Fairfield Auction presents an
EXCEPTIONAL ESTATES AUCTION
Sunday, January 13th at 11am
in our gallery
53 Church Hill Road, Newtown, Connecticut
1/2 mile off exit 10, I-84, 10 minutes East of Danbury
preview: Friday and Saturday prior, 11am-4pm each day, 9-11am auction day
most items can be previewed during the sale
EXCEPTIONAL ESTATES AUCTION
Sunday, January 13th at 11am
in our gallery
53 Church Hill Road, Newtown, Connecticut
1/2 mile off exit 10, I-84, 10 minutes East of Danbury
preview: Friday and Saturday prior, 11am-4pm each day, 9-11am auction day
most items can be previewed during the sale
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absentee bid form pdf format
CT resale certificate pdf format
We are now taking consignments for our March Estates Auction
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Leather Fireman's Helmet
surmounted by brass eagle's head
stamped "Wilson/Maker/135 Bowery N.Y."
SOLD $325
Sarouk Carpet
4'2" x 6'2"
circa 1900
SOLD $1200
Lavar Kerman Carpet
7'7" x 10'6"
late 19th century
SOLD $1600
Caucasian Carpet
3'11" x 6'4"
circa 1900
SOLD $750
Palace Size Tabriz Carpet
13' x 15'
late 19th century
SOLD $12,000
Georg Jensen Sterling Jewelry
bracelet and pin
both with original boxes
SOLD $650
Estate Jewelry
various gold and diamond rings as well as an unusual Zuess cameo ring
SOLD $250-625
Tiffany Studios "Venetian" Pattern Desk Set
consisting of calendar, paper clip, blotter and table clock
SOLD $4000
French Art Nouveau Bronze Vase
inscribed "Ant(on) Nelson" at base
16" high
circa 1900
SOLD $175
Jean Veber Poster
Ville de Caen
37 1/2" x 43 3/8"
early 20th century
SOLD $150
Jean Veber Poster
Gottfried Galston
44 1/4"x55"
early 20th century
SOLD $200
Charles Gesmar Poster
Elvire Popesco
63"x47 3/4"
circa 1925
SOLD $1400
Louis Icart Aquatint
17 1/4" x 13" plate
"Baby Doll"
Les Graveurs Modernes, Paris,1924
pencil signed lower right
SOLD $750
Pair of German Cast Art Deco Lamps
each depicting a harlequinn
14" high
circa 1925
SOLD $550
Cunard Ocean Liner Sign
Mauretania
litho on paper with wood frame
30"x48" overall
SOLD $500
Sigi Pineda Sterling Jewelry Suite
Taxco, Mexico
mid-20th century
SOLD $1000
Pairpoint Boudoir Lamp
with reverse painted shade
shade signed, 7" diameter
early 20th century
SOLD $625
Pittsburgh Table Lamp
with obverse painted shade
14" diameter
early 20th century
SOLD $600
Early Chinese Rug
4'6"x7'
probably 19th century
SOLD $800
Persian Carpet
5'1"x7'10"
circa 1900
SOLD $900
Turkish Prayer Rug
4'8"x6'10"
circa 1900
SOLD $900
Roomsize Sarouk Carpet
8'x10'
circa 1920
SOLD $2500
Harrision Fisher
13"x9" oval watercolor
with arabesque
SOLD $475
Donald Purdy
20"x24" oil on board
nymphs at a pond
SOLD $550
Carl Weber
10 1/2"x 16 1/2" watercolor
signed lr
SOLD $500
Hudson River School
22"x36" oil on canvas
unsigned
SOLD $2,400
Frederick John Mulhaupt
10"x8" oil on board
fishing boats at Gloucester
signed lower right
condition: untouched, dirty with a few small flakes scattered across bottom
SOLD $18,000
Elliott Candee Clark
11"x16" pastel
Coastal Scene
SOLD $325
Henry Pember Smith
14"x20" oil on canvas
partial artist's label verso,
"355/ The Old Home..."
in good period frame
SOLD $3000
Reuben Nakian
abstract bronze female figure
13" high
signed on back
stamped RBW (Roman Bronze Works)
SOLD $2600
Remington Schuyler
25"x25" oil on canvas
Western Illustration
signed lower right
SOLD $1500
Chauncey Foster Ryder
11 1/2"x16" oil on board
Winter Landscape with Cottage
signed lower right
SOLD $2800
George Renouard
(pair) 16"x20" o/c and 18"x22" o/c
one signed lower right "Renouard"
SOLD $3000
William Meade Prince
18"x22" oil on canvas (off the stretcher)
illustration of father and son
signed and dated l908 lower right
SOLD $700
Eric Sloane
14"x24" oil on masonite
titled verso, "December Moon"
signed lower left
SOLD $7000
Johann Berthelsen
8 1/2"x5 1/2" oil on board
New York Winter Street Scene
signed lower left,
"Berthelsen/ 1917"
SOLD $4000
A.V. Bodwell
(three), two measuring 12"x14" o/b
and one 11"x14" o/b
two signed
SOLD $900
Isamu Noguchi
sanguine drawing of a reclining nude
10 1/4" x 16 3/4" sight
signed "Isamu" lower right in pencil
circa 1930
for further information about Noguchi's drawings from this period see
Isamu Noguchi:
Early Drawings from Paris and Beijing (The Noguchi Museum)
SOLD $14,000
View of reverse of mat. Sheet is taped down just beyond mat opening.
Benjamin Eggleston
12"x14" oil on board
Interior Scene
signed with estate stamp verso
SOLD $1000
Anna Hyatt Huntington
bronze clad plaster
6 1/2" high
SOLD $1300
American School
29"x26" oil on board
unframed
SOLD $475
Dutch Old Master Style
47"x38" oil on canvas
tavern scene
19th century
SOLD $900
Richard Newton
25"x37" oil on canvas
haying the fields
SOLD $550
A. G. Nunez
(pair) 10"x14" and 10"x16" pastel
village scenes
one dated 1919
SOLD $250
Ernst Nowak
19"x15" oil on canvas
A Glass of Wine
SOLD $1000
Ernst Nowak
19"x15" oil on canvas
Reading a Book
SOLD $1100
S. Cederberg
20"x27" oil on canvas
Portrait of a Collie
SOLD $500
Paul Cesar Helleu
28"x20" colored chalk drawing heightened with white
signed lower right
Paul César Helleu (1859-1927) best known for his portraits of many of the most famous and beautiful women of his time including the Duchess of Marlborough, the Countess of Greffulhe and Belle da Costa Greene. He started as a ceramist, but at the age of 17, despite the disapproval of his widowed mother, he came to Paris to study with Gérôme and at the École des Beaux-Arts. He was the creator of the astrological ceiling decoration in New York City's Grand Central Station, completed in 1912.
SOLD $13,000
John Augustas Thelwall
6 1/2" x 9" oil on panel
still life with grapes and a peach
signed lower right
SOLD $800
Russian School
22"x26" oil on canvas
Harbor Scene
signed lower right and verso in cyrillic
SOLD $550
Russian School
16"x8" oil on board
Modernist Figure of Male
signed and dated verso in cyrillic
SOLD $550
Mirko Basadella (1910-1983)
(3) colored chalk drawings
each about 7"x9"
one titled "fish" verso
SOLD $450
Mirko Basadella (1910-1983)
(3) colored chalk drawings
each about 7"x9"
one titled "leopard" verso
SOLD $550
John Morton (signer Declaration of Independence) Document
17 pages, dated April 1776
signed on last page
SOLD $600
John Morton (signer Declaration of Independence) Document
one page, dated 1767
signed at bottom
SOLD $300
Rosewood Stick Barometer
signed Lewis C. Tower & Co.
37 1/2" long
SOLD $650
Pair of Shaker Maple Tilter Side Chairs
40 1/2" high
in old surface
SOLD $850
Seth Thomas #2 Cherry Regulator
36" long
original condition
SOLD $1600
Chippendale Maple Tall Chest
on high bracket base
with original brasses
18th century
SOLD $3000
Folk Art Carved Marble Figure of a Dog
16" long, 8" high
19th century
SOLD $2750
Hepplewhite Inlaid Card Table
36" wide, 28" high, 17 1/2" deep
early 19th century
SOLD $700
Federal Tilt Top Candlestand
with octagonal top
early 19th century
SOLD $450
Paint Decorated Child's Express Wagon
in original robin's egg blue paint with yellow lettering and line work, the axles yellow with red line work
53" long, 26" wide, 33" high
circa 1880
note: the left front wheel badly damaged but all there. back board lacking.
SOLD $750
Queen Anne Mahogany Drop Leaf Table
46" long, 28" high, 50" wide (opened)
18th century
SOLD $850
Set of 8 Chippendale Style Dining Chairs
38" high, 20" wide, 16" deep
circa 1900
SOLD $1800
19th Century Painted Barber Pole
8'5" high
last half 19th century
SOLD $1100
Federal Cherry Corner Cupboard
in two parts
79" high, 45" wide
early 19th century
SOLD $4250
Centennial Mahogany Highboy with inlay
second drawer of topcase stenciled,
"From Buckley, Bancroft & Boyden's/ Extensive Furniture/ Warerooms/ Boston."
37" wide, 83" high, 19" deep
late 19th century
SOLD $1500
Norman Rockwell Lithograph
"A Time For Greatness"/ Kennedy
25"x20", pencil signed lr
SOLD $1100
John F. Kennedy Signed 1959 Christmas Card
signed "Jack Kennedy"
5 1/2"x4 1/4"
SOLD $475
John F. Kennedy Signed 1958 Christmas Card
signed "Warmest Regards / Jack"
5 1/2"x4 1/4"
SOLD $250
Harry Truman/Dwight Eisenhower Autographs
signed photo and ALS
SOLD $325
Victorian Oak Lockside Chest
with metal inlay in a heart motif
and lion pulls
circa 1900
SOLD $500
Massive Arts & Crafts Oak Rocker
attributed to Stickley Brothers
34 1/2" wide, 33" high, 29" deep
original finish
circa 1910
SOLD $425
Large Arts & Crafts Oak Rocker
attributed to Charles Stickley
33" wide, 36" high, 28" deep
with through tenons and original finish
circa 1910
Baird Advertising Clock
30 1/2" high
circa 1900
SOLD $950
Howard #4 Regulator
32" long
signed on face and movement
with original rosewood grained case
SOLD $2300
French 30 Day Skeleton Clock
with pinwheel escapement
14 1/2" high
pictured in Collard's book on skeleton clocks
SOLD $2600
Pair of Chinese Painted Scrolls
signed Ma Lutai (1746-1829)
depicting fruit trees
each marked lower left and right
each 70"x18" ink and color on paper
lined on silk
SOLD $1200
French Provincial Oak Armoire
19th century
SOLD $500
The Art Collection of James H. Stebbins
New York, 1889
#470/500
with signed etchings by T.Moran, S. Parrish and H. Hamilton
SOLD $475
A Farewell To Arms
Ernest Hemingway
published by Scribners, 1929
first printing/first edition
(without legal disclaimer)
Joseph Pennell Etching
13 3/4"x9 5/8"
pencil signed lr
SOLD $300
Adolf Dehn Lithograph
Monsoon, India
14"x19"
pencil signed
SOLD $50
Robert Gwathmey
Topping Tobacco, 1947
13 1/4"x 8 3/4" screenprint
signed in ink lower left
SOLD $2300
Lucien Clergue
9 1/2"x 12" photograph
Portrait of Pablo Picasso
with artist's stamp verso
unframed
SOLD $200
Science Fiction Original Illustrations (24)
Gray Morrow (20) and Virgil Finlay (4)
SOLD $4000
Science Fiction Original Illustrations (12)
various Science Fiction/Fantasy including works by Emschwiller, Wood, Adkins, Marchetti and Nodel
SOLD $3,000
Science Fiction Original Illustrations (46 pieces)
various Science Fiction/Fantasy
SOLD $5,500
Tiffany "English King" Sterling Flatware Set
53 pieces, monogrammed
SOLD $3,500
English Silverplated and Crystal Centerpiece
13" high, bowls 10", 4 1/2"
early 20th century
SOLD $850
English Silverplated , Oak and Cut Glass Tantalus
13" high
early 20th century
SOLD $275
Tiffany 4 Piece Sterling Tea Set
monogrammed
circa 1930
SOLD $1,600
Edwardian Inlaid Satinwood Display Cabinet
60" high, 44" wide, 15" deep
circa 1890
SOLD $2600
Meissen Figure of a Bird
16 3/4" high
chips to beak
SOLD $225
French Bronze Lion and Onyx Standish
with bronze banding
one ink pot lid detached at hinge
late 19th century
SOLD $400
Italian Micro-Mosiac Crucifix
17" high
with presentation on base
SOLD $650
Pair of Meissen Figural Porcelain Lamps
16 1/2" high (figures only)
early 20th century
SOLD $600
Compact English Drop Leaf Table
with ball and claw feet
37" long, 28" high, 44" wide (open)
late 18th century
Staffordshire Partial Dinner Service
"Windsor Wreath" pattern
36 pieces including twelve 10" dinner plates, 22" platter, 20" platter
circa 1870
SOLD $950
Regency Marble Top Pier Table
circa 1820
SOLD $3250
Pair of Continental Silver Candlesticks
15" high
19th century
SOLD $375
Impressive Italian Inlaid Bed
with inlaid panels on headboard, footboard and side rails, heavily carved crests with bacchus faces and deeply carved aprons
overall 68" high, 43" wide, 78" long
circa 1880
Pair of English Embroidered Portraits
8 1/2"x6 1/2"
mid 19th century
SOLD $2200
Group of 4 Fifteenth Century Manuscript Pages
the largest 26"x18"
SOLD $350
after Diego Velazquez
27"x21" oil on canvas
19th century
SOLD $350
Yorkshire Oak Tall Clock
signed Samuel Lawson/ Keighley.
18th century
Napoleon III Bronze Mounted Stand
44" high
circa 1860
SOLD $375
John Poole Ship's Chronometer
#2710
marked, "John Poole, maker to the admiralty/ 57 Fenchchurch St. London/ 2710"
8 1/2"x 8 1/2" x 5"
note: lacking lid
SOLD $4750
Map- Guilaume Delise
Carte du Canada
19"x22 1/2"
published by Covens & Mortier
Amsterdam, circa 1730
SOLD $400
Map- Pierre Mortier
Le Canada ou Partie de la Nouvea France
22"x30"
Amsterdam, circa 1690
SOLD $750
