Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates will conduct their 17th annual spring auction of 18th and 19th century glass and lighting on Wednesday, May 18 beginning at 9:30 a.m. EST. The sale will comprise a wide variety of American, English, and European wares featuring the 40-plus year collection of the late Franklin Stoneburner of Delavan, Wis.; selections from the Suzanne and Robert Fratus collection of Cape Cod, Mass.; the Anne Serra collection of Cuba, N.Y.; material deaccessioned by the Sandwich Glass Museum; plus other consignors.
Highlights will include a fine selection of 50-plus colored lacy salts including seven different boats; other rare pressed lacy tableware; fine Sandwich and other colored vases and candlesticks; whale oil and fluid lighting including many rare colored examples; fine cut overlay and other early kerosene lighting; a collection of Sandwich and other cologne bottles/dresser articles; New England and Midwestern free-blown wares; blown-molded glass including many rare examples of blown three mold; rare colored and colorless pillar-molded wares; early flasks and bottles; a collection of witch balls; Pittsburgh and other early cut glass; rare cup plates; blown and pressed toys/miniatures; antique paperweights; fine cut-overlay and marbrie-decorated wares; plus more.
The catalogue will be posted at www.jeffreysevans.com as well as on Live Auctioneers and Invaluable by Monday, May 9. Preview times at the auction gallery begin on Monday, May 16.
For further information, call 540-434-3939 or email info@jeffreysevans.com.