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Highlights in their categories include: PERIOD COUNTRY and FORMAL FURNITURE:  A Red Painted BUCKFIELD, MAINE 4 Drawer Chippendale Chest of Drawers with Outstanding Tall and Complex Bracket Base; Single Drawer NH Red Painted Blanket Chest with unusual multiple drawer interior; Maine “Livermore” style Paint Decorated 4 Drawer Hepplewhite Chest; NH Oval Top, Spider Leg Candlestand in Original Red Paint; unusual Multi Armed Dovetailed Paper Drying Rack; Hepplewhite One Drawer Stand in Original Red and Brass; Superb Maine Red Painted Sea Chest with Canted Front; Spice Chest of 10 Drawers with Cupid’s Bow Back Splash; Heavily Carved American Empire Tilt Top Table; Several Fine Turned and Tapered Leg One Drawer Stands; Paint Decorated Bootjack End Blanket Chest; Paint Decorated Blanket Box with Bracket Base; Small Bootjack End Blanket Chest in Original Red; Whale End Wall Shelf; Sausage Turned Ladderback Armchair in Original Paint; Tapered Leg Drop Leaf Table in Original Red Paint; Single Door Chimney Cupboard; Matched Set of 6 Early Arrowback Side Chairs; Early Rhode Island “Ratchet” Candlestand; Bow Back Windsor Armchair in Old Surface; Country Hepplewhite Pembroke Table with Cut Corners; Early Hanging Cupboard with Rose Head Nails; Wall Hanging Spice Chest in Red; Table Top Spice Chest of 10 Drawers in Old Paint; Pair Fan Back Windsor Side Chairs with unusual “Sunray” Carved Ears; Bootjack End Blanket Chest in Old Red; Queen Anne Snake Foot Candlestand; Maine Paint decorated Prayer Bench; Maine 2 Drawer Drop Leaf Stand; Nine Drawer Table Top Spice Chest; Shaker Armless Rockers; Early Maine Boot Jack End Feed Chest; Pair of Country Fan Back Windsors in Old Red Paint; Country Pine Two Drawer Server; Rosewood Tea Caddy with M.O.P. Inlay; Profusely Carved Key Cupboard; Set of 6 Rabbit Ear Chairs (contemporary paint decoration); Maine Paint Decorated Doll’s Chair; Country Hepplewhite 2 Drawer Server and more!  FOLK ART and COUNTRY ACCESSORIES:  A SUPERB GROUP of 11 EARLY Maine and New England PAINT DECORATED BOXES; Watercolor Family Register from the Simons and Heath families of Alexandria, NH; Fine Red, Black and Green Tray Molded Wooden Checkerboard; Rare Decorated Tin Document Box with “Paddle Tail Bird” by the North Family of Fly Creek, NY; Early Folk Art Watercolor of a Child Feeding a Cat; 4 LARGE 19^th Century Wooden Fence Top Urns; Large Carved and Painted Figural Trade Sign of a Fish from Sebago Lake, Maine; Large Early Carved and Painted Eagle; Superb Collection of 17 Early Snuff Boxes; Fine Nantucket Swing Handled Basket; Superb Red and Yellow Paint decorated Box with Unusual Vaulted Lid; 18^th Century Red Painted Queen Anne Courting Mirror; Superb Nested Set of 5 Miniature Swing Handled Baskets; Superb and Extraordinarily Naive Folk Art Carved and Painted Giraffe; Outstanding Oil Painting on Wood Panel of a Tropical Landscape dated 1866; Rare Childs Size Maine “Cutter” Sleigh in Original Paint and Stenciling; Several Fine and Early Hand Blocked Wallpaper boxes including several miniature examples; Superb Hand Painted Tin Serving Tray decorated with a Maine “Cape” Style home; Several Early Baskets including a fine handled Cheese Basket along with several painted examples, drying baskets and others; Fine Early Rocking Horse on Glider Frame; Folk Art Carved and Painted Cane Head in the form of wonderfully executed Pointing Dog; A fine selection of Pantry Boxes and Firkins in Original Paint to include several fine Harvard Shaker examples; Maine Chopping Tray in Old Blue; Several Paint Decorated and Original Painted Dome Top Document and Storage Boxes; Paint Decorated Doll’s Dresser in Faux Tiger Maple; Large Wall Hanging Carved and Painted Cod Fish; Several Old Wooden Signs including “No Loafing in This Building”; “Property For Sale”; “Vicious Dog”; “Canaries for Sale”; “Another House Sold” and others; Folk Art Carved and Painted Gold Finch; Unusual Painted and Molded Tin Cupola with small Eagle Weathervane at its peak and large gold leafed, molded cornucopias at its corners; Small Horse Weathervane; 18^th Century Walnut PA Dome Top Document Box; Unusual Early Figural Tin Cookie Cutter with likeness of a man’s head; Early Carved Wooden Snuff Box in the form of a Shoe; Unusual Treenware Teapot; carved Trout Weathervane on standard; Miniature Carved and Painted Songbird attributed to Bernier the Lumberman of Biddeford - Saco, Maine; Miniature Watercolor Portrait of Gentleman; Small Lidded Sewing Box in Original Green Paint; Iron Foot Scraper in the form of a Cat in Original Lipstick Red Paint; Root Carved Watch Hutch with mounted carved and painted songbird; Early Treenware Plate; Unusual Wall Hanging 6 Drawer Spice Chest; Folk Art Carved and Painted Wooden Flax Knife; Unusual Folk Art painted Wooden Croquet Wicket; Miniature Folk Art Carved and Painted Songbird on Stump; Matched Pair of Period Tin Wall Sconces; Fine Pair of “High Rise” Wooden Ice Skates; Paint Decorated Hat Box; Pair Carved and Painted Miniature Pheasants; Paper Mache Folk Art Puppets; Collection of Early Tin Cookie Cutters; Carved Walking Sticks to include examples with “Ladies Leg” Grip and Alligators;Framed Seth Thomas Tall Clock Dial; Tramp Art Box; Wool “Walking” or Spinning Wheel in amazing “Soldier Blue” paint and more! PAINTINGS by LISTED AMERICAN & CANADIAN ARTISTS & OTHERS: Recently discovered Large Signed Oil Painting of the United States Revenue Cutter USS BEAR by noted marine artist FRANK VINING SMITH (American 1879-1967); Two recently discovered Large Nautical Watercolors signed JOHN WHORF (American 1903-1959): Large Watercolor of a North American Indian scene signed WALTER JOSEPH PHILLIPS (Canadian 1884-1963); Watercolor landscape of Western Mountains signed CHARLES PARTRIDGE ADAMS (American 1858-1942); Watercolor of Western Canadian Mountainous Landscape by FREDERIC MARLETT BELL – SMITH (Canadian 1846-1923); Oil Painting “Barnyard Pets” by CHARLOTTE MOUNT BROOK SCHREIBER (Canadian 1834-1922); Seascape signed FREDERICK THEODORE WEBER (American 1883-1956); (3) signed ESTHER WILLIAMS (American 1907-1969) paintings to include a Lg. OOC Genre Scene with Children, a Lg. OOC Still Life and a small OOB still life;  signed OOC “General Store” at Cave Creek, AZ by EARL CARPENTER (American b. 1931);  3 Pencil signed and personally inscribed color lithographs of Western Subjects by TOM LEA (American 1907-2001); Large Watercolor “Roaring Fork Ranch” signed FREDERIC JAMES (American 1915-1985); 2 Large Watercolors signed CHARLES KING WOOD (American 1869-1943); Small OOC “near Procter, B.C.” signed ALEX JOHN GARNER (Canadian 1897-1995); Watercolor of debutantes signed HELOISE LELOIR (French 1820-1873); Outstanding OOC Rockport, MA Winter Street Scene with Children signed J. BRADFORD HAGUE (American early 20^th century); OOB Landscape signed KARL HOGBERG (1901-1981); Watercolor of Indian ambush signed M.A REGNIER – REISER 1953; OOC of Maine “Cape” Style home; Large luminous Western Mountain Landscape signed C.A.MURPHY; OOC Still Life of Strawberries; Outstanding small unsigned OOB Still Life of Pears; Small primitive OOB of Two Men in a Canoe;  and more! EARLY LIGHTING and LAMPS:  Early RI Cross Base Wooden “Ratchet” Double Candle Lighting Device; Several Early “Hogscraper” Candlesticks to include wedding band examples; Early Brass Skater’s Lantern with Red Globe; Early Miniature Flint Glass Table Lamp with “Clam Broth” base and more!! EARLY PEWTER and IRON: Several Early Signed Rhode Island Pewter Porringers; Early signed Roswell Gleason Pewter Teapot; Unusual Long Handled Cast Iron Dipper signed Kendrick; “Danvers” style 3 Footed Cast Iron Kettle; Wrought Iron “Heart” Andirons; Several Early Wafering Irons including one with bronze wafer heads; Fine Early Cast Iron Tea Kettle; Several Early Posnets including a Fine Early Bell Metal example signed Wasbrough; Superb Saw Tooth Trammel; Several Early Signed Cast Iron Porringers including Kendrick and Clark examples; Unusual Early Wrought Iron Surveyors Chain Reel; Period Lemon Top Chippendale Brass Andirons; Wrought Iron Apple Roaster; Wrought Iron Log Roller with Exquisite Heart Handle and more! DECOYS, SPORTING ITEMS; ADIRONDACK and FISHING & HUNTING COLLECTIBLES: A FINE Maine Drake Eider Decoy in Original Paint; Mallard Hen Decoy by J.R. Wells of Toronto, ONT.; Superb Wildfowler Mallard Hen Decoy; Early Wooden Pack Basket in Original Green Paint; Outstanding Blue Painted Guide size Canoe Paddle and others; Large Lot of OLD Fishing Reels and Lures in Original Boxes; Bamboo Fly Rods by Leonard, Thomas and others; Unusual Log Carved Storage Box; Two 1860s PRESENTATION Fishing Rods by J.C. Conroy and Charles Farlow; Nice Oil Painting of Mallard Ducks; Pencil signed OGDEN PLEISSNER Print “Woodcock Cover”; Tin “GUIDE” Sign on Painted Fish; Pack Baskets, Fishing Creels, Snowshoes and Canoe Paddles and more!  NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN ITEMS:  Painted North American Indian Cradle Board; Superb Carved Canoe Cup with Owl and Rabbit decoration; Round Mic-Mac Quill Work Box with Lid; Early Decorated Lidded Circular Box; Large nicely Carved Indian Club from Old Town, Maine; 18^th Century Hand Colored Satirical Print “A Sailor at a Quaker’s Funeral”; Several Navajo Rugs; Indian Pottery to include a Zuni Olla by Effa Boone and San Ildefonso Pueblo Pottery by Maria Martinez (Maria Popovi signature) and Tomasa Mora and more!    HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT EPHEMERA and BOOKS: Early Handwritten Letter by HENRY CLAY; and more! PHOTOGRAPHY and other ARTWORK: Large lot of early photography to include Dags, Ambros, CDVs, Tintypes and more! ANTIQUE FIREARMS, EDGE WEAPONS and MILITARIA:  An IMPORTANT recent discovery of early 19^th century military items once belonging to JAMES T. BARNEY of the PRESCOTT GUARD of PEPPERELL, MASSACHUSETTS to include his original labeled Boston Shako with its “PG” hat badge; his Eagle Head Sword with its original Leather Scabbard; his original Federal Eagle decorated Haversack; his leather Militia Belt with its musket cleaning tool still attached; original wooden canteen with its “PG” lettering and his original red Parade Vest; A group of Civil War photos, belt buckles, ephemera and an unusual and early company flag once belonging to Captain Linus Sherman of the 9^th VERMONT Vols.; Confederat “UCV” or United Confederate Veterans Flag; Several Civil War Soldier Photos to include Tintypes and CDVs; Two framed Civil War Broadsides from the 23^rd MAINE VOLS.; SMITH & WESSON Model 1 Percussion Revolver in its original GUTTA PERCHA Case; Rare Page – Lewis (Chicopee, Mass.) Model A “Drop Block” Target Rifle; Twp Pair of Early Riding Spurs; Fine Old Samurai Sword; Early Sword Canes including a fine, signed Toledo bladed example and more! NAUTICAL Items: Recently discovered Large Oil Painting of the historic United States revenue Cutter the USS BEAR by the noted marine Artist FRANK VINING SMITH; Outstanding Large Mounted and Painted Half Hull; 2 Large Nautical Watercolors by JOHN WHORF; Outstanding OOB of Ships at Gloucester Harbor, Mass.; Fine Pair of Early Beckets, Signed Boston Sextant and more! STONEWARE, REDWARE & OTHER POTTERY: Large selection of Cobalt Decorated Stoneware to include a 2 gallon “Bird on Stump” by Wright of Taunton, Mass.; Impressive 5 Gallon Fort Edward Floral Decorated Crock; Small Ovoid with Floral Decoration; 3 Stenciled “Strawberry” Crocks by Wright of Taunton; Cake Crock and other PA examples with Cobalt Decoration; Small Signed Ovoid  “BOSTON” Jug; REDWARE to include and Outstanding Gonic, NH jug; Fine Maine Redware Jug; Minty Redware Shaving Mug; PA Redware Crock with shaped handles and incised decoration; Several Blue Spongeware Milk Pitchers; Outstanding Huge Blue Banded Spongeware Bowl; Large lot of Bennington/Rockingham pottery; Swasey Oyster Jug; Unusual 18^th C. Stoneware Pouring Stein with Pewter Lid and incised horse decoration and more! GLASS, CHINA & BOTTLES: Early and Large Liverpool Jug “Success to America” with Clipper Ship, Federal Eagle and Jeffersonian decoration; Marbleized Mocha Bowl; Two Superb Early Mulberry Staffordshire Chamber Sets in the COREAN and VENTURE patterns; Several pieces of Deep Blue Staffordshire including a Teapot with an unusual bird finial; Chinese Export Coffee Pot; Early Hayward Hand Grenade Fire Extinguisher in Cobalt Blue; Early Mocha Ware Mugs; Early Canton Ginger Jars; Matched Set of 6 Early Stiegel Drinking Glasses;  Large Leeds Bowl; Pair of Blown Decanters with Pewter Coasters; Large Ground Top Pickle Jar with Floral Embossing; Early Blown Flip Glasses and Vessels; 18^th Century Blown Stemware: Pint Lightning Fruit or Canning Jar in rare cornflower blue and more! ADVERTISING and SIGNS: Large Tin Lithographed Sign to include New Hampshire Fire Insurance Co. and George Washington Insurance Co.; Large Display Box for Red Indian Cut Plug Tobacco; Ten “New Old Stock” Buckeye Harvesting Machine Catalogs and more!  RUGS, QUILTS and TEXTILES:  Room sized Loomed Carpet; Geometric and Pictorial Hooked Rugs; Several early ORIENTAL RUGS to include several early CAUCASIAN examples; Room Sized Priscilla Turner (Lewiston, Maine) Hooked Rug; Very Early Oriental Textiles including Badge Table Cover and throws; Early Needlework “Pocket”; Braided Rugs and more! VICTORIAN FURNITURE, ACCESSORIES & GARDEN: Two fine Victorian Wire Ware Porch Planters; Bamboo Furniture to include Corner Chair, Open Bookcase and Umbrella Stand; Outstanding Leaded Glass Table Lamp and more! TOYS & BANKS: An Outstanding Sturditoy Armored truck in Original Paint; Cast Iron Kenton Horse Drawn Fire Pumper; Keystone “Ride On” Steam Roller in original paint; Early Tin Wind-Up Tin Plate Bus; Early German Wind-Up Tin Plate Horseless Carriage with Rider; Several Architectural Cast Iron Banks in original paint; Unusual Cast Iron Toy Cannon in carriage having two sailors mounted on its top and more! ITEMS of SPECIAL INTEREST: A Large and Profusely Carved Walnut Presentation Armchair Celebrating the FLIGHT of the SPIRIT of ST. LOUIS of CHARLES LINDBERGH; Large lot of porcelain Automobile License Plates to include several pairs; E.S. Lane Log Caliper with wheel; Large German Carved and Painted Wooden Nut Cracker; Early Sun Dial; Gloucester, Mass. Advertising Thermometer; Tiny Embossed Cast Iron Wood Stove by ABBOTT & LAWRENCE of PHILADELPHIA and more!

Timothy J. Gould, Maine Auctioneer - License # AR1038