CUTLINES FOR THE FIRST PART OF THE GENERAL SALE  SATURDAY – STORY COMING FROM BEACH – send all of the following cutlines IN BOTH 3 CUT AND 2 COL CUTLINES

 

One of the pieces of folk art from the collection of Pat Guthman was this New York two-sided carved and painted tavern sign with eagles and stars, inscribed “Public House by S.J. Scovills,” 49 by 20 inches. It sold for $14,000, plus premium.

 

Among the furniture from the Pat Guthman collection was this New England red stained pine and maple stretcher base table with drawer, 271/4 inches high with a top measuring 311/2 by 551/2 inches. The top is two boards, the feet are compressed ball feet, and the final bid was $14,000.

 

 

 

A bid of $40,000, plus the $4,000 premium, took this box that was formerly in the Little Collection. It is from Rhode Island, pine painted and decorated with scenic views of Newport, 7 inches high, and top measuring 81/4 by 171/4 inches. It includes a view of the Middleton house, streets and a few figures.

 

 

A phone bidder paid $37,000 for this Prior-Hamblin School folk portrait of a blue-eyed girl with ringlets and gray print dress, holding three floral springs. It is on cardboard, inscribed on the back in pencil “1841, Age 3 years in Sept.” It measures 14 by 10 inches.

 

This Maine Federal rosewood grained and gilt stenciled bedstead, the headboard with central bowl of fruit with rosettes, sold on the phone for $20,000, plus the $2,000 premium. The provenance lists dealers Marna Anderson, Marguerite Riordan and Wayne Pratt.

 

Among the many weathervanes in the sale was this large cod fish, probably Fiske, 34 inches long, with a presale estimate of $20/25,000. It sold for $22,000.

 

 

A hammer bid of $23,000 took this portrait of Daniel Clarke beside a drop-leaf table, signed lower right Jacob Frymire, dated May 179-, 281/4 by 231/2 inches. An exhibition label from the Corcoran Gallery is on the reverse.

 

It was not a good sale for lots with presale estimates and among the items passed was this carved limestone figure of a girl by William Edmondson. It was on the original wood base and was estimated at $100/150,000.

 

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A woman bidding in the room paid $50,000, plus premium, for this portrait of the Rev William Mason of Castine, Maine, circa 1800, oil on panel in the original pine frame. It measures 34 by 26 inches and was sold together with a leather fire bucket inscribed “W. Mason, 1822.” This painting carried a presale estimate of $30/50,000.

 

Ohio dealer David Good bought this folk portrait of a young girl in white dress with sash, holding a book, attributed to the Denison Limner, oil on canvas, 18 by 14 inches. The hammer price was $20,000.

 

A slave-made folk art carved and painted boat with a couple fishing, their gear and their catch, measures 51/2 inches wide and 111/2 inches long, boat painted yellow and inscribed “Lady of the Lake” on the back. An old label reads “made by slaves in Louisiana – given to Rachel Moore – she was a Quaker Preacher who campaigned to free slaves circa 1850/ or 1858.” It sold for $23,000, plus premium to an absentee bidder.

 

The last item in the Pat Guthman portion of the sale was this Prior-Hamblin School bust portrait of a young woman in lace bonnet with pink ribbons, 153/4 by 12 inches, oil on masonite, sitter identified on the reverse as Lydia Ann Phillips, sold for $18,000.