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Saturday, July 10, 2010
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Thursday, July 8th & Friday, July 9th
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_________ July 10th Auction Highlights
 Tony Sarg, Mixed Media Drawing
Signed lower right,
"To Henry Tilus Hodgskins from Tony Sarg, 18."9 in. x 13 in.
118 Piece Wallace Sterling Silver Flatware Service
in the "Rose Point" Pattern,
comprising: 12 dinner knives, 12 steak knives,
12 butter knives, 12 dinner forks, 12 salad forks, 12 teaspoons,
12 soup spoons, 12 iced tea spoons, 12 seafood forks,
2 piece carving set, cold meat fork, slotted serving spoon,
serving spoon, tomato server, jelly spoon, sauce ladle, olive fork,
and buffet serving spoon.
  Kilim Carpet Covered Chest; Contemporary,
Height 47 ½ in. Width 39 ½ in. Depth 18 ¼ in.  Robert Freiman (1917-1991)
Watercolor on Paper "Madaket Shacks"
signed lower right, "Robt Freiman, 44".
17 ½ in. x 23 ½ in.
Freiman, deaf from birth, studied at the National Academy of Design,
The Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design, and L' Ecole des Beaux Arts -Paris.
He was a founding member of the Artist's Association of Nantucket.
 Doris and Richard Beer
Watercolor on Paper "Killen's Wharf"
titled lower left in pencil, signed lower right, "D & R Beer"
3 ½ in. x 3 ¾ in.
 Doris and Richard Beer
Watercolor on Paper "Macy House"
titled lower left in pencil, signed lower right, "D & R Beer".
3 ¼ in. x 4 in. Set of Six American Bird's Eye Maple Dining Chairs, circa 1870,
finely matched maple with delicate turned spindle backs, caned seats Jan Pawlowski Oil on Canvas
"Polpis Harbor",
In 4 ½" gold leaf frame; signed lower right.
30 in. x 40 in.
 Large Michael Kane Nantucket Friendship Basket,
Carved oval ivory plaque surmounted with ivory flower,
Ivory peg and knobs, signed upon the base,
"Made by Michael Kane, 1977, Nantucket Island"
Height 8 in. Width 9 ½ in. William Sevrens
Oval Friendship Basket, circa 1971,
with ivory plaque engraved with rosa rugosa
by the Nancy Chase Studios.
 Salvatore Colaccio (b. 1935)
Oil on Panel "Schooner Glory Heads Out",
with Town of Nantucket in the distance,
signed lower left.
24 in. x 36 in.
 Max Arthur Cohn (American 1903-1998)
"Boats on Block Island," watercolor on paper
signed lower right, "M.A. Cohn".
14 ½ in. x 20 in.
Cohn studied at the Art Student's League in New York
where he became a life member. He attended the Academy Colarossi in Paris.
The artist was known for scenes of New York City, rural views
and abstract figural compositions. Collection of 15 Tony Sarg Books, Puzzles, and One Postcard
Four Tony Sarg Cocktail Napkins
Six Tony Sarg Cocktail Napkins
 Tony Sarg "Play-A-Tune Blox" Child's Toy
 Ernest B. Hood, Oil on Canvas
"End of Old North Wharf"
signed and dated lower right, "Hood 70".
18 in. x 24 in.  Jane Brewster Reid (American 1862-1966)
Watercolor on Paper, "Heart's Ease"
Signed lower left, "J.B. Reid"
9 in. x 12 in. Oil on Canvas, "View of the Hongs"
19 ½ in. x 45 in.
 Early 19th Century English Chest on Chest, In two sections: four over two drawers, over two drawerson bracket feet. Height 46 in. Width 59 in. Depth 22 in. Pair of 19th Century French Paw Foot Brass Andirons Height 29 ½ in. Pair of Antique Canton Ginger Jars with lidsBrass Table-top Two Light Candelabrum American Bird's Eye Maple Four Drawer Chest, circa 1800
Height 24 in. Width 45 ½ in.
Depth 19 ¾ in.
American Folk Art Wood Flat Rooster Weathervane
with red stain. Height 33 in.
American North Carolina Lily Patchwork Quilt
75 in. x 100 in. Carved Wood Narwhal Plaque by Voorhees
Length 22 in.
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TONY SARG
Colored Pencil Drawing, signed lower right. "Tony Sarg, 29"
11 in. x 14 in.
Anthony Frederick Sarg (April 21, 1880 - February 17, 1942)
Epic. The length and breadth of Anthony Frederick Sarg's legacy, as told by marionettes whose creation was conceived by his regard for his Grandmother's collection. Marionettes whom he morphed from traditional, wooden, stringed figures all the way to human; and then to never before imaginable, silky skinned balloons that floated down New York's Madison Avenue; the marionettes' strings upside down. Tony Sarg's legacy is today measured by his wit, his innate empathy for human frailty, dignity, childishness and yes, comedy. Epic.
Mind boggling, Tony Sarg. Genius. Opportunist. Inventor. Puppeteer. Showman. Illustrator. Graphic artist.... He'd decided - after being rewarded as a young boy, for having invented a mechanized application that would relieve him from the daily duty of feeding his father's chickens - that a "gimmick" just might be his "ticket." If Tony Sarg was consistent in one thing, it was that he ALWAYS connected the dots. And wonderful dots they were! ~ Carolyn Walsh
"Anthony Frederick Sarg was born in Guatemala in 1880. The family moved to Germany in 1887. He met Bertha McGowan, an American tourist, and in 1909 they were married in her home town of Cincinnati, Ohio. Two years later they moved to England and had a daughter, Mary.
With the advent of World War I, Tony moved his family to New York, where he became an illustrator for The Saturday Evening Post, which bolstered his reputation in the New York art community. He had a studio in Times Square and his reputation soon soared! He started to bring his family to Nantucket, along with some of his New York friends and in 1921 he bought a house at #1 North Liberty Street.
While Tony Sarg was well known as a childrens' book illustrator, he was also, in fact the man who revived the marionette theater in America. Sarg specialized in devising animal characters to educate as well as to entertain young readers. Some of his story books were created with movable parts, others explored history with a comic twist, giving illustrations for making toys or how to save money.
Sarg's creative output was limitless. Sometimes compared to the artist Red Grooms, nothing was out of the question when it came to creativity. He designed jigsaw puzzles, musical blocks, and designed boxes in the style of pantry boxes.
In 1935 Tony Sarg designed the first mechanically animated window display for Macy's Department Store. Until his death in 1942 he created new designs for Macy's holiday windows. This was not Tony's only connection with Macy's, (which started on Nantucket where Murray's Toggery is now located) as he created the first hot air balloons for their Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Shortly after his move to Nantucket, he opened the Tony Sarg shop at 38 Centre Street featuring many of his designs and toys. In 1929, the shop was relocated at the corner of Easy Street and Steamboat Wharf where it became Tony Sarg's Curiosity Shop.
So many of Sarg's designs reflect on Nantucket. His boxes show scenes of Sankaty Light, Miacomet Pond, the old fairgrounds and the steamship. He created fabric designs with Nantucket images such as a map, the Macy House at 99 Main Street, the Pequot, whales and so much more. He also designed a wallpaper with similar images. Sarg's map of Nantucket is a classic, but he also drew maps of Main Street and the Harbor.
Sarg was the creator of the design for the Wharf Rat Club. With his experience of the Macy's hot air balloons, he fabricated a "monster" which was inflated on Coatue and sailed across the harbor, delighting so many children. Tony designed several posters for Nantucket, including the Hospital Fete and the Hospital Thrift Shop.
Sarg's daughter Mary donated a wealth of Tony's material to the Hospital Thrift shop and thanks to Martha Groetzinger and Phil and Elizabeth Murray, the body of work is now in the collection of the Nantucket Historical Association where it was the subject of an exhibition at the Fair Street Museum in 1983."
~ Nantucket Historical Association
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PEEKING AHEAD
AUGUST 7TH
ANNUAL AMERICANA, FINE ART,
MARINE AUCTION
Fully Illustrated Full Color Catalogue
 FINE PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE SHIP MODEL, circa 1800,
A model of a 106 gun ship of the line with a planked and pinned hull,
Full female figurehead holding a staff and wreath,
Elaborately carved stern, galleries, stairways etc.,
Mounted on a contrasting base of horn and bone with pillar and ball posts.
Height 22 in. Length 28 in. Depth 10 in.
Provenance: Collection of Sara Jo and Art Kobacker; Clive Gomshall-Lloyd Collection, Illustration #23 The Lloyd Collection of Napoleonic Prisoner of War Artifacts, Pbl. 1986 by John F. Rinaldi
 PORTRAIT OF COMMODORE EDWARD PREBLE (1761-1807),
early 19th Century, oil on canvas,
Preble, sitting before a window with a view of Mt. Vesuvius;
The USS Constitution in the distance.
43 ½ in. x 35 in.
  PAIR OF ENGLISH PAINTINGS,
"Portrait of Empire: 'Bit Sick' and 'Well to Go'", circa 1860,
oil on canvas.
12 in. x 10 in.
 SET OF SIX CONSTANTINA DINING CHAIRS, mid-Century,
metal, wood and kangaroo leather coverings
with retractable armrests,
marked, "Box 392 Port Lincoln, South Australia"
 JOHN GEORGE BROWN (AMERICAN 1831-1913)
"Shoeshine Boy", oil on canvas
Full portrait of a peasant boy contemplating a rose,
in original deep foliated gilt 6" frame,
signed lower left, "J.G. Brown, N.A., 1884".
23 in. x 15 ½ in.
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GALLERY OF FRIENDS
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art....
It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
~C.S. Lewis
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