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Annual Winter Estate Auction - January 13, 2013
    
Items of Interest
   

Rare half plate daguerreotype of Jenks Tavern in Spencer, Mass., 4-1/4" x 5-1/2" in gutta-percha frame; another quarter plate daguerreotype of Jenks Tavern in original cloth case; Jenks Tavern was famous for George Washington staying there when he toured New England in 1789. Washington commented in his diary about "Jenks keeps a pretty good tavern". Both images are directly from the William C. Watson family. Watson was the last owner of the tavern that burned in 1868; Silas Hoadley Grandfather clock fresh from a Vinalhaven home; "Home Clarion" black iron kitchen cookstove, all original with water tank; 19th c. sheet metal running horse weathervane; American Milk Company wooden toy wagon with horse; roadside sign in yellow paint, 12" x 6', "9 Miles to Studley's"; wooden plaque with whale by Bernard Langlais; carved whalebone Eskimo with ivory faces, 10" tall; scrimshaw whale's tooth with ship; two large tray lots of stereo-view cards; Maine Central Railroad covered firkin in old green paint; rare oversized Bennington doorknob; early 19th c. dovetailed knife box; 19th c. desk box with ink bottles; "Crowley's Needles" spool cabinet with two drawers; rare 19th c. wire mouse trap; Lots more!!!

   
Jenks Tavern Spencer Mass (quarter plate)
Jenks Tavern Spencer Mass(half plate)

Pr. of Tutwiler images
Caroline Sloan Tutwiler
Confederate Col. Thomas Harrison Tutwler

Whale bone and Scrimshaw

Silas Hoadley grandfather clock
Rare road sign 6 ft tall

Early shett metal horse
Home Clarion woodstove

Stereo view cards
Stereo view cards

Toy milk cart
Maine Central R R furkin

19th c Knife tray
Oversized Bennington door knob

Spool cabinet
Desk inkwell and jewelry box

Seth Thomas miniature banjo
Early document box in old paint

reproduction mechanical banks

19th c copper buckets
Eary wire mouse trap

Bernard Langlais plaque

Custon tiger maple mirror
     

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
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