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1941 Ford V-8 Super Deluxe Five-passenger Coupe
Lot: 1Sold for: $20,400$17,0001941 Ford V-8 Super Deluxe Five-passenger Coupe, VIN #6617685, mileage odometer reads 81,020, titled, black exterior with two-tone black and gray interior, newer paint and interior, dual more ...
Three Scrimshaw Articles
Lot: 2Sold for: $150$125Three Scrimshaw Articles, 19th century, a round brass snuff box or container with a bone disk mounted on the cover with faintly engraved whaling scene, depicting a whale ship, whale, and whaleboat more ...
Burl and Brass Mechanical Dice Game Snuff Box
Lot: 3Sold for: $1,680$1,400Burl and Brass Mechanical Dice Game Snuff Box, 19th century, brass hinged lid opens with a latch, the interior with three rectangular openings on a steel disk revealing three bone or ivory dice more ...
Four Antique Brass Tobacco Boxes and a Brass and Steel Tobacco Cutter
Lot: 4Sold for: $660$550Four Antique Brass Tobacco Boxes and a Brass and Steel Tobacco Cutter, probably England and/or Continental, late 18th to early 19th century, a silver and brass pocket-watch-form tobacco box with more ...
Two Antique Brass and Steel Combination Padlocks, Brass Case, and Folding Fork
Lot: 5Sold for: $180$150Two Antique Brass and Steel Combination Padlocks, Brass Case, and Folding Fork, probably England, 19th century, brass padlock barrels with four rotating wheels with twelve letters per wheel, 1 7/8 x more ...
Pair of Classical Cast Brass Swan-form Curtain Tiebacks
Lot: 6Sold for: $900$750Pair of Classical Cast Brass Swan-form Curtain Tiebacks, early 19th century, ht. 5 1/8, lg. 10 1/4, dp. 4 in. more ...
Brass Tobacco "Honesty Box,"
Lot: 7Sold for: $330$275Brass Tobacco "Honesty Box," England, c. 1850, rectangular box with coin slot, twin compartments, button, and handle, on ball feet, (imperfections),ht. 7, wd. 4 3/8, lg. 9 1/8 in. Note: Used more ...
Wrought Iron and Brass Table-top or Hanging Lamp Stand
Lot: 8Sold for: $338$275Wrought Iron and Brass Table-top or Hanging Lamp Stand, 18th century, two-compartment brass dished lamp tray adjusts on a friction spring along a wrought iron rod topped with a hanging hook, on a more ...
Brass and Wood Chocolate Pot
Lot: 9Sold for: $360$300Brass and Wood Chocolate Pot, probably France, mid to late 18th century, hinged lid on baluster body with reeded band on the spout which also has a hinged lid, the vessel supported on three curved more ...
17th Century Cast Brass Hexagonal-base Candlestick
Lot: 10Sold for: $1,440$1,20017th Century Cast Brass Hexagonal-base Candlestick, probably northern Europe, heavy brass candlestick with baluster stem with engraved leaf border on swelled knop, hexagonal mid-drip pan with cast more ...
Near Pair of Brass and Glass Hourglasses
Lot: 11Sold for: $960$800Near Pair of Brass and Glass Hourglasses, England, with bulbed glass ampules containing red and tan sand, one joined at the center with twine and wax, the brass casing with chased scrolled foliage more ...
Brass Brazier
Lot: 12Sold for: $600$500Brass Brazier, possibly England, 18th century, round pan with pierced lift-up lid, two spurred swing handles, supported on three baluster feet, the cover with impressed maker's mark "IIS," ht. 4 more ...
Seven Brass Candlesticks
Lot: 13Sold for: $2,400$2,000Seven Brass Candlesticks, a 15th century Belgian/Netherlands two-light candelabra with large rectangular wax extracting holes on the candlecups, a late 17th century Spanish candlestick with more ...
Four Brass Items
Lot: 14Sold for: $300$250Four Brass Items, England and/or Continental, 19th century, an eight-point star-shaped trivet with engraved blossom at the center, a flat iron trivet with foliate handle, a peg rack with more ...
Oak and Glass Double Hourglass
Lot: 15Sold for: $1,200$1,000Oak and Glass Double Hourglass, probably England, 18th century, with two double-bulbed glass ampules containing white sand, the centers joined by twine and wax, mounted in an oak stand with five more ...
Five Small Hourglasses
Lot: 16Sold for: $600$500Five Small Hourglasses, America and Europe, 18th to 19th century, three with cases made of wood, one of which has shaped brass rods joining the two turned wood ends; one with a leather case; and one more ...
Two Early Bronze and Brass Hourglasses
Lot: 17Sold for: $3,240$2,700Two Early Bronze and Brass Hourglasses, a bronze-framed hourglass, probably France or Germany, c. 1780, with six thin rods joining hexagonal ends with molded edges and shaped and pierced collars, more ...
Four Small Boxes and Two "ONE CENT" Miniature Copper Teapots
Lot: 18UnsoldFour Small Boxes and Two "ONE CENT" Miniature Copper Teapots, an oval lapped-seam birch box with conforming cover, a shaped silver hinged covered box with bright-cut designs, a rectangular pewter more ...
George Washington Dressed Figural Memorial
Lot: 19Sold for: $780$650George Washington Dressed Figural Memorial, possibly Philadelphia, late 18th/early 19th century, the standing effigy depicted wearing a velvet tricorn hat, lambs wool wig with braid, blue wool more ...
Crewelwork Bedcover
Lot: 20Sold for: $960$800Crewelwork Bedcover, reportedly of Connecticut origin, 18th century, stitched with indigo blue yarns in a bold undulating leafy vine pattern, on a four-piece tan woven wool fabric foundation, signed more ...
Crewelwork Fragment with an Urn of Fruit and Flowers
Lot: 21Sold for: $570$475Crewelwork Fragment with an Urn of Fruit and Flowers, 18th century, wool yarns stitched onto a homespun linen foundation, backed with the same and quilted in a diamond pattern, (toning, old more ...
Gold Linsey-Woolsey Quilt
Lot: 22Sold for: $1,920$1,600Gold Linsey-Woolsey Quilt, America, late 18th/early 19th century, three-piece whole-cloth quilt with diamond quilting in the center bordered by undulating feather and palmate leaf designs, (minor more ...
Crewelwork Pillow
Lot: 23Sold for: $5,100$4,250Crewelwork Pillow, America or England, 18th century, rectangular pillow stitched with wool yarns on a linen foundation, depicting two stags amidst a field of strawberries, large blossoms, buds, and more ...
Canvaswork Pocketbook
Lot: 24Sold for: $8,400$7,000Canvaswork Pocketbook, Massachusetts, c. 1750, envelope-shaped folding double pocketbook with silver clasp engraved "Joseph Winslow," the wool yarns worked in the Irish stitch in a zigzag diamond more ...
Canvaswork Pocketbook
Lot: 25Sold for: $2,040$1,700Canvaswork Pocketbook, America, c. 1794, envelope-shaped pocketbook with flap closure worked in the Irish stitch in a zigzag pattern in shades of green, red, blue, black, yellow, and violet, with more ...
Wool Needlework Wallet
Lot: 26Sold for: $615$500Wool Needlework Wallet, probably New England, c. 1768, envelope-shaped pocketbook with two dividers, worked in the Irish stitch in a diamond pattern in shades of green, red, blue, and yellow, more ...
Miniature Needlework Adam and Eve Sampler
Lot: 27Sold for: $2,520$2,100Miniature Needlework Adam and Eve Sampler, "Dinah Johnston 1792," finely stitched silk threads on a linen gauze ground, depicting a pious verse over central Adam and Eve figures beside a tree with more ...
Needlework Band Sampler
Lot: 28Sold for: $1,200$1,000Needlework Band Sampler, "Mary Ann Chapman Green Aged 8 years & 3 Mo./February th 22 1809," wrought with silk threads and wool yarns on a linen ground, stitched with rows of alphabets, bands more ...
Needlework Sampler
Lot: 29UnsoldNeedlework Sampler, "Dorcas Bradley 1812," Delaware, stitched with silk threads on a linen ground, with a defined central panel with three rows of alphabets over a pious verse, the maker's name and more ...
Silk Needlework Picture of an Urn of Flowers
Lot: 30Sold for: $330$275Silk Needlework Picture of an Urn of Flowers, America, late 18th/early 19th century, stitched with silk and chenille threads on an ivory-colored moire silk ground, (minor toning and light stains),more ...