Sothebys-Important Americana - Oct 19 1996. Sale#MONROE-6899.
Auction catalog includes 341 lots
with detailed descriptions, auction estimate, color or black&white pictures, provenance, where exhibited or literature, if available. The auction included:
- Attributed to Joseph Whiting Stock, 'A Portrait of a Golden-Haired Blue-Eyed Boy Wearing a Red Dress with a Ruffled Collar Seated in a Fancy Chair - Estimated sale at $10000-15000.
- Paul A. Seifert, 'The George Brown Farm' - Estimated sale at $20000-30000.
- Important Wool Bed Rug, Signed Joseph and Olive Abbott, New England, dated March 22, 1775 - Estimated sale at $40000-60000.
- Fine Carved and Painted Pine Ship's Figurehead, Probably New England, c 1850 - Estimated sale at $30000-50000.
- Charles Wysocki, 'Horse Farm' - Estimated sale at $10000-20000.
- President John F. Kennedy's Mahogany Senate Chair, New York, 19th Century - Estimated sale at $8000-12000.
- Very Fine and Rare William and Mary Burl-Veneered Maple Diminutive Flat-Top Highboy, Probably from the shop of Theophilus Pickering, Salem Massachusetts, c 1725 - Estimated sale at $40000-60000.
- Fine and Rare Chippendale Carved Mahogany Block-Front Card Table with Opera Talons, Attributed to John Goddard, Newport RI, c 1780 - Estimated sale at $80000-120000.
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