November 4, 2013 - Auction Central News

Dreweatts & Bloomsbury joins Asian event with auction Nov. 11

Thangka embroidered picture of a yogi, 127 by 86 cm (50 3/4 inches by 34- 1/2 inches). Estimate £60,000-£80,000. Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions image.

LONDON— Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions will be taking part in Asian Art London for the first time this year and have marked this prestigious occasion with a sale of some of the finest Chinese Ceramics and Asian Works of Art. The sale will be the final auction of the event and will take place on Monday, Nov 11. Internet live bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com.

“Dreweatts and Bloomsbury Auctions are delighted to be participating, for the first year, in Asian Art in London,” said Dr. Benedetta Mottino, Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ Asian ceramics and works of art specialist. “To mark such an important event, we will have our first Asian art sale in our London Mayfair saleroom and are offering an exceptional selection of artworks. In particular, we are very proud to offer a rare 18th century Sino-Tibetan Thangka on silk of Milarepa, one of Tibet’s most famous yogis and poets, as well as fine jade carvings, porcelain wares, Indian miniatures, Tibetan sculptures and Japanese lacquer furniture, all from private collectors from the UK or Europe.”

One of the outstanding works of art on sale during Asian Art in London, the Thangka, an embroidered picture, is filled with ancient Tibetan mysticism. The painting is one of the finest products of the Karma Gardri painting school of eastern Tibet and displays the distinctive techniques and the influence of Chinese stylistic conventions, typical of work from this school.

The picture depicts the yogi seated in a relaxed pose, surrounded by his students, Gampopa and Rechungpa, the fierce hunter Chirawa Gumbo Dorje and the goddess of the Mountain, Tseringma. Milarepa is one of the most celebrated figures of Tibetan Buddhism. Living during the 11th and 12th centuries as an ordinary Tibetan, he retired to the Himalayas where he turned to the study of Tantric Buddhism and achieved enlightenment under the teachings of the of the great Master, Marpa. This imposing painting stands at 127 x 86 cm and has come from a private European collection (estimate £60,000-£80,000).

Also from a private European collection, a stunning Chinese Imperial consort’s formal court robe depicts nine embroidered five-clawed dragons clutching or confronting flaming pearls amid dense ruyi clouds on the front and back. Interspersed are bats and the ‘Eight Precious Things,’ which were drawn from a large repertoire that symbolized luck and prosperity, while the pearls represent good fortune. Finely worked in satin stitches in shades of blue, green, red, aubergine and ochre and couched vibrant gold threads, the robe has matching dark blue-ground cuffs and collar worked with further dragons amid bats, clouds and waves (estimate: £8,000-£10,000).

A fine selection of jade jewelry and objects of vertu includes a wonderful late 17th or early 18th century water pot, modeled in the shape of a large curving lotus leaf. Worked in high relief and openwork design to create the base, the translucent stone has a pale celadon-green tone with gray inclusions. Estimate £30,000-£40,000.

Among Japanese pieces in the sale a rare Meiji period Kinkozan Satsuma vase by Sozan is particularly important. Few, if any, other works by the potter are decorated with such elaborately pierced and molded upper sections, a feat of technical virtuosity for both the potter and the kiln handlers. Signed in an elaborate baroque cartouche “Dai Nihon Satsuma Kinkozan sei,” it carries a further signature on the reserve, “Sozan ga.” Sozan is arguably the most sought after Satsuma artist after Yabu Meizan, and some of the finest Kinkozan works came from his hand. The vase bears an intricate reticulated design of Prunus branches above a profusion of floral sprays and continuous landscape scenes (estimate: £3,000-£5,000).

All of the items offered for sale are from private UK or European Collections. The auction will take place at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury’s Maddox Street saleroom in London’s Mayfair.

View the fully illustrated catalog and register to bid absentee or live via the Internet as the sale is taking place by logging on to www.LiveAuctioneers.com.

ADDITIONAL LOTS OF NOTE

Chinese black lacquered altar table, late Qing period, 104cm wide, 207cm wide (41 1/2 inches by 82 3/4 inches). Estimate: £4,000-£6,000. Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions image.

Pair of Chinese cloisonné cormorants, 19th century-early 20th century, 72cm (28 3/4 inches high. Estimate: Estimate: £2,000-£3,000. Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions image.

Chinese blanc de Chine figure of Guanyin, 17th century, finely modeled with a serene expression, flanked by the acolyte Shancai who holdsa tablet, 25.5 cm (10 1/4 inches) high. Estimate: £4,000-£6,000. Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions image.

Tibeto-Chinese gilded copper figure of Palden Lhamo (Shri Devi) on horseback, 18th century, her right raised in vitarkamudra. Estimate: £3,000-£5,000. Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions image.

Late 17th or early 18th century water pot, modeled in the shape of a large curving lotus leaf. Worked in high relief and openwork design to create the base, the translucent stone has a pale celadon-green tone with gray inclusions. Estimate: £30,000–£40,000. Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions image.

Chinese Imperial consort’s formal court robe. Estimate: £8,000–£10,000. Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions image.

Rago to auction Vermillion Editions Limited prints Nov. 16

Robert Rauschenberg, ‘Signs.’ Estimate: $5,000-$7,000. Rago Arts and Auction Center image.

LAMBERTVILLE, N.J. – Nationally recognized for contemporary American printmaking, Vermillion Editions Limited was founded in 1977 by entrepreneur and master printer Steven M. Andersen. In its 15 years of operation, Vermillion published the works of such renowned artists as Red Grooms, Robert Mapplethorpe, James Rosenquist, Malcolm Morley, Sam Gilliam and William Wegman.

Steve Andersen and Meredith Hilferty, director of fine art at Rago, have selected over 200 of these from a personal collection of original works and prints to bring to market on Nov. 16 as the Vermillion Editions Limited Collection. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide Internet live bidding.

Highlights from the sale include the work of Nicolas Africano, Jennifer Bartlett, Joseph Beuys, Stanley Boxer, Willem de Kooning, Dan Flavin, Sam Gilliam, Red Grooms, Duncan Hannah, Keith Haring, Jasper Johns, Robert Kushner, Matthew McConville, George Morrison, Tom Otterness, Robert Rauschenberg, Herb Ritts, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist, Rupert Jasen Smith, Wayne Thiebaud, John Walker, Andy Warhol, William Wegman and Adja Yunkers.

“Artists from Arakawa to Warhol were eager for Andersen’s expertise and his willingness to translate unconventional ideas into print. He relished both technical challenges and the audacity of artists rethinking what a print could be,” said Meredith Hilferty, “Plus I understand he was really fun to hang with.”

A self-described juvenile delinquent from Minnesota who designed and built race cars, Andersen took his first lithography course by accident, thinking he was signing up for topography. His professor, master printer Zigmunds Priede, took Andersen to New York to work at Universal Limited Art Editions, one of the best-known fine print publishers in the country.

From the start Andersen was a brilliant printer, never compromising quality, always ready for new technical and artistic challenges. Before he graduated, he was collaborating with Chuck Close, Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, Marisol and Larry Rivers. After graduation, he set up the Styria Studio and the print studio at Parsons School of Design and joined the faculty of Cooper Union. He printed James Rosenquist’s massive four-panel litho and screen print Horse Blinders and Andy Warhol’s Chairman Mao series.

The impetus to start Vermillion came from Samuel Sachs, director of the Minnesota Institute of Arts. Andersen sparked to the idea of work in a booming but more intimate artistic community. He moved back to Minneapolis. Friends from New York including Rosenquist, Allan D’Arcangelo, Close and Arakawa soon made the journey west to work with him. He partnered extensively with Arakawa as well as Red Grooms and Sam Gilliam, and also took on work for Robert Cumming, Martha Diamond, Robert Moskowitz, John Newman, Hollis Sigler, as well as the aforementioned Nicolas Africano, Robert Mapplethorpe, James Rosenquist, Malcolm Morley and William Wegman.

Andersen will be at Rago during its auction exhibition on Tuesday, Nov. 12, and Wednesday, Nov. 13, for all who would like to meet him and speak with him about the work in the sale. He will also be the featured speaker at the Rago Open House on Nov. 13, with a freewheeling and unscripted reminiscence on his start in printmaking and the artists with whom he collaborated.

View the fully illustrated catalog and register to bid absentee or live via the Internet as the sale is taking place by logging on to www.LiveAuctioneers.com.

ADDITIONAL LOTS OF NOTE

Larry Rivers, ‘To Martha.’ Estimate: $7,000-$9,000. Rago Arts and Auction Center image.

Keith Haring, Untitled. Estimate: $3,000-$5,000. Rago Arts and Auction Center image.

Red Grooms, ‘Jasper & 3 Flags.’ $5,000-$7,000. Rago Arts and Auction Center image.

Willem de Kooning, Untitled (Clam Digger). Estimate: $3,000-$5,000. Rago Arts and Auction Center image.

Dan Flavin, ‘Five Lithographs.’ Estimate: $2,000-3,000. Rago Arts and Auction Center image.

Gallery Report: November 2013

Stuffed boxing squirrels, $17,700-$22,420, Rachel Davis

Four pairs of stuffed squirrels, posed in a boxing ring, were sold as single lots for prices ranging from $17,700-$22,420 at an auction held Sept. 21 by Rachel Davis Fine Arts in Cleveland, Ohio. The red squirrels, wearing britches and boxing gloves, were mounted in wooden boxes around 1850 by William Hart & Sons, English taxidermists. Also, a 1601 map of Greece by Nicholas Sophianos, 30 1/4 inches by 44 inches, made $120,000; and a work by Dean Cornwell (American, 1892-1960, The Father of Illustration) hit $26,000. Prices include an 18 percent buyer’s premium.

Astrodome sale may have been prelude to wrecking ball

Interior view of the Astrodome with seating configuration for football. Image by Jet Lowe. Historic American Engineering Record, Library of Congress HAER TX-108-11.

HOUSTON (AP) – Thousands of people lined up Saturday for the chance to take home a piece of the iconic, but dilapidated Houston Astrodome, once dubbed the “Eighth Wonder of the World.”

The “yard sale” and auction got underway in the morning at the Reliant Center, the convention center adjacent to the now-closed domed stadium. More than 4,000 people were inside or waiting to get in by about 10 a.m. Saturday, Reliant Park officials said, the line twisting through the center and out the door.

For those looking for a cheap memento, a 12-inch by 12-inch piece of AstroTurf cost $20. Seats were going for $200 a pair, and larger items, including autographed lockers and dugout benches, were being auctioned off. The first item up for auction, a set of 10 pretzel warmers from an old concession stand, went for $50.

Other items for sale included projectors, VCRs and turnstiles.

Marcos Escobar bought four squares of AstroTurf and two pairs of seats. He recalled fond memories of watching Houston Astros baseball games and Houston Oilers football games there with his father.

“I wanted to come out here and get something before they tear it down,” Escobar said.

Opened in 1965, the Astrodome was the world’s first multipurpose domed stadium. It was home to the Astros and the Oilers. But no professional sports team has played there since 1999 and the stadium has been closed to all events since 2009.

Voters will decide Tuesday whether to approve a referendum authorizing up to $217 million in bonds to turn the stadium into a giant convention center and exhibition space. Houston-area leaders have said that if the referendum fails, the Astrodome will probably be razed.

A poll conducted in mid-September by Rice University in Houston found 45 percent of likely voters supported the referendum, with 35 percent opposing it and nearly 20 percent still undecided.

With its fate still undecided, the Astrodome was awash in nostalgia Saturday. Some people showed up in the Astros’ famous orange-striped “rainbow” jerseys from the 1970s. Others wore old Oilers caps, commemorating a team that left Houston for Nashville to become the Tennessee Titans in the late 1990s after failing to get a new stadium.

Lorenzo Fuentes recalled paying $4 for tickets to games as he finished buying four squares of turf.

“I have a lot of big memories of the Astrodome,” Fuentes said. He added that his wife didn’t necessarily understand, and told him that anything he brought home from the stadium would have to stay in the garage.

AP-WF-11-02-13 1809GMT

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Dallas Museum of Art returns antiquities to Italy

Detail of the decoration on the famous Euphronios Krater, which was once in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image by Jaime Ardiles-Arce. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

ROME (AP) – The Dallas Museum of Art has agreed to return six antiquities that were looted illegally from Italy.

In exchange, Italy is loaning the Dallas museum treasures from the Spina necropolis housed at the Ferrara archaeological museum.

Italy’s culture ministry announced the agreement Thursday. The objects being returned include Etruscan-era kraters—jars for mixing water with wine—and a pair of bronze shields.

The ministry’s press office said that unlike past negotiations with U.S. museums, which involved threatened or real legal action to recover looted antiquities, Dallas museum director Maxwell Anderson spontaneously offered to return the items after the museum couldn’t determine their provenance.

Italy launched an aggressive campaign a decade ago to retrieve looted artifacts. Its most famous recovery is the Euphronios Krater from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Contents of Iowa marine shop headed upriver to museum

A view of Bellevue, Iowa, on the Mississippi River. Image by Dawikieditor96. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

BELLEVUE, Iowa (AP) – The contents of a century-old Bellevue marine engine-building shop will be an unusual addition to the National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium in Dubuque.

The Iowa Marine Engine and Launch Works produced thousands of boat engines for about three decades starting in the late 1800s. After that, the well-equipped machine shop was used to build various pieces of equipment and to repair antique tractors and other items until the last of three generations of owners, William Brandt, died last year.

The Telegraph Herald reports the sturdy limestone building, at Chestnut and Second streets along the railroad tracks through Bellevue, was a hub of manufacturing activity in the river town. Its well-regarded engines powered boats across the country. The business patriarch, Joseph Brandt, also designed and built several famous racing boats in the early 20th century.

William Brandt enjoyed tinkering in his vast shop and at Brandt’s Garage, where he worked as a mechanic, and invited cronies to join him for tinkering and talking sessions. A handful of Bellevue men dropped in often to shoot the bull and help Brandt restore the old tractors. Bill Rieckens, who owns a similar old stone building across the street, was one.

“Bill was easygoing, and we’d talk about old times and just about everything else over a pop or two,” said Rieckens, a member of the board of directors of the Jackson County Historical Society. The organization was interested in acquiring the shop, and Brandt expressed a desire to leave it to the group.

“We wanted it pretty bad, and we could have made it work,” Rieckens said.

Jan Brinker, of Bellevue, Brandt’s cousin and closest relative, was his estate executor and contacted the river museum about donating the shop contents to the national facility. Brinker did not return calls from the TH for comment.

Museum staff and volunteers have been examining and cataloging thousands of items in the shop since July. The preliminary work has been funded by a grant from an Iowa Resources And Enhancement Program historical grant.

“Inside, it looks like it did 100 years ago, like the workers were there yesterday, walked out and never came back,” said Cristin Waterbury, director of curatorial services at the museum. “It’s in very good shape, and the machinery works like a charm.”

River museum president and CEO Jerry Enzler has known about the marine shop since the 1980s and marvels at its pristine condition.

“It’s rare indeed to find something like this so well preserved. It’s like a frozen moment in time,” he said.

The shop equipment will be carefully removed from the Bellevue building next year and the museum will build a separate exhibit, possibly a separate building, to display the shop works, Enzler said. It could be open to the public in 2015.

“This represents not just things but also people and their occupations—‘folk life,’” Enzler said. “We’re celebrating our 10th anniversary at the river museum, and this will be a key piece of our next five years.”

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Information from: Telegraph Herald, http://www.thonline.com

AP-WF-11-02-13 1442GMT

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German police find 1,500 masterpieces looted by Nazis

Hildebrand Gurlitt became the first director of the König Albert museum in Zwickau in 1925. Image by Concord. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

BERLIN (AFP) – Nearly 1,500 priceless paintings including works by Picasso and Matisse that were stolen by the Nazis have been discovered in a flat in Munich, a news report said Sunday.

The German weekly Focus said police came upon the paintings during a 2011 search in an apartment belonging to the octogenarian son of art collector Hildebrand Gurlitt, who had bought them during the 1930s and 1940s.

The search was carried out because the son, Cornelius Gurlitt, was under suspicion for tax evasion, Focus said.

The report said the works were thought to be worth around 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion dollars) on today’s market.

The artworks lay hidden amid old jam jars and junk in darkened rooms in Gurlitt’s apartment in the southern city for more than half a century, the paper said.

Gurlitt, a recluse without a job, had sold a few over the course of the years, living off the proceeds, the paper reported.

His father, despite having a Jewish grandmother, had become indispensable to officials in the Third Reich because of his art expertise and his vast network of contacts.

Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels put Gurlitt in charge of exporting the art, which the Nazi party considered “degenerate.”

The collection included many of the great masters of the 20th century, among them the German painters Emil Nolde, Franz Marc, Max Beckmann and Max Liebermann.

Among the paintings discovered was one by Henri Matisse that had belonged to the Jewish collector Paul Rosenberg.

Rosenberg, who fled Paris leaving his collection behind, was the grandfather of Anne Sinclair, the former wife of the disgraced French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

The prosecutor in the southern city of Augsburg, who is reportedly handling the affair, declined to comment on the story, according to German press agency DPA.

The paintings are stored safely in a customs warehouse outside Munich, Focus said.

The Nazis massively plundered artworks in Germany and across Europe before and during World War II, confiscating many from Jews or forcing them to sell their works at a low price.

Between 1940 and 1944, German forces seized an estimated 100,000 paintings, artworks, tapestries and antiques from the homes of Jews in France, stripped of their rights by the racial laws enforced by the collaborationist government.

Thousands of stolen artworks have since been returned to their owners or their descendants, but many more have never resurfaced.

In 2007 a German expert published a book on looted art, estimating that thousands of masterpieces and tens of thousands of lesser works had yet to be restored to their rightful owners.

Only last week, an investigation by Dutch museums revealed that 139 of their artworks, including a Matisse and two Kandinsky paintings, may have been stolen by the Nazis.

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Kovels Antiques & Collecting: Week of Nov. 4, 2013

The two papier-mache and wood figures wrestling with the help of some strings depict 19th-century politicians who couldn't agree on anything. The toy and original box sold for $180 at Jackson's Auctions in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Most people today would not recognize the pair, Disraeli and Gladstone, as famous British politicians during the reign of Queen Victoria.

BEACHWOOD, Ohio – Political fights among politicians are not new. Today, the rivalries are ridiculed in political cartoons and on TV sitcoms. In the past, political differences were shown in Staffordshire figures, slogans and drawings.

The rivalry in Britain in the last half of the 19th century between the prime ministers Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) and William Gladstone (1810-1898) was notable. Both men were skilled politicians, but they hated each other. The two men came from very different backgrounds. Gladstone was a rich and deeply religious upper-middle-class man educated at Eton and Oxford. Disraeli never attended a university and was a wild youth who lived extravagantly. He wrote novels, accumulated debts and then married a rich widow. Gladstone, a liberal (Whig), and Disraeli, a conservative, disagreed on both social and international policies. They called each other names, opposed each other in numerous campaigns and were able to defeat each other at times. The repeal of the Corn Laws, which lowered tariffs, the purchase of stock in the Suez Canal, the favor of Queen Victoria, and other major problems were part of their battles. Political cartoons of the time often showed the two men fighting. There were even toys that pictured the men wrestling. Several versions of the toy have been sold through the years. In 2013, Jackson’s Auctions sold a pair of 8 1/2-inch-high Gladstone and Disraeli figures in their original box for $180.

Q: My maple armchair is marked “A Genuine Cushman Colonial Creation made in Bennington, Vt.” The words are printed in several typestyles inside an oval. How old is it?

A: H.T. Cushman (1844-1922) was an inventor who created things like the pencil eraser, ink eradicator and some early types of roller skates. He started a mail-order company and soon was making and selling things, including furniture. By 1899 he had incorporated his company and was making Mission furniture. Later he made smoking stands and maple breakfast-room sets. Your chair probably is from one of his breakfast-room sets. By the 1950s, the company was making birch furniture in the Colonial style. The company was later sold and finally closed in 1980.

Q: I have a red, white and blue metal sign that reads “Hudson, Service Station, Essex.” There’s a blue triangle on the sign that says “Hudson Super Six” and a red hexagon that reads “Essex Motor Cars.” The sign is 13 inches high and 27 1/2 inches wide. What is it worth?

A: Hudson Motor Car Co. was founded in 1909. Its Super Six engine was introduced in 1916. The Essex was a less expensive Hudson car introduced in 1919 and made until 1932. Hudson merged with Nash in 1954 and became American Motors Corp. Automobile-related advertising of all kinds is collected. Signs can sell for hundreds or even thousands of dollars, depending on age, rarity and condition. Your sign, from the 1920s, could sell for $500 or more.

Q: I have a McCoy cookie jar that belonged to my grandmother. It’s shaped like an apple and is yellow with red highlights. The lid has a stem and leaf on the top. I’d like to know how old it is and what it might be worth.

A: McCoy pottery was made in Roseville, Ohio. The company made cookie jars from about 1940 until the pottery closed in 1990. Its apple cookie jar was made from about 1950 to 1964. It was also made in turquoise, a rare color that sells for more. The value of your apple cookie jar is about $100.

Q: I have a late 19th-century bronzed spelter statue of Hernani. It’s just under 2 feet tall. He is holding a sword, dagger and horn, and is in excellent shape. Value?

A: Hernani was the title character in a play by Victor Hugo. It opened in Paris in 1830 and is set in the Spanish court of 1519. Bronzed spelter statues of Hugo’s fictional characters were popular in the late 19th century. One the size of yours sold for $140 earlier this year.

Q: I have a picture postcard showing the original photograph of President Franklin Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act on Aug. 14, 1935. It’s signed by James Roosevelt, FDR’s oldest son. Does it have any value?

A: Thousands of copies of this photograph were sent out by the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare in a mass mailing in 1985, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Social Security Act into law. The committee was founded by James Roosevelt in 1982. It advocated raising Social Security benefits for the “notch” babies, a term coined by Ann Landers for those born between 1917 and 1921 who received lower benefits than people born between 1910 and 1916 because of a change in the way cost-of-living adjustments were determined. The committee still is in existence and works to prevent cuts to Social Security and Medicare. The mailing was part of a fundraising effort by the committee. The same photograph also was included in a 1990 mailing. So, your picture postcard is a common one and not of much interest to collectors.

Tip: Don’t leave anything inside old books – especially pressed flowers, paper clips, newspapers or sticky notes. They will cause stains, crease pages and do other damage.

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CURRENT PRICES

Current prices are recorded from antiques shows, flea markets, sales and auctions throughout the United States. Prices vary in different locations because of local economic conditions.

Hair clip, bow, pearls, gem center, back comb, Yves Saint Laurent, $60.
Political souvenir plate, William Howard Taft and running mate James Sherman, border of past Republican presidential candidates, tin, 1908, 9 1/2 inches, $110.
Tramp art watch hutch, house shape, round opening, c. 1890, 15 inches, $120.
Leaf pin, silver, berry design, Kalo, 2 1/2 inches, $220.
Dominoes set, ebony, bone, box, c. 1850, 7 3/4 in., 28 pieces, $265.
Santo monk figure, wood, white glass eyes, gilt rope sash, brown robe, hands raised, Spain, circa 1765, 17 x 9 inches, $275.
Pewter box, lid, oval, inset green stone, Liberty & Co., 3 1/2 x 2 inches, $315.
Bench, wood frame, black paint, rush seat, Italy, 1950s, 18 x 18 inches, pair, $500.
Quilt, appliqued, golden eagle on shield, stars, red, blue, white, c. 1950, 91 x 76 inches, $850.
Palmist and clairvoyant trade sign, black, white paint, 50 inches, $5,040.

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