Kaminski Auction Estate Auction
Sept. 16th & 17th beginning @ 11 a.m. EST
117 Elliott Street, Beverly, MA 01915
www.kaminskiauctions.com

BEVERLY, MASS. — Kaminski Auctions will host a two-day auction on September 16 and 17, starting at 11 am Eastern time at the firm’s auction gallery. The star lot of the auction is a circa 1920s-30s Art Deco diamond, emerald and onyx platinum bracelet with a total diamond weight of approximately 12.66 carats from a New York collection.
In addition, there are several Ansel Adams silver gelatin prints on offer, owned by Dennis Curtin, who worked for book publisher Little and Brown of Boston, producing several projects with Adams. Curtin’s photographs in this auction were gifts given to him by Ansel Adams The artist gave many of these prints as gifts to the consignor at a meeting at his home in Carmel, Calif., in 1973. One of Adams’ most famous images is titled “Moonrise,” Hernandez, NM. It is an unsigned original with “silver mirroring,” which occurs when the silver in the photo degrades on the surface. There is a silver gelatin print of “El Capitan, Yosemite Valley, CA, Winter, 1948” and another of “Tenaya Lake, Mt Conness, Yosemite National Park, California, 1946”; both were gifts after a visit to Adams’ gallery in 1972. There is also a first edition deluxe issue of Ansel Adams, Images 1923-74 with a signed photo of “Fern Springs Dusk in Yosemite Valley.”

Highlights of the European furniture from a southern Connecticut collection include a pair of Twentieth Century Renaissance upholstered giltwood gondola benches, a pair of French carved giltwood chairs having needlepoint upholstery, with matching settee, a pair of French corner cabinets with the Paris label on the back and assorted Nineteenth Century Italian marble pedestals and French Empire candelabra.
English Regency furniture from a Boston collection features a Nineteenth Century English Regency mahogany cylinder writing desk with a brass gallery top, a Regency mahogany sofa with brass inlay and a late Eighteenth Century/early Nineteenth Century English mahogany linen press.

Kaminski Auctions’ Asian specialist has amassed more than 100 lots of Chinese porcelains for sale, two Qi Baishi (1863-1957) books of drawings and one by Zhao Shao’ang.
Silver in the auction features a service for 12 Gorham sterling flatware, a “Secret Garden” pattern from 1959 and a Chaudron & Rasch sterling silver three-piece tea set, circa 1810, from Philadelphia.

Other lots in the sale include an early Twentieth Century European School portrait of two children, an oil on canvas valued at $3/5,000, an early Nineteenth Century Austrian or French harp and an E. Goyard Paris trunk. The auction also features a group of ethnic artifacts of a world traveler.
The Kaminski Auctions gallery is at 117 Elliott Street, Route 62. Preview hours are September 11-15, 9 am to 5 pm. The days of the sale, preview starts at 10 am, and the preview will be open while the auction is live. For information, www.kaminskiauctions.com, 978-927-2223 or 508-367-4311.

Our September estate auction features several Ansel Adams silver gelatin prints, owned by Dennis Curtin, who worked for book publisher Little and Brown of Boston, producing several projects with Adams. Curtin’s photographs in this auction were gifts given to him by Ansel Adams. Also on sale is a spectacular circa 1930s diamond, emerald, and onyx platinum bracelet, a Qi Baishi book of drawings, and an extensive selection of European furniture from a Southern Connecticut collection. There are also several pieces of 19th-century English Regency furniture from a Boston, Massachusetts, collection, over 100 pieces of Chinese porcelain, and a group of ethnic artifacts from a world traveler.
Previews: September 11th – 15th, 9:00 a.m – 5:00 p.m. The preview day of the sale starts at 10:00 a.m. and is open
during the live auction.
Lot 741 Contemporary Acacia Wood Dining Table with Iron Base
Lot 702 Pair of French Carved Chairs with Matching Settee
Lot 692 Pair of 20thC Renaissance Gondola Benches
Lot 703 Nepali Rug, Orange-Coral Color
Lot 685 Pair of 19thC Asian Porcelain Urns
Lot 191 Pair of French Dore Bronze Ewers with Snake Handles
Lot 187 Pair of French Dore Bronze Urns
Lot 693 Pair of German Dresden Covered Urns
Lot 729 Louis Ferdinand Malespina. Steeple Chase
Lot 711 Ansel Adams, Tenaya Lake, Yosemite, Signed
Lot 710 Ansel Adams, Early Capitan, Yosemite, Signed
Lot 709 Ansel Adams, Moonrise Hernandez NM Original
Lot 728 Early 20thC European School Portrait of Children
Lot 186 Italian Woman with Children, Cast Marble Statues
Lot 255 Hand-Carved Figure
Lot 515 1920s/30s Diamond Emerald Onyx Platinum Bracelet
Lot 510 14k White Gold Ring with Diamonds
Lot 776 1950s Italian Giltwood Shelves
Lot 736 Antique Venetian Giltwood Mirror
Lot 588 Pair of Mid-20thC Florentine Sconces
Lot 233 Antique Cased Wooden Slave Ship Model
Lot 633 Oak Arts & Crafts Desk
MA LIC #171