AUCTION 2012-1 |
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1. Scrapbook page with 5
small engravings pasted. Opposite side, a quarto Valentine: Dobbs
Patent, cherubs and French poems in corners. Painted flowers
surround puzzle purse, cobweb within. Toned, once folded, glued.
$150.
2. Satin sachet booklet. Four silvered lace pages with New Year and Christmas wishes. Slight corner damage. $100.
3. Elaborate octavo with multiple layers of lace and die-cuts of
various vintages. Pasted remnant on reverse. $100.
4. Openwork lace octavo with central applied image of a rose, with doves and golden Dresden lyre. $85.
5. Die-cut pull-down, boy with forget-me-not border and red honeycomb. 6 1/2” x 3 1/2”. $48.
6.Pull-down die-cut, Made in Germany; hot air balloon made of
forget-me-nots, opens with pink honeycomb. 6 1/2” x 3 1/2”. $40.
7. Pair of heart-shaped cards, poetry inside. 3 1/2 x 3 1/2. $30.
8. Colorful card with Cupid die-cut, 3 1/2” x 5”. $18.
9. Layered octavo with colored wafers, central image of a gladiator,
W-2 1/2; embossed envelope, postmarked 1897. $25.
10. Two Easter cards: tassels and padded silk, 7” x 9”; pink silk and cherubs, signed Louis Prang. 7” x 5”. $35
11. Unusual blue paper, 3 1/2” x 4 1/2”. Windsor lace with gold paper cutwork; Meek lace with central handwriting. $30.
12. Lithographed octavo, applied heart opens to reveal a lady’s bonnet. $25
13. Elaborate Dobbs, Kidd shell motif octavo; central silk insert with unusual spattered wax decoration. $100.
14. Automobile collection; 5 die-cuts, 5 1/2 x 3”. $30.
15. Esther Howland: H-15; early motto inside, slight lace damage. $100.
16. Esther Howland: H-10; charming Wood lace, motto absent, $75.
17. Hearts group: including a handmade party invitation. $25.
18. Four 1920’s comic cards. $15.
19. Two sachets, 2 1/2” x 3”: sweet lace with colored wafers, signed Wood;
lace doors revealing poem on satin: “A Husband”, signed Mansell. $50.
20. Jotham Taft: Lace layered over tissue, 3 1/4” x 5 1/4”, signed Taft-25. $175.
Prices Realized
Auction 2009-1: 2-$15, 5-$40. Auction 2009-2: 15-$60, 18-$10.
Auction 2009-3: 1-$24, 4-$40,10-$10, 11-$64,12-$10,14-$40, 15-$40,16-$40, 17-$90, 20-$50.
Auction 2009-4: 2-$16, 3-$5, 8-$8, 15-$30, 16-$35.
Auction 2010-1: 2-$75, 5-$65, 6-$100, 7-$126, 9-$40, 10-$35, 12-$40, 17-$15, 19-$36, 20-$125.
Auction 2010-2: 1-$30, 2-$11, 3-$10, 5-$15, 6-$8, 7-$36, 8-$23, 9-$10, 12-$56, 13-$100, 14-$52, 15-$83, 17-$72, 18-$51, 19-$51, 20-$76.
Auction 2010-3: 7-$35, 8-$40, 14-$125, 16-$100, 17-$25, 20-$30.
Auction 2010-4: 1-$25, 2-$75, 3-$63, 4-$30, 5-$135, 7-$45, 8-$30, 12-$25, 14-$151, 18-$36, 20-$25, 24-$40.
Auction 2011-1: 1-$75, 2-$25, 3-$17, 4-$31, 5-$35, 7-$55, 10-$141, 13-$25, 14-$51.
Auction 2011-2: 5-$25, 11-$60, 20-$100, 16-$25.
Auction 2011-3: 3-$76, 4-$25, 6-$135, 7-$65, 8-$45, 10-$40, 11-$125, 12-$25, 13-$25