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The Cobbs Auctioneers
Important Antique and Fine Art Auction
Saturday July 3rd 2004 at 10am in Historic Noone Falls Mill

 

    

Important Antique Furniture (American and Continental) ~ Fine Art ~ Chinese Export ~ Oriental Rugs ~ Pewter ~ Sterling and Coin Silver ~ Ceramics ~ Antique Accessories

 

 

 

We have the pleasure of bringing to you the lifelong glass collection of the late John Jadwin and the antique furnishings from his house; a Currier & Ives collection; the Rockingham collection of Elsie Lafauci; partial estate lots from New Ipswich, Peterborough, Dublin, Nashua, a Conn & NY collection and other consignors to make this auction one of our best sales to date.   The glass, Rockingham and Currier & Ives prints will be sold in Fridays session.  Directions: from the traffic lights in Peterborough at the intersection of routes 202 and 101 proceed West on 202 for one mile to the old mill complex on the left. Signs will be posted.

Saturday July 3rd-10AM

Antique Furniture: Maple 6 drawer tall chest on a QA bandy leg frame in the old red stain; Cherry Chipp 4 drawer chest w/shaped inlaid top, fan inlaid drawer fronts & OG feet plus another similar chest in curly maple; Mah Chipp s/f desk w/OG feet; Dunlap school inlaid cherry bow front Sheraton card table; NH Hepp Cherry inlaid paneled bow front 4 drawer chest; cherry tall case clock w/broken arch lattice work crest; Boston Mah marble top pier table w/carved ball feet; NY mah Sheraton server w/mid shelf & brass ball feet, 1 drawer d/l stand w/reeded legs, mah Empire bookcase on frame & Sher mah wash stand w/fold open top; 4 drawer Chipp chest in old red paint; cherry corner cupboard w/12 pane door; pine open top pewter cupboard; sm NH 18thC saw buck table, maple corner chair, Sheraton press bed & round tip tea table all in the old red wash; rect hutch table in old green paint; tiger maple Sheraton s/f desk, 2 drawer server & step back dressing table; tiger/birdseye maple Empire settee, sabre legs & old color; numerous 1 & 2 drawer and tripod base stands; bow back windsor arm chair; (2)sets country chairs also a Baldwin baby grand piano.

English & Continental Furniture: Walnut QA balloon seat chair; Sm mah QA round d/l table; Chipp mah card table & 2 door armoire; sm Hepp mah bow front chest of drawers; walnut QA mirror-71" tall; Urns of flowers & marquetry inlaid Hepp card table; pr of mah Hepp side chairs w/foliate splats; Scandinavian pinwheel pt dec 2 door wardrobe; pr Italian walnut QA side chairs & oval Venetian multiple glass mirror; Regency mah d/l breakfast table; (2) Gilded French mirrors & elephant leg planter w/enamel dec inset plaques, Regency rosewood 2 tiered lazy susan & candle stand w/Pieta Dura stone top; Sheraton mah canterbury & inlaid Empire piano stool.

Custom Furniture: Mah Hepp style 3 section inlaid banquet table; mah Georgian style breakfront w/broken arch crest & piecrust & tip top tea table; pr Hepp style vitrine cabinets on stands and Hepp style 8 leg sofa.

Fine Art: American - Imp O/C interior w/school children-Constant Mayer; Pastel still life flowers- Laura Coombs Hills; O/C young girl (Edith Grew)- Lilla Cabot Perry; O/C Mt Washington- S P Hodgson; O/C Mt Monadnock- William Preston Phelps; (2) African American homestead & cotton Workers -William Aiken Walker: (2) O/C "Winter View W Lebanon, Me" & "Old Barn Scituate, Mass"-F H Shapleigh; O/C portrait woman- Walter Gilman Page; O/C Wilton Center, NH-Roy Brown; O/C "Sunset Pres range"-William Louis Sonntag; O/P " Double Flush" Lougheed (RE); O/C Nashua home-Edward Hill; O/C "Norway"(Me) Walter Griffin; O/C still life-Emily HM Selinger; W/C sailing ships- Marshall Johnson; W/C French city-John Whorf; O/C "Abandoned Mill"- Bert Poole; Illus O/C Farm couple-R J Cavaliere; Illus O/C Parry home/couple-Barton Matteson: W/C Mt Monadnock- Henry W Rice; O/B ape-GFH(Higgens); (2) O/B "On the Porch" & fishing boats attri Rachael V Hartley;(2) Woodblocks "The White Roses & Coast Cedars-2" M J Patterson; pen & Ink "Rabbit Shooting" AB Frost; pr O/C primitive portraits; Bisque bust woman Paul Duboy; Classical drawing, O/C portrait & nude- Henry Few Smith; O/C Joseph R Barr; O/C Elk-W Webber; pr O/B hanging game-FA Forster; plaster Darius Cobb & Nellie M Pairpont; Prints: Lg Broadside- 1876 play "Over the Garden Wall"-(Peterborough hist) & "Fireman's Grand Ball" New Ipswich, NH 1889, Birdseye view Keene, NH 1877; Etchings; Cornelius P Bega; Bronzes: Caribou-Hanns Bastanier; Native Amer/horse-Bud Boller; Mt Goat-J T Jackson; book ends "Ole King Cole"; Miniature portraits on ivory: Sacro Fratelli by Gustaivs Tuckerman, Eng pair plus others;

Continental Art: O/C Venetian canal (Felix F G P) Ziem, 1902; O/P landscape- Daubigny (CF); O/C- N. J. Roosenboom; (2) still life panels- Helene Perdriate; O/C islands scene-W Tornoe; enamel on copper festival-Kutel; O/C 17thC soldiewrs gambling- T Levigne; O/C polish cavalry-Zygmuntowiski (Czeslaw Wasilewski); O/c fisherman-BA Lattimore; pastel horses- J S Warwick: pastel woman portrait-Jean G Ferry; a very good selection of old gilded frames; art books plus more.

Oriental rugs: roomsize-Imp lg antique Serapi w/bold central medallion; lg overall design semi ant Sarouk; 2 room size Meshed & 1 Kashan all w/central medallions; plus others.

Accessories: 2 Important books: 1st ed The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler & 1st ed Red Harvest by Dashill Hammett both w/dust jackets; Chinese & Japanese export: lg silver dec box, blue star border platter w/drainer (James Sheafe, Portsmouth hist) lg Imari baluster urn w/ruffled edge top, fine Satsuma vase, 2 lg Mandarin covered water bottles, lg vase, punch bowl, numerous platters etc, Canton, lg green Fitzhugh vase, carved ivories & miniature tea set; miniature delft garniture 5 pc set; Eng 'Havana" cigar cov box w/lg Uncle Sam finial figure; 2 Pratt ware face cups; Mason's Ind Tree plus other soft paste, Eng Imari pat w & tree platter & lg cov jar; pr hanging glass shades by Lalique; Paris Porcelain vases; Georgian apple form tea caddy-old color & Mah inlaid paint box w/WJ Reeves label; Terry & Andrew double steeple, Boardman & Wells carved Empire & Eng gallery clocks; WI double spit hook andirons; Kaleidoscope; watch hutch; whale bone & other canes; EC Spooner Barometer; silver & gilt bronze taza w/class dec; Sterling: oval flower dish-Gorham,(2) 800 German & coin 4 pc coffee & tea sets, W Bateman 6 egg cups, Georgian condiment holder; Silver P: 3 part 52" plateau, candelabra & cased punchbowl; 4 good hooked rugs; French needlework vest; lg red ware splotch dec crock; dec stoneware; 2 samplers: lg Eng w/castle dec & Halifax, Me w/house dec; numerous E brass & silver candlesticks; wooden bowls & treen in old pt; carriage lanterns; rustic twig over mantle & room moldings from Me; Pewter: QA teapot, Richardson tea pot plus others, tankard, funnel, candlesticks, porringers, fluid lamps, deep basin, syrup, hot water dish and more. Garden: Imp local E19thC stone watering trough/planter; pr French CI urns; pt dec wicker table and oval mirror; lot wooden trellis pcs.

 

   

Previews: Thursday July 1st 10am to 7pm, Friday July 2nd 10am to Noon and 4pm to 7pm, Saturday July 3rd  8am to 10am or by appointment. Buyers premium 18% discounted to 15% for cash or good check

 

 

 


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