MARION, MASS. — An 1848 watercolor by Samuel Gill (1818-1880) depicting the inner harbor of Port Adelaide, South Australia, sold for $36,000 at Marion Antique Auctions April 9 sale. It depicted a European-style settlement, a number of ships lying at anchor, and seamen along the waterfront. Adelaide, settled only a few years earlier, was neither a whaling port nor a calling port for American or British whalers, so this is an uncommon view of that area, little known at the time. Mid-Twentieth Century items included a bronze sculpture after Alexander Calder, which sold for $13,800. The sale included a large selection of ethnographic items, including several from the Taino culture, a large fairground organ, marine paintings and much more.

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