Hyde Park’s Country Americana & Primitives Sale *Online Only*
December 30 at Noon
900 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie NY
www.hpcountryauctions.com
845-471-5660

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — An online-only sale using the LiveAuctioneers platform starting December 30 at noon will be presented by Hyde Park Country Auctions. Absentee and phone bids will be accepted and more than 650 lots will be offered.

The firm is selling the partial contents of several Hudson Valley estates and private collections, most country-related, including a retired Millbrook, N.Y., author selling her country home and moving to smaller quarters. Some of her autographed books on collecting and decorating with antiques will be given to purchasers of her better collectibles — to include quilts, a 1763 Adam & Eve sampler, Staffordshire china, tea caddies and a special school girl book dated 1833 containing many watercolor theorems.

Partial contents of a Rochester, N.Y., estate will yield many miniature portraits, Rochester-area artwork and Chinese export porcelains from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.

Selling from two retiring couples from Clinton Corners and Pleasant Valley, N.Y., are many cupboards, early chests and work tables.

The partial contents of the estate of Barbara Becker, High Falls, N.Y., features country collectibles, including baskets, stoneware, treenware and country furniture from 60 years of collecting and were used to decorate her 1760 Dutch stone house.

There will be antiques from the Mark Vail collection that graced his Walden, N.Y., auction hall over the past 40 years — including a wooden “Old Town” canoe, circa 1930, other rustic collectibles, a sculptured stone horse hitching post in the form of a tree trunk and a rare three-directional country store sign from Shawangunk, N.Y. (Ulster County). There will be formal American Sheraton and Empire furniture handed down from the VanKleek family, Dutchess County, N.Y.; and part three of the Dr Doris Soldner collection, Lake Carmel, N.Y., featuring antique bottles and country primitives.

A large portion of the lots in this sale are from the Nancy and Elliott Steckel estate, formerly of Sharon, Conn. Many may be aware that Hyde Park sold many of Elliott Steckel’s primitives over the past 10 years after he passed away in 2008, and with Nancy’s passing, the family is selling the remaining contents of their collection. Nancy was an accomplished artist, producing paintings, sculptures and pottery — so in addition to Elliott’s American primitives, two of Nancy’s cave pots will be sold, each decorated with horses, buffalo and moose. They were inspired by ancient paintings found in caves throughout the world — she produced them from 1983 to 1991.

Other country collectibles gathered throughout the Hudson Valley include ice fishing and duck decoys, game boards, architectural items, such as a Dutch door with original hinges; garden-related items, folk art; quilts; coverlets; samplers; Oriental and hooked rugs; painted treenware; early lighting devices; Clark Vorhees carved whale; country artwork; primitive American portraits; country furniture to include a Pennsylvania Eighteenth Century corner cupboard; First Period Worcester punch bowl; advertising signs; dated 1713 Queen Ann mirror; two cobbler trade signs; tramp art box on stand; large game wheel in original paint; full-body rooster weathervane, Nineteenth Century; unusual ironstone creamery set; spongeware; three hand-colored Catesby bird prints, Eighteenth Century; a large dated 1832 N. York bronze bell; Schuetzen target rifle, Nineteenth Century; folk art fortune teller trade sign; a Pennsylvania redware spaniel dog bank with green glaze; early tin glazed plates and bowls; etc.

Preview times, the week of sale, can be found at www.hpcountryauctions.com. The auction gallery is in the Poughkeepsie Business Park, 900 Dutchess Turnpike. For information, 845-471-5660 or email djnavarra@aol.com.

PREVIEWS: Wed. & Thurs. Dec. 28 & 29 – 1:00 – 5:00PM & Fri. Dec. 30 10:00A.M. to 12 Noon. Absentee & Phone Bids Accepted.
Featuring the partial contents of several Hudson Valley country estates.
To include: Quilts – Coverlets – Stoneware – Early lighting – Cupboards – Blanket Boxes – Work Tables – Farm Tables – Candle Stands – Tiger maple rope bed – Formal Period Furniture including Chippendale linen press – Painted Dry Sink – Early Chairs – Pierced Tin Pie Safes – Settle Bench – Chest of Drawers – Garden furniture – Carved Stone Hitching Post in the form of a tree branch – Fine Baskets including Taghkanic & miniatures – Folk art – Samplers including 1763 Adam & Eve – Chinese export porcelains – English Delftware 18th c. – First Period Royal Worcester Bowl – Transferware china – Oriental rugs – Tin glazed pottery 18th c. – Early Bottles – Early iron – Duck & Ice Fishing Decoys – Good Country Artwork (some by listed artists) – Game Boards – Several Weathervanes – Advertising Signs – Architectural including pair of Federal entrance doors – Pantry Boxes & Painted Treenware – Large Bronze Bell Dated 1832 – Theorems – Miniature Portraits plus others – Animal Mounts including moose – Outstanding Old Town Canoe c.1920 – Hickory Table & Chairs – An unusal 3-way viewing advertising sign for Shawangunk paint store – Queen Ann English Mirror dated 1714 – Charity box marked “Lady Bulkeley’s Box” 19th c. – Two NY landscape dioramas – Travel book with many W/C Theorems 1833 – O/C Hudson River Steamboat “Harlem” signed Albert R. Nemethy – Lincoln/Hamlin hand painted wooden sign – Lots of great country smalls sold in group lots – Etc.