Tobacco Tongs
Wrought Iron
Circa 1740
A slender and graceful tool created for a smokers convenience; also used to carry a hot ember to another room in the house. This example is neatly made with comfortable handles, a tapering spring with rat tail terminus; half-round knops just before the hinge and a pierced tamper. There is filed decoration in the form of simple "hash" marks between the knops and tong shoulders. Overall length is 15 7/8-inches.
Price: $1,850
686-1
Feather Basket
Original greenish blue paint
Ash Splint
Circa 1850
28-Inches
Round top with double wrap tapering before swelling to the bulbous body then again tapering inward to the round base with pushed-up bottom. Scattered imperfections and missing handles...a wonderful form.
Price: $495
201-187
Red Painted Box
With Lithograph
California Gold Rush Wooden Box
Mid-Nineteenth Century
Walnut and poplar
Finely constructed with each panel chamfered and hand planed; panels are mortised into the stiles; the pegged case is raised on neatly turned feet. The front has Kelloggs & Comstock lithograph "California gold diggers, mining operations on the western shore of the Sacramento River" (circa 1848 - 1850) mounted behind glass, unattached wooden lid. Fine original condition. John Chenavard Comstock was affiliated w/ Kelloggs from 1848 - 1850
(17-inches high by 16.25-inches wide by 12.75-inches deep.)
Price: $1,875
431-32
Apothecary-Case of drawers
Mahogany, mahogany veneer and white pine
Early 19th Century
The rectangular top cross-banded in mahogany above the conforming case, containing 25 dovetail drawers. The condition is very good, with only five veneer repairs to drawer fronts; limited to corners. The brasses were replaced during the 20th century. Old labels that were affixed to drawer fronts are long gone.
Dimensions: 16.25-inches high, 18-inches wide, 7.5-inches deep.
Price: $1,550
451-5
Painted Tin Tea Canister
19th Century
Oval tea canister decorated with red flowers having yellow stems and leaves, shoulder decorated with yellow brushstrokes; top of lid decorated with yellow brushstrokes; yellow stems and leaves of central decoration have deteriorated leaving image of where they previously were, canister and lid are in excellent condition. (Height: 5.25-inches.)
Price: $650
336-23
Paint Decorated Box
19th Century
Maine
The rectangular box with faux upholstery and brass tacks; neatly compartmentalized painted exterior with spit-tacking and initials CP on top. Excellent condition.
(Dimensions: 11.5-inches high, 24-inches wide, 12.75-inches deep.)
Price: $4,500
475-19
Folding Music Stand
Dimensions: 8.75 by 1.5 by 1.25-inches closed, 17.75 by 8.25 by 6.5-inches open.
Price: $550
348-193
Large Pantry Box, Old Yellow Paint
With remains of old yellow paint and iron nails.
Condition: overall very nice.
Dimensions: 10.25-inch diameter, 5.5-inches high.
Price: $975
775-279
Painted Tin Bread Tray
Pennsylvania
Painted tin bread tray, bottom has white border with swags in each outer corner, leafs, vermillion flowers; ends have yellow flowers, stems, leafs and swags; sides have squiggles and roping in yellow. The piece remains in very good original condition with one small area of possible in-painting. (Depth 8-inches, Height 3 ¾-inches, Width 9 ½-inches.)
Price: $1,675
336-24
19th Century Bentwood Brides Box
A great example of a centuries old Northern European tradition! Brides boxes were a traditional gift a groom would make or have made to present to his bride for her most special possessions...such as her headdress and other small items from her trousseau. The boxes also were known to be part of a bride's dowry. Always colorful the decoration on the box we are offering is especially nice.
Dimensions: 18.5 inches long by 7.5 inches tall.
Price: $4,125
191-222
Uncle Sam Mechanical Bank
Dimensions: 11.25-inches high, 4.75-inches wide, 4-inches deep.
Price: $2,500
536-4
Leather Purse with Brass Lock & Key
Leather purse with a heavy hinged brass top that locks and unlocks with a brass skeleton key attached to the purse by a brass chain. The iron lock is in working condition. There is punched decoration on the brass, and short fringe on the corners of the purse. Remains in very good condition.
Dimensions: 5.5-inches long.
Price: On Request
424-12
American Maple Flute in Original Box, circa 1850
This flute with bone ferrules and a single nickel key is stored in its original box. The box has marbleized paper and interior dividers, and a paper label on lid with worn ink inscription.
Condition: one ferrule cracked, paper worn but box solid, overall very good.
Dimensions: 15-inches long.
Price: $775
348-204
19th Century Red Painted Buttocks Basket
Dimensions: 10-inches tall by 12-inches wide by 11-inches deep.
Excellent Condition
Price: $550
573-8
White Painted Columbia Bank - SOLD
Dimensions: 9-inches high, 7-inches square.
171-55 - SOLD
Oval Fingered Box
Tack and peg construction
New England
19th Century
This form, often referred to as "Harvard, Massachusetts" type was originally painted yellow, now over-painted black; depiction of Federal building remains on the lid. Black paint is very old and dry; condition as depicted...the box is fine with no breaks or losses.
Dimensions: 2.25-inches high, 5.5-inches wide, 4.25-inches deep.
Price: $595
110-325
Melon Basket with Southern Handle
Measures 10-inches in height, 16.25-inches in width and 9.25-inches in depth.
Price: $1,725
510-25
Lathe Turned Bowl
Eighteenth Century
Ash
A fairly large bowl with molded rim and turned foot.
This bowl with no cracks has good color and patina.
(Height: 7.5 inches; diameter: 18.25 inches.)
Price: $6,500
505-6
Merriam Tin Toy Horse & Wagon
Measures 3.75-inches in height, 7.5-inches in length and 2-inches in width.
Price: $495
460-10
Black Leather Covered Dome Top Trunk
With Brass Tacks
Measures 11.25-inches in height, 24-inches in width and 13-inches in depth.
Price: $985
605-32
Handled Butter Churn
Probably Hingham, Massachusetts
Circa 1850
This "Bucket Town" example...stave constructed with five overlapping hoops is made of pine with a maple top. Excellent condition; dasher handle is halved. Height: 13-inches.
Price: $650
124-53
Large Wooden Bowl
In Blue Paint
A nice large wooden bowl with a medium blue paint over red paint on the exterior and roughly 2-inches along the rim of the interior. Overall very good condition with one small crack on rim mentioned for accuracy. Measures 20.5-inches in width, 19-inches in depth and 6.25-inches in height.
Price: $895
514-81
17th Century Dutch Tile
Possibly Representing Peter Stuyvesant
Governor of New Amsterdam
The tile depicts a man in typical 17th century attire with a long walking stick and a wooden leg within an accolade border having ox-head corner decoration. The body is buff and the decoration is in blue on a tin glaze. There is considerable chipping along the edges and the surface of the tile is pockmarked.
Peter Stuyvesant (1612-1672) was a Dutch military hero who lost his leg fighting in the West Indies. He is best known in this country as the Governor of New Amsterdam. (Approximately 5-inches x 5-inches x ½-inch.)
Price: $570
657-7
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