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September 5th
Auction Highlights



19th Century Dutch Marquetry Block Front Chest of Drawers
with ribbon façade and complex marquetry reserves
featuring delicate vines and blossoms 
Height 33 in. Width 38 in. Depth 20 ½ in.





19th C. Naïve Oil on Panel Pub Sign
"Portrait of a Cow" circa 1840 

28 ½ in. x 54 in.




  Pale Blue Upholstered "Jean Michel Frank" Flat Arm Sofa 
Length 109 in. Depth 40 in. Height 32 in.




Pair of Maguire "St. Germain"  Rattan Woven Club Chairs
in dark truffle finish





Oil on Board "Indian Encampment"in gilt frame
14 ½ in. x 17 in
 



George III Mahogany Gentleman's All Inclusive Dresser,
two swing out dressing mirrors with storage compartments,
central tooled leather slide out writing surface above three drawers,
French bracket feet 
Height 37 in. Width 43 in. Depth 25 ½ in.




Vintage Handmade Heriz Carpet
8'3" x 11'10"




19th Century Bird's Eye Maple and Bamboo Trimmed
Slant Front Lady's Desk with brass gallery




Colonel Julian Yates (1871 - 1953) Oil on Canvas
"Hussey Street"signed lower right 
15 ½ in. x 19 in. 

Yates studied at Wake Forest College and the University of Chicago where he received a divinity degree.  He served in the First World War in France, and was the army's head chaplain before retiring in 1935.  It appears that he had no formal art training, but pursued his interests in capturing real life events on canvas.



 
American Birch and Satinwood Chest of Drawers, circa 1790,
four graduating drawers on molded case on bracket feet 
Height 36 in. Width 40 in.  Depth 20 in.




19th Century English Hepplewhite Chest of Drawers
two drawers over two
Height 34 in.  Width 38 ½ in. Depth 21 in.





Roy Tidmarsh (b. 1944 Birmingham)
Oil on Artist's Board "Coggeshall Village, Essex"
signed lower left Roy Tidmarsh, 1995 
17 in. x 22 in. 
Tidmarsh studied at the Moseley School of Art and Birmingham College of Art.
He has exhibited at the Royal Academy, The Royal Society of British Artists, The Royal Institute of Oil Painters and The New English Art Club.




19th Century Sheraton Mahogany Two Part Dining Table with Leaf
and Set of 10 Shield Back Mahogany Dining Chairs



Gladys Castagnola (1899-1983)
Oil on Masonite "Copper Milk Jug
19 in. x 48 in.

Gladys was awarded the degree of Honor from the Society of Western Artists. Exhibitions include The DeYoung Memorial Museum, San Francisco and the Catalina Art Association.




Important Group of approximately 300 Nantucket
Copper Photo Etching Plates,
many of which were published in the Inquirer & Mirror over the years. 
Plates depict Trains, Nantucket Lighthouses, The Old Mill, Bicycles, Fishermen, Parades, Whaling Museum, Whales, Lightship, Steamships, Furniture, Portraits, Group Portraits, FDR and Billy Bowen.
Pictured are selected plates and their printed images.



Copper Print Etching,
"The Wreck at South Beach, July 1909"





Copper Print Etching,
"Great Point Lighthouse," by J. Robertson



Copper Print Etching,
"Shearling," by Henry Wyer




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- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
US poet & essayist.




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