EAST DENNIS, MASS. — Session two of Eldred’s two-day spring sale on April 8 was led by a Chippendale block-front bureau attributed to Henry Rust of Salem, Mass., which brought $36,250, including buyer’s premium. In exceptionally grained Cuban mahogany, it had an old surface, possibly original, was initialed on back in chalk “HR” and illustrated in Israel Sack’s Good, Better, Best. It sold to a phone bidder.

Josh Eldred, president of the firm, said he was encouraged by the strength of the furniture category overall, with strong prices across the board for choice period pieces, like the Rust bureau, to fine reproductions by Eldred Wheeler. A further review of this sale will appear in a future issue.