Date: Fri 29-Jan-1999

Publication: Ant

Author: DONNAM

Quick Words:

Sanders-Mock-Easton

Full Text:

New Year's Roundup: Early Holiday At Sanders & Mock

(with 3 cuts)

By Rita Easton

CHOCORUA, N.H. -- Preceding New Year's day by three days, and two previews,

Sanders & Mock Associates held their 17th annual New Year's Auction on

December 29. Five hundred thirty three lots of period furnishings, fine

paintings and prints, country store items and advertising, Orientalia, rugs,

silver and china were among the offerings, which were gathered from three New

Hampshire estates and two early 1900s country stores. The holiday crowd held

280 bidding numbers.

Fetching the highest bid of the day, a diamond and sapphire ring reached

$8,000. The center stone, a sapphire, weighed 6.5 carats and was flanked by

diamonds of indeterminate weight.

An unsigned New England tall case clock surmounted by three finials, having an

English-made Wilson iron plate movement, sold at $7,000; a Sheraton sewing

table having three drawers reached $1,550; a two-drawer cookie corner Sheraton

sewing table in mahogany brought $2,500; and a carte-de-visite Civil War album

of 30 soldiers achieved $2,050 for the "surprise of the day" according to

auctioneer Jack Boyce.

Country store items included are rare 13« by 18 inch baseball sign, "Official

American League Ball," with bracket, circa 1909, selling at $3,900. A ceramic

barrel with spigot dispenser and "Stearns Root Beer" imprinted went out at

$400; a 24-inch square sign advertising "Garland Stoves and Ranges...The

World's Best" was purchased at $700; a wooden sign advertising "Meat

Market...Eldredge `B' Sewing Machine...General Merchandise Store...Harry W.

Gilchrist Insurance...We Sell Andes Stoves-Ranges" sold at $600; and gas

station signs ranged from $100 to $400.

A late Nineteenth Century bicycle built for two, an Eldredge tandem in need of

restoration, was purchased at $300; a push sleigh for a child, decorated with

knitted tassels, garnered $550; a Flow Blue service for 12, Christmas Ridgways

"Josephine" floral pattern, each setting comprising a cup and saucer, soup,

lunch, and dinner plate, was snapped up at $900; a tureen in the same pattern

sold at $400; a matching platter reached $250; two covered vegetables were

purchased at $225 each; and a "Josephine" gravy boat reached $220. Four

different buyers went home with the divided service.

An oil on canvas, "The Fence Row," by Indiana artist C. Curry Bohm, depicting

a country scene, fetched $2,500; an oil on canvas by Edmund Darch Lewis

painted in 1877, a scene of mountains and water, sold at $2,000; and an oil on

canvas by C. Kuwasseg, of country houses with steepled roofs on the shores of

a river, brought $3,800.

Two restored Bain/Audubon prints, from a series done in the 1850s, went out at

$250 each; a five piece sterling silver tea service by International,

hand-hammered, reached $2,100; and a small silk Tabriz scatter rug, in dry

condition, realized $1,600. Other antique area scatter rugs ranged from $250

to $1,000.

Prices quoted do not reflect a required ten percent buyers premium.