- Large Quantity Celebrity Autographed
Publicity Photographs and Letters, c.1955 approximately 112 signed publicity photographs, many accompanied by personalised signed letters from the 'stars', the list of which...
[more like this] - PLOVERLothrop T. Holmes (1824-1899)
Kingston,
MA, c. 1865
10 1/2 in. long
Holmes carved few decoys, making the offering of this gunned-over example a rare opportunity to own one of the world's most heralded maker's works.
Mix...
[more like this] - BRANTLong Island Sound, c. 1880
18 in.
long
A well-crafted brant with a deep three-piece body and a high reaching head. The paint pattern echoes the bold sweeping lines of the body and is finished with tight stippled...
[more like this] - HALF-SIZE RUDDY TURNSTONE AND PRINTWilliam
S. "Bill" Johnson (1938-2009)
Virginia Beach, VA, c. 1980
6 1/2 in. long
A miniature ruddy turnstone carving and accompanying print by the maker. Signed and incised on the...
[more like this] - SEVEN MINIATURESWilliam S. "Bill" Johnson
(1938-2009)
Virginia Beach, VA, c. 2000
plover base is 11 in. wide
Three Verity-style plover on base, a Bunn-style curlew, two Lothrop Holmes-style mergansers, and a Dudley-style...
[more like this] - EXCEPTIONAL SWIMMING MERGANSERNorth
Shore, MA, c. 1890
17 1/2 in. long
This hollow swimming merganser is among the finest decoys discovered in decades. As this Massachusetts masterpiece makes its public debut,...
[more like this] - THE HARMON RUNNING COBB CURLEWNathan
F. Cobb Jr. (1825-1905)
Cobb Island, VA, c. 1880
15 1/2 in. long
“Every Nathan Cobb decoy had its own natural pose. Even his Hudsonian Curlews…seemed to run, feed, and...
[more like this] - PRINT, BILL HOLM Bill Holm (American,
1925-2020) "Howkan Whale," 1986, serigraph, pencil signed and dated lower right, titled lower left, edition 76/250, sheet (unframed): 21"h x 20"w. Provenance: Howard Burke...
[more like this] - 1950 BOWMAN BASEBALL CARDS: Paul Trout;
Ted Gray, left two corners are dinged; Jerry Priddy, upper-left and lower-right corners are dinged; Fred Hutchinson, dings in all corners; Neil Berry, dings in lower-left...
[more like this] - ROBERT MILLS ALS TO MR. PROFFIT, MARCH
2ND, 1843 2ND, 1843, regarding a bill for the extension of the Patent Office. Robert Mills studied under James Hoban and Benjamin Henry Latrobe, and is probably best known...
[more like this] - THREE PAPUA NEW GUINEA HIGHLANDS NECKLACES
Three Papua New Guinea Highlands necklaces, comprising a woven mask pectoral with a sawfish bill and cowrie shells on a woven cord, approx. drop 15"; a carved and painted...
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