Maine Antique Digest

C1730 New England maple tavern table, 26" x 30¼" x 23" with older, possibly original, reddish-brown walnut stain under later blue-gray paint, apron with canted sides matching the splayed legs, and single drawer. It sold for $32,750 at Eldred's maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques

Boston Chippendale blockfront mahogany desk & bookcase attributed to Benjamin Frothingham (1734-1809) of Charlestown, MA, 1760-70, ex-Ralph Carpenter Jr., 96¼" x 42" x 22¼", sold for $47,500 (e $20,000/30,000) at @BrunkAuctions maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #furniture

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Plated amberina art glass water pitcher by New England Glass Works, 7¼" x 7" x 6¼", 2.3 lbs., ex-Douglas Millhoff collection, sold for $5750 (est. $3000/5000) at Woody Auction #antiques #antique #artglass #art #Americana #glass #Amberina #glass maineantiquedigest.com/stori…

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Coined the Patriot Jar, c1861, with likely New Jersey origin, the 9¾" T stoneware jar, decorated with a man carrying an American flag, sold to a folk-art collector for $312,000 (e $50,000/75,000) at @CrockerFarm maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #antique #stoneware #folkart #USA

At the Bath Show: This wooden Great Seal of the United States, surrounded by stars, c 1920, probably came from a government building, according to Jewett-Berdan Antiques, Newcastle, Maine. It was $4500 maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #antique #vintage #USA #Americana #America

At the Bath Show: Ross Levett offered a rare Dutch implement with engraved scenes of a bird & a bird in a cage. He said the 18th-C tool was used to raise & lower bird cages. He asked $2500. The 17th-C clamp, once gilded, was $1600 maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #antique #Dutch

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Federal mahogany & maple worktable attributed to the shop of John & Thomas Seymour with paint decoration attributed to John Ritto Penniman (1782-1841) of Boston. The 29¾" x 20" x 15¾" table sold for $400,000 at @BrunkAuctions maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #furniture #Seymour

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New Hampshire mahogany dressing table, 33¼" x 35 1/8" x 17¾", with a crazed, dark early surface, attributed to Portsmouth, 1800-10. The table with serpentine top & extremely thin reeded legs sold for $15,000 (e $5000/7000) at @BrunkAuctions maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #art

Lift-top blanket chest, believed to have originated in Rhode Island, was dated circa 1830 & the catalog termed the paint as “polychrome putty-roll painted decoration.” It realized $8400 at William Smith Auctions maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #folkart #furniture #antique

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5" x 3½" watercolor by the "Puffy Sleeve Artist" (believed to be Ezra Wood, active 1830-31) sold for $2400 (e $800/1200) at William Smith Auctions. She holds paper stating the sitter was 24 years old, & the year was 1832 maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #antique #folkart #art

At the Downeast Art & Antiques Show: A silk memorial celebrating the families of Rebekah and David Ross was tagged $3850 by Malcolm Magruder of Millwood, Virginia maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #antique #vintage #art #folkart #Americana #memorial #Ross #show #Maine

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At the Downeast Art & Antiques Show: Christopher Cawley of Stockton, NJ, offered this 19th-C English campaign daybed by Alfred Carter of London, for $4800. He noted that it is signed & very rare maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #antique #furniture #campaign #English #Maine #show

At the Camden-Rockport Antiques Show: Bethany Kelly (right) and Jennifer Scott of BDK Antiques, Limington, Maine, showed a lovely lady in solid bronze, seated beneath a tree for $1250. The sculptor is unknown maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #antique #art #artist #sculpture