Sale 2747M September 18, 2014 Marlborough Sale 2748T September 11–19, 2014 www.skinnerinc.com Save the Dates! Toys, Dolls, Collectibles, Furniture & Decorative Arts—Online October 9–17, 2014 Sale #2756T www.skinnerinc.com view all lots online at www.skinnerinc.com Specialists Melissa Riebe Kyle Johnson 508.970.3295 508.970.3191 Department Inquiries: 508.970.3202 Auction Information Auction 2747M Preview Absentee Bidding Thursday, September 18 Tuesday, September 16 T: 508.970.3211 10AM 12 to 5PM F: 508.970.3110 274 Cedar Hill Street Wednesday, September 17 General Inquiries: Marlborough, MA 10AM to 7PM 508.970.3000 Auction 2748T SkinnerLive!: skinnerinc.com Thursday, September 11, 10AM–Friday, September 19, 10AM www.skinnerinc.com Bid online with SkinnerLive! 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Copyright © Skinner, Inc. 2014 All rights reserved MA/Lic. #2304 Discovery Thursday, September 18 at 10AM Lots 1-500 1 7 13 Partial Transfer-decorated Wash Set, mostly Six Hunting-related Items, 19th century, TTwo Cast Iron Acorn-pattern Garden PotPot Ridgways Corey Hill items, a washbasin and a small powder horn, two leather powder Holders and Two Dayton Hill Climber pitcher, a jug, a shaving mug, and a dish, ht. flasks: one with embossed hunting scenes, Trains, the pressed steel Dayton Hill Climber 10 3/4, dia. 15 1/4 in. an incised horn rundlet, and two small leather friction-driven locomotive and coal tender with $200-300 shot flasks, lg. to 8 3/4 in. maroon-painted bodies, gold detailing, and $200-300 spoked wheels, the tender with “Hill Climber” painted to the side, friction-driven mechanism 2 underneath the locomotive, overall lg. to 26 Reverse-painted Molded Glass Light 8 1/2 in. Fixture, early 20th century, the fixture with Molded and Frosted Glass and Metal Light $100-200 molded and painted grapevine pattern and Fixture, 19th/20th century, the glass shade brass mount, ht. 9, dia. 16 in. with diamond and floral motifs, fixed to a $300-500 pierced metal mount and glass dome, ht. 26, 14 dia. 10 in. Federal-style Inlaid Mahogany Card Table, $200-250 the top with ovolo sides, elliptical front, and 3 chevron-inlaid edges on a conforming apron Six Hooked Rugs, four with floral motifs, with central inlaid paterae medallion, raised on one with multicolored waves, and one with 9 stringed square tapering legs, ht. 31 3/4, wd.wd. a geometric pattern, (loss), lg. to 50, wd. to TTwelve Mostly Handled Woven Splint 36, dp. 18 in. 32 in. Baskets. $300-500 $200-300 $200-300 15 4 10 Nine Antique Furniture and Bird Reference Edward Miller & Co. Duplex Brass Two Framed Samplers, America, 19th Books, two volumes of The Original Adjustable Double Student Lamp, late 19th century, one with silk threads on a red linen Watercolor Paintings by John James Audubon century, the two lights with a pair of colorless gauze, fourteen rows of alphabets and for the Birds of America, reproduced by the and white glass shades, over three reservoirs numbers, the other with silk threads on a New York Historical society, three volumes with applied brass floral devices and a beaded gauze backing, with eight rows of alphabets ofof Birds of Massachusetts and Other New circular base, ht. 21 1/2, wd. 22, dp. 12 in. and numbers and a floral border over a basket England States by Edward Forbush, John $300-500 of fruit, (imperfections), lg. to 18 1/2, wd. to Gould’s Birds, and three books on American 9 in. antique furniture. $300-500 $200-250 5 Eight Pieces of Hand-painted Limoges Porcelain, including a grapevine-decorated 11 16 punch bowl, tray, and five sherbets, and Iron Sculpture of a Porcupine, 20th century, Four Glass Lamps, two Gone with the Wind- an iris-decorated vase with gilt elements, ht. 13, wd. 22 1/2, dp. 16 in. type lamps; one with floral decoration on a (imperfections), ht. to 9 1/4, dia. to 13 in. $300-500 mottled red ground, by Bradley & Hubbard, $200-400 and two kerosene lamps; one with green geometric and foliate devices on a white 12 ground, marked “Success,” ht. to 21 1/4, dia. 6 Large Folk-carved Wooden Fretwork to 12 1/2 in. TTwo Chinese Export Hardwood Lap Desks, Church Building Clock, c. 1920s, ht. 39, wd. $250-350 19th century, a brass-mounted rosewood 20, dp. 14 1/2 in. desk and a brass-inlaid hardwood desk with $300-500 central inlaid medallion of a stallion, (loss), ht. to 6 3/4, wd. to 17 3/4, dp. to 10 in. $200-250 44 Additional information and photos at www.skinnerinc.com 17 26 33 Thirty-one Pieces of Rockingham-glazed Northwest Persian Rug, 19th/20th century, 5 Rookwood Pottery Vase, Cincinnati, Ohio, Pottery, 19th/20th century, including three ft. 10 in. x 3 ft. 3 in. 1924, Vera Tischler, light brown matte glaze pitchers: one with relief-molded fruit, one with $200-300 decorated with tulips in green and light blue, lid, and one with foliate-molded band to rim; base stamped with flame mark, “XXIV, 951D,” six finger bowls, and eleven cups, ht. to 8 3/4 and painted initials “V.T.,” (minor glaze flakes in.in. 27 around base rim), ht. 9 1/4 in.n. $200-300 British School, 19th/20th Century $350-450 Devonshire Garden. Signed “L. Osborn” 18 l.l., titled on a label on the back of the frame. 34 Bronze Sculpture of Four Cowboys After Watercolor on paper, 15 x 21 in., framed. Group of Miscellaneous Decorative Frederic Remington, 20th century, ht. 29, Condition: Subtle rippling, not examined outout Objects, including a pair of floral-decorated wd. 26, dp. 26 in. of frame. Gouda pottery vases, a brown and white $500-700 $150-350 transfer-decorated Ashworth & Bros. “American Marine” platter, a set of three French majolica leaf plates, and a Mintons 19 28 geometric-pattern tile, ht. to 14 1/2 in.in. Group of Bakelite-handled Cutlery and a Achille-Emile Othon Friesz (French, 1879- $200-250 Tray. 1949) $200-300 Harbor View. Stamped “EOF” l.r. Watercolorolor 35 and graphite on paper, 15 x 21 in., framed. TTwo Artist-decorated Hollohaza Porcelain 20 Condition: Handling creases, fading/toning. Plates, Hungary, 20th century, decorated TTwelve Ceramic, Carved Wood, and Metal $200-300 in black and white with gold highlights, Items, including two bronze classical figures, decorated by Szasz, maker’s mark on base, two ceramic flutes, and miscellaneous folk- dia. 9 3/4, 12 in. carved figures, ht. to 16 in. 29 $100-200 $100-150 Chippendale Mahogany Slant-lid Desk, opening to a stepped fitted interior with valanced compartments, drawers, and a fall- 36 21 front central prospect drawer, over a case of Pair of Continental Fruitwood Armchairs, HU Vallieres Modern Rosewood Veneer four graduated drawers with molded drawer 19th century, the three arched splats joining Two-door Wardrobe, Quebec, Canada, with dividers, on shaped bracket feet, (damage), ht. shaped arms and a velvet-upholstered seat fitted interior, branded label, (damage), ht. 52 41, wd. 36 1/4, dp. 18 in. with needlepoint cushions depicting a stallion 7/8, wd. 39 7/8, dp. 19 1/8 in. $400-600 and a stag, raised on a shaped curule base, $200-400 (damage), ht. 32, wd. 24 1/2, dp. 20 in. $200-300 30 22 Felix Fabian (British, 20th Century) Etched Colorless Glass Covered Urn, 19th 37 century, the bird and spring-etched body with Two Drawings: Village Musicians and Silk and Velvet Pieced Crazy Quilt, late applied ribbed handles, ht. 11 3/4, wd. 9, dp. Queen’s Guard . Both titled in pencil l.l. 19th century, stitched with silk thread, some 7 in. and signed “Felix Fabian” in ink l.r.r.,., Queen’s patches depicting children and flowers, lg. 73, $150-250 inscribed “To Shelley & Leo with best wishes wd. 61 in. Boston 1963” in ink l.r. Ink on paper, sheet $200-250 sizes 16 7/8 x 13 7/8 in., framed. Condition: 23 Mounted, Queen’s gently rippled, not Pair of Cast Iron Owl Andirons, Boston, examined out of frame. 38 19th/20th century, the owls perched atop $250-300 Large Group of Decorative Items, including branches, with glass eyes, (imperfections), ht. a swan-carved needlepoint-upholsteredd 15 1/2 in. footstool, two carved wood mirrors, a $100-150 31 framed Godey’s fashion print, a pair of figural Thirteen Glass Decanters and Bottles, bookends, a group of glass decanters and including a foliate-enameled flask with bird- silver-plated tableware, two wooden baseball 24 decorated medallions, examples of early bats, and other miscellaneous decorative TTwo Reverse-painted Mirrors, one with mold-blown decanters, and two bottles: one objects. molded overhanging cornice and gilt sphere with foliate-etched design, the other with gilt $400-600 drop finials over a reverse-painted panel decoration, ht.