North Carolina Lily quilt with Flying Geese border, Amish, made by Mary Miller, Holmes County, Ohio, circa 1925, cotton, green and yellow on a blue ground, 78" x 76", sold for $6765 (est. $600/1200) by Amelia Jeffers www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/grea... #antiques #antique #quilt #quilts

Designed by 20th-century folk artist Stephen Huneck (1948-2010), this hooked rug is titled "Friendship" and is signed by the artist. The rug was 59" x 29" and sold for $793 (est. $400/600) at White's Auctions www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/succ... #folkart #dog #dogs #Huneck #hookedrug

Pair of polychrome scrimshaw whale teeth, each 7¾" tall, sold for $63,000 (est. $50,000/70,000) at Eldred's. One depicts Lady Liberty, and the other depicts Lady Justice www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/annu... #antiques #antique #whale #whales #art #folkart #Americana #scrimshaw #USA #America

CRN Auctions’ Zen is pictured with a 19th-century bronze garden fountain with a verdigris patina, 16" x 23" x 16", that came from a Beacon Hill garden in Boston. The frog sold for $2706 (e. $800/1200); Zen remains NFS. www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/need... #antiques #dog #frog #dogs #fountain

Two pairs of George III brass candlesticks, English, c 1770, 10¼" H, purchased by the Millhisers from Ginsburg & Levy Inc. in New York City in 1948, sold for $1920 (est. $500/800) at Freemans www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/coll... #antiques #antique #brass #candlesticks #English

The woodblock prints of Maine’s Carroll Thayer Berry (1886-1978) routinely bring good prices at Gamage auctions. This 10" x 12" signed print, titled "LOBSTERMAN—MAINE," hit $517.50 with a $300/400 estimate www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/a-st... #antiques #antique #Maine #art #artist #print

Cobalt-decorated 5-gallon stoneware water cooler, 16" H, c 1860, attributed to Barnabus Edmands, Charlestown, Massachusetts, with raised bands, floral design, & minor interior rim chips, sold for $1845 (e $1200/1800) at Meander Auctions www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/labo... #antiques #stoneware

A cast-iron horse weathervane with a sheet-iron tail, c 1880, likely from Rochester Iron Works, 26 1/4" x 36" x 8", with a mellow orange paint surface, ex-Steve Miller, sold for $15,360 (e $1500/2500) at @bonhams.bsky.social www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/augu... #antiques #horse #folkart #art

The John Brown Chippendale mahogany & marble slab table, Providence or Newport, RI, c 1770, with original cast brass hardware, marble top replaced, 33½" x 22" x 35¼", sold for $8125 (e. $3000/5000) at Nye & Co. www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/nye-... #antiques #antique #furniture #RhodeIsland

Miniature New England blanket chest, early 19th C, with original decoration including shells & fan corners on a green ground with red & yellow pinstriping, inscribed “Miss M.A. Smith,” 7½" x 12¼", sold for $13,750 (e $6000/8000) at Pook www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/thur... #antiques #folkart

Oil on canvas of a watermelon, unsigned but retains a c 1870 label from the George A. Sweet gallery in Providence. The 16" x 20" painting sold for $70,350 (e. $7000/9000) at @bonhams.bsky.social Skinner www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/augu... #antiques #antique #art #folkart #watermelon #painting

An unusual piece of redware sold for $219 at Flying Pig Auctions. It is a grease catcher, with a handle and spouts for pouring off the grease on each end. www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/mark... #antiques #antique #vintage #redware #grease #unusual

At the Downeast Show: An enormous 59" x 40" wooden sign proclaiming “PILLSBURY’S / FLOUR / LEADS THE WORLD.” Scott Bassoff, Sandy Jacobs Antiques priced it at $14,500. It had been rescued from a barn on Cape Cod www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/down... #antiques #antique #sign #signs #flour

This Prior-Hamblin school Massachusetts portrait of a lady seated on a sofa, is unsigned and dates to around 1840. The oil on canvas, 30" x 25¼", sold for $44,100 (e. $8000/12,000) at Eldred's www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/amer... #antiques #antique #folkart #art #artist #Americana

The 80" x 72" screen featuring pug dogs & puppies was commissioned by animal activist Elmina Brewster Sewall, in whose home it remained until 2005. Signed and dated “Dahlov Ipcar 1957,” it finished at $37,375 at Thomaston Place www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/four... #art #dogs #Maine #Ipcar

This cast-iron clown doorstop appeared on the cover of "Doorstops: Identification & Values" (1985) by Jeanne Bertoia. The smiling 10½" figure made someone happy at $900 (e. $1500/2500) at Casco Bay Auctions www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/a-ye... #antiques #antique #doorstop #clown

If you look closely at this cheese box, 6½" x 7" x 6½", you’ll see the numerous small holes intended to let the cheese age. The heart shape and red wash attracted bidders, and the box sold for $1375 at Flying Pig www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/mark... #antiques #cheese #heart #box #antique

"View of Tarrytown, New York," c 1850, oil on canvas, 25" x 36", by British artist Thomas Chambers (1808-1869), sold for $23,940 (e. $25,000/40,000) at Eldred's. It previously sold on September 26, 2008, for $98,500 at Sotheby's www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/amer... #art #antiques #Tarrytown

At the Downeast Show in Blue Hill, Maine: Interiors with Provenance, Biddeford, Maine, and Utah, brought a $1200 eye-dazzler quilt, so bright that it was like looking into an exploding firecracker www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/down... #antiques #antique #quilt #quilts #folkart #Maine

Estimated at $3000/5000, this 3 7/8" diameter miniature redware dish with elaborate slip decoration, likely Alamance County, North Carolina, 1820-40, realized $13,200 at Crocker Farm www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/seve... #antiques #antique #folkart #redware #Americana #NorthCarolina #miniature

At the Big Flea: Sandie Fowler specializes in American & European ceramic tiles % vintage bookends. These 2 framed 3-tile panels date from the 1890s. The glazed tiles feature familiar naturalistic Art Nouveau images, and were $395 each www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/the-... #antiques #antique

George Ohr vase with ribbon handles, 8 5/8" x 6" x 3¾", in a mottled indigo & periwinkle glaze with an orange & pink interior, with impressed mark “G. E. OHR, / Biloxi, Miss.,” sold for $120,650 (e $60,000/80,000) at Rago Auctions www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/new-... #antiques #pottery #art

Early preening 16½"L black duck by AE Crowell with raised crossed wingtips, relief tail feathers, & chip carving between the wingtips & tail. With original paint and some wear, it brought $93,000 (e $20,000/30,000) at Guyette & Deeter www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/annu... #antiques #decoys #art

Brian Pontius (L) and his uncle Buck Tilman stand with the Fleischmann’s Yeast sign they bought for $6600. Tilman’s recollection of his mother’s rolls made with the Fleischmann’s yeast motivated him to buy the 15" x 40" metal sign www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/caro... #antiques #sign #yeast

Shaker shop basket , c1840, from Canterbury, New Hampshire, 15½" x 13" x 16½", is lined with a grain bag. It was given to Martha Wetherbee in 1978 by Sister Ethel Hudson (1896-1992), the last member in residence at Canterbury. It realized $6150 www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/weth...

Canadian single-sided porcelain sign from the 1920s for Five Roses Flour, 42" x 26", sold for $30,680 Canadian, $22,157 U.S., (est. $20,000/25,000 Canadian) at Miller & Miller. www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/auct... #antique #antiques #advertising #sign #signs #flour

At the Waldoboro Antique Show: The 100% wool rug was made in Pakistan, probably mid-20th century, and moose in Pakistan must be awfully rare. Likely made for the American market, it was $225 www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/summ... #rug #moose #vintage #Pakistan #wool

An 1840 alphabet sampler by Cynthia M. Motheral of Franklin, Tennessee, earned $8337 at Kennedy's Auction Service. It depicts 4 series of alphabet letters and a poem www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/anso... #antiques #antique #folkart #Tennessee #sampler #needlework

A large 77½" long New England apothecary cabinet drew $2280 at Casco Bay Auctions. It capped the $1200/1800 estimate, likely because of its unusual size, the 30 drawers, and the first-coat dry red paint. www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/a-ye... #antiques #antique #furniture #cabinet #vintage

At the Downeast Show: Bradbury Art and Antiques offered a larger-than-life-size bust of Albert Einstein, created by contemporary Taiwanese sculptor Chen Long-Bin. The sculpture is formed around books relating to Einstein www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/down... #art #artist #Einstein #sculpture

This small 6½" x 5½" (sight) oil on board had a plaque on the frame reading "All I Want is to be Mrs. Astor’s Dog." With a mostly illegible signature, it sold for $6600 (e. $300/400) at Thomaston Place www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/four... #art #artist #dog #dogs #antiques #Astor

"Snow-capped Barn and Trees Behind a Post and Wire Fence," 18" x 24" oil, by Bob Ross (1942-1995) was painted during season 16, episode 9, of his television show "The Joy of Painting." It realized $69,300 (e $40,000/50,000) at Eldred's www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/amer... #art #artist #Ross

At the Camden-Rockport Antiques Show & Sale: A large late 19th-century “Peaceable Kingdom”-type hooked rug, in an Edward Sands Frost pattern, awaited $2400 with Bradbury Art and Antiques, Wiscasset, Maine. www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/the-... #antiques #antique #hookedrug #rug #Americana

Lift-top painted chest with decorative woodgraining, 2 faux drawers, and 1 functional lower drawer with brass drop pulls, raised on turned feet, 37" x 20" x 43", sold for $560.50 at KC Auction Company www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/the-... #antiques #antique #folkart #furniture #Americana

Mid-19th-century Cotton Hersey (1792-1881) miniature firkin, 2½" T, in blue paint is stamped “C.H.” on the lid. It sold for $12,600 (est. $10,000/15,000) to dealer David Schorsch for his own collection www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/amer... #antiques #antique #miniature #Hersey #Americana

The best kind of dog. At the NHADA annual antiques show, Judith and James Milne asked $4800 for the circa 1910 American cast-iron dog with a bone. It retains its old original surface. www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/the-... #antiques #antique #vintage #art #artist #castiron #dog #dogs

The New England country Federal demilune table, 35" x 29¼" x 14¼", on triangular base, c1825, with original mustard & brown paint has a distinctive backsplash with volute ends and brought $4725 (est. $1000/2000) at Eldred's www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/the-... #antiques #antique #furniture

Severin Roesen, "Still Life with Summer Fruit and Bird’s Nest," oil on canvas, 34" x 34", consigned by the Atlanta History Center to benefit the care and preservation of the collections, sold for $41,600 (e $20,000/30,000) at Freeman's www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/wint... #art #artist #Roesen

This 10¼" diameter redware plate, slip decorated with the words “Apple Pie,” reached $4800 (est. $2000/3000) at William Smith Auctions. It was made in the mid-19th century, probably in Connecticut. www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/fren... #antiques #antique #vintage #redware #applepie

At the Wells Show: This Massachusetts tiger maple four-drawer Chippendale chest of drawers was priced at $5500 by Hilary and Paulette Nolan of Falmouth, Massachusetts www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/colo... #antiques #antique #furniture #Americana

At the Summer Bath Antique Sale: The large basin of tin-glazed earthenware is probably from Portugal, late 19th/early 20th century. Measuring a whopping 27½" in diameter, it was $2250 from Jewett-Berdan Antiques www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/bath... #antiques #antique #vintage #basin

The calling golden plover, circa 1880, 10½", with an uplifted head, split-tail carving, and fine paint was carved by Quogue, New York, carver John Dilley. It brought $24,600 (est. $20,000/30,000) at Copley Fine Art Auctions www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/copl... #antiques #art #birds #deocys

This 1830 14" x 12" oil on paper portrait of a young woman is attributed to George G. Hartwell. Even though it’s not in great condition, it brought $3480 (est. $300/500) at William Smith Auctions. www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/fren... #folkart #art #antiques #portrait #Hartwell #Americana

At the NHADA Show: The circa 1850 stoneware face vessel fragment is attributed to James Hamilton of Beaver, Pennsylvania. The original jug would have been in the 20- to 25-gallon capacity. Allan Katz asked $25,000 www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/the-... #antiques #antique #folkart #stoneware

At the Deerfield Show: Joe Martin of Lyndonville, Vermont, priced this marquetry table at $4000. The patriotic design primarily consists of stars and numerous American flags. www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/the-... #antiques #antique #vintage #folkart #patriotic #America #USA #Americana #table

Helen La France (1919-2020) ooc, 18" x 24", depicting a black congregation gathering for a picnic. Dated 1998, it sold for $10,370 (e. $4000/4800) at Case Auctions. The self-taught black artist from Kentucky began painting in her 40s www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/summ... #art #Kentucky #artist

William Edmondson (1874-1951), "Mother and Child," a carved limestone sculpture, 13" x 5¼" x 5 1/3", illustrated in "Visions in Stone: The Sculpture of William Edmondson," sold for $244,000 (e. $60,000/70,000) at Case Auctions www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/summ... #art #sculpture #folkart

At the NHADA show: The rare sack-back Windsor highchair is branded “E. Tracy” (Ebenezer Tracy, 1744-1803) & has traces of the original pale green paint. From Lisbon, Connecticut, the 1780-1800 chair was $16,500 from N. Liverant and Son www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/the-... #antiques #furniture

Bennington flint enamel lion figure with ball is from Bennington, Vermont, 9¼" H x 10¾" L, 1849-52. It's impressed with a patent date and partially readable maker’s mark, “Lyman Fenton & Co.” It sold for $3802.50 (e $2000/4000) at Heckler's www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/dive... #antiques #lion

At the annual NHADA antiques show: The glass lily pad pitcher blown by Matt Johnson at a New York glass factory, circa 1840, ex-David Good, was $28,500 from Noordsy Antiques, Cornwall, Vermont www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/the-... #antiques #antique #glass #lilypad #art #pitcher #Americana