:Main Line Auction, Inc, conducted recently conducted its
inaugural sale featuring more than 485 lots of antiques and fine
arts from 55 consigners.
The highlight of the auction was a Passmore family Chester County
spice box, circa 1760.
The box, featuring double arched tombstone doors and ogee feet,
sold for $92,000 - setting a world record for this style.
Captain Samuel Rixley tall case clock by Aaron Willard, 1871,
$34,500.
The Passmore family Bible box, circa 1730, also attracted a
lot of interest and sold for $37,375. The box still held the
Passmore family bible and numerous family documents, including
Enoch Passmore's temperance lectures.
A Chester County sampler, circa 1807, sold to a telephone bidder
for $28,750 - just shy of the world record; and the Captain
Samuel Rixey tall case clock, manufactured in 1871 by Aaron
Willard Jr, sold for $34,500.
Pennsylvania Impressionist Walter Baum's "Road to Hendricks,
Pennsylvania" sold for $7,475, and his "Church at Hosensack" sold
for $5,175.
Other artists represented in the sale included George Washington
Nicholson, George Thompson Hobbs, Carl Weber, Carlton Thoedore
Chapman, Yvonne Canu and Oscar Detering.
Passmore family Bible box, $37,375.
Other items of note from the sale include two large japanned
tin tea bins, manufactured by Henry Troemner Company of
Philadelphia, circa 1850, that sold for $2,645; and a lock of
Abraham Lincoln's hair made into a heart for the Great Sanitary
Fair of 1864 brought $1,610.
A silver teapot, circa 1780, sold for $3,220; and a wonderful
pair of continental porcelain urns signed by the artist, Collot,
sold for $4,370.
All prices include a 15 percent buyer's premium.
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