: - Two late additions to Nadeau's Important Fall Auction, an early
Connecticut River Valley chip-carved box and a pair of old squaw
decoys by Oscar Bibber, garnered top prices at the firm's sale
this past Saturday, September 20.
Auctioneer Edwin Nadeau was called to a local home two weeks ago
to pick up the pieces, which he slipped into his final
advertisement in Antiques and The Arts Weekly on September
19.
The box, a rare pine survivor dating to about 1700, easily
surpassed its $10/15,000 estimate selling to Ohio dealers Sam
Forsythe and David Good for $32,200 including premium. The piece
was underbid by Harold Cole of Woodbury, Conn. Hartford's
Wadsworth Atheneum museum was in the running to $25,000.
The decoys went to Hyannis, Mass., auctioneer and consultant Ted
Harmon for $17,825.
Other sales highlights included a Massachusetts serpentine chest
of drawers, $39,100, and a New York sideboard, $26,450. Total
sales exceeded $700,000.
Look for a complete report in a future edition.
