Fancy Paint Decorated Box
New England
Circa 1830

A fancy painted pine dome-top trunk, probably New England, circa 1830; the trunk painted black with yellow borders, yellow decoration painted on all surfaces. The interior is lined he interior lined with wallpaper; period lock and hasp are successful and appropriate replacement; one side bail handle missing all else fine. (Height: 11-inches; width: 24-inches; depth: 12-inches.)

Price: $13,750

417-54

MAN IN A BARREL
Probably Niagara Falls, New York
Circa 1900
This figure represents one of the earliest of the rival daredevils who attempted going over Niagara Falls during the first decade of the twentieth century.

White pine, carved and painted, iron bands, original painted decoration. The barrel stamped: “P,.P. + H. Palmer” (Height: 12.5-inches.)

Provenance:
Howard and Catherine Feldman collection; David A. Schorsch, 1995: Tony and Sally Grassi Collection.

Literature:
Susan Klein and Cynthia V.A. Schaffner, “Living with antiques: A folk art collection in Pennsylvania,” The Magazine Antiques, September, 1984, page 569, figure 4.

Price: $24,500

SHF345

Small Painted Basket
With Dyed Splints

Measures 5-inches in height, 13-inches in width and 9.75-inches in depth.

Price: $750

176-12

Three-Dimensional Sales Stimulator
Outstanding Cigar Trade Sign
Turned, Carved and Polychrome...
Circa 1870-1880...based on lettering

This cigar sign is a most unusual and desirable piece of advertising from a California collection.
Turned carved and painted to simulate tobacco leaf and the ash and ember of a lit cigar. The highly stylized lettering done in silver powder suggests that the piece was carved and painted by a professional in a metropolitan area; silver lettering with traces of gold or chrome yellow silhouetting outside edges against a tobacco leaf brown ground; the flame end painted an ashen gray with wisps of trailing smoke and a ring of hot red for heat. (Length: 44.25-inches; circumference at center: 17.25-inches.)

Price: $7,850

195-5

A Good Blacksmith Trade Sign
Horseshoe...original green paint
19th Century - SOLD

This hand wrought sign demonstrates the smithies trade vocabulary and competence in punching, chiseling, shaping, forge welding and whimsy.
(Height: 22.25-inches; width at widest point: 16.75-inches; fairly uniform thickness of 3/8-inch except hanger which is about Ľ-inch thick.)

673-4 - SOLD

Rare 19th Century Tin Bonnet
Fashioned from the Styles of the 1840's - 1850's

Pictured in Antique Tin & Tole Ware: Its History and Romance by Mary Earle Gould (Author), Illustrated (Illustrator), plate 156. Dimensions: 8-inches high by 7.5-inches wide by 9.5-inches deep.

Price: $2,500

795-144

Make-Do Candle Mold
Pewter, sheet iron, chestnut and ash...
Early 19th Century

Recently used as a triple candle light-this make-do exudes character and creativity. Made from three pewter candles mold tubes that were originally part of wood frame that dated from circa 1780-1820. The tinned sheet-iron drip-pan is “dished” and has a folded edge; central support column is carved in the round of chestnut then let into the base with molded edges. All materials with terrific color and patina. (Height: 11-inches; Base is 4 1/8 by 4 7/8-inches with diameter of drip-pan being just about 7-inches.)

Price: $1,850

175-6

Fancy Paint Decorated Box New England Circa 1830

MAN IN A BARREL Probably Niagara Falls, New York Circa 1900 This figure represents one of the earliest of the rival daredevils who attempted going over Niagara Falls during the first decade of the twentieth century.

Small Painted Basket With Dyed Splints

Three-Dimensional Sales Stimulator Outstanding Cigar Trade Sign Turned, Carved and Polychrome... Circa 1870-1880...based on lettering

A Good Blacksmith Trade Sign Horseshoe...original green paint 19th Century - SOLD

Rare 19th Century Tin Bonnet Fashioned from the Styles of the 1840's - 1850's