Kelley Auctions saw standout antiques across a range of collecting categories at its July 8 auction.
With the majority of lots coming from a Hingham, Mass., ancestral home of a couple who traveled with Isabel Stewart Gardner, the top lots included a circa 1900 Zsolnay art pottery vase with Nabis-influenced decoration that attained $3,300 from a phone bidder; an unsigned mahogany R.J. Horner partners’ desk with griffins that went home with a floor bidder at $2,600 and a Nineteenth Century Paul Webber oil on canvas scene of man with a horse drinking from the same river with cows in a wooded landscape. Estimated to sell at $1/2,000, the 14-by-20-inch work sold at $2,150 to a phone bidder.
Other highlights included a Nineteenth Century Frederick Simpson Coburn artwork that sold for $1,700, a cobalt Nippon vase for $400, a Buddy L windup truck for $300, a Pickard bowl for $200 and Columbian Exposition 1893 admission tickets for $210.
In July, the auction house began expanding its facility to include 2,800 additional square feet of warehouse space and the addition of 25 new parking spaces. According to Marg-e Kelley of the auction house bearing her name, “Having more space will allow us to have our very popular weekly outdoor sale indoors, every week if necessary, and not just when the sun is shining!”
Kelley Auctions conducts an antiques and collectibles auction every Wednesday at 6 pm at its Holbrook facility, and is liquidating three to five new estates from all over New England and beyond each week.
All prices reported include a 15 percent buyer’s premium.
Kelley Auctions is at 476 South Franklin Street. For information, 781-767-5255 or www.kelleyauctions.net .
