Turner Auctions – Americana Collection of Marian Hymel
Online Auction October 21 @ 10:30am PDT
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461 Littlefield, South San Francisco, CA

SAN FRANCISCO — Turner Auctions + Appraisals is presenting the estate of Marian Hymel on Saturday, October 21. Offering more than 150 lots, the auction features the personal collection of Hymel, who was a popular antiques dealer in Los Gatos, Calif., whose focus was early Americana. Her antiques were sourced throughout the United States more than 35 years. The collection in this sale includes furniture, fine art, decorative arts, rugs, jewelry and silver.

Highlights include a Queen Anne maple wing armchair, a Serapi rug, a Queen Anne carved maple flat-top high chest, a set of Regency carved fruitwood chairs, a Chippendale mahogany inlaid oxbow-front desk and several antique gold bangle bracelets. Among the noteworthy artworks are an oil portrait of a young woman attributed to William Matthew Prior/Hamblin School, an early Nineteenth Century oil painting from the American School and a watercolor by Gerard R. Hurdenberg.

Marian Hymel (1932-2023) was born and raised in New York. She studied nursing at Bellevue Hospital’s Training School for Nurses, the first US school to be run according to Florence Nightingale’s nursing principles. After her marriage, she and her family moved to Los Gatos, where she lived much of the rest of her life.

Hymel’s interest in collecting began in California with pewter pieces. Over time, her interests expanded to collections of other “smalls” (that is, not large furniture), including bentwood boxes, shell work, brass candlesticks and hooked rugs. As years passed, Hymel’s home reflected her creativity and pleasure in decorating, in which she took particular pride, as the modern furniture of the Twentieth Century began to be replaced by special early American items.

As her interest and expertise in antiques grew, she joined an antiques collective in Los Gatos, then launched her own shop, which was open for several years. Coupled with a good eye, a love of beauty and knowledge and proficiency in early American antiques, she insisted on offering authentic, high-quality pieces that she carefully curated. An early American purist, her items were sourced over three decades from all over the United States, including antiques shows and shops, private collectors and industry friends with whom she traded.

Now, with Hymel’s passing, her family is sending her personal collection out into the world, in hopes that others will appreciate and find pleasure as she did in these distinctive early American items.

Turner Auctions + Appraisals begins its online auction on Saturday morning at 10:30 am PDT; sale items are available for preview and bidding now. The online auction will be featured live on multiple platforms: LiveAuctioneers, Invaluable, Bidsquare, and Turner Auctions + Appraisals’ free mobile app, which can be downloaded from the App Store or Google Apps (“Turner Auctions”). All are easily accessed through ‘Upcoming Auctions’ at the company’s website: www.turnerauctionsonline.com/upcoming-auctions.

Note that a separate auction will also be conducted on Saturday, October 21, beginning at 2:30 pm PDT. The afternoon sale presents more than 120 lots of the Reed Applegate collection, featuring California contemporary art from San Francisco Bay Area artists.

Turner Auctions + Appraisals is at 461 Littlefield Avenue. For additional information, 415-964-5250 or www.turnerauctionsonline.com.

This is a no reserve auction. Preview and register to bid www.turnerauctionsonline.com

Oriental carpet
Group of Queen Anne rush seat chairs
Group of Chinese Export Blue Fitzhugh
Federal Pembroke table
Queen Anne tray tea table
Star wall hanging
Red painted slant front desk on stand

Group of brass and metal cooking utensils
Chippendale oxbow front desk
Double portrait of two girls
Bow front chest on ball and claw feet
Queen Anne drop leaf circular table
Serapi carpet
Group of baskets
461 Littlefield, South San Francisco, CA 888-498-4450
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