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LUMAN WATSON, CINCINNATI, OHIO SHELF CLOCK,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $575.00
with a 30-hour wooden movement and a polychrome-painted and gilt dial with floral decoration inside the chapter ring and in the spandrels. In a magogany vase with scroll-cut crest, central finial, and ebonized and stenciled half columns. Retains traces of original gold-stenciled decoration and part of its original paper label; 32.5" high x 16.75" wide x 4.75" deep.
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ELI TERRY, JR. TRANSITIONAL SHELF CLOCK,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $805.00
bearing its original paper label and instructions. 30-hour, wooden, time and strike movement with a polychrome-painted dial with flowers in the center of the chapter ring and scrolls in the spandrels. Mahogany case with ebonized and gilt crest and quarter columns and paw feet. Door retains its original glass and a period, replaced tablet. 28.5" high x 16.75" wide x 4" deep.
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NEW HAVEN STEEPLE ALARM CLOCK,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $460.00
8-day time, strike, and alarm movement in a mahogany-veneered case with an old, possibly original, reverse-painted tablet. The clock retains its original finial and tin dial, and is in a mellow finish; 19.75" high x 10" wide 4" deep.
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GOTHIC NEW HAVEN SHELF CLOCK,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $172.50
8-day time and strike movement in a mahogany-veneered case with a replaced foliate tablet. In an old finish; 18.75" high x 10.75" wide x 4" deep.
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BRASS SHIP'S COMPASS WITH CANDLE ATTACHMENT,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $287.50
fluid-filled and gimbaled compass compartment. Brass, exterior case has rear window with a hinged cover, a round, front viewing window that is also hinged, and a hinged side compartment that holds a candle. 10.5" high x 7.75" diameter (at base).
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EARLY CINCINNATI SURVEYOR'S COMPASS,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $1,610.00
marked on the face T.F. Randolph & Bro. MAKERS Cincinnati, Ohio. In its original, dovetailed, walnut case with a brass, bail handle on the lid, and a printed trade card affixed to the inside of the lid. The compass as a 6.5" diameter face, and the case measures 4.75" high x 16.25" wide x 8.25" deep.
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EARLY SHIP'S NAVIGATION KIT,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $0.00
includes 7 instruments (originally had 10) in a hinged shagreen case. Probably late 18th or early 19th century; case is 6.75" long.
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SALESMAN'S SAMPLE ICE CREAM MAKER,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $632.50
stave construction with brass bands, and cast iron mechanism marked PEERLESS ICELAND FREEZER. Retains most of an original label on the bucket that reads the same. 6.75" high x 5" diameter.
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SALESMAN'S SAMPLE MODEL PLOW,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $0.00
wood and iron, walk-behind single-horse-drawn-type plow. Retains its original red and black-painted surface with white, stenciled labels BISSELL'S IMPROVED on both handles, and BISSELL'S CHILLED PLOW SOUTH BEND IND. on the shaft over the blade. 7.25" high x 20" wide x 5.5" deep.
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SALESMAN SAMPLE LEATHER HORSE COLLAR,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $431.25
with 2 metal buckles. Marked 3 on the strap of one of the buckles. 7.75" x 6".
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STEAM ENGINE MODEL,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $402.50
brass and cast iron, marked on the boiler WEEDEN TRADE MARK REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. Boiler is connected to a an arm that drives a wheel; 5.5" high 7" wide x 5.75" deep.
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SALESMAN'S SAMPLE MEAT SAFE,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $546.25
poplar with 2 doors, a raised top compartment with a screened front, a side compartment with a door and cut-out feet. Retains its original paint-decorated surface and lettering, DUNCAN'S MEAT SAFE PAT. PEN. 186(?). 11.5" high x 10.5" wide x 5.25" deep.
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NEWSPAPER WOODEN TRADE SIGN,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $460.00
double-sided, single board with EVENING REVIEW OFFICE in original white on a black ground, and mounted in a white-painted frame; 13.75" x 32.5". The consignor's notes indicate that the sign was discovered in the Ohio River near Gallipolis by C.E. Rothgeb during the 1913 flood. It was saved not as a sign, but as a piece of scrap wood to be used later (and fortunately never was!). Given the location where it was found, the Evening Review probably refers to the the East Liverpool Evening Review.
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CHICAGO SCALE COMPANY TRADE SIGN,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $373.75
single poplar board with applied moulding, with original black and red lettering on a white ground reading CHICAGO SCALE CO.; 5.5" x 43.5".
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WHEELING CUT NAIL TRADE SIGN,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $1,380.00
oak, with a moulded frame. With its original paper label and with many examples of their cut nails wonderfully arranged, along with their slogan, From Mine to Market. In a fine, old finish; 38" x 46".
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CLOTHIER AND HATTER TRADE SIGN,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $575.00
in pine with original black lettering on yellow ground which reads OPERATORS 27 STORES BESSE, BAKER & CO. CLOTHIERS AND HATTERS CITY BL'K BROCKTON; 36.25" x 36".
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CAST IRON AND TIN WATCHMAKER'S TRADE SIGN,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $977.50
double-sided with cast iron case and tin faces. Inside the chapter ring of the faces is printed J.E. Gilleland. 40.25" x 24.5". Gilleland worked in New Cambria, Missouri.
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DOUBLE-SIDED WATCHMAKER'S TRADE SIGN,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $1,035.00
in old gilt and white and black paint, moveable hands; 30" x 22.5".
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WOODEN FIGURAL TRADE SIGN CASE JACK KNIFE,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $1,265.00
in old black, gold, and silver paint, with CASE on the handle; 17.5" x 35.25".
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WROUGHT IRON TRADE SIGN BRACKET,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $0.00
with spade-shaped drops to hold the sign. Late 19th or early 20th century; 14" high x 33" long.
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LUXURY COFFEE BIN IN ORIGINAL PAINT,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $747.50
pine, with slanted lift lid, original yellow paint with black stenciling. Front reads 100 Lbs. LUXURY COFFEE. 31.5" x 22.25" x 17".
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JAPANNED WALL-MOUNTED FLOUR BIN,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $0.00
tin with original japanning, front reads in gold print FLOUR. Affixed to yellow pine board for mounting, American, 19th century; 20" x 14" x 11.5".
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FINE WEBSTER SEED BOX,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $920.00
poplar, finger joint construction. Retains its original, vibrant, chromolithographed labels on the front and on the inside of the lid. 5.5" high x 28.75" wide x 15" deep.
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COUNTER-TOP BAG HOLDER IN ORIGINAL PAINT,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $345.00
in poplar, with 8 slots, and retaining its original red paint with black, stenciled decoration. Also has holes in the backboard for wall mounting. American, 19th century; 16.5" high x 8.5" wide x 15.5" deep.
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FINE MERCURY GLASS APOTHECARY SHOW GLOBE,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $1,150.00
ca 1880, of the type used in pharmacy windows, consisting of a spherical globe mounted on a blown base with baluster stem; retains old cork in base; 10" tall. PLEASE NOTE: The globe has been temporarily frosted to reduce reflections in the photograph.
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SIGNED AND DATED TRI-COLOR MOUNT VERNON, OHIO COVERLET,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $632.50
dark blue, medium blue and red on natural ground, geometric and floral center with grapevine border. Corner blocks read W. IN. MOUNT VERNON. KNOX COUNTY. OHIO. BY. JACOB. AND. MICHAIL. ARDNER. 1859. MARY. ULREY. Approx. 71" x 78", excluding fringe. Michael and Jacob Ardner were born in Germany and immigrated to American with their father Jacob, and the 1850 census lists all three working as weavers in the Mount Vernon area. Jacob and Michael wove together from 1851 to 1859.
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DATED 1850 DARIEN, NEW YORK COVERLET,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $172.50
medium blue on a natural ground, star and floral center with potted flower border. Corner blocks have spread-winged, shield-breasted eagle clutching arrows with a banner above reading 1850 and below reads DARIEN GENESEE. CO. N.Y. One corner block has illegible name in period ink. Approx. 87" x 70", excluding fringe. For an identical example, see A Checklist of American Coverlet Weavers, pg. 37.
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SIGNED TRI-COLOR BLAIR COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA COVERLET,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $115.00
medium green, light green and red on a natural ground, with all over geometric and floral design. Unusual signature in corners of the center section, reading Ambros Miller Blair Ct. Approx. 79" x 77", excluding fringe. Ambrose Miller (1812 - ca 1891) was born in Alsace-Lorraine, apprenticed in Europe and immigrated to Kentucky by 1847. At some point he moved back east to Blair County, Pennsylvania, where he is listed as a weaver as late as 1888.
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UNUSUAL BLUE AND RED COVERLET WITH PEACOCKS,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $488.75
red on blue ground, floral center with peacocks parading around the border, Ohio or Indiana (found in Indiana). Approx. 79" x 88", excluding fringes.
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TRI-COLOR KNOX COUNTY, OHIO COVERLET DATED 1845,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $316.25
blue, green and red on a natural ground. Floral center with floral and bird decoration on the borders. Corner blocks have a spread-winged eagle clutching arrows and read KNOX COUNTY OHIO 1845. Approx. 70" x 81", excluding fringe.
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