Date: Fri 08-May-1998

Publication: Ant

Author: AMYD

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CarouselGiraffe

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Carousel Giraffe Head And Shoulders

W/3CUTS SS

By Rita Easton

MT. CRAWFORD, VA. -- Green Valley Auction conducted a three-session event on

March 20-21 featuring 2,600 lots sold without reserve and without buyer's

premium.

More than 900 bidding numbers were issued to participants from 25 states,

Canada and England. The estate of Harold Robertson of Fincastle, Va., was

represented with a collection of figural humidors and fairy lamps, but the

consignment of a carousel giraffe from the collection of Florence and the late

Harry Heatwole of Dayton, Va., brought the highest bid of the auction. A six

foot high fanciful giraffe went to a Maryland dealer at $16,000. The

turn-of-the-century lot was underbid by an Ohio dealer on the phone.

Consigned by the same bidder was a dower chest. An all original piece with the

exception of "a couple of spurs on it," it came from Center County, Penn.,

1814, and was decorated with an eagle with outstretched wings against a yellow

ground, according to Jeff Evans of the gallery. It brought $12,500 from a New

York City dealer on the phone.

A sideboard with four cupboard doors, 14 pierced pie safe tins, with minor

restoration, reached $6,250; an Eighteenth Century Louisa County, Va., corner

cupboard with repaired corners, in an early brown wash over the original blue

paint, fetched $4,500; and a walnut Shenandoah Valley stepback cupboard with

minor restorations, having double six light doors over three drawers over

double cupboard doors, made $5,500.

Two pieces of art pottery that had been dropped off casually did well, with a

3« inch Newcomb pottery vase garnering $1,900, and a Weller seven inch high

scenic Hudson vase, decorated with a mountain and trees along a lake, signed

by Pillsbury, reaching $3,100. Both pieces were pristine with no crazing.

A Solomon Bell redware cake mold brought $3,700; a bird decorated pitcher by

Lehew achieved $3,000; and a Robert Wood oil on canvas painting measuring 23

by 29 inches, depicting a California mountain, went out at $3,000.

A Lincoln family quilt made in 1827 by Abigail Caufman, cousin of Abraham

Lincoln, was snapped up by the Virginia Quilt Museum at $1,100; an 1851 Colt

Navy revolver engraved "L.A.M." reached $2,900; a Civil War diary kept by

David Leonard of Waynesboro, Va., sold at $2,700; a marbletop three piece

bedroom suite achieved $4,750; an 11 by 16 foot Heriz rug went out at $4,750;

black Americana ranged from $30 for multi-item lots to a high of $1,100 for a

humidor representing a half figure of a man eating an ear of corn, having

damage to the brim of the hat; and a Victorian hall tree with lift-up seat and

claw feet realized $4,250.