Gustav Muss-Armolt, Painting, Alert Wood Duck, Arm & Hammer Bird Trading Cards Illustration
Oil on canvas, frame: 14.75" x 11.75"; view: 11.5" x 8.5"
Muss-Armolt was born in Tuckahoe, NY, in 1858; died in Avon, Massachusetts
February 9, 1927. He spent most of his professional life in New York City and
Tuckahoe; noted painter of sporting and gun dogs, also painted waterfowl, upland game
and other animal subjects including horses. He served as a director of the American
Kennel Club in New York City from 1906 to 1909. He is well represented in many
museums including the Smithsonian American Art Museum; Muss-Armolt exhibited at
the National Academy of Design in New York City
The painting of a wood duck is the illustration used in the special Gamebird Series
published by Arm & Hammer, a consumer products company. Small advertising cards
depicting this duck and other beautiful gamebirds were created for the Waterfowl
Series. (This one is number 27) Church & Dwight Co. of New York launched the
campaign in the 1880s. The corporate tradition lasted nearly 90 years, these bird
trading cards originally came in Arm & Hammer baking soda boxes and later they could
be ordered by mail. At a time when market gunners were harvesting wild birds for meat
and feathers, the Church & Dwight bird cards featured the theme “Useful birds of
America” and a simple message: “For the good of all do not destroy the birds.” Each
card carried a short interesting paragraph about the natural history of the bird portrayed.
(Original condition; frame rub and minor paint loss due to frame rabbet rub at extreme left)
$13,100
1310-51
Portrait of Boy on Horseback, Equestrian Painting
Anonymous, Turn of 20th Century
This painting was found in the Buffalo, New York area and remains on original stretcher; excellent overall condition. The attractive carved and gilt modern frame measures 28.5 by 39.25”; view: 23.25 by 33.75”.
$2,950
659-158
19th Century Folk Art, The Unwelcome Guest,
Girl Holding Rose with Dog
By D.B.S. Lyons, Watercolor on Thin Brushed Cotton,
Mounted on Paper
The picture is mounted within reddish-brown painted and splined frame.
(Frame: 5.125" x 5.125"; view: 3.125" x 3.125")
$2,085.00
632-80
Antique Folksy Painting, Mice eating Bread
Anonymous, 19th Century
Oil on Academy Board
Mice feasting on a loaf of bread…Eew!
The painting is wounded with a 19th century molded frame painted black.
(Sight: 7 by 13”, overall: 9.25 by 15.25”)
$575.00
1283-56
Vintage Folk Art, Pastel of Cat Named Pumpkin
Anonymous, First Half of 20th Century
(Frame: 19.25" x 11.5"; view: 17.25" x 9.5")
$950.00
1283-64
Antique Folk Art Watercolor, Girl with Cat, Miniature
American School, circa 1860 - SOLD
A large gray tiger cat atop table, is company for the young girl wearing red necklace, blue dress and
slippers. (There is an old .75-inch tear at upper right corner; original black painted frame;
frame: 3.5" x 3.25"; view: 3" x 2.5")
SOLD
1283-34
Antique Pastel, Mischievous Puppy with Lace Kerchief
Anonymous, Circa 1870
Fluffy bright-eyed puppy plays with textile of colorful carpet
(Fine condition, mounted with period gilt frame frame-21.75" x 18" x 2.25")
$2,100.00
1280-3
Painting, French, Cart Dog with Chickens and Produce, Likely Dutch-Belgium
1878, Illegibly Signed
Oil on Mahogany Panel
In the circle of Henriette Ronner-Knip, see page 289, plate 428 of William Secord’s Dog Painting – The European Breeds (The Antique Collectors’ Club, 2000)
(Original condition, frame is not original; 13 by 11.5”)
$375
659-103
Painting, Folk Art, Observation Tower in Seaport Town, Artist Unknown
New England, Circa 1850
By the same hand as that published in The Flowering of American Folk Art
Oil on canvas, with stencil of Goupil & Co., New York, on verso
See The Flowering of American Folk Art by Jean Lipman and Alice Winchester, (1974) page 60, plate 75. Also, Folk Paintings of America by Robert Bishop (1979)
Page 60, plate 80; captioned as: Seaport Town, artist unknown, oil on canvas, c.1840. Its monumental scale indicates that the artist probably looked upon it as a very important structure in the bustling harbor. (Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Kahn) The companion picture is again found in Young America, A Folk Art History by Jean Lipman, Elizabeth Warren and Robert Bishop, page 71.
(Generally good condition other than a 13" crease caused by stretcher pressure one inch from bottom; the work is mounted within a spool and ripple-molded walnut and walnut veneered frame of the period; excellent grain; could use a cleaning. Frame: 31.25 by 25.5", sight-size: 22.5 by 17")
$5,250
925-14
Locomotive, Mixed Media Painting
Hinkley & Dury's Works, Boston and
Fitchburg Railroad
American, 19th C., Signed T.F. Ramsay 1877 to 1888 (lr)
Painted pigment, applied gilt foil paper accents and wood rail on academy board
Holmes Hinkley and Gardner P. Drury built stationary engines and began building locomotives 1840. According to inscriptions the locomotive was built in 1846, and later rebuilt at the Fitchburg Railroad repair shop in 1866. Period molded wood frame, gilt liner. (Good condition, subtle surface grime and stray marks; Frame: 20.5 by 15.5"; view: 16.5 by 11.5)
$1,725
232-314
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