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Fontaine’s features clocks, Mutoscope at June 27 auction

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf
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.

The day will begin with an uncataloged discovery auction that will begin at 11 a.m. Eastern time, followed by the cataloged auction at noon and a watches, chains and fobs auction right after that.

The cataloged sale will feature antique clocks, lamps (by Duffner & Kimberly, Gorham, Handel, Pairpoint and others), porcelains, bronze statuary, art glass, estate jewelry, silver, coin-op and arcade machines, Victrolas, toys and dolls, advertising and country store, unusual gold Masonic items, Asian objects, paintings, posters, Icart etchings, antique furniture, garden items and more.

The anticipated top lot of an impressive coin-op collection is a floor model Mutoscope arcade machine, cast iron with large seashell panels on the sides (est. $7,000-$10,000). Also selling will be a rare floor model Mills Perfect Muscle Developer, with point markers to “Test Your Strength” (est. $4,000-$6,000).

The 31-inch-tall Jules Steiner, Paris, bebe doll has a bisque head, fixed glass eyes and articulated composition body (est. $3,000-$5,000). The Mutoscope viewing machine having a cast-iron case costs a pennry to operate (est. $1,200-$1,500). Fontaine’s Auction Gallery images
The 31-inch-tall Jules Steiner, Paris, bebe doll has a bisque head, fixed glass eyes and articulated composition body (est. $3,000-$5,000). The Mutoscope viewing machine having a cast-iron case costs a pennry to operate (est. $1,200-$1,500). Fontaine’s Auction Gallery images

Two clocks are expected to find new owners for $5,000-$7,500 each. One is a Pennsylvania tall case clock, 105 inches tall, having a 14-inch painted iron dial with center seconds sweep and a pendulum signed and dated “L. Masgreave, 1797.”

In the music category there will be a rare Victor VI Victrola with an original red and black papier-mache horn, which was pulled from a local attic. The nameplate bears the serial number 782.

A rare repeater pocket watch that is actuated by a pusher in the stem and has with highly decorated dust cover is estimated at $3,000-$5,000. The Victor No. 6 phonograph features mahogany case and an original japanned papier-mache horn with decal (est. $2,000-$3,000). Fontaine’s Auction Gallery images
A rare repeater pocket watch that is actuated by a pusher in the stem and has with highly decorated dust cover is estimated at $3,000-$5,000. The Victor No. 6 phonograph features mahogany case and an original japanned papier-mache horn with decal (est. $2,000-$3,000). Fontaine’s Auction Gallery images

For details contact Fontaine’s Auction Gallery by email: info@fontainesauction.com or call 413-448-8922.

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.