On Monday, February 8th at 6:00 pm, Clarke Auction will sell 400 lots of its usual mix of the unusual, the exceptional, and the unique.

Estate Silver, a Clarke strength, features a heavily chased Ottoman-era lidded urn with a eagle finial poised over a possibly gold serpent. Other silver highlights include a tea service and flatware by Georg Jensen Denmark, a 175 piece service from Aldao Joyeria of Madrid, a Portuguese handled Bowl, heavy English Sterling, Tiffany flatware, and a c.1950 engraved Tiffany Sterling Globe in its original presentation box.

Decorative Arts includes a collection of Meissen birds, Lalique pieces, KPM and other porcelain plaques, a Dunhill Burl Humidor, c.1950 Baccarat Crystal Stemware in original box, KPM china, a large Kosta bowl, a French Crystal and Silver Ewer, a Bronze Easel-Form Vanity Mirror, a mounted Bronze Bust of a Goddess, possibly quite old with worn patina; and Madeleine Castaing Art Deco andirons.

Fine art includes include a large midcentury oil by National Academician Jonah Kinigstein, a Judaic Bronze Bust by David Aronson, watercolors by the late Rico Lebruna, Oils by the Ukrainian Sergei Belik, contemporary paintings by Pat Adam, a 1922 copy of a Raphael triptych, Art Bronzes by EM Melingue and CD Rauch, a large Parian group by Edouard Lanteri, and an oil by Patrick Nasmyth. Of special interest are three American primitive paintings of children, direct from a Larchmont estate.

Antique and Fine Furniture incudes a pair of decorative bronze-mounted marble-top commodes, possibly Horner dining chairs, sideboard, and settee, 19th C. American slant front desk and lowboy, an Empire chest with carved columns, and a Victorian desk as well as a Tiffany tallcase clock from a local new Rochelle estate.

“This sale is heavy with great silver, and it’s also extremely strong in fine art and sculpture, notes Ronan Clarke, founder and owner. “but if you’d like to add a Rolls Royce to your Mini, we have that as well.”

Onsite Previews Saturday-Sunday-Monday, February 6-7-8 12:00 noon to 6:00 pm.
Full catalogue at www.ClarkeNY.com

About Clarke Auction Gallery

Clarke Auction Gallery, Westchester’s Premier Auction Gallery, conducts catalogued sales monthly featuring distinctive fine and decorative arts, antiques, exceptional furniture, oriental rugs, sterling silver and mid-century modern. For further information, please contact us at (914)833-8336 or ccauctiongallery@aol.com

Website: http://www.ccauctiongallery.com

Contents from the historic Annesdale mansion-villa in Memphis, Tenn., plus several other private Southern collections and a marvelous collection of antique guns, will be sold Saturday, March 13, at 10 a.m., by Hal Hunt Auctions. The sale will be conducted at Hal Hunt Auctions’ spacious gallery, located at 5925 Hwy. 43 in Northport.

Annesdsale is a beautiful structure, originally built in 1855 by Dr. Samuel Marsfield as a wedding present for his wife. In 1869, a Mr. Robert Brinkley bought the mansion as a wedding gift for his daughter, Annie Overton Brinkley. The 200-acre estate (pronounced “Annie’s Dale”) was named in her honor. The treasures of Annesdsale comprise five generations of one family.

In 1876, Annie and her husband, Col. Robert Bogardus Snowden, spent their wedding anniversary at the Philadelphia Exposition, where they purchased many fine and unique furniture items that will be included in the sale. Their purchases included a 14-foot-long banquet table with matching marble-top sideboard, and a fantastic king-size bed with matching ornate mirror.

In 1932, the Snowdens purchased four magnificent and matching Gothic bookcases (also to be sold, with the sales receipt from 1932 and photographs) from the heirs of Helen Johnstone Harris, known as the ‘Bride of Annandale.’ Annandale is another mansion estate, similar in name to Annesdale, except it was in Madison County, Miss., and burned to the ground years ago.

Ms. Harris was known as the ‘Bride of Annandale’ because, on the eve of her wedding to Henry Vick, he was tragically killed in a duel. Three years later, she married a Confederate Episcopal chaplin, George Harris, and the couple built a mansion at Mt. Helena Plantation in Rolling Fork, Miss. The bookcases and other furnishings were moved by rail to Rolling Fork.

Some of the other items that will be sold at the March 13 auction include a Regina bow-front music box changer made around 1900, playing 15 ½ inch discs and rare because it has a stained glass door, not a plain glass door; numerous pieces of Sevres and Old Paris porcelain; and a John H. Belter rosewood dressing vanity, rosewood bed and étagère in the Rosalie pattern.

Also set to cross the block will be monumental bronze clock sets with cherubs; several pieces of great Pottier & Stymus Victorian furniture; and furniture by R.J. Horner, to include a winged lady’s partner’s desk, a winged desk and dining room table; a triple-door bookcase with Atlas men; and a matched pair of winged griffin lamps tables, about 42 inches in circumference.

Clocks made by R.J. Horner will include an 8 ½-foot-tall mahogany grandfather clock with winged griffins and cherubs, and an oak grandfather clock labeled Tiffany. Also sold will be furniture by Thomas Brooks; a J. & J.W. Meeks laminated marble-top center table; and old paneled glass lamps and leaded glass lamps by makers such as Wilkinson and Chicago Mosaic.

The bed furnished by the Snowdens at the Philadelphia Exposition of 1876 is a high-back Renaissance bed, an oversized queen (almost king) at 69 inches by 82 inches and with bronze plaques. Also purchased at the Exposition was a highly carved black walnut clock, similar to a mantel clock and made by Ferdinand Lapp. The clock was so striking it won awards at the show.

Rounding out the expected top lots: an acanthus carved 4-poster bed, 10 feet tall (from Annesdale); two gold leaf, 8-foot-tall over-the mantel mirrors in original condition (also from Annesdale); a 19th-century rose medallion center bowl with bronze mounts; two walnut Victorian regulator grandfather clocks (one a Gilbert, Regulator #7; and one an Ansonia, Regulator #11); and a monumental Mitchells & Rammelsberg walnut half tester bed, 9 ½ feet tall, circa 1865.

Antique paintings and sterling silver pieces will also cross the block March 13. In all, around 400 lots will come up for bid in a sale that will have no Internet bidding or phone bidding – only an in-house crowd and absentee bids. A preview is scheduled for Friday, March 12, from 10-6. To view photos of many of the lots to be offered, you may log on to www.halhunt.com.

Hal Hunt Auctions is always accepting quality consignments for future sales. The firm also purchases items and entire collections for resale at auction. To inquire about consigning or selling an item, an estate or an entire collection, you may call them directly, at (205) 333-2517, or you can e-mail them at halhunt@bellsouth.net

For more info, log on to www.halhunt.com

The two-day live auction will take place Saturday, February 27 and Sunday, February 28 at 10:00 a.m. CST daily. Auction registration and pre-bidding are already available by visiting www.proxibid.com/rockisland.

Firearms enthusiasts will not want to miss the opportunity to participate in this major auction. More than 2,200 lots will be available for live online bidding, including more than 5,000 firearms. Hundreds of lots of sporting and military arms, including more than 450 Colts, nearly 400 Winchesters are included in the auction catalog. More than 3,200 antique and curio/relic items, bullet molds, edged weapons and ammunition will cross the auction block during this two-day extravaganza.

Additional featured lots in this auction include:
• Lot 1: Composite Iron Frame Henry Lever Action Rifle, Est. $10,000-$15,000
• Lot 88: UMC Cartridge Board, Est. $5,000-$10,000
• Lot 2011: Winchester Model 1866 Lever Action Rifle in 44 Rimfire Configuration, Est. $4,500-$6,500
• Lot 2229: Custom-Made Smith & Wesson Type Lever-Action Magazine Repeating Pistol, Est. $7,500-$15,000

“With so many items to choose from, bidders will want to log in early and place their pre-bids,” said auctioneer Pat Hogan. “With live online bidding on Proxibid, we can ensure every firearms enthusiast has the opportunity to own the high-quality pieces crossing the block in this auction.”

For more information about this auction, to register to bid or to leave a pre-bid, please visit www.proxibid.com/rockisland.

An exceedingly rare group of three distinguished awards given to World War I German flying ace Adolf Ritter von Tutschek soared to $28,250 in an Internet and catalog auction that ended Jan. 23-24 by SoldUSA.com, the premier hunting and fishing, militaria and collectibles site. The group was the top earner of the more than 1,000 lots sold.

“Overall, this was a very positive auction,” said Chris Roberts of SoldUSA.com, “and already great consignments are pouring in for our next sale” (which will go online in early March and conclude Mar. 20-21). “On the first day of the sale, we had 1.7 million hits and had to re-start the system twice. We’ll have to tweak the software to make sure that doesn’t happen again.”

Of the estimated 42,000 bidders in SoldUSA.com’s database, around 3,000 registered to bid in the recent sale. “They were participating literally from all over the world,” Mr. Roberts said. “Bids came in from Ireland, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom. It was astounding. Collectors like the fact that we guarantee the authenticity of every single item we put up for bid.”

The von Tutschek lot consisted of his original named and engraved Pour Le Merit “Blue Max” award, a one-of-a-kind piece still in its original case and in excellent condition; his cased silver Iron Cross medal, boasting a nice silver age patina and with his name engraved on the reverse; and his engraved cut-out pilot’s badge, engraved with his name and in a leatherette box.

Von Tutschek was a soldier turned fighter pilot who began flying with Germany’s Jagstaffel 2 force in January 1917. He was later given command of the new Jagdeschwader 2 and began flying sorties in his new Fokker D-1 green tri-plane. The ace managed to rack up 27 confirmed kills before he himself was shot down and killed on Mar. 15, 1918, only 26 years old.

SoldUSA.com’s next big sale will go online in early March and conclude Mar. 20-21. Featured will be high-end ammo collectibles, advertising items, rare tin signs, die-cuts, posters, calendars and many other hunting and fishing collectibles, plus militaria. The auction after the March auction is slated for sometime in May, with start and end dates to be determined.

To learn more about SoldUSA.com and the Internet and catalog auction that starts in March, log on to www.SoldUSA.com. The firm is always looking for quality consignments for future sales. To consign an item or a collection, you may call them at (704) 815-1550, or you can e-mail them at croberts@SoldUSA.com. For more information, log on to www.SoldUSA.com

With 100 dealers, this year’s show has something for everyone. Visitors will see an enormous variety of treasures from our past from estate jewelry and art glass to original painted 18th century furniture and textiles, oriental rugs, clocks, toys, linens and lace, lighting, paintings and prints and everything else in-between. One can spend $5.00 or $5,000 at this show and walk away with a treasure.

The show management makes every effort to maintain customer confidence, with standards set to make sure that dealers present only authentic antiques and collectibles.

If all of the above isn’t enough, the food is “country fresh and tasty”; lovingly prepared by SCHA volunteers – hot soup, chili, macaroni and cheese, sandwiches, and delicious pies, cakes and cookies, fudge and peanut brittle. A cafe-style area with tables is set up in the hallways so customers can sit and relax.

Proceeds from the semi-annual antique shows fund the ongoing historic activities of the Schoharie Colonial Heritage Association. These include: the restoration and maintenance of the historic Schoharie Valley railroads grounds with its 1848 brick station house, restored baggage car and old Mill Building, used by various community groups, and the 1743 Lutheran Parsonage, the oldest building in Schoharie County.

“Antiques in Schoharie” has been a consistent winner due to the dedication of members of the Schoharie Colonial Heritage Association, the participation of antique dealers who always bring quality merchandise, and all of the other individuals who volunteer their time. The spring show will be held at the Schoharie Central School, Saturday, March 6, 10-5 and Sunday, March 7, 11-4. Admission is $6.00.

There will be plenty of parking available on the school grounds. For list of motels, B&Bs, restaurants or any other information call Debbie Tow at the SCHA office, 295-7505 or Ruth Anne Keese at 295-6214 or email: scha@midtel.net.