appear in the soon-to-be-published book "Gunmakers of Berks County" with a color page devoted to this gun. Restoration: the gun is probably an expert reconversion, and the forward 24-inches of the fore end wood has been restored.
This is a classy, light and delicate Kentucky rifle with great lines and nice carving and decoration. The lock is by W.T. Howell, Philadelphia.
See page 135 at top in Kentucky Rifle Patchbox book.
Cased Pair of Hodgson & Thompson
Baltimore Flintlock Pistols
A pair of cased Hodgson & Thompson (1800-1804), Baltimore flintlock pistols, .56 caliber with 7.75 inch octagonal brass barrels having swamped muzzles. Both barrels on these full stocked pistols are marked Baltimore; locks are marked Hodgson & Thompson. Iron pan with fence and bridle, no roller frizzen on one pistol; other pistol has the roller frizzen. (Made as such.) Markings on one lock are good, weak on the other. All furniture is brass except thumb pieces with are silver (bordered with stamped decoration). Trigger guard finials are like liberty caps. Trigger guard bows are engraved with chicken-eagles and American shields surmounted by 13 stars. Plain brass butt caps have long side tangs extending 2.5 inches from the butt and held by two brass nails (on each side). Lock screws have round brass escutcheons. Barrels are marked on top left flat with two large crowns & crossed scepters. The brass is mostly medium/dark patina. The iron locks show some light pitting and striations. The wood has some small repairs around the pins and at muzzle. One pistol has a ramrod (replaced), one is missing. The case has two hinged latches and a lock (missing the escutcheon). The lid has an irregular brass inlay monogrammed "DJ" with a folding handle. Interior of the case is correct green wool lining of the period, but looks like an old relining. There is an iron mold, key, rammer/cleaner, vent pick, priming horn and powder measure.
Price: $11,500
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