Schwenke Auctioneers Connecticut Estates Auction
Saturday, July 10th (Date Change)
@ 10:00 AM
710 Main Street South
Woodbury, CT
203-266-0323
www.woodburyauction.com
Bidding on Live Auctioneers,
Invaluable & Bidsquare

WOODBURY, CONN. — On Saturday, July 10, Schwenke Auctioneers will offer 675 lots of estate property, including the marine and nautical artifact collection from the estate of George E. Ratcliffe and an eclectic mix of fine and decorative arts from multiple other estates.

The auction is a live online sale with absentee and phone bidding in-house in addition to live Internet bidding on multiple platforms. The auction begins at 10 am. Live preview will be conducted Tuesday, through Friday, July 6-9, from 10 am to 5 pm. In-person preview by advance appointment will be available at other times beginning Thursday, July 1.

The sale begins with approximately 170 lots of marine and nautical art and artifacts from Ratcliffe estate. Ratcliffe grew up in Manhasset, N.Y. At age 15, he took the train from New York to Seattle where he boarded the M/V Bellingham serving as a utility boy on its voyage to Alaska and back. Thus began his passion for all things marine. He was a collector of marine art and artifacts for well over 50 years, and he was an artist in his own right who loved to create marine scenes at his easel during family summers in East Chop on Martha’s Vineyard. The Ratcliffe collection includes more than 65 marine paintings and hundreds of artifacts.

Prime lots from the Ratcliffe collection include two works by Antonia Jacobsen, well-known marine artist who worked in Hoboken, N.J.; a large oil on canvas by C.K. Miller of the steamship SS Donegal; several other oils, watercolors and gouaches; various ships’ accessories and artifacts, including tie downs, compasses, ship badges, engine orders, tiller guards and numerous other marine-related ephemera and documents.

Other estates comprise American, English and Continental decorative arts, outsider art, folk art, American country and formal furniture, sterling silver, fine art, miscellaneous decorative arts, estate Oriental rugs and books. A Rhode Island estate is selling a large, historic portrait of a gentleman in original ornate carved and gilded frame. Also from the same estate are four Picasso etchings, all from “Cocu Magnifique.”

Items of note from other estates include several antique and moderns sporting firearms from a Darien, Conn., estate, namely, a pair of cased French percussion dueling pistols; a cased Colt .44 caliber percussion army revolver with shoulder stock; an Eli Whitney .36 caliber percussion revolver; a pair of Hollis, London made dueling pistols; a rare Rigby 80 bore needle fire rook rifle; a Winchester Model 12 pump shotgun; and a Pennsylvania long rifle with tiger maple stock.

Also from this estate is a Tusey Foundry classical female figural torchiere, Nineteenth Century, in the manner of Lady Liberty, painted and gilt cast iron, depicting classical crowned and robed maiden raising a torch.

Fine art lots include an oil on board landscape with windmill attributed to Barbizon school painter Georges Michel (French, 1763-1843); a Gloucester harbor scene by Oscar Anderson (Swedish American, 1873-1953), unframed impressionist work, signed and dated lower right “Oscar Anderson.” Other fine art includes an abstract oil on canvas, “The Lie Is The Reality” by Reginald T. Holmes, (Canadian, 1934-2004) and works by Fred Bull; John MacKenzie; Stanley Lindwasser, an abstract artist from Brooklyn; and many more.

Outsider art includes two works by Justin McCarthy; a carved figure, probably Southern states; three works by Dorothy Strauser; two floral work by Sterling Boyd Strauser; and works by Paul Lancaster and Paul Phifer.

Lots from an estate in Park Slope, Brooklyn, N.Y., include Spirit Of Niagara Pan-American Exposition Poster, an Art Nouveau poster, framed under glass, based on the painting by Evelyn Rumsey Carey (American, 1855-1901), depicting an allegorical female nude with arms outstretched forming the great waterfall of Niagara, flowing from a depiction of the skyline of Buffalo N.Y., originally published by Gies & Co., Buffalo, N.Y.

Also from the Park Slope estate are a group of four stained glass window panels, comprising two large and two smaller pair; the panels with images of snake, donkey, lion, scimitar sword, floral bouquet and also Hebrew writing.

Many lots of sterling silver are being sold, and more than a dozen estate Oriental carpets will cross the block.

For additional information, www.woodburyauction.com or 203-266-0323

We will be having live preview for this auction. Appointments are requested but not required.

Social distancing and mask protocol will be in effect, and we ask your cooperation.

The auction will be posted for live bidding on Live Auctioneers, Invaluable and Bidsquare, and phone and in-house absentee bidding will also be available. Online registrations are not guaranteed when submitted on auction day.

Our July 10th auction will present over 600 lots for bidding, starting with approximately 200 lots of marine and nautical art and artifacts from the estate of George E. Ratcliffe. The collection includes more than sixty-five marine artworks including two fine oil on canvas ship paintings by Antonio Jacobsen; many other oils on canvas by American and British artists; and many fine watercolors and gouaches on paper and board. The collection also features a large quantity of marine ephemera; bronze and other ship accessories; a large selection of bronze ships’ badges; ships’ signs; half hulls and many other items.

The balance of the sale will comprise over 400 lots of antiques and fine and decorative arts, both traditional and contemporary, from numerous other tri-state consignors and estates. Prime lots include items from a Park Slope, Brooklyn brownstone; a Central Massachusetts collection; a Litchfield County collector; a Weston CT collector; Chinese porcelains from a 5th Avenue NYC collector; and a collection of American and English furniture from another Litchfield County collector.

Estate of George E. Ratcliffe, Darien CT

Clipper Ship Diorama In
Nautical Shadowbox Frame
Cast Iron Painted
Sailor Doorstop
Ship’s Engine
Order Telegraph
A. Jacobsen, OC
Steamship Olivetti
Ship Painting On Glass,
Life Preserver Frame
Large Bronze Ship’s
Badge Dauntless
R. Chappell, O/C Sloop
“Mary Isabel”
Arnold Plagemann OC SS
Stensture 1858
George E. Ratcliffe
OC SS Donegal, C.K. Miller, 1906, Signed LL
English Brass, Serpent Form
Ship’s Tiller Yoke

Other Estates & Collections

French Empire Neoclassical
Painted Iron Daybed
Fine Pair Cased French
Dueling Pistols Buccelatti Sterling Silver
Covered Tureen
Group Shorebird Decoys
Pair Rose Medallion Vases
Fred Harvey Era Bell Trading
Silver Turquoise Cuff
English Folk Art Painting OC Two Bulls
Antique German Bisque
Three Faced Doll
G. Michel, OC Landscape
With Windmill
Lewis Sokoloff,
OC Two Showgirls
New England Queen Anne
Maple Two Part Highboy
Oscar Anderson, OC
Gloucester Harbor Scene
Chinese Export Famille Rose
Porcelain Punch Bowl
Con Espressione Signed
Colored Lithograph
Arne Jacobsen, Cylinda Line
Stainless Coffee Set
L.Casne, Bronze Figural
Torchere, Pine Stand
Monumental Jacobean Style
Carved Great Chair
Vintage Miniature Metal,
Jointed Suit of Armour
Takehiko Seki Japanese
Silver Treasure Ship