STURBRIDGE, MASS. — The top lot at the February 10 sale at D.L. Straight’s auction of Americana and Folk Art was an oil painting depicting the USS Constitution under full sail in Boston Harbor. Done by postwar British artist, Brian Coole (b 1939), the scene included several other sailing ships, sightseers in small boats and the Boston waterfront in the background. It measured 17 by 30 in a gilt frame measuring 28 by 41 inches and was dated to circa 1840; it earned $5,120. Although furniture offerings included Pilgrim century examples, it was a Nineteenth Century Hepplewhite four-drawer bowfront chest that led the category, selling for $4,480, more than twice the estimate. Prices quoted include the buyer’s premium as reported; a full report will follow.