Miscellaneana: Botanical prints

A Walter Fitch illustration from ‘Popular Garden Botany’ showing Reseda odorata, Tropaeolum majus and Althea rosea (left) and an orchid print by his nephew, John Nugent Fitch, which is worth £100-£200. Latter photo: Ewbank’s auctioneers
A Walter Fitch illustration from ‘Popular Garden Botany’ showing Reseda odorata, Tropaeolum majus and Althea rosea (left) and an orchid print by his nephew, John Nugent Fitch, which is worth £100-£200. Latter photo: Ewbank’s auctioneers

LONDON – If our hosts were frustrated by our insisting we visit all the charity and antique shops we could find last weekend, then they certainly made up for it by making us trawl around their local garden center … not just, but twice in the same day.

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Fontaine’s features clocks, Mutoscope at June 27 auction

The porcelain and bisque annular urn clock (left) is signed with the Capodimonte mark (est. $3,000-$5,000). The Duffner & Kimberly table lamp features a leaded glass shade, 20 inches in diameter (est. $4,000-$6,000). Fontaine’s Auction Gallery images
The porcelain and bisque annular urn clock (left) is signed with the Capodimonte mark (est. $3,000-$5,000). The Duffner & Kimberly table lamp features a leaded glass shade, 20 inches in diameter (est. $4,000-$6,000). Fontaine’s Auction Gallery images

PITTSFIELD, Mass. – A three-session cataloged antique auction featuring over 500 lots in a myriad of categories will be held on Saturday, June 27, by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide absentee and Internet live bidding for the cataloged sessions.

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