We will begin at 4:00 in the afternoon with the selling of the rare books. You may continue to preview the non-book part of the auction during the book auction. At 5:30 PM we will begin selling the rest of the antiques and collectibles. The doors will open at 2:00 PM for inspection and preview. Rare Books include 1762 Thomas Chippendale’s Gentleman and Cabinet-Makers Directory with extensive plates & 1803 Thomas Sheraton’s The Cabinet Dictionary with extensive plates prepared by the London Mechanics Institute; 1924 first edition in 3-vols Dictionary of English Furniture by Macquoid & Edwards; 1902 first edition Ancient Coffers & Cupboards by Roe; collection of illustrated art books, monographs, and exhibition catalogues of modern artists such as Picasso, Degas, Cezanne, Rousseau, Matisse by Fry with 4-artist “drawn” silk-screens; etc.; 1854 McKenney’s Indian Tribes of No. America, vol. III with 32 color plates; Red Harvest by D. Hammett; children’s books, history, travel, lit., etc.

Also, a nice selection of Furniture: Chippendale mirror with Eagle finial; Empire ebonized & giltwood pier mirror, 104” x 34”; tavern table; dolphin-carved side table; Chippendale side-chair with Spanish feet; German side-board with highly carved hunting scene; Eastlake marble-top sideboard with mirror; Larkin side-by-side w/ leaded glass; Mahogany curved glass china cupboard, similar sideboard; mahogany ball & claw-foot dining table; several nice pieces of Mission including a rare Gustav Stickley 16-spindle bent-arm Morris chair with the original cushions; also, grain-painted cashiers desk; cabinets, painted wash-stands, blanket chests, card tables, 2-door hanging cabinet w/ tin elk; etc.

Paintings and artwork: watercolor of the US whaling ship Gov. Hopkins with whale and sharks by whaler A. Forest Sweatt; o/c abstract portrait by Franklin Chenault Watkins, NA; o/c still-life of apples by Willis Henry Plummer; w/c of a woman at shore by Melbourne H. Hardwick; forest w/c by Sir. Benjamin Wm. Leader, RA; o/c portrait of Wm. Denison, age 10, by JC Rutherford, Burke, VT, 1843; o/c Florence Howland, age 3, by Annie Crawford, Buffalo, NY, 1879; o/c Rough Seas Off Portland (Maine) by Thomas Bale; shoreline watercolor by A. Chester; Santa Lucia Mts. by Rexford Nelson Brandt, NA; miniature portrait on ivory of a young girl; locomotive w/c by F. Wenderoth Saunders; mt. landscape with dog by Henning Ryden; primitive still-life of strawberries; (2) signed Peter Max serigraphs; vintage Japanese woodblock prints by Hasui Kawase, Koitsu Tsuchiya & Toshi Yoshida; etc.

Also, 19^th-c. Boston full-bodied running-horse weathervane; 1751 violin by Tommaso Carcassi; Gibson 1917 Army-Navy mandolin; 1875 Fireman’s presentation speaking trumpet; Citizen’s Fire Society fire bucket; Albert Einstein signed letter; playing cards signed by Sitting Bull, Annie Oakley, Buffalo Bill; several great 1870’s 8-foot wooden signs from Peavey’s Hardware Store in downtown Portsmouth, the oldest operating hardware store in the country (213-years) that will soon close its doors including Fairbanks Scales, carved & gilt Hardware, Paints & Oils, etc.; Sterling silver by Tiffany, Gorham, G. Jensen letter opener; coin silver bowl by William Wise, NYC; coin silver spoons by Rbt. Gray & Jos. Clark of Portsmouth, NH; etc. National 324 brass cash register; early Louis Vuitton leather trunk; Handel lamp base; 3-pieces of matte green Hampshire Pottery; fabulous Weller jardinière in matte green; 50+ miniature oil lamps; cranberry glass hanging globe; toys including 3-mint Penny toys; Quadruped-series Staffordshire tea pot; photography includes a ½-plate ambro-type of a house in Kingston, NH, Civil War tin-type of a Mass. Infantryman, other nice dags and ambros; vintage clothing; Merrimack canoe; Conestoga Wagon door stop; Civil War letters; painted firkin; large 1798 English map; Scottish tall clock by An. Bell of Edinburgh and a faux-tortoise bracket clock by Thomas Pearce of Paris; large selection of good Estate jewelry including diamonds, jade, semi-precious stones, gold, silver, pocketwatches, Indian, signed costume, Mariam Haskel stick pin, etc.; Oriental rugs; large wooden model of the Royal Sovereign by Ivah Spinney; collection of White House & Presidential memorabilia from a retired 30-year employee including a desk lamp from the White House, Presidential & American flags flown on the Reagan Presidential & Vice-Pres. limos, etc. Modernism includes a neon light box sculpture by Varda Chryssa; Mackintosh ladder-back Hill House chair by Cassina; Elio Martinelli Cobra lamp; etc

Two (mostly) WW-II military collections: WW-I US Marine recruiting posters and Red Cross posters, found mostly unused in the attic of an old pharmacy in Worcester, Mass.; M42 SS helmet; SS officers black wool visor-cap; M35 winter camouflage helmet; M35 Army helmet with combat-issued bullet hole; M35 double-decal police helmet; Afrika-Corp pith helmet; M16 helmet; American Doughboy helmet with painted Bloody Bucket division insignia; WW-II US intelligence officers notebook concerning Luftwaffe; WW-I trench binoculars with leather case; WW-I trench lantern with multiple lenses; Navy Yard torpedo scale; badges, insignia, etc. 1854 English medals: Crimean War, China War & Turkish Crimes; Rev. War canteen; Span Am War embroidered motto w/ Eagle; etc.

Firearms include: 1902 DWM American Eagle Luger; 1941-byf Mauser Luger, sn724u with matching alum. clip, holster; 1939-S/42 Mauser Luger, sn 9622q w/ holster; 1940-S/42 Mauser Luger, sn 6944n; late war .45-cal P-38 Gray Ghost, sn 4190 w/ holster; late war Walther PPK .765 with police proofs; Japanese 3-barrel flare gun with leather holster; Jap Namboo revolver w/ holster; rare Mauser .22-cal training rifle; Mauser-98 with Nazi proofs; Springfield National Match M-1 Garand; Winchester 1917; Springfield 1898 Krag 30/40; Jap Arisaka rifle; Highly engraved 19^th-c. German parlor pistol Bartels Hofbuchen, Wiesbaden & Zella; 1861 Forehand & Wadsworth side-hammer revolver; 1831 USN flintlock by WL Evans, Valley Forge (parts value); 19^th-c. double barrel hammerless Parker shotgun; American Gun Co. NY shotgun;

Swords, etc. include: Indian Wars pole axe; 1^st Luftwaffe; Imperial Miners