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A quality auction of 450 lots of fresh Estate merchandise, the highlights include what is photographed and mentioned through-out this site, as well as : Paintings & Art: rocky shore oil on canvas signed W M Chase (Wm. Merritt Chase) 10" x 18"; o/c moon-rise signed R.A. Blakelock, 21" x 15" (both recent attic finds in Hampton Falls, NH); 6' x 10' major work o/c featuring Pegasus by Vesper Lincoln George (attic find Concord, NH); Watkins rocky coast o/c; nautical engravings by Arthur Briscoe; etc. Sterling Silver: ca. 1905 6-piece Black, Star & Frost tea service #1833R, highly chased, bone finials, large & heavy; huge matching Black, Star & Frost 28-inch serving tray; pair of Black, Star & Frost compotes; Black, Star & Frost gold wash center bowl; 12" Gorham Martele tray; Tiffany gold wash compote; Tiffany sandwich tongs; Tiffany flask; early tea caddie; 4-piece Reed & Barton tea service; Stieff & Towle Old Mirror flatware; etc. Estate Jewelry: striking 1.51 ct. round cut diamond (SI1) in Tiffany mount; nice selection of vintage gold & sterling; costume lots; etc.; Coins: complete Walking Liberty half-dollar album incl. 1921, '21D, '21S; complete Buffalo nickel album including better dates; US $10 Gold large note; 1906 US $2.5; 1978 $1 Krugerrand; etc. Musical Instruments: Martin guitar Model 00-21, 1972; Martin guitar Model 0-18, 1961; Gibson L4-C electric guitar, 1957; Bart Reitter 5-string banjo w/ internal resonator; AC Fairbanks Whyte Laydie No. 2 5-string banjo with eagle head inlay; Bacon Professional FF 5-string banjo; Coles Eclipse 5-string banjo; Vega Little Wonderer tenor banjo; Vega Fairbanks Whyte Laydie Style-R tenor banjo; Gibson A-4 mandolin, 1917; Gibson A-2 mandolin, 1917; several concertinas. Scientific Instruments: rare 1850's Aug. Oertlig chemical balance; brass surveyors transits by Berger & Sons, Boston; H M Poole, Easton, Mass.; Keuffel & Esser, New York; Gurley, NY; brass measuring microscope; brass laboratory microscope camera; Carl Ziess microscope; early scientific vacuum pump; WW II instruments: rare Keuffel & Esser, NY aerological theodolite (aka Darad Sextant); Pioneer Mark IV aircraft octant Type 3004-A; USN Mark-6 Model-1 worm drive gunners quadrant; Mark II Drift Recorder; gun sighting telescope Model 376; portable liquid filled tank compass Kelvin, Bottomley & Baird, Glasgow; Japanese navigating instrument; etc. Other Folk Art: exquisitely detailed 1834 sampler by Maria Himines; fish decoys; carved eagle; carved fish plaque; carved pipe of a man; Martin house; doll house; garden rabbits & frogs; etc. Other Furniture: see photos, and ... Empire sideboard; 46" marquetry inlaid tilt-top parlor table on quad-column supports; Derby single-pedestal oak roll-top; pine table in old green paint; Victorian sewing table; mahogany document box on stand; twist column kettle stand; oak curved glass china cabinet; mah. twin flip top dressing table; etc. Clocks & Watches: 1944 Rolex Oyster wristwatch; 1825 18K key wind English pocketwatch by H&S; Bucherer 18K ladies wristwatch; 23-jewel Bunn Special RR pw; Eli Terry pillar & scroll clock; 48" tall Gustav Becker 2-weight Vienna Regulator, dated 1877; painted dial Grandmother tall clock; French 4-glass mantle clock; Jerome steeple clock; Chelsea bakelite USN ships clock; 5-dial wheel barometer; Other Items of Interest: early Shaker rocker; 6" Shaker box; flintlock pistol; 1842 USN Naval boarding cutlass; CW NCO sword; 1889 police billy club w/ retractable spikes; double-bank students lamp; vintage toys; 1841 Seaman's Journal, the voyage of the ship Sophia of Boston to Calcutta; 5-gallon redware churn w/ black slip glaze; (12) oyster plates; Royal Crown Derby Imari china; Old Ivory tea set; mocha bowl; Majolica Hummingbird pitcher; Miessen Onion; Loy-Nel McCoy 15" standard glaze vase; vintage Arts & Crafts pillows; Japanese woodblock prints; Navajo blankets; Frank Jones Ale mug; lamps & lighting. Leatherbound BOOKS: The British Essayists, 1823 in (38) leather-bound vols.; 1st American printing of Scott's Last Expedition, 1913 in (2) vols.; Essays on Physiognomy 1804; The American Soldier & Sailor in War, 1898; Slavery: or, The Times, 1792 London, in (2) vols.; Wm. Morris in (5) vols.; Wilbur's Astronomy 1836 Worcester, Mass.; 1614 History of the World; early 1800's Portsmouth and N.H. books; antique furniture & folk art reference book; Footprints of Assurance; etc. Paper: 150-page 1778 Artillery day book from Ft. Arnold, NY;1699 New Castle, NH tax protest letter, signed by Th. Atkinson, J. Waymouth, Wm. Kelly; 1923 South Paris, Maine KKK certificate; 1844 Plaistow, NH ledger; (2) Room-size & (12) mat-size Oriental rugs; ETC. Photography: 1/2-plate dag of the 1856 graduating class of Brown University w/ 28 students; post-mortem dag; post-mortem ambro; 1859 1/2-plate ambro of a gravesite; 1/4-plate dag of a boy and his toy sailboat; ambro of a family of 8, man with violin; (2) 1/4-plate ambro landscapes with people; dag memorial locket; etc.!!