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Americana on tap for on-site Kaminski auction Oct. 14

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf
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Aldro T. Hibbard (American, 1886-1972), ‘Winter Scene in Vermont,’ oil on canvas. Kaminski Auctions image

 

BEVERLY, Mass. – The first of Kaminski Auctions’ two fall on-site auctions will be held Oct. 14 in a spectacular country farm setting starting at 10 a.m. Eastern time at 64 Perkins Row, Topsfield, Massachusetts. The auction features the Americana collection of Dr. and Mrs. Levitsky, a prominent North Shore physician. Absentee and Internet bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.

The Topsfield collection includes an Aldro T. Hibbard (American, 1886-1972), Winter Scene in Vermont, oil on canvas. The painting, with the artist stamp verso, measures 34 ¼ inches by 43 inches and is conservatively estimated at $7,000-$12,000.

Additional paintings in the collection include a signed Tomaso de Simone, titled The Two-Masted American Schooner Neptune (below), an oil on canvas estimated at $3,000-$6,000; a Mersey River Scene, oil on canvas by the Englishman Thomas Buttersworth (1768-1842); and a J. Perillo, signed Venetian scene with serenaders, oil on canvas in an elaborate gilt frame.

 

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Tomaso de Simone, ‘The Two-Masted American Schooner Neptune,’ an oil on canvas. Estimate: $3,000-$6,000. Kaminski Auctions image

 

Furniture includes a circa 1790 English George III mahogany bow-front chest having two frontal French feet enclosing a bowed inlaid apron with four graduated, beaded drawers and a fine American Hepplewhite mahogany card table with line, and cuff inlay.

Other highlights include a fine KPM large porcelain wall plaque of a young girl reading, signed H. Meisel lower left, signed P. Barthel lower right and inscribed verso Im Zwielicht (In the Twilight) and nach P. Barthel.

 

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Fine KPM large porcelain wall plaque of a young woman reading, signed H. Meisel. Kaminski Auctions image

 

Also available are an Adelaide Palmer (1851-1928) floral still life, oil on canvas, signed and dated, valued at $5,000-$9,000; a circa 1720 rare and important American William and Mary walnut bonnet-top secretary with ancient surface, lovely interior and condition, valued at $11,000- $13,000; and a Louis Vuitton steamer trunk, circa 1870s-1880s, No. 20741.

Another item of interest to collectors is a 19th century Troughton & Simms, London, brass telescope on a wooden tripod with 13 lenses from the Gundlach Optical Co., Rochester, New York. Lettering on the box reads “S. Cooper.” The telescope is estimated to bring $2,000-$3,000.

Mid-Century modern collectors will be drawn to a Philip and Kelvin LaVerne “Chan” coffee table with glass top valued at $6,000-$9,000 and a Bernard Katz, 20th-century hand blown vase covered in an autumn leaf pattern, approximately 17 inches high. There are several sets of leather Knoll chairs and a pair of slate-topped Knoll tables on offer.

 

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