Date: Fri 11-Dec-1998

Publication: Ant

Author: JUDYC

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Lincoln

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Lincoln Postsale

(with cut)

ORANGE, NJ -- Balmy fall weather and a collection of early American items and

other furnishings and decorative objects from Llewellyn Park and Watchung,

N.J. estates drew a large and diverse crowd to Lincoln's November 10 and 11

auction.

Highlighting the event was an Adirondack image. During the Monday exhibition,

there was much interest in the oil landscape tilted, signed and dated in verso

"Black Mountain, Lake George, David Johnson 1870." When the bidding from three

phones and the floor finally stopped on Tuesday, the hammer fell at $23,000.

Garden ornaments, always popular items, brought good prices. A pair of cast-

iron urn planters sold for $770 and a pair of cement labradors were hammered

down for $880. Later, a polychromed corner cupboard with shell-carved interior

aroused considerable interest and after spirited bidding it was knocked down

for $3,500. A large oak desk with bookcase top and slant-front center section

was a popular item, and a very happy lady in the room was finally able to

close the bidding at $4,100.

An unusual early plate rack with lion-head carving reached $715, and a Hudson

Valley kas with turnip feet realized $5,750.

During the afternoon session, a watercolor illustration of twin lady golfers,

"A Good Match," signed Ruth Eastman Rogers, created quite a stir, and was

finally sold for $3,000 to a buyer on the floor after fierce competition from

phone bidders. Another illustration, an unsigned oil genre scene of a mother

sewing a button on her son's shirt, drew heated bidding from two phones and

the floor and was eventually sold to a buyer in the room for $5,225.

On Wednesday, a fine pair of Adams-style knife boxes reached $2,200. Porcelain

included a Rose Medallion covered vegetable dish, which went for $495 and two

Rose Medallion butterfly plates, which brought $300. A fine pair of Royal

Doulton glazed and beaded vases sold for $550 and a Gaudy Dutch teapot reached

$600, even though the lid had been repaired.

A selection of sterling rounded out the sale which included a service for 12,

92 pieces of Reed & Barton "Francis I" flatware, which brought $1,980.

Prices quoted reflect a ten percent buyers premium.

Lincoln Galleries holds auctions the middle of each month at 225 Scotland

Road. For information, 800/424-5825