Chip Carved Crooked Knife
Old Red Paint...double heart decoration
Maple
Circa 1939
As depicted, with scrolled terminus, chip carved and fluted with incised date-"1939".
Wonderful original paint and good patina.
(Length: 9.75 inches.)
Price: $1,395
527-12
Painted Sled
Late 19th to early 20th century all original paint decorated sled.
The end of the sled runners feature the best cast iron painted swan's heads.
Dimensions: 34-inches long, 36-inches high to top of handle, 15-inches wide.
Price: $950
687-1
Ear Of Corn Trade Sign
Cast Plaster & Horsehair
Found In Indiana
First half 20th century
This painted advertising piece, perhaps for a seed company, remains in very good condition with only minor touch-up to husk tips. (Length: 35.5 inches; width: 11 inches; depth: 4.5 inches.)
Price: $6,225
285-23
Scrimshaw Baleen Busk
Flowering Potted Plants, Anchor and Ship
Decorated Both Sides
Nineteenth Century
The decoration includes initials "WS," pot of flowers, ship in full sail; geometric shapes, anchor and winch, pierced decoration, very good. (Length: 12.5-inches.)
Price: $1,150
604-9
Love And Friendship Token
Inscribed
"When this you see...remember me"
Heart-and-Hand
Layered And Cut Paper
Mid-19th Century
This example is composed of conjoined cut and layered paper hearts with serrated edges on which is applied the complex woven basket-weave paper hearts with serrated edges worked in contrasting pink paper against white paper.
The hand is wonderful...with its cuff of blue trimmed in rose and white silk ribbon; the heart-and-hand centering the braided wreath of hair with blue ribbon.
The work is mounted within a period frame that is painted red with gold trim; traces of black over-paint remain. (Frame: 7.625 x 5.875 inches; view: 3.875 x 5.875 inches.)
Price: $735
775-312
Classical Woman
Carved Black Walnut
Circa 1870-1900
Carved "in the round" and remaining in fine old surface with good patina.
(Height: 69.25-inches.)
Price: $2,575
346-10
Three Japanese Dolls in Exquisite Costumes
Circa 1915
Dimensions: kneeling man is 10-inches high, man in chair is 13-inches high, woman is 7.5-inches high.
Price: $1,150
ACD
Pair Of Carved-Polychrome
Miniature Pheasants
First half-20th Century
Anonymous
Highly stylized and with great paint and surface quality; Wit legs set into diamond shaped matching bases. There Birds were found in Michigan. (Height: 4.5 inches; length: 5.75 inches; width: 2.5 inches; Height: 4 inches; length: 5.5 inches; width: 2.5 inches.)
Price: $575
171-56
OUTSTANDING
SHOREBIRD DECOYS
SET OF 6 GREATER YELLOWLEGS
Exceptionally rare to find a complete
set of working shorebird decoys!
Long Island
Circa 1900
Hand carved flatties in superbly detailed original paint. Essentially mint, including their bills. (Each bird is 13 to 13.5-inches long.)
Price: $9,200
584-1
FIREFIGHTING
Extremely Rare Presentation Trumpet
Cranberry cut to clear...
19th Century
Probably presented to an honored fire chief upon retirement. A cranberry and leaf motif within cross-banded grid. Published, page 234 of Hot Stuff-Firefighting Collectibles by Andrew G. Gurka. (Height: 16-inches.)
Price: $17,450
505-27
Carved & Painted Ship Diorama
Dimensions: 30.75 by 22.75 by 4.5-inches.
Price: $2,700
996-1
Horse Weathervane
Smuggler
Probably Harris and Company
Boston
Circa 1875-1900
Full bodied flatted copper vane with cast zinc ears in wonderful original mustard sizing. As depicted, the vane is missing its horizontal rod, which we can have restored. (Length: 31.5 inches; Height: 17.5 inches.)
Price: $2,975
605-41
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