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JACOB DANNER CLOCK AT FARMER AUCTION

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RADFORD, VA. -- The farmer Auction Center was the site of a November 14 sale

held by Ken Farmer, following a November 13 preview. Five hundred seventeen

lots were offered to a crow holding 217 bidding numbers, bringing the gross to

$225,000.

Absentee and phone bidders completed with those on the floor, with particular

interest from an English art collector and an Irish furniture dealer on the

phones. Property from the Tuckwiller heirs of Lewisburg, W. Va.; the estate of

attorney Jim Reed of Roanoke, Va.; the estate of Emily Bottimore Frampton of

Tazewell, Va.; and the collection of Alma Whitaker of Newport News, Va.,

crossed the block.

Bringing the starring bid of $11,200 was a signed Jacob Danner tall case

clock. The Winchester, Va., lot had the distinctive mark of the Valley of

Virginia maker, and was purchased in the 1920s in that area by the same family

who consigned it.

A second tall case clock was a new England example, probably from Roxbury,

Mass., circa 1810, in the Federal style. The lot had brass inlay in the stop

fluting on its columns and on its original face paint, and appeared to be in

the manner of Simon Willard. The winning bidder purchased it at $8,960.

A Wooten standard grade patent desk fetched $7,280. The walnut piece had

satinwood accents, and was originally described in 1876 as "compact, neat, and

useful." A Virginia-Maryland coastal area Pembroke table, clean and untouched,

of figured South American mahogany with poplar secondary wood, reached $4,480,

purchased by a Roanoke, VA., collector.

A 1790-1820 Hepplewhite style table with shaped top, oval corners, and good

stringing and inlay went out at $2,240; a Meeks chair in the "Stanton Hall"

pattern, pictured in Dubrow's American Furniture of the 19th Century on page

99, in rosewood, reached $3,360; a walnut watchmaker's desk, early Twentieth

Century, with treadle lathe, with original tools and parts of watches, sold at

$1,120; and a carved eagle of yellow pine, having a 49 inch wing span, with

traces of original gilt, garnered $3,920.

An oil on canvas by F.M. Bennett (1874-1953), "A Good Story," a scene of three

male figures in Eighteenth Century dress talking of their hunt in a garden

setting, was purchased by a Connecticut dealer at $4,450; an oil on canvas by

Vincent Clare, a late Nineteenth Century basket of flowers, went to a

Richmond, Va., collector at $6,160; and an oil on canvas by Vincent Clare, a

late Nineteenth Century basket of flowers, went to a Richmond, Va. collector

at $6,160; and an oil on canvas by Franklin DeHaven (American, 1856-1934),

"Trout Stream," together with his presentation mug from the Salmagundi Club

and a 1923 letter from the artist about this painting, achieved $4,480.

"Lady Farnam," by John Channing (1812-1864), and oil on canvas of a young girl

in full Scottish dress representing Scotland, sold at $3,920; and 17 case iron

doorstops ranged from $90 to $225. After the sale, a set of Limoges china made

after 1892, white with multi-colored sprigs of flowers, comprising 111 pieces,

fetched $3,000.

Prices quoted reflect a required twelve percent buyers premium, with the

exception of the gross figure.