Date: Fri 22-Jan-1999

Publication: Ant

Author: DONNAM

Quick Words:

Marshall-J&S-Easton

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Thurston Marshall Canvas Highlights J&S Auction

By Rita Eaton

NEW BRAINTREE, MASS. -- A December auction held by J&S Enterprises was

conducted at Town Hall following a preview earlier in the day. Two hundred

attendees competed for 450 lots consigned by various estates and individuals.

"We had a lot of new faces," noted auctioneer Joseph Craig, "and it was

otherwise a typical good crowd."

Fetching the high bid of the day, an oil on canvas of a Nantucket harbor scene

by J. Thurston Marshall, with dimensions of approximately 24 by 30 inches,

reached $1,900.

A Currier & Ives, Inc. print of a football game between Yale and Princeton

brought $350; a 1908 two-handled oblong sterling silver tray by Aitkin, having

a narrow band of decorative raised design on the handles and outlining the

tray, sold at $1,600; and an undated and unsigned sampler, measuring 26 by 14

inches, decorated with a floral design, pineapples and butterflies,

surrounding numbers and the letters of the alphabet, simply framed, was

purchased at $500.

A 14 by 18-inch James Madison document sold at $1,000. The framed, signed lot

was a formal promotion making Edmund Foster a Captain in the 90th Reg infantry

in 1815.

A cupboard with punched tins inserts, with two cupboard doors above two

cupboard doors, reached $650; an early blanket chest with lift top above two

drawers, having a floral painted design which was applied later, fetched $550;

and an early Oriental table, with stretcher base and ornate pierced carved

apron, having considerable damage, made $300.

A walnut bookcase with two doors over one drawer, small at only five feet

high, achieved $460; a burl English mantel clock reached $450; a Simplex

mantel clock garnered $170; a walnut bed went out at $460; a sleigh bed

reached $625; two violins sold as one lot went at $400; and an early typical

French perfume set was purchased at $800. An unsigned print of grouse made

$470.

Prices quoted do not reflect the ten percent buyer's premium charged.