Annual Maine Summer Auction - August 21, 2006
    
Items of Interest
   

Museum quality Majolica bowl with birds, flowers, leaves on tree limb handle 18” tall, 18” across. very rare find, some minor chips. Folk Art carved horse with work sleigh original crusted surface. Swiss 8 tunes cylinder music box with inlaid case in running condition 31” wide. Victorian cottage style dollhouse from Ann Wyeth McCoy’s collection, also room size hooked rug circa 1890. Black Foot Indian glass negatives also many unidentified Wild West Show negatives with cowboys, Indians, wagons, etc. Rare Rockingham banded bowl. Early yellow Spatterware crock. Brown stoneware pig shaped bourbon bottle. Early sampler with house, people, tree 15” x 17”. Rare hooked rug with 2 full bodied deer, bear, and other animals . Pair of 19th C. apothecary cabinets with glass drawer labels. Wonderful chip carved Niddy -Noddy. 2 polychrome hand-woven coverlets. Shell floor lamp. Life sized Steiff animal . Collection of letters from Captain Augustus Works of Bath, Maine from 1870’s to 1900 telling tales of sailing adventures all over the world. Leaded glass hanging shade. Vaudeville tambourine with autographs, portrait of African American painted in the center and 1920’s probably minstrel show piece. Bally Acapulco pinball machine 1950’s, 1928 Remington calendar. Several dash churns with old paint, one shaker. Large brass telescope with tripod. 19th C. brass harpoon gun. Selection of Bangor, Maine stoneware. Old checker board with original paint. Hooked rug by Barbara Merry. Boxed surveyor’s instrument. Several Indian items: Totem pole 10” tall with old paint. Indian drum. 3 arrows, tom-tom, early crooked knife. Blackfoot Indian negatives. 2 real good postcard albums. Lot of old graniteware tins. Butter molds. 10 tin candle molds. Several Hogscrapers. Brass fireplace set with andirons, fender tools, etc. 1950’s Boston Garden Western Union Room Collection including; original table, folding chairs, antique wire telephones, etc. Folk Art wooden carved knife in old green paint. Pair of wood carved “Door of Hope” dolls. Old child’s wagon in red paint, some cloisonne vases. 18th C. wrought iron shovel. Wrought iron sign maker’s signs, also copper weathervane by the same hand, 18th C. chestnut roaster. Several handmade 18th C. copper pots! Sterling Silver place setting for 10 with serving pcs. in Towle “silver flutes”. Other misc. silver and silverplate. Early 18th Century lighting includes 3 rush lamps, 5 betty lamps, early tin lamp. Rare copper candle holder with heart shaped push-up candlestick.

   
Important Majolica Bowl

8 tune Swiss music box

Folk art horse carving
Steiff life size stuffed animal

Victorian dollhouse

Misc. doll furnishings
Period firescreen

Raggedy Ann cell
Dags and cases

Door of Hope dolls

Stoneware bourbon bottle

Fabulous hooked rug
David Ellinger

Towle - silver flutes
Postcards and books

Room size hooked rug

Old painted boxes
Fireplace tools

Barbara Merry
Shaker seed box

Early framed sampler

Indian items
Totem

Early Indian crooked knife
Bally Acapulco machine

American folk art fish

Niddy-Noddy
19th c. checkerboard, etc.

1928 Remington calendar
Memorial poem/watercolor

Shell floor lamp

Betty lamps 18th c.
Butter molds

Pipe holder
Unsigned hanging shade

Churns, etc.
Folk art wrought iron

Rush lighting 18th c.
Folk art wrought iron

19th c. whaling gun

Early baby buggy

Candle molds
Early canteen, etc.

Footed pan 18th c.
Hog scrapers

Black Foot Indian glass negatives, etc.

 
Country items
 
Milk cans

 
Vaudeville tambourine

 
Serving silver
 
Bangor stoneware, etc.

 
Cloisonne vases
 
Old graniteware

Bruce Gamage, Jr.
Antique Estate Auctioneer, Maine License #AR480
467 Main Street, Rockland, ME 04841
Tel: 207-594-4963 Fax: 207-594-0674
email: bgamage@midcoast.com