This 92½-by-118-inch Chinese rug estimated at $1/$2,000 sold for $33,350, making it the day’s top lot. Its beige field is alive with birds, waves and pagodas.

By Laura Beach

Henry Schenck Tanner published this engraved and hand-colored atlas, $13,800, featuring maps of United. States, Asia, Africa, Europe, South America and the world in1825. This volume belonged to John Wister of Spruce Street in Philadelphia.

MARION, MASS. — Frank McNamee of Marion Antique Auctions partnered with C. David Glynn of Turkey Creek Auctions of Citra, Fla., to offer an around-the-world assortment of fine and decorative arts on June 25.

The biannual auctions are an outgrowth of McNamee’s active appraisal practice, which keeps the expert especially busy along Massachusetts’s south coast. Marion Auctions’ latest offering featured property from the estates of Samuel Parkman “Parky” Shaw of Brookline and Wareham, Mass., and Eliot Knowles, plus works from George C. Decas and the New Bedford Whaling Museum, among other consignors.

“This was our was our sixth annual summer auction. I was always involved with estate liquidation and appraisals, but used to farm out the auction business. Then a Fairhaven, Mass., estate came up for us. It was our first auction, and a tremendous success. We added internet bidding last year,” McNamee told Antiques and The Arts Weekly. David Glynn apprenticed at Sandwich and Willis Henry Auctions before founding his auction firm, said to be central Florida’s busiest.

McNamee characterized the June 25 vendue as “a nice, diversified sale with a nautical slant, but also good silver and jewelry.” The partners were startled by the success of their top lot, a roughly 8-by-10-foot Chinese rug decorated with birds, waves and pagodas on a beige field. Estimated at $1/2,000, the rug went to the trade for $33,350 against competition from an array of phone and internet bidders. McNamee said the weaving was from a Duxbury, Mass., collection of Chinese artifacts acquired overseas by a foreign service officer in the early Twentieth Century.

Closer to home were two lots of Martha’s Vineyard interest. As expected, J.H. Nickerson’s 1874 painting of the residence of the island’s well-known “Chicken Lady,” the eccentric Nancy Luce, surpassed estimate to bring $2,185. Unexpected was the $13,800 the auctioneers got for the sign that hung outside the temporary production office for the film Jaws, shot on location in Martha’s Vineyard in 1974. As the story goes, director Steven Spielberg’s secretary salvaged the sign, which the Granary Gallery at the Red Barn in West Tisbury, Mass., later sold to the most recent consignor. Following the auction, McNamee said he was offered $16,000 from a prospective buyer in California.

Fine arts included a four-panel screen, $17,250, in a whitewashed oak frame covered with lithographed panels designed by Marc Chagall. The panels, from an edition of 100, were printed in 1960 by Mourlot of Paris. The screen had belonged to Sandra and Al Sanders, art dealers in Columbus, Ohio.

Highest among many seascapes and ship’s portraits was Antonio Jacobsen’s depiction of the combined sail and steamship The Island flying the American flag. From the Shaw estate, the work made $9,200.

This intriguing four-panel screen, $17,250, in a whitewashed oak frame is covered with lithographed panels designed by Marc Chagall. The panels, from an edition of 100, were printed in 1960 by Mourlot of Paris. The screen belonged to Sandra and Al Sanders, art dealers in Columbus, Ohio.

Rhode Islanders of a certain age will recall Rocky Point, an amusement park on Narragansett Bay that operated from the late 1840s to 1995. A 1997 painting by Providence, R.I., artist Maxwell Mays depicting the popular spot sold for $2,875.

Sailing and yachting trophies added to the recreational spirit of the proceedings. Of note were photos and trophies from the early golf resort Pinehurst in North Carolina. Pinehurst’s first tournament, begun in 1901, was the United North and South Amateur. A 1911 sterling silver trophy won by Fred O’Connell, mayor of Fitchburg, Mass., brought $920.

Property consigned by the New Bedford Whaling Museum included a lavishly carved Federal poster bed owned by a Fairhaven, Mass., sea captain, $2,300; a Federal side chair with urn splat, $518; and a boneshaker bicycle, $4,025.

Consigned by her great-nephew, a pearl and diamond choker necklace that once belonged to collector Louisine Havemeyer crossed the block at $4,600.

Closing out the session was an 1825 H.S. Tanner atlas. Though in less than pristine condition, this important document of its time went for $13,800.

Prices reflect buyer’s premium.

For further information, contact Marion Antique Shop at info@marionantiques.com or 508-748-3606. Turkey Creek Auctions may be reached at cdg4@msn.com or 352-622-4611.

Martha’s Vineyard eccentric Nancy Luce lavished attention on her chickens, even giving them elaborate burials.

Tiffany Studios smoking stand, $ 1,438 ($ 1/1,500).

Once the property of collector Louisine Havemeyer, this choker necklace with five strands of matched, tapered pearls and a platinum clasp set with diamonds realized $ 4,600 ($ 2/4,000).

This acanthus-carved mahogany bed consigned by the New Bedford Whaling Museum left the room at $ 2,300. It is marked with the name of Fairhaven, Mass., whaling shipmaster, agent, merchant and justice of the peace Ansel Gibbs.

Carved with Prince of Wales feathers, this mahogany side chair with an urn splat, $ 518, has a few minor repairs and formerly belonged to the New Bedford Whaling Museum.

Maxwell Mays’ (1918–2009) 1997 oil on canvas painting, $ 2,875, depicts the historic Rocky Point amusement park on Narragansett Bay, R.I.

This appealing Heywood Wakefield wicker dressing table and matching chair was a bargain at $ 345. The set dates to circa 1898 and is from the collection of Kitty Mellon.

Antonio Jacobsen depicted The Island flying the American flag in this signed painting. From the Shaw estate, the lined work made $ J.H. Mercer & Monod of New York made this boneshaker bicycle, ,025. It is missing some elements and has a few repairs.9,200.

J.H. Mercer & Monod of New York made this boneshaker bicycle, $ 4,025. It is missing some elements and has a few repairs.

This oil painting depicts the West Tisbury, Mass., home of Nancy Luce, known as the “Chicken Lady.” The 1874 work by J. H. Nickerson achieved $ 2,185 ($ 1/1,500).

Pinehurst, developed in the late 1890s, is one of the earliest and best-known American golf resorts. This 1911 trophy from the United North and South Amateur Championship at Pinehurst sold for $ 920.

Auctioneer Frank McNamee was not expecting much from this sign advertising the production office for the 1975 film Jaws, shot on location on Martha’s Vineyard. The sign sailed past its $ 1/2,000 estimate to bring $ 13,800.