Hybrid Sale Slated For Aug. 30 At William Bunch Auctions
The sale is freckled with an array of American decorative arts and antiques, including Victorian Gone With the Wind lamps, oil lamps, occupational shaving mugs, Roly Poly Brownie tobacco tins, World War II propaganda pins, Baccarat art glass, stoneware, redware, woven baskets, buckets, pantry boxes, wrought iron, cast iron, pewter, walking sticks, decoys, coverlets, and more.
A private collector in Williamstown, N.J., consigned nearly 100 Victorian-era lamps along with more than 30 pieces of blue decorated stoneware and 38 clocks.
The assortment of clocks includes tall clocks, shelf clocks, wall clocks, wag-on-the-wall clocks, Art Nouveau mantle clocks, China case clocks, and French figural clocks, among others. A circa 1800 mahogany eight-day tall clock is expected to bring $1,500$2,500. A fascinating mixed wood folk art cathedral clock that will surely catch a few collectors eyes is estimated at $400$800.
Some unique lots will include seven Roly Poly tobacco tins. All original and scarcely found on todays collectable market, these tins date to circa 1912. In that year, Mayos Tobacco Company packaged its cut plug tobacco in tins with lithographed characters that each held one pound of tobacco and were opened by untwisting the head. The tobacco tins are estimated to bring anywhere from $100$600 per lot.
Additionally, the hybrid sale will feature 18 lots of occupational shaving mugs. At the turn of the 20th century, barbershops across the U.S. displayed personalized shaving mugs of their shop attendees. The mugs generally had the customers name and a hand-painted sketch of his occupation. The mugs are estimated to bring anywhere between $100$400 each.
The Aug. 30 sale will offer furniture selections including a seven-piece carved mahogany French-style bedroom suite ($1,200$1,800), a pair of mahogany American Federal banquet table ends ($600$1,200), and a chic Arne Vodder for Sibast rosewood dining room suite ($2,000$4,000). Other items will include armchairs, end tables, jelly cupboards, coffee tables, and servers.
Drawing in fine art collectors, the sale will feature everything from oil paintings to digital print photography to signed serigraphs. A Dutch School oil-on-canvas portrait titled Bog With Rommelpot is estimated at $600$1,200. The sale will feature another Dutch artist, Lodewikl Bruckman (1913-80). Bruckmans oil-on-canvas titled Still Life With Fruit, Basket, and Cloth is expected to bring $600$1,200. Several digital prints by James Pryor (American, 20th century) will be offered. An array of other reasonably priced pieces of original artwork will be available in both sections of the hybrid auction. Cataloged art can be viewed online at www.bunchauctions.com/auctions. Non-cataloged auction lot photos will be posted on Friday, Aug. 26, at www.bunchauctions.com.
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