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Featured Past Auctions:

Single Owner Stickpin Collection and Jewlery Auction
December 12, 2011

Lot 10075 - High karat unmarked YG Egyptian Revival winged scarab bar pin, carved stone scarab flanked by serpents, 1-7/8" long, 11/16" h, glyphs on back of scarab, 6.9 dwt
SOLD for $2,400

Asian Decorative Arts Catalog
October 18th, 2011

Lot 10244 -
Finely carved Chinese teakwood table
32" h x 38-1/2" l x 19-1/2" d, 19th century or earlier
SOLD for $43,000.00

Multi-Estate Catalog Auction of Fine and Decorative Arts
December 7th, 2010
An outstanding selection of signed letters and autographs including a ten-line 1841 John Quincy Adams hand written and signed letter, Theodore Roosevelt signed commission, Earl Warren Supreme Court signed print, an 1850 Jenny Lind signed letter with the original envelope franked by a superb 5 cents U.S. Scott #1, signature cards and documents from Booker T. Washington, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Thomas Nast, Fitzhugh Lee, Benjamin Harrison, James Buchanan, Winfield Scott and more! From this same estate were found deeds, documents and ephemera from 1690 thru the 19th century many relating to Chester County, dozens of turn-of-the-century political pin backs and badges for McKinley, Roosevelt and others, a lovely original 3” Benjamin Harrison inaugural medal (only 169 minted!), many fraternal and military related pins and badges
sold in attractive groups and much more!


A rare 1921 Mack Delivery truck from the well known Ralph Smith Moving Co of West Chester!
Also a beautifully restored double seat horse drawn sleigh

Multi-Estate Catalog Auction of Fine & Decorative Arts
June 22nd, 2010
Grif Teller, American, 1899-1993, o/c, 38" x 57", ""Speed, Safety, and Comfort", southbound electric passenger train at Claymont, Delaware, Milepost 19.5." Original artwork for the 1936 PRR calendar, depicting electric locomotive #4823 with 3 red Pullman cars rounding a gentle curve near Claymont, DE, with the Delaware River in the background, in old,
apparently original frame
Estimate $15,000-25,000
Sold For: $61,000 Hammer Price!!

Multi-Estate Catalog Auction of Fine & Decorative Arts
April 13th, 2010
FEATURED: THE ESTATE OF FRED PEECH, MARMORA, NJ
Lot 276
Robert Aitken, printer; The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Newly translated out of the Original Tongues; and with the former Translations Diligently compared and revised. Philadelphia: Robert Aitken, 1781-82. 2 parts in one volume, 12mo. Said to be more rare than the Gutenburg Bible!
This Bible sold for $67,500 Hammer Price!!
Lot 270: Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, English, 1889-1946, o/c, Canal at Ghent, 30" x 22" , S., LL, signed and titled on canvas, inscribed in frame verso "lent by C. H. Pepper, Concord, MA" with a paper label "Museum of Fine Arts/SE 30/ S. E. Pepper/ C. H. Pepper", untouched original condition, owned by great grandson of Charles Hovey Pepper, an American artist
Estimate $60,000-90,000
This painting sold for $60,000 hammer price!
Lot 300A:
All-original 1958 Ford Custom 300 Two-Door Sedan presented here is a very fine example that has traveled a mere 5,333 actual miles since its original owner took delivery from Keyser & Miller Ford in Pennsylvania on July 30, 1958. Remarkably, the car was only used for a trip from Pennsylvania to Florida and back before being placed into storage where it remained until 1973, when the father of the current owner purchased it. The original 6 cylinder engine is in the car and all of the power train is original. Its attractive exterior retains the original glossy black finish, accented by very presentable original brightwork.
AN AMAZING SURVIVOR!!
Estimate $22,000 to $26,000
Sold for $22,000 !

Multi Estate Auction, Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
75 LOTS OF AMERICAN, ENGLISH, VICTORIAN, CONTINENTAL, & CUSTOM FURNITURE, SAMICK MODEL G-1A BLACK LACQUER GRAND PIANO 75 LOTS OF AMERICAN/BRANDYWINE VALLEY/BUCKS CO/PHILADELPHIA ARTISTS: ENGLISH & EUROPEAN ARTISTS: WORKS ON PAPER:
100 LOTS OF CIVIL WAR GUNS, SWORDS, AND COLLECTIBLES FEATURING PR OF CIVIL WAR THEMED CAST IRON FENCE PANELS DEPICTING CROSSED SPRINGFIELD RIFLES, CROSSED SABRES, A US AMMO POUCH, AND A PARADE HAT AS SHOWN IN THE 1870 CATALOG OF ROBERT WOOD & CO, 1136 RIDGE AVE, PHILADELPHIA, PA, ALSO AN IRON CANNON!! 24 LOTS OF TIFFANY LAMPS, ART GLASS, OTHER CRYSTAL, CHANDELIERS, OTHER VICT LIGHTING, BRONZE & OTHER SCULPTURE, EARLY ENGLISH CERAMICS, BLUE DEC STONEWARE, EARLY BLOWN GLASS, CLOCKS, ORIENTAL RUGS, PORCELAIN, & COLLECTIBLES, SILVER, JEWELRY, OVER 500 LOTS IN ALL!!!






Illustrated Catalog Prices realized not available for this sale at this time
Multi Estate Auction, Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
Important fine art, 18th & 19th c furnishings and accessories, Tiffany and other sterling silver, Tiffany table lamp, Tiffany & other art glass, Arts & Crafts furniture & accessories, Oriental porcelain, ivory, & accessories, oriental carpets, clocks, music boxes, With additions from other Delaware Valley estates and collections.
Fine selection of American fine art and works on paper
Dennis Miller Bunker o/c landscape, Andrew Wyeth 5 pc pencil sketch collage, NC Wyeth pencil sketch, Miss Susan B Waters, Arthur Meltzer, Ernest Lawson, (2) John Folinsbee, (2) Henry McGinnis, (5) Hobson Pitman, Ben Austrian, Alexander Stuart, Alice Ravenal Huger Smith, Lawrence Sisson, Frederick Remington pencil sketch, (2) Barclay Rubincam, Isolda, Tom Hill, John Clinton Spencer, Michael Doyle, Irby Brown, Andre Gisson (Anders Gittelson), (4) Edmund Darch Lewis, Seth W. Steward, Andrew Shunney, W. Coop, Antonio Martino, (3) Alexander Bower, (2) Oscar Bluemner, Robert Henri, Edward Seager, (3) Max Keuhne, Edmund Quincy, (2) Ruth Light Braun, (2) Robert Benney, Adolph Schwartz, William S. Schwartz, (3) Samuel J. Woolf, Lila Cabot Perry, Sandra James, (2) Robert Sivard, (2) Edward Grant, (2) Stephen Harty, Uns w/c of the “Dreadnought”, c.1865-85; Mildred Chandler (student of NC Wyeth), pr 19th c NYC portraits, Edmund Quincy, (15) Edward Lis, early Bordentown, NJ portrait, E.L. Field, Mitchell Cirker, John T. Ward, Elizabeth Fulda, Paul Bloser, Edward Christiana, Rubi Roth, H. Martin, Henry Weinsheimer, Helmuth Holmfield, Robert Maione, Barbara Sage, Dawn Guernsey, Bonnie Whitingham, Beulah Arthur, Theodore Johnson, Harvey Coleman, much more.
ENGLISH & EUROPEAN ARTISTS: John Faulkner w/c, Alexandre Nozal, L. Cheviot, Circle of James Stark, style of de la Pena, w/c of German wedding procession, Berthold Imhoff, Italian School floral o/c, A. Stagina, M. Finkenstein, A.L. Grace, C. Pogni, Hans Leibl, o/c Young Boy w/Dog, 4 early portraits, Andre Monreal, Ota Grigar, L. Ronci, Colyn Nichols, Danish artists incl Christian Aigens, Edvard Petersen, Viggo Pedersen, Edmund fischer,. Paul Ronne, Otto Balle, Paul Nybo,
WORKS ON PAPER: Important map of Rhode Island by D.F. Sotzman, 1797; Matthew Carey map of Pennsylvania, (12) Robert Shaw, (3) Floyd Leslie Thompson, (2) Alfred Hutty, (8) Disney animation cels, (2) Abraham van Diepenbeeck, (6) c. 1960 Hawaiian menu covers, Elizabeth Ferrell, Peter Moran, (2) Max Keuhne, (3) Samuel J. Woolf, Albert Urban, William S. Schwartz,
Many Currier & Ives including folio American Field Sports “Retrieving”, Presidential portraits, American historical views, text from History of the Indian tribes of North America, 2 Japanese woodblock prints, 3 Japanese Shunga prints, Hebbelink, 1839 Prize Pumpkin Crop broadside form Burlington Co, NJ, (2) Louis Icart etchings: Sparrow, Blue Alcove, Leon Danchin, (2) after Richard Barrett Davis, pr RP Bye Quaker silhouettes, more.










Illustrated Catalog Prices realized not available for this sale at this time
Multi Estate Auction, Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
This week we are featuring property consigned on behalf of the Germantown Historical Society comprising material that has been carefully evaluated by the Board of Directors and has been deemed excess to their collection needs. Furniture from the 18th t o 20th centuries featuring a sheet metal weathervane of a Native American with bow and arrow Sheraton & other Federal chests, drop leaf tables, cupboards, early Windsor chairs, ladder back, plank seat, & other sets of chairs, candlestands, Federal period sofas, set 8 Centennial Chippendale chairs, cupboards, & chests, washstands, work tables, German pianoforte, 2 part Sheraton banquet table, bamboo & arrowback Windsor bench, mah NE Sheraton cookie corner card table, rough pillar & scroll clock, trunks and blanket chests, Federal and other early mirrors, sleighs, iron stoves, stove plates, firebacks, early lighting devices, spinning wheels, early tools & farm implements, pottery, porcelain, pattern glass, transfer ware, iron implements, early clocks, textiles, 6 early cradles, other objects not listed, please visit our website for a detailed catalog listing and photographs!!!



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Estate of Lucien Alphonse LeJambre
Americana Estate Auction
Monday, September 25th & Tuesday, September 26th, 2006



















Monday Catalog-Lighting Only Prices realized not available for this sale at this time
Tuesday Catalog-All Other Prices realized not available for this sale at this time
Cataloged Multi-Estate Auction - Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
ANTIQUE CLOCKS, POCKET WATCHES, PHONOGRAPHS, MUSIC BOXES, AMERICAN, ENGLISH & CUSTOM FURNITURE, AMERICAN &EUROPEAN ART, WORKS ON PAPER, FINE PORCELAIN, GLASS, & ACCESSORIES, 100 HUMMELS, AFRICAN TRIBAL ARTIFACTS, COLLECTOR’S LAMPS, BRONZES, POTTERY & NEAT STUFF, ORIENTALIA, 40 PLUS LOTS OF ESTATE SILVER, ORIENTAL CARPETS. AT 12 NOON IN THE BACK WAREHOUSE, THERE WILL AN UNCATALOGED SALE OF COUNTRY COLLECTIBLES & VINTAGE HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS AND ACCESSORIES. AT 3 PM, WE WILL BEGIN A VERY NICE SALE OF THE CONTENTS OF 2 ESTATE LIBRARIES ONE INCLUDING MILITARY HISTORY & REFERENCE, HUNTING, CIVIL WAR, THE OTHER FROM THE SCHIEK ESTATE WITH A HEAVY CONCENTRATION OF FOC DARLEY, H. PYLE, NC WYETH, AND OTHER ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, DARLEYS 1853 LEDGER, LOCAL ATLASES & HISTORY, EARLY PHOTOS, DE RR BOOKS, PUNCH, LIFE, HARPERS, DARLINGTON’S Flora Cestrica, A FINE BOOK SALE!
Illustrated Catalog Prices Realized
Multi-Estate Auction - Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
From an old Delaware Family Collection!
A RARE AND HIGHLY DESIREABLE 18TH C DELAWARE MADE TALL CASE CLOCK BY DUNCAN BEARD, Octoraro, Chester County walnut tall chest with raised panel ends, Octoraro, Chester County inlaid slant lid desk with smooth inset ¼ columns, another walnut tall chest with reeded chamfered corners, fine inlaid cherry 2 pc 16 pane corner cupboard on original bracket base, walnut Chippendale slant lid desk with fluted columns, 2 pc walnut Lancaster County Dutch cupboard with glazed doors, very nice inlaid mahogany Hepplewhite Pembroke table, pine and walnut Sheraton side table with bookcase top, and much more great American furniture
BRANDYWINE VALLEY/WILMINGTON/AMERICAN ART: Howard Pyle, (6) Stanley Arthurs, F.O.C. Darley, Robert Shaw, C.S. Hammitt, Alexander Stuart, F. deB. Richards, Alfred T. Scott, David Hornung, (2) Frank F. English, Frederick Remington, more.
From the Allen G. Schiek collection, a mother lode of Felix O. C. Darley material including 10 original works, 8 illustrated volumes incl 3 vol Bryant’s Shakespeare, Longfellow’s Evangeline, Judd’s Margaret, Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter, (4) Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Dicken’s Character Sketches, many loose etchings and bookplates, other associated material. A sale not to be missed!






Illustrated Catalog Prices Realized
2 Session Estate Auction - April 4th and April 9th, 2006
We are very pleased to offer at public auction
The Doll Collection and Other Property from the Estate of
Ann Wyeth McCoy













View Both Illustrated Catalogs Prices Realized Dolls Prices Realized Furniture & Decorative Arts
Multi Estate Auction, Monday & Tuesday
February 20th & 21st, 2006
Selling from the Estate of Kip Kelso Crist,
“Mount Harmon Plantation at World’s End”, Earleville, MD
And “Fairthorne”, Newark, DE
Important fine art, 18th & 19th c furnishings and accessories, Tiffany and other sterling silver, DuPont family ancestral portraits, & more!
ENGLISH & EUROPEAN ARTISTS: J.N. Sartorius, G. Armfield, Andre Gisson, Suzanne Valadon, 3) Eugene Galien-Laloue, Alexandre Nozal, M. Donat, Hendrick Verschuring, Hugo Salentin, Edouard Pail, style of de la Pena, Wilhelm Kuhnert, after R.P. Bonington, Biraghi, Marius, oil on copper, more.
AMERICAN/BRANDYWINE VALLEY/BUCKS CO/PHILADELPHIA ARTISTS:(2) Frank Earle Schoonover, Francis Luis Mora, Alice Ravenal Huger Smith, Robert Spear Dunning, Fern Coppedge, John Folinsbee, Paulette van Roekens, Harry Leith-Ross, Frederick Waugh, Reynolds Beal, Lawrence Sisson, Ralph Love, Tom Hill, Alexander Wyant, (4) Barclay Rubincam, Michael Doyle, Thomas Ustick Walter, (2) Daniel Morper, Isolda, Frederick Waugh, A.J.H. Way, James Hamilton, Robert Wood, P. Moran, Harry Ballinger, Bernard Corey, Woodhull Adams, (2) Paul Wescott, (3) Joseph Sheppard, (2) Henry Glasser, George Porter, Robert Chace, William Bryant, C.W. Illig, Tom Hill, John Spencer, (2) Michael Doyle, Irby Brown, Clifford Ashley, Frank Spalding, Gayle Hoskins, Robert Shaw, Judith Blam,Helen Sheldon Jacobs Smillie, Margery Pyle, Franz de Merlier, Sid Chase, Frank Coll, Norman Cannon, J.H. Harvey, Daniel Ridgeway Knight, Harvey Dunn, Henry Peck, A.B. Frost, Herbert Morton Stoops, Will Crawford, Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliot, Walter Stewart, Robert Emmet Owen, May Fairchild, A.T. Scott, George Harding, B. Medema, Newberger, Totten, Gregorio Prestopino, Joseph Kantor, William S. Robinson, William Riddle Warner, Glenn Strauss, Henry William Weinsheimer, Luigi Spizzirri, Helen M. Weisenburg, Harry W. Newman, Elsie R. Whipple, Asahel Stevens Avery, Emma Eilers, Maurice Aguilar, August Bleset, Jr., Washington Allston, Astley David Middleton Cooper, Alexander Garfield Tupper, Charles Ramsey, William Mason Brown, Nikolay Tysland Leganger, and many more. AN ORIGINAL ENGRAVING PLATE FOR ONE OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM “MAROONED”, THE HOWARD PYLE CLASSIC!
WORKS ON PAPER: Important map of the Mid-Atlantic States “Carte Particuliere de Virginie, Maryland, Pennsilvanie, La Nouvele Jersey…” by A.H. Jaillot, c. 1700, (3) Robert Shaw, F. Townsend Morgan, Stephen Parrish, Raphael Soyer, Arnold Hoffman, A. Ehrlich, 8 Andrew Wyeth collotypes from 1956 Triton Press portfolio, War Bond poster, more.
Monday's session comprises 175 lots of Native American and African artifacts.




Click here to view the catalogs Monday, February 20th - Prices Realized
Tuesday, February 21st - Prices Realized
Multi Estate Auction - Tuesday, December 13th, 2005
Anne Winn - Habitat for Humanity Fund Raiser Auction
Tuesday, December 13th, 2005
Multi Estate Catalog Auction - Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Native American Prices Realized
Art Pottery Glass Prices Realized
Cataloged Auction of Native American Pottery & Decorative Arts
20th C. American Art Pottery & American Art Glass & Crystal
Sunday June, 5th & Monday June 6th, 2005
Multi Estate Auction
Monday, February 14, 2005 at 6 PM &
Tuesday, February 15 at 12 noon
One Hillman Drive @ Route 202 South, .4 mile south of Route 1 in Chadds Ford, PA
Monday, 6 PM, 200+ lots of better vintage books to include travel, sporting, art, history, including E. B. White, Lady is Cold, Munnings autobiography 3 volumes, signed Munnings pamphlet, books illustrated by Lionel Edwards, etc.
Tuesday, 12 noon, MERICAN FURN., ENGLISH & CONTINENTAL, VICTORIAN & CUSTOM, AMERICAN/BRANDYWINE VALLEY/BUCKS CO/PHILADELPHIA ARTISTS, ILLUSTRATION ART, ENGLISH & EUROPEAN ARTISTS, WORKS ON PAPER, ORIENTALIA, SCULPTURE, BISQUE DOLLS, QUILTS & AMERICANA, NATIVE AMERICAN, FINE ANTIQUE LAMPS, GLASS, PORCELAIN & POTTERY, MECHANICAL NEAT STUFF, MUSIC BOXES, CLOCKS & WATCHES, JEWELRY, SILVER, PLATED & 25+ ESTATE ORIENTAL RUGS.
Tuesday @ 4 PM, a 1966 Mustang convertible, only 1000 miles on a body off, frame up restoration! Candy apple red with white leather pony interior!
Multi Estate Catalog Auction - Tuesday, October 26th, 2004
October 26th, Multi Estate Catalog Auction - Prices Realized
Betty Matlat Cataloged Book Auction - September 20th, 2004
Betty Matlat Cataloged Auction - September 21st, 2004
September 20th, Catalog Book Auction - Prices Realized
September 21st, Catalog Auction - Prices Realized
Multi-Estate Catalog Auction, June 8th, 2004
June 8th, Multi-Estate Catalog Auction - Prices Realized
Auction of Fine Americana and Folk Art
We have recently added our prices realized list for our April 20th Auction of Fine Americana and Folk Art. We have also provided a link to the on-line catalog for your convenience.
April 20th Auction, Prices Realized List
Fine Americana and Folk Art On-line Catalog
Highlights from our Oct. 21st, 2003 Catalog Auction
 Henry Ossawa Tanner - Casbah Hammer Price! $100,000. |
 Henry Ossawa Tanner - Mosque Interior Hammer Price! $150,000. |
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| Henry Ossawa Tanner, American, 1859 - 1937, 54" x 79" o/c, inscribed verso "H.O. Tanner/Paris/12", recently discovered and authenticated by Dr. David Driskell. Estimate $250,000/$350,000. On October 17th, 2000 at our annual fine art auction, this painting sold for $560,000. A world record for Henry Tanner! |
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