Gamage Antiques Annual Maine Summer Auction
Monday August 21, 2017 – 1:00 PM
Previews: Sunday, August 20, 4pm–7pm
Day of Auction 9am to 1pm
Rockland Elks Lodge
210 Rankin St.
Rockland, Maine 04841
Fully Air Conditioned

We are pleased again this year to offer another fresh estate auction of antiques, paintings, silver, and many other items of interest, all gathered from prominent Maine estates and collections. We have several antiques from the Wooster Farm on North Haven, Maine, summer home of Frank W. Benson (many photographed in the Benson House archive), Imperial silk pieces and more from the Chinese collectors Richard B. Hobart and his wife Janet Elliott Hobart, a pencil drawing by Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) of Ann Call (model for the tempera Beauty Mark), an important 7 foot harvest table, rare New England corner cupboard in orange/salmon paint, fresh to the market painting by Juho Rissanen (1873-1950) of a young lady starting a fire, other artists are Willem de Kooning, Maurice Prendergast, A. Lassell Ripley and more, also 19th century Native American beaded bandolier, several good frakturs, fresh to market 6 mast schooner painting from an Islesboro, Maine estate, rare photographs of Iwo-Jima by famed WW2 photographer Joe Rosenthal along with undiscovered views of the island from the lens of John Whitehouse. Other highlights include a wonderful palace carpet, early American and English antiques, Folk Art, collectibles, and more!!!
Please join us this year at the summer auction to help complete auction week in Maine.
Go to the website www.gamageantiques.com for a hundred plus colored images and auction listing.
See you there! Bruce
BRUCE GAMAGE JR.
ANTIQUE/ESTATE AUCTIONEER
467 MAIN ST., ROCKLAND, ME 04841
207-594-4963 • FAX 207-594-0674
E-MAIL: BGAMAGE@MIDCOAST.COM
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TERMS
15% Buyer’s Premium
Checks accepted with proper I.D. or preapproval
MC/Visa/American Express
Maine sales tax of 5.5% applies
Dealers must supply tax I.D. certificate
Auctioneer reserves the right to hold certain items
until checks clear
All listings are subject to error
Andrew Wyeth 1017-2009 pencil drawing 11×14 in. titled Skylight Study 1981 (copyright rights) Andrew Wyeth A.R.S. New York
Close-up of Wyeth pencil drawing
Early Native American beaded bandolier
Close-up of Early Native American beaded bandolier
Oil on canvas by Juho Rissanen 1873-1950 30x38in.
Willem de Kooning 1904-1997 oil on paper 14 x16 in.
Rare Chinese brass large bowl, Belonging to Janet Elliott Hobart wife of collector Richard B. Hobart. 22 in. dia. 14in tall
Close-up of Rissanen oil 18th c. Queen Anne lowboy from the Frank W. Benson farm North Haven, Maine Period wing chair from (Inset photo: Gleason label attached to lowboy. 1753) the Benson Estate
Willem de Kooning 1904-1997 oil on paper 9.5x14in.
18th c. harvest table with stretcher base 92in.x30 in
Salmon paint 18thc. corner cupboard (81 inches tall)
Gouache on paper by Maurice B. Prendergast 1858-1924 7×10 in.
Close-up of Wiegand oil Oil on canvas, 6 mast schooner by H. Wiegand
Rare Queen Anne hankerchief table
(Benson Estate)
Mixed media by John W. McCoy 1910-1989 22×36 in. Wonderful palace carpet from the Benson Estate
Early Pennsylvania German fraktur
Early watercolor fraktur Wonderful early whaletail
wall shelf
Watercolor from the Benson Estate by Elliott Beveridge
(hung in the front bedroom)
Chinese Imperial silk robe. (Richard B. Hobart collection) Over 20 press photos of Iwo Jima by
WW2 photographer Joe Rosenthal
along with photo album
Chinese silk embroidery runner (Richard B. Hobart collection) Miniature painting in 14k brooch Chippendale mahogany
pie crust tea table circa 1780
Fine 19th c. enamel walking stick with jeweled collar Carved pheasant attrib. to Gus Wilson
Incredible 18th c. stepback cupboard Paul Klee 1879-1940 signed print Watercolor by A. Lassell Ripley 1896-1969
17x21in.
French oil on canvas titled (The Village)
15.5 x 23.25in.
Louis Vuitton suitcase Early salmon painted furkins