Butterscotch Auction Gallery Estate Auction
November 5, 2017
608 Old Post Road
Bedford, N.Y.

900+ lots sourced from local estates, including:
• American & European paintings & sculpture
• Chinese & Japanese works of art
• Antique & Mid-Century furniture & decorative arts
• First edition books & early maps
• Estate jewelry and silver
• Oriental rugs and carpets
• Miscellaneous estate findings and more
BRUNO ROMEDA (Italian, 1933-2017) Circle bronze, h. 28-1/2 in. $8,000-12,000
3.44ct OLD MINE CUT DIAMOND RING sold with GIA report $25,000-35,000
Song & Early Qing
dynasty porcelain
SELECTED FIRST EDITION CHILDREN’S BOOKS, including Little Women, Mary Poppins, Emily Dickenson’s Third Series, and more, from a single-owner collection (20+ lots)
OLD BABYLONIAN TABLET & CYLINDER SEAL, the tablet dated 2227 B.C. (with letter of translation)
Lot 55 – CARTE DE LA LOUISIANE ET DU COURS DU MISSISSIPI, by Guillaume Delisle, c. 1718, this the Covens and Mortier 1742 reprint, ‘the mother of all maps of the South’, $1,000-1,500 (1 of 12 maps in sale)
JOHN VESEY CONSOLE TABLE $4,000-6,000
Lot 8 – CLAUDE VENARD (French, 1913-1999) Laviance, 1974, oil on canvas, 53 x 61 in. $8,000-12,000
KENNE BELL / SHELBY MUSTANG GT500 2007, 31,800 miles $25,000-35,000
Lot 330 – TWO BROWN & ROGERS /
GORHAM STERLING COMPOTES
$5,000-7,000
RICHMOND BARTHE (American, 1901-1989), plaster, $1,500-2,500

(ATTRIB.) CATHARINA PEETERS (Flemish, 1615- 1676), Pair of seascapes, circa 1650, each o/c, 12-3/4 x 23 in., signed with monogram ‘CP’ and dated 1650, formerly at Castle Hill, Ipswich, historic residence of Richard Teller Crane, Jr., by descent to current owner $10,000-15,000
DAVID HOCKNEY (British, 1937-) etching with aquatint, ed. 50/80 $8,000-12,000 (1 of 2 in sale)
HOWARD POST (American, 1948-) oil on canvas, 30 x 40 in. $7,000-10,000 (1 of 2 in sale)
EARLY MAP OF NORTHEAST & NEW YORK By Nicholas Visscher, ‘NOVI BELGII NOVAEQUE ANGLIAE…’, Amsterdam, 1684, $2,000-3,000 (1 of 12 maps in sale)
Lot 43 – EDGAR ALWIN PAYNE (American, 1883-1947) Mountainous landscape, oil on board, 11-1/2 x 15 in. $5,000-7,000
(37vol) THE WRITINGS OF MARK TWAIN, Defi nitive Edition, New York, 1924, no. 11 of 1024, volume 1 signed by Twain and with autograph letter tipped in, volume 5 (The Gilded Age I) with two tipped-in autograph manuscript leaves from that work, all fi nely bound by Stikeman & Co., NY $10,000-15,000
Lot 162 – GUSTAV STICKLEY OAK TALL-BACK SPINDLE SETTEE, circa 1907, ex-collection of Barbra Streisand, $7,000-10,000
SELECTED ANTIQUE PERFUME BOTTLES Lot 45 – AMERICAN SCHOOL COASTAL SCENE, 19th Century, signed indistinctly with monogram, oil on canvas, 18 x 30 in., $1,500-2,500
ART DECO DIAMOND PIN, $6,000-8,000

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