Winter Associates, Inc.
21 Cooke St. Plainville, CT 06062
AUCTION: Monday, March 27, 6:30 pm
Previews: 3/26, 2-4 pm; 3/27, 3-6:15 pm or by appt.
***Heavy Snow Date: March 28 –Please call to confirm
Americana, Paintings, Prints, Fine Porcelain and Glass,
Asian, Books, Clocks, Garden, Etc.

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LOCATION: 20 mins. west of Hartford, CT. Approx. 2 hours. from NYC or Boston. I-84W: exit 33 to Rt. 72W to exit 2, left onto 372W, first right onto Cooke St., 2nd drive on left; I-84E: exit 34, left onto
Crooked St., left onto 372W, after 6/10 mile take right onto Cooke St., 2nd drive on left. TERMS: 20% Buyer’s Prem., MC/VISA/DISC, Cash, Approved Checks; Absentee, phone and online bids accepted.
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PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS: American School portrait; Martin Ahern watercolor; M.M. Andrews oil; Denis Boileau oil; William Henry Chandler pastels (4); Harold Cohn oil; Joe Frassetta watercolor; B. Gerstner oil; Herbert Gute oil; John Cuthbert Hare watercolor; William Garnet Hazard watercolors (2); George Hitchcock pastel; May Janko forty piece portfolio (watercolors, etchings, pencil and bookplate); Jade Yu-Wen Lee watercolor; Thomas D. Lips gouache; Douglas James Maguire oil; Merrill Mahaffey oil; Boyd Mefferd watercolor; Exene Reede Meyersahm pastel; William Rickarby Miller watercolor; Robert Nisbet gouache and pencil, graphite (2) and etchings (2); Noerdwyer oil on foil; John Clifford Pellew watercolor; Everett Sahrbeck watercolor; Don Stone watercolor; Augustus Vincent Tack oil; Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait oil; Stow Wengenroth pen and ink (7). PRINTS: Edward James Allen etching; Auguste Brouet etching; Alphaeus Philemon Cole etchings (4); Hugh Evelyn London Publishing: 6 signed ‘Macfie’ lithographs; James Fagan etching; Alice Luella Fidler color print; Curt Frankenstein etching; Gordon Grant lithograph; Eugene Higgins prepatory drawing and etchings for Mother Love and The Flood, other etchings and monotypes (7); C. Hunt; E.M. Hester mezzotint; Victoria Hutson Huntley lithographs (3); Joseph Day Knap drypoint; Wilson Lowry engraving; Joseph Pennell etching;); Robert Nisbet etchings (2); Lars Thorsen etching; Native American lithos: E.C. Biddle (2); James G. Clark ; Hall & Mc Kenney(2); Daniel Rice (5) AMERICAN ANTIQUES: (many pieces in this sale with ownership descent through the Deming family, Farmington residents for over 200 years). New England William & Mary highboy c. 1690-1720 with original brasses, old finish, descended through the Deming family, the highboy is accompanied by an early 20th C. handwritten note describing its family provenance reading in part “This W. & Mary Highboy or chest on chest came from Miss Mary Alden of North Royalton, Vermont or to Wm. Converse Skinner Sr. Mary Alden was related to Wm. Skinner & likewise to his father Calvin Skinner and now belongs to Wm. Converse Skinner Jr.” The note along with accompanying family tree traces the highboy to the family of John Alden (1599- 1687). The piece is also listed in a 1920 inventory of the property of William Converse Skinner Jr.; Tavern table, pine and birch, orig feet; Slant lid desk, figured maple; Dining drop-leaf table, mahogany with ball and claw feet; Blanket chest, Penn., painted with vine decoration overall, red and black trim; Classical revival sofa with eagle’s head, dolphin, cornucopia and vine carving; Hepplewhite demilune game table; Highboy with 18th C. elements and alterations; 2 tavern tables, rectangular tops; Tall blanket chest with red stain; 2 Federal chests of drawers; two pr. Sheraton fancy chairs, one grained, one mustard; pr. Conn. Country ribbon back chairs; assembled set of 5 ladder backs; pine hutch; harvest table; lift top desk on stand; tool chest, grained finish, many tools; chairs, stands, cabinets, quilt rack, dough box, primitive accessories; Victorian marble top table; brass bedstead; etc. FINE FURNISHINGS INCLUDING GARDEN: Furniture with family attribution to Fineberg: Georgian style breakfront, a Chippendale style dining table, six shield back chairs, and pair Pembroke style tables: Wallace Nutting #408 sack back Windsor armchair; Kaplan Gov. Winthrop style desk; Georgian style sect’y desk; armchair with needlepoint upholstery; Cast iron grape and vine garden furniture including two loveseats, small round table, two chairs, painted white; iron base planter with brass basin; wicker armchairs; Asian ceramic garden seats STERLING & SILVER: Gorham Mythologique flatware including serving 103 pcs; Gorham Buttercup 89 pcs; Tiffany Audubon ladle 14”l.;Gorham Puritan 3pc tea service and two 3 light candelabras; early English and American assortment; some interesting hollowware and generous mixed lots of hollow and flatware. JEWELRY/GOLD/COSTUME: 14k pins with amethyst and pearls; Gold belt buckle; Mabe pearl earrings;14k thimble; 10-12k wire frame glasses; chains and pins; costume including makers Trifari, Coro, some sterling. CERAMICS: Dinnerware services: Minton (G8338) retailed by Tiffany 146 pcs; Minton (G6285) 81 pcs; Minton (G9816) 142 pcs; Royal Doulton Carlyle 250+pcs; Royal Copenhagen Frijsenborg 37pcs; Rosenthal Studio Line 59pcs; Copeland Spode Gainsborough 55pcs. Wedgwood 55 pcs; 12 Meissen fruit decorated dessert plates; Austrian Alhambra 42pcs; other pieces retailed by Tiffany; various figurines; three Boehm Ltd edition plaques 11” x 14” c. 1970’s: Bay Lynx, Ram’s head, Lion’s head ; salt glazed crocks including 4 gallon Hallowell with cobalt rooster(some damage); flow blue; pink lusterware; Lenox; Limoges; etc. GLASS: Rogaska Gallia pattern (150+pcs) including stemware sets and serving pcs in generous lots; Baccarat stemware, decanters, vases; Waterford stemware; etc. ASIAN: assortment of 19 & 20th C. porcelain platters, dishes, vases, jardinières and garden seats including Imari, Famille Rose, Celadon, Canton and other blue and white including an assembled set of Fitzhugh dinnerware. BOOKS, MAP, ETC: Mark Twain book collection from a New England Institution including the American first editions of The Prince and the Pauper, A Tramp Abroad, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer Abroad; also generous lots of books by or about Twain; Herman Melville first American ed. Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life; Biography of Black Janitor at Trinity College 1873 first ed.; children’s books and assorted ephemera; Shurtleff and McMillin pictorial Map of New Hampshire 1926. METALWARE: antique American, English and Continental, Pewter including Feltman (Albany), Boardman, candlesticks, inkwells chargers, etc; Brass candlesticks, pails, trivets; iron Owl andirons, Griswold skillet, etc. CLOCKS: European pinwheel regulator wall clock, late 19th C; early 19th C. American tall clock, scrolled fretwork, cherry case; Seth Thomas and Forestville cornice and column 8 day; other shelf and mantle and brass ship’s clock. TEXTILES: six 18th/19th C. school girl samplers; three overshot coverlets including Ann Bentley 1842 and New Fane Niagra 1856; assortment of early 20h C. hooked rugs. ORIENTAL RUGS: Semi-antique Tabriz 10’ x 12’ 8”; Persian Isphahan, Serapi and Oushak carpets; Serapi and Peshawar runner; Uzbek Kazak and Persian Kashan scatter rugs. MILITARY, FRATERNAL, WEAPONS: Civil War era American militia Wells & Co. NY sword; Civil War era Remington Revolver 44 cal.; Knights of Columbus 19th C. dress sword, gilt scabbard; Masonic sheepskin apron, elaborate symbols indicate likely for a lodge grand master, family provenance is apron belonged to Captain John Mix b. 1755, Revolutionary War veteran, after his service he lived and worked as an attorney and died in Farmington, CT in 1834. IMPORTANT MISCELLANEOUS: ship dioramas; 15” Old Salt doorstop; rosewood lap desk; 15” splint basket with swing handle; mirrors; stamps; Deford Flute and Armstrong Piccolo both in hard cases; 3 walking sticks, gold filled handles; Joel Ellis type Vict. doll carriage; doll furniture, clothing and accessories; Chien type tin carousel; antique woodworking hand tools, many NY makers including Auburn, J. Gibson, TJM Master, Marley, S.Rowell, JJ Styles, and others.
Twain collection incl. 1st ed.
Boehm (1 of 3) 11” x 14”
J. Allen “Teeming Ingots”
18th C. American S. Thomas, Hepplewhite 18th C. slant lid, 19th C. N. Amer. lithos Americana, Nutting chair Highboy, c. 1690 – 1720
19th C. PA painted vine and samplers American 19th C.
Royal Doulton “Carlyle” 250+ pcs
Rogaska “Gallia” 200+ pcs
D.J. Maguire, oil, 46” x 70”
Mythologique sterling 103 pcs
A.F. Tait, oil, signed and dated 1866
Early Masonic apron, Civil War etc. weapons
Tavern table, NE, c. 1740
19th C. Classical Revival