Date: Fri 08-May-1998

Publication: Ant

Author: AMYD

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Remington Watercolor At Mid Atlantic

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By Rita Easton

WILMINGTON, DEL. -- Approximately 320 bidding numbers were used at a March 22

auction by Mid-Atlantic Auctions & Appraisals, Inc, at the Newark Senior

Center. Ned Stinson auctioneered the 550-lot event, which grossed over

$400,000.

The most noteworthy and historic items were consigned from a direct descendant

of Tench Tilighman of Tilighman Island in Chesapeake Bay, and property from

Historic Annapolis, a group of historic properties that includes the William

Paca House. Tilighman was an aide-de-camp to George Washington.

Bringing the highest bid was a Frederic Remington, "The Fulfillment of the

Last Prophecy," published in the February 22, 1890 issue of Harpers , page

137, to a dealer at $19,000. The watercolor depicted a frontier scene with

American Indians.

A Pennsylvania dealer won a Regency breakfront with desk drawers at $9,000,

and a second Pennsylvania dealer purchased a mahogany Federal Maryland

sideboard for $7,750. A Francis Atkins Regency bracket clock with a peaked top

realized $2,950; a Federal Pembroke table with book inlay with a single drawer

fetched $4,750; and a pair of Thomas Birch engravings of sea battles, the

large images having some foxing, sold to a dealer at $1,500.

An E. Darch Lewis oil on canvas, painted in 1886, reached $5,500 and a

portrait of a seated Mrs Sperry of Baltimore went to one of her descendants at

$4,750.

Two Heriz rugs were offered: a 10 by 12 foot example brought $3,400, while a

slightly larger one made $3,700. An eight foot long Welsh dresser with four

drawers brought $2,750, going to a Virginia buyer; an Eighteenth Century

corner cupboard, restored and newly painted a peach shade, with an arched top

opening revealing shaped shelves, over a single cupboard door, sold at $3,750;

and an I. Twiss of Montreal rosewood grain painted clock with broken arch, the

case by a Connecticut maker, went out at $2,750.

A group of five pieces of American Indian beadwork went to a Virginia dealer

on the phone at $650; a rosewood Regency what-not, with four shelves over a

single drawer, was snapped up at $1,800 by a Long Island dealer who will

return it to England; and an important cherry tallcase clock with broken arch

surmounted by three finials, having a 30-hour movement, made circa 1770 in the

Reading, Penn., area, fetched $6,250 from a private collector.

A Regency rosewood teapot with brass inlay achieved $3,200; a Dutch Eighteenth

Century oval tea table in satinwood with chinoiserie decoration, on tapering

Hepplewhite legs, realized $2,100; a Regency canterbury reached $1,700; and a

New England Sheraton chest of four drawers with bird's-eye maple veneer, the

deck top mounted with a mirror, made in Boston, circa 1815, achieved $3,750,

selling to a private Philadelphia buyer.

An American School oil on canvas, circa 1825, depicting a seated young lady

with mandolin, having some restoration, garnered $1,100; a group of guitars

and mandolins made in the 1920s and 30s ranged from $400 to $625, the highest

bid going to a National, metal-bodied four string guitar; an Art Nouveau open

armchair reached $1,500; a Tunbridge tea caddy went to a private New York

collector on the phone at $1,300; and an E. Howard rosewood regulator clock

reached $4,250.

Prices quoted do not reflect a required ten percent premium.