Maine Antique Digest

At the Bath Show: Ross Levett offered a rare Dutch implement with engraved scenes of a bird & a bird in a cage. He said the 18th-C tool was used to raise & lower bird cages. He asked $2500. The 17th-C clamp, once gilded, was $1600 maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #antique #Dutch

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Federal mahogany & maple worktable attributed to the shop of John & Thomas Seymour with paint decoration attributed to John Ritto Penniman (1782-1841) of Boston. The 29¾" x 20" x 15¾" table sold for $400,000 at @BrunkAuctions maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #furniture #Seymour

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New Hampshire mahogany dressing table, 33¼" x 35 1/8" x 17¾", with a crazed, dark early surface, attributed to Portsmouth, 1800-10. The table with serpentine top & extremely thin reeded legs sold for $15,000 (e $5000/7000) at @BrunkAuctions maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #art

Lift-top blanket chest, believed to have originated in Rhode Island, was dated circa 1830 & the catalog termed the paint as “polychrome putty-roll painted decoration.” It realized $8400 at William Smith Auctions maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #folkart #furniture #antique

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5" x 3½" watercolor by the "Puffy Sleeve Artist" (believed to be Ezra Wood, active 1830-31) sold for $2400 (e $800/1200) at William Smith Auctions. She holds paper stating the sitter was 24 years old, & the year was 1832 maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #antique #folkart #art

At the Downeast Art & Antiques Show: A silk memorial celebrating the families of Rebekah and David Ross was tagged $3850 by Malcolm Magruder of Millwood, Virginia maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #antique #vintage #art #folkart #Americana #memorial #Ross #show #Maine

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At the Downeast Art & Antiques Show: Christopher Cawley of Stockton, NJ, offered this 19th-C English campaign daybed by Alfred Carter of London, for $4800. He noted that it is signed & very rare maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #antique #furniture #campaign #English #Maine #show

At the Camden-Rockport Antiques Show: Bethany Kelly (right) and Jennifer Scott of BDK Antiques, Limington, Maine, showed a lovely lady in solid bronze, seated beneath a tree for $1250. The sculptor is unknown maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #antique #art #artist #sculpture

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At the Camden-Rockport Antiques Show: David Thompson brought this all-original Metropolitan Casualty Insurance Company sign, probably from the 1920s. Note how the company brags about their $200,000 capitalization maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #history #insurance #signs

Marble bust of George Washington, 23½" H, attributed to Horatio Greenough (1805-1852), sold for $12,160 (est. $8000/12,000) at @FreemansAuction. Greenough busts of Washington are found in museum collections maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antique #antiques #art #Washington #sculpture

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Classical carved rosewood armchair, c 1835, on brass casters, 43½" x 30" x 24", sold for $1408 (est. $500/800) at @FreemansAuction. In need of reupholstering, the armchair will become an inviting addition to someone’s parlor maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #antique #furniture

"A View in Medford" depicts the daily events in Medford, Massachusetts, around 1830. The American school oil on panel, 19½" x 22½", brought $138,600 (e $70,000/100,000) at @eldreds maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #antique #history #art #artist #Medford #Massachusetts #folkart

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