Thomaston Place Auction – July 3 day Splendor
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries The Preservation Generation
July 7, 8, & 9 Splendor: First Three-Day Feature of the Summer
www.thomastonauction.com
51 Atlantic Highway, Thomaston, ME 04861

There will be a live gallery audience for this sale!
Preview – June 26-July 6, 9am-4pm (Sat. 10am-3pm, Closed Sunday and July 4th)
Bid in person, phone/absentee, or online
207-354-8141 info@thomastonauction.com

THOMASTON, MAINE — Thomaston Place Auction Galleries’ Summer Splendor sale on July 7, 8 and 9 at 11 am will be jam packed with artwork and decorative rarities. The sale will include selections of American and European art, antique, custom and modern design furniture, jewelry and watches, estate silver, Asian artifacts, folk art and marine items and art pottery.

Featured artwork by American artists will include a circa 1920 oil on canvas painting depicting Manayunk Canal swimming in Philadelphia by Robert Spencer; William Preston Phelps’ monumental painting of a Mount Monadnock, N.H., valley pasture in autumn; “Reverie,” a work depicting a young woman by Irving Ramsey Wiles; and a graphite study of pirates for Treasure Island by N.C. Wyeth. There will also be original works by Andrew Wyeth, Jamie Wyeth, William Frederick De Haas, Stan Stokes, Gilbert Stuart, James Gardiner Babbidge, Thomas Hart Benton, William Matthew Prior and many others.

A selection of Modernist art will also be sold, such as: an impasto knifework oil on canvas painting of mountains under a sunlit sky by Etel Adnan, an untitled oil on linen abstract by Auguste Herbin and an abstract watercolor on paper by Salvatore Scarpitta.

European paintings to be presented will include “Le Chariot d’Arras” by Jean-Baptiste Corot, a summer landscape by Alfred Sisley, a Nineteenth Century portrait of three cows by John of Colchester Vine and several Old Master works.

The sale will offer a diverse group of folk art, including a drawing by Outsider artist Bill Traylor of a dancing man and dog; a rare carved and painted great white shark plaque by Wick Ahrens; a handcrafted wooden fishing creel by Medway, Maine, artisan Emil Robichaud, a fish painting by Southern folk artist Mose Tolliver; plus carved bird decoys, ship models, scrimshaw, nautical instruments and weathervanes.

Historic ephemera will include a 1792 George Washington-signed letter, a George Washington personal wax seal, a 1796 Warren, Maine, land deed signed by Henry and Lucy Knox and multiple lots of photographs taken during Arctic expeditions of explorer, philanthropist, researcher and teacher Donald Baxter MacMillan between 1923 and 1932.

The 183-lot collection of estate jewelry and watches will offer many gem-set pieces, most with appraisals, plus wristwatches by Rolex, Cartier, Bucherer and others, and a wide selection of pocket watches by American and European makers. There will also be an Eighteenth Century English Chippendale tall clock with chinoiserie decorated surface and a 1920s-era French-made electric clock mounted in a frosted “Deux Figurines” Lalique art glass panel.

A Seventeenth Century Italian walnut refectory table will lead the antique furniture collection, along with an English camphorwood campaign desk/chest, a Nineteenth Century West Indian mahogany carved four-poster bed, a circa 1890 Thonet bentwood chaise lounge and a pine four-drawer farmhouse table. The sale will also offer a selection of Danish Midcentury Modern pieces, such as a “Papa Bear” chair by Hans Wegner and a Peter Nielsen rosewood desk; plus custom creations by Windsor Chairmakers, D.R. Dimes and Lawrence Crouse.

The sale will also present three art pottery vases by Brother Thomas Bezanson, plus works from Grueby, Newcomb College and Harrison McIntosh. There will also be porcelain by Herend, Sevres and Royal Doulton; and a collection of early mochaware. Leading the silver category will be flatware sets by Tiffany & Co. and Georg Jensen; a 183-troy ounce English Edwardian sterling tray by Elkington & Co.; plus multiple lots of Arts and Crafts period hand-wrought sterling, including several pieces by Pennsylvania silversmith Joel F. Hewes.

Featured among the large selection of Asian artifacts will be a Seventeenth Century giltwood figure of a seated ascetic figure, a pair of huanghuali wood tables, a Japanese Edo period circa 1840 Samurai Kabuto helmet and a Japanese Meiji period maki-e lacquer portable picnic set.

Other items of interest will include a Cary’s 1816 terrestrial library globe on stand; three English leather animal figures by Dmitri Omersa; and a selection of vintage technology, including early cameras, projectors, music boxes, computers, glass slides, stereoviews and postcards.

The gallery will be open for previews from Monday through Friday, June 26-30, 9 am to 4 pm; Saturday, July 1, 10 am to 3 pm; and Monday, July 3 and Wednesday and Thursday, July 5-6, 9 am to 4 pm. Previewing will also be available on auction days, Friday through Sunday, July 7-9, from 9 to 11 am.

Thomaston Place Auction Galleries is US Route 1. For more information, 207-354-8141 or www.thomastonauction.com.

PRESENTING A GREAT SELECTION OF FOLK ART & NAUTICAL ITEMS. OVER 200 SELECT ITEMS IN FURNITURE & RUGS! OVER 25 FIREARMS & UNIQUE SPORTING ITEMS IN DAY 1 ! ESTATE JEWELRY, ASIAN EXPORTS, HUGE SELECTION OF TECHNOLOGY ITEMS, DAY 3 FEATURES 4 ESTATE VEHICLES
Featuring 1,550 lots of select fine art, antiques, and decorative items.
2080 BILL TRAYLOR mixed media on cardboard 2013
Bottomley & Baird Ltd. Ship’s Binnacle
2077 MOSE TOLLIVER signed “Mose T”
2045 ROBERT SPENCER, Canal Swimming oil on canvas, signed
2170 Cary’s New Terrestrial Globe
2006 JAMES GARDINER BABBIDGE Schooner Helen Montague
2019 Wick Ahrens Rare Great White Shark
2017 STAN STOKES Lusitania at New York
2072 Pine Four-Drawer Farmhouse Table
2005 Camphorwood Campaign Desk & Chest
2068 Mocha Ware Earthworm & Cat’s Eye Decorated Pitcher
(1 of 12)
3138 Brother Thomas Art Pottery (1 of 3)
3103 Sterling Footed Bowl
3203 E.F. CALDWELL Neoclassical Mantel Clock
2206 English Sideboard Form Tea Caddy (1 of 6)
2056 Copper Eagle Weathervane
2050 Chippendale Tiger Maple Slant Lid Desk
2180 Rare 18th C. English Chinoiserie Tall Clock
3011 Black Forest Bear Sculpture
2041 WESLEY ELBRIDGE WEBBER Portland Head Lighthouse
2042 WILLIAM FREDERICK DE HAAS oil on canvas
2229 Early Italian Giltwood Mirror
2154 Qashqai Long Rug, (13’3″ X 6′)
2221 Period French Empire Sconces
1059 Browning Superposed 0/U Shotgun, Midas Grade, 12 Ga
1265 Colt .32 1903 Pocket Hammerless Pistol
2231 JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE COROT Le Chariot d’Arras
2228 ALFRED SISLEY oil on linen
1254 Fishing Creel
1252 Folk Art Carved Fish Plaque
1068 Working Duck Decoys (1 of 12)
1076 Miniature Decoy ANTHONY E.C. (1 of 10)
2385 Butterscotch Yellow Jade Carving W/ Stand
3448 Japanese Rosewood Etagere
3476 Late Edo Japanese Samurai Helmet
1008 German Toy Clockwork Battleship Circa 1900
1223 Life-Sized Poster of Marilyn Monroe
1226 Ltd Ed Babe Ruth Pulitzer Prize Photo
1142 Multi-Card Stereoscope Viewer (1 of 7)
1028 Stella No. 84 Music Box (1 of4)
1206 Lg Format Studio Camera (1 of 4)
1332 Civil War Era Surgeon’s Kit
1020 Edison “Amberola” Cylinder Player (1 of 3)
1080 Old Cello, (1 of 6 instruments)
1222 Red Epic Digital Cinema Camera
3038 2007 Mazda MX-5 Miata Convertible Roadster
3039 1997 Land Rover Defender 11 0 TOI
3050 Handmade 17th c. Mughal Necklace
Items from the estate of author David McCullough:
1163 Globe Filing Cabinet
1162 Royal Portable Typewriter
1234 1984 Apple Macintosh (1 of 10)

3108 NEWELL CONVERS WYETH Study for Treasure Island
3122 JAMIE WYETH original watercolor remarque, from The Black Arrow
3115 ANDREW NEWELL WYETH original watercolor remarque
3164 ETEL ADNAN
oil on canvas, signed & dated
3158
HUMBERTO PERAZA bronze
3144 JOHN BISBEE Nautilus, 2017
3127 BRADLEY M. PRESCOTT wood assemblage in black paint (1 of4)
3138 Brother Thomas Pottery (1 of 3)
2136 Chippendale Mahogany Card Table
3157 AUGUSTE HERBIN oil on linen, signed
3205 Lalique Art Glass Mantel Clock
2053 WILLIAM M. PRIOR Sea Captain Portrait
2011 ANTONIO N. G. JACOBSEN Steam Ship Peninsular, oil on canvas
2097 WILLIAM PRESTON PHELPS Mount Monadnock, NH oil on canvas, signed
2138 Folk Art Fireboard with colloquial oil painting initialed “AB”
3209 Handel Bronze Lamp with Painted Shade
2262 17th c. Carved Hall Table
2096 RALPH ALBERT BLAKELOCK From Dummerston Mountain, W. Brattleboro (Vermont)
2042
EDWARD HILL
Man of the Mountain (detail)
2146 Elmer Stennes Banjo Clock (1 of 3)
3129 Hans Wegner “Papa Bear” Chair
3409 NAVAJO RUG, CIRCA 1890 (1 of 3)
3217 Art Nouveau Vitrine
LOT 2130 – George Washington Letter
LOT 2131 – Silk Printed Broadside of Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address
2129 Personal Wax Seal of George Washington
2044 Attributed to MARTIN J. HEADE oil on panel in vintage frame
2169 JAMES GILLRAY Plumb-pudding in Danger 1805
2043 IRVING R. WILES Reverie, oil on canvas
1328 14k Lucien Piccard Automatique Seashark (1 of 16)
1194 Continental Ivory Figurine
3428 Victorian Coral Pendant Brooch (1 of 4)
3070 Ladies Platinum and Sapphire Ring
2071 Attributed to JOHN SAMUEL BLUNT
2232 18th c. French Trumeau Mirror with Oil Painting
2291 CARL ZOPF Einsommes Ufer
2278 SCHOOL OF TINTORETTO (VENICE, 1518-1594)
3216 Hanau Sterling Silver Figures
1036
Sterling Cigarette Box
3056 Georg Jensen Silver (1 of 2)
1421 Dutch Silver Trinket Box
1488 Emil J. Paidar Barber Chair
1056 1940’s Silver Mounted Show Saddle & Tack
2418 Rare 19th c. Chinese Porcelain Covered Dish
2379 Blue & White Porcelain Snuff Bottle
2387 18th c. Silver Lined Horn Libation Cup
2460 Mother-of-Pearl & Bone
Quail Form Boxes
2383 19th c. Chinese Woman’s Medicinal Examination Figurine
2402 Chinese Ivory Covered Vases
2426 Chinese Rose Mandarin Vases
3438 Japanese Sculpture of Monkeys
2423 17th c. Chinese Giltwood Figure of Ascetic
2412 Gilt Bronze Fragment of Confucian Warrior
3036 2006 Jaguar XJ Super V8
3037 2005 Jaguar XK8 Convertible