Hindman American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts Auctions
March 10-11, 2022
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CINCINNATI, OHIO — Hindman will celebrate four centuries of American artists and craftsmen in its March 10–11 American furniture, folk and decorative arts auction. Across two days, Hindman will offer folk art, glass, stoneware, furniture, antique advertising, silver, music players and coin-operated carnival and casino machines from private and institutional collections.

After setting the auction record for the form just six months ago with a $956,000 sale, Hindman will again present an Andrew Clemens sand bottle ($100/150,000) at auction. This bottle stands 10 ½ inches tall, nearly 2 inches taller than the record-setting bottle from September 2021, and features a label reading “Pictured Rock Sand, Put Up By Andrew Clemens, Deaf-Mute, McGregor, Iowa” inside the bottle under the stopper. Dated just five years before his death, both the size of the bottle and the placement of the label are highly unusual for Clemens but is consistent with his constant evolution as an artist as his mastery of the form allowed him to make more and more intricate examples.

Alongside the Clemens bottle on the March 10 session of the auction will be folk-art portraiture, Nineteenth Century landscape paintings, brass and pewter candlesticks, glass articles, including flasks from the George S. McKearin collection, and notable pieces of Queen Anne, Chippendale, Federal and Classical furniture. A trio of tall case clocks are expected to be among the highlights on the day. A Gothic Revival carved mahogany E. Howard & Co. tall case No. 22 astronomical regulator ($60/80,000) is expected to be the top lot of the group, although a colossal 126-inch Renaissance revival carved walnut tall case regulator clock, made for Chicago watchmaker J.S. Townsend ($30/50,000) and a Philadelphia William and Mary walnut tall case clock ($10/20,000) are also expected to draw significant attention from bidders.

The March 11 session will offer a lineup of advertising signs, coffee mills, weathervanes, country furniture, papier-mache masks by George Roether made for Disney Studios, garden sculpture and music players along with two private collections. The session will feature 70 lots of script-painted stoneware from scarce Ohio makers, as well as sewer tile and stoneware birdhouses from the collection of William Giermann and 50 lots of an eclectic assortment of coin-operated carnival and casino machines from the collection of Mr and Mrs Lee South, Albuquerque, N.M.

The March 10 and 11 auctions begin at 10 am ET on both days. The March 10 session will sell lots 1 – 335 while lots 336 – 681 will sell on March 11.
Hindman is at 6270 Este Avenue. For information, www.HindmanAuctions.com or 513-871-1670.

CONTACT Ben Fisher, Director and Senior Specialist, American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts at 312.447.3270 or benfisher@hindmanauctions.com
Hindman’s March American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts auction will include glass from the Collection of George S. McKearin and several works formerly from the Estate of Secretary of Treasury Lloyd Bentsen and his wife Beryl, of Texas and Washington, D.C. The auction features a collection of sand bottles; coin-operated gaming machines from a Southwest Collector; stoneware from the Estate of William D. Giermann; rare tall-case clocks; Metropolitan, High and Low Country furniture; portraiture; silver and 17th Century brass.