The Cobbs Auctioneers
Important Antique, Fine Art Auction and
Sporting Auction
Monday October 13th
2008
First Session Begins at 10AM
Second Session (Sporting) begins at 2:30PM
At Historic Noone Falls Mill, Peterborough NH
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11. Howard And Davis Banjo
Clock, rosewood grain painted mahogany case with painted iron dial,
signed, “Howard And Davis, Boston,” 50” tall, some dial repaint,
possible restoration to the lower glass tablet. Appears to be
working & complete. Provenance: A Concord, NH estate clock
collection.
Estimate $10,000-15,000 |
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12. New Haven Calendar 30 Day
Wall Clock, carved oak case with old finish, 48 ½” tall, “New Haven,
USA trade mark,” located in a circle at the top of the calendar
dial. Provenance: A Wilton, NH estate.
Estimate $1,000-1,500 |
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13. German Brass Shelf Clock,
urn finial over a molded pierced case with figural & floral
decoration set on front scrolled feet, 18 ¼” tall, time & strike
movement appears to work, round signature mark on back of works,
“Gustav Becker.” Provenance: A Wilton, NH estate.
Estimate $300-500
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14. Sterling Silver Travel
Clock, engraved silver case marked, “Sterling Black Starr And
Frost,” 3” tall x 2½” wide, raised enamel dial marked “Black Starr
And Frost, New York,” 8 days, with seconds dial, working condition
with key. Provenance: A Florida collection.
Estimate $200-300
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16. Canton Deep Dish Platter On
Stand, 19 ¾” x 16 cut corner platter, 2 ¼” deep, set in a custom
made bamboo turned cross stretcher base, along with a 7 ¼” diameter
soup dish, both 19th century Chinese export. Provenance:
A Florida collection.
Estimate $400-700 |
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23. Three Part Folding Screen,
each section has 3 panels front & back, oil on canvas painted in
Chinese manner, wooden frame in red paint with gold decoration,
crackle, frame chips, 71” tall, 23 ½” wide each section, probably
19/20th century France. Provenance: A Florida
collection.
Estimate $1,600-2,000 |
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26. Blue Painted Blanket Crane,
carved back board with hinged arm, 50” long, 18/19th
century. Provenance: A New Hampshire collection.
Estimate $200-400 |
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26B. Red Grain Painted Hanging
Cupboard, remains of leather hinges, “T” head nails, 18” tall x 14”
wide, 18/19th century American. Provenance: A New
Hampshire collection.
Estimate $200-400 |
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26C. 4 pieces of tin lighting, a pair
of 13.5” high tin
candle sconces and 3 lanterns; one barrel shaped lantern
with intricate protective wire work over its mica panes
(electrified) measuring 12.75” inches high; A round 1 lantern that
measures 16.5” inches high candle lantern and a square 13.75” inches
high lantern with glass panels and a replaced handle. All lanterns
are 19th C. American/European.
Provenance: A Dublin NH . Collection.
Estimate $600-900 |
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47. Eagle Crest Oval Mirror, and
a brass French style candle lamp, mirror is 35¼” tall x 17½” wide,
both 20th century. Provenance: A New Hampshire
collection.
Estimate $100-200 |
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50. Pair Of Bronze & Tin Candle
Sconces, double arm patinated black, crystal drops around bobeche,
round oil painted floral decoration, framed by cast back, 13” w x 12
½” t, 19th century continental.
Provenance: Dublin, NH
collection.
Estimate $200-300
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52. Set Of Six Framed Floral Rug
Designs, matching gold newer frames, 17” x 21 ¼” overall size,
matted under glass, 19/20th century. Provenance: A
Cooperstown, NY painting collection.
Estimate $200-400 |
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68. Jacquard Coverlet, red green
& blue woven into a natural back ground, signed & dated twice in
bottom corners, “Philip Krebs 1847,” 98” x 88”, cotton & wool.
Exhibited 1988, “Hirschl & Adler Folk,” New York, “Warm & Wonderful,
The Jacquard Coverlet,” p. 33. Provenance: Hirschl & Adler
Galleries, NY.
Estimate $500-700
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98. Three Oriental Items, 2
pieces of celadon: ginger jar, covered, squat form, blue decoration
with people, 9” tall & a blue decorated vase, 23” tall & an inlaid
table top screen, 30” tall x 29” wide, with carved crest & base.
Provenance: A Florida collection.
Estimate $300-600 |
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99. Pair Of Ancestral Portraits,
vividly colored gouache on paper, 48” x 20 ¼”, including frame,
19/20th century Chinese. Provenance: A Florida
collection.
Estimate $200-400
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100. Lot Of
Three Chinese Export Items: A – Pith painting depicting 2 domestic
scenes of vendors, 5” x 6 ½”. B – Table top screen, marble panel
with painted figures & characters, 10” tall. C – Cloisonné bowl,
brass wire inset on black, 4” tall. All appear to be 19/20th
century. Provenance: A Hancock, NH estate.
Estimate $200-300 |
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101. Miniature Lotus Flower
Bowl, 2” tall & a tea box, paper decorated on all sides & top, 12” x
16 ½” x 11”, both 19th century Chinese. Provenance: A
Dublin, NH collection.
Estimate $100-200 |
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102. Chinese Miscellaneous Lot:
A – chased brass on leather purse with iron striker base used to
hold a flint, 2 ¾” wide. B- Two carved ivory scholar figures, 1 ¾”
tall. Provenance: A Florida collection.
Estimate $100-200 |
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118A. Green Painted Sea Chest,
hard pine, canted dovetailed sides, becket handles. The interior has
2 tills missing fronts, the lid is paint decorated with a maritime
scene of a central sailing ship flying an American flag, a light
house, a steam ship & a sailboat, 35½” wide, minor in-painting to
scene, flaking to canvas top cover, 19th century. Provenance: A
Southern NH collection.
Estimate $1,800-2,400 |
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124. Chippendale Mirror & Dove
Tailed Hanging Shelf: Mirror, old glass, applied gilded eagle at top
& cartouche at bottom, 29” tall. Shelf 19” tall including pierced
lollipop, (broken), contains leather bound Rollins History books.
Provenance: A Florida collection.
Estimate $200-400 |
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125. Federal Brass Fireplace
Fender, “D” shaped with a pierced top section set on 3 paw feet,
19th century American or English, 53” wide. Provenance: A Dublin, NH
collection.
Estimate $200-300
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125A. Pair Of Brass Andirons &
Fender, left & right ball top andirons, log stops & cabriole legs
ending in pad feet, 14½” tall. Fender pierced decorated. 37” wide,
19th century.
Provenance: Boston, MA collection.
Estimate $200-400
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127. Gilded Eagle, carved wood,
gessoed under gilding, 27”wide , 21” tall, 19th century,
probably Continental. Provenance: A Dublin, NH collection.
Estimate $2,000-3,000 |
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129. Needlework, silk of a child
in a red dress, full body, classical setting, 11 ½” x 9 ¼”, oval
sight, matted under glass, not examined out of the frame, cracks to
silk background, 19th century England. Provenance: A
Hopkinton, NH collection.
Estimate $300-500 |
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132. Chip Carved Checkerboard &
Brass Warming Pan, punch decorated bird on the cover, grain painted
handle, 18th century. Provenance: A New Hampshire
collection.
Estimate $200-300 |
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139. French Brass Transit,
circular dial with 2 folding sight arms, glass covered silvered dial
with “fleur de leis” designated as north & raised outer dial
calibrated, “0 to 90,” in quadrants, directional needle with locking
devise, 4½” diameter, probably French, 18/19th century,
no tripod stand. Provenance: A Dublin, NH collection.
Estimate $600-900 |
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140. Cut Crystal Gas Chandelier,
6 arms ending in cut bobeche topped with bulbous glass shades,
embellished with crystal drops & rope swags, originally gas now
electrified, 38” diameter & 31” tall, 19/20th century,
probably Irish, minor damage. Provenance: A Dublin, NH collection.
Estimate $7,000-10,000
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142. Thomas Eastland, London,
England, Tall Clock, pagoda bonnet top with a glazed arched door,
silvered dial signed, “Tho Eastland, London,” with brass spandrels,
silent & strike brass 8 day movement, oak grain painted pine case
with chinoiserie painted door panel and base front set on an applied
molded base, 7’ 10” tall. Provenance: A New Hampshire collection.
Estimate $1,500-2,500
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144. Wall Clock, painted iron
dial, moon phase brass works, date dial missing, set on a scrolled
back board & bonnet cover with glass front & side, reverse painted
oval pendulum cover, 47” tall plus brass finials, 19th century
Europe.
Provenance: A Dublin, NH collection.
Estimate $900-1,200 |
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144A. English Bible Box Dated 1725,
rectangular oak box with strap hinge lift top, decorated on the
front, BB 1725,” with iron dome top tacks, 26” x 15 ½” deep x 11”
tall. old worn varnish finish. Provenance: A New Hampshire
collection.
Estimate $600-900 |
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145. Les Oiseaux Dans
La Nature, E. Rambert & P. Robert, D.Lebet Editeur, Paris, volume of
Chromolithographs of birds, printed 19/20th century.
Provenance: A Dublin, NH
collection.
Estimate $800-1,200
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148. Sulky & Driver Horse
Weathervane, attributed to “Harris Manufacturers,” hollow copper
body, cast zinc driver, old green patina, 33” long, vane has old
repairs & splits, probably due to it falling at some point in time,
late 19th century. Provenance: A Southern Monadnock
Region, NH collection.
Estimate $3,000-5,000
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149.Carousel Horse, prancing
white horse with yellow, green, red & orange tack, old if not
original paint, attributed to “Denzel,” 53” nose to tail, early 20th
century. Provenance: An Amherst, NH collection, supposedly came from
Coney Island, NY.
Estimate $2,000-3000 |
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150A. Tiger Maple Stock
Percussion Rifle, signed on the plate, “J. Bishop Warranted,” old
refinished stock surface, 60 ½” long, 19th century American.
Provenance: A New Hampshire collection.
Estimate $1,000-1,500
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162A. Nantucket Wall Basket, a
rare form, oval top & bottom with single side handle, 8” tall to top
of handle by 8 ½” wide at top, 19/20th century, Nantucket
made. No visible repairs or losses. Provenance: A Massachusetts
collection.
Estimate $1,000-1,500 |
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163. Pair Of Cast Iron Garden
Rabbits, with folded hands, 12 ¾” tall, 19/20th century.
Provenance: A New Hampshire collection.
Estimate $200-400 |
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181. Civil War Folk Art Frame,
hand carved, old varnish finish, accompanied by a card, “Whittled
out with jack-knife while in Columbia prison, SC, 1862, Barrett,
presented by CH Heald,” 3 tiers, 2 with openings & one with 2
openings at the top. Provenance: A Southern NH collection.
Estimate $400-600
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181A. Pair Of Brass Queen Ann
Candlesticks, petal base with corresponding bobeche tops, push up
candle ejectors, (1 rod missing), 8½” tall, 18/19th
century English. Provenance: A Massachusetts collection.
Estimate $1,000-1,500
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181B. Set Of Four Federal Brass
Candlesticks, round bobeche candle sockets, fluted tapered shafts
set on a square base, 9½” tall, all with push up candle ejectors,
early 19th century English. Provenance: A Massachusetts collection.
Estimate $700-1,000 |
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190. Continental Mirror, gold
paint over gesso & carved wood, mirrored side panels, 45” tall,
chips, 20th century, Continental.
Provenance: A Boston,
MA collection.
Estimate $200-400 |
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193A. French Brass & Crystal
Chandelier, a brass curlicue form frame, 3 candle arms interspersed
with 3 crystal reflectors, crystal & pear shaped amethyst drops,
crystal drops ending in floral embellishments, 19th century French.
Provenance: A Florida collection.
Estimate $800-1,200
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197. Needlework Flocked Beaded
Picture, of a cockatoo & flowers on a beaded background, 17” x 20 ½”
sight, under glass, not examined out of the frame. Provenance: An
Amherst, NH collection.
Estimate $300-500
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207. Rag Rug Runner & Woolen
Blanket, hand woven, the runner in pastel shades, blanket in orange
& ivory, 19/20th century. Provenance: A Southern
collection.
Estimate $100-200
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236. Four Pieces of Pewter, a,
”Sellow & Co., Cincinnati, 8” tall & 4 indistinctly marked, 8 ¼”
plates, 19th century. Provenance: A Massachusetts collection.
Estimate $300-400 |
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238A. Strapped Liquor Keg, oak
staved keg with 12 fitted straps, initialed, “D” at one end, 18/19th
century American, old color. Provenance: A Massachusetts collection.
Estimate $200-300 |
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238B. Pair Of Owl Andirons with glass
eyes, foundry mark on inside reads, “R.S. & W. Co.”, 15” tall. |
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243. Three Miniature Boxes:
Carved amber with woman in silver inset in lid 3” long; a simple
pewter box with hinged back, 2 ¼” long & a 2 ½” diameter silver box
inset with mother of pearl & tortoise shell, 19th century Europe.
Provenance: A Florida collection.
Estimate $300-500 |
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244. Six Pieces Of Metal:
Sheffield candle snuffer & tray; a miniature silver guitar with
relief decoration; a gold filled watch fob mounted on mesh; “Cross”
silver traveling cups, and a silver plated woman’s head, 8 ¾” x 8
¼”, 19/20th century. Provenance: A Florida collection.
Estimate $200-300 |
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245. Brass Monteith Form
Planter, 12” long, raised decoration, liner, 19th century
Continental.
Estimate $100-200 |
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246. Two Flutes & Piccolo, a
silver plated marked ”Bonneville, Paris, #5334” flute, a Rosewood
flute & a piccolo (illegibly marked), 20th century. Provenance: A
New Hampshire collection.
Estimate $300-500 |
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253. Seth Thomas Rosewood Mantle
Clock, a tin face with painted Roman numerals, eglomise panel with
putti & shield, labeled on interior, 15½” tall, 19th century New
England. Provenance: An old Hancock, NH family.
Estimate $200-400 |
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254. Mahogany Tea Box, line
inlaid edges & key hole, opens to reveal 2 covered cubbies and a
replaced glass, 12” long, 19th century English. Provenance: A
Massachusetts collection.
Estimate $300-500 |
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255. Dovetailed Box, with ivory
fittings, 8½” long, 19th century. Provenance: A Florida collection.
Estimate $100-200 |
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256. Nantucket Style Covered
Basket, bone mounts, leather hinges, mahogany base & center of top,
rock form bone finial, branded on bottom with basket & back to back
“C’s,” 11½” diameter, 9” body height, 20th century. Provenance: A
Florida collection.
Estimate $200-400 |
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