BOSTON, MASS. — Skinner’s November. 19 American furniture and decorative arts auction included several pieces of early furniture, paintings by major folk artists, a collection of banjo style clocks, blue Staffordshire, a single-owner collection of trade signs, and more. Leading the well-attended sale was a set of 12 carved mahogany and mahogany veneered Grecian side chairs, that may have come from Boston’s Fales House, one of the 19 neoclassical homes designed by Charles Bullfinch, known as Colonnade Row. The set of chairs brought $79,850.

A complete report on the auction will follow in an upcoming edition.