1c Gibson Les Paul

A rare 1957 Gibson Les Paul custom “Black Beauty” left hand guitar, one of 283 produced with most being right-handed ($40/60,000).

1c C.h. Gifford

Charles Henry Gifford (1839–1905), “Low Tide,” depicting the two-masted vessel Witch of Quincy resting on its keel, 1873, oil on board ($4/6,000).

2c A.T. Hibbard

Aldro Thompson Hibbard (1886–1972), “Wardsboro Stream,” oil on canvas ($10/20,000).

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American Sheraton server, late Eighteenth–early Nineteenth Century, from the estate of Stephen H. Garner III, maple with inlaid edge, three small drawers over two doors ($8/12,000).

MUST RUN 3-23

AMERICAN AUCTION AT ELDRED’S WILL BE MARCH 3–31 w/ 4 cuts

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EAST DENNIS, MASS — The Robert C. Eldred Co. will present Americana at Auction Friday and Saturday, March 30 and 31. Preview of the 1,100 lots will be Thursday, March 29, 10 am to 8 pm.

Featured in the sale are a rare 1957 Gibson Les Paul custom “Black Beauty” left hand guitar and Ralph Cahoon’s “Barnstable Great Marsh Saltworks 1880,” accompanied by a letter from the artist’s son stating it was Cahoon’s final completed artwork.

Friday’s session begins with nearly 100 items from the estate of the late Stephen H. Garner III, of Yarmouthport, a well-known antiques dealer and collector of American furniture and fine art.

Highlights include a Sheraton server in maple with an inlaid edge, two Chippendale six-drawer chests, two antique slant-lid desks, a one-drawer tap table with a well-scrubbed pine breadboard top, a lift-top blanket chest, a Hepplewhite four-drawer chest, a child’s canted high chair, and a room-size Serapi rug, as well as many portraits, still lifes and New England landscapes.

Marine offerings include many cased scale models including the Schooner Yacht America, John F. Kennedy’s Wianno Senior Victura, and the lightship Nantucket, and a copper and brass buoy lantern.

Reproduction furniture consists of many Eldred Wheeler pieces, including a double-sized bed, Chippendale-style two-part corner cupboard, a Queen Anne-style bonnet-top highboy, tea table and a two-drawer console table. Furniture created by the late cabinetmaker Donald Mackenzie of Pine Tree Shilling in Brewster includes a William and Mary-style two-drawer server, a four-drawer block front bureau, a grandmother clock and a bonnet-top long case clock.

More than 200 lots of paintings over the two days include Jonas Lie’s “Central Park,” Richard Hayler Lever’s “Statue of Liberty,” and a Johann Berthelsen winter cityscape. Other landscapes include those by J. McGurl, A.T. Hibbard, A.C. Goodwin, JF Murphy, H.D.K, Van Elten, C.C. Coleman, G.P. DuBois, J.W.A. Scott, W.T. Richards, F.H. Shapleigh, C.F. Ryder, H. Hensche and W.L. Stevens.

Other subjects include a pair of portraits after Sir William Beechey, an American battlefield scene, and other genres by G. Beal, X. Russell Smith, and more. A large private collection of illustration art from the Midwest includes works by Henry Hintermeister, B.W. Rockey, Frank Vining Smith, Kar Godwin, Emanuel Decolas, Raymond James, Stuart, Samuel, Joseph Brown and Ariane Beigneux.

Antique American furniture on Saturday includes Hepplewhite: two-part secretary in mahogany from the North Shore, two bow front chests from coastal Massachusetts and Rhode Island, a diminutive sideboard in mahogany with ebony string inlay, a George III demilune card table in mahogany, bow front card table, a fall-front secretary in curly maple veneers and a Hepplewhite-style highboy in mahogany veneers and other woods.

Chippendale offering include a chest-on-chest in tiger maple, eight-drawer tall chest in walnut and slant-lid desks in cherry. Queen Anne highlights include a two-part highboy in maple, desk on frame in walnut and chest on frame in cherry and pair of side chairs in mahogany. Other furniture includes a Federal D-end two-pedestal extension dining table in Cuban mahogany and a pair of late Nineteenth Century campaign-style bookcases.

Musical instruments include a 1925 Gibson Granada TB-5 tenor banjo, two baby grand pianos by Hallet Davis & Co. and Brambach, and a Vega No. 2. “Whyte Lady” five-string banjo.

American silver includes a late Eighteenth Century silver caster with the mark of John Coburn, Boston engraved with the Storrow family crest. Sterling includes a five-piece tea and coffee service by Reed & Barton, 12 service plates, four candlesticks by Shreve, a five-piece garniture set, 12 Florenz pattern bread plates by Gorham, a Gorham silver and enamel handled mug, and a gilt claret jug by Bailey & Co.

Chinese Export includes a silver-handed woven basket and box, lacquer tea caddy, porcelain punch bowl in a mandarin palate, pair of covered entrée dishes in lozenge form, armorial charger and platter with mandarin garden scene. Oriental rugs include room-size Herizes, Karajas and Kazaks and many more.

Textiles include an Eighteenth Century memorial “to the memory of Parker French,” and a landscape needlework in stump needlework.

For information, 508-383-3116 or www.eldreds.com.