This French Louis XVI-style bed with drapery and matching cotton window drapes brought $18,200 and the highest price of both the first day and of both days overall. A “prominent” longtime buyer prevailed over competitors ($2/3,000).

Review by Madelia Hickman Ring

BEVERLY, MASS — Two weeks after Frank Kaminski and his team at Kaminski Auctions earned more than $1 million in two days auctioning the Susie Hilfiger Collection, the house was back in action September 20-21, selling more from the collection. Where the first round offered 900 lots, the second one was slightly smaller, with just about 700 lots. The second round of sales had a sell-through rate of about 90 percent compared to the 99 percent the earlier sale could boast. Totals after the first two days were reported to be about $1 million; the final tally after the second round was $1,736,384.

An upholstered Louis XVI-style bed with matching window drapes that sold on the first day brought top-lot honors and was purchased by what a representative for the firm called “a prominent buyer” from an undisclosed region. Estimated at $2/3,000, it brought $18,200.

Kaminski gets bidders from around the world and one of them — from Nassau, The Bahamas — won this pair of white-painted wooden palm leaf torchieres for $10,200 ($2/3,000).

Two lots — both offered on the first day — shared the second-highest price of $10,200. The first to hit that mark was a pair of torchieres in the form of palm leaves, that were cataloged as in the “manner of Serge Roche.” In working condition and rendered in white-painted wood, the 68-inch-tall floor lamps sold to an existing Kaminski customer living in The Bahamas.

A first-time buyer living near Syracuse, N.Y., took this Nineteenth Century British woolie of the HMS Shannon and USS Chesapeake to $10,200 ($1/2,000).

A few lots later, a Nineteenth Century British embroidered woolwork picture — called a “woolie” — that depicted the HMS Shannon and the USS Chesapeake also hit that price. Housed in a birds-eye maple frame, it sold to a new buyer from upstate New York.

The highest price of the second day of the two-day sale was $8,400, realized by this custom upholstered 92-inch-long sofa. It is going to a new home in Dallas ($1/2,000).

The second day offered a fair quantity of custom upholstered furniture, some of which surpassed expectations. A green- and cream-striped sofa with tufted back that measured 92 inches in length sold to a repeat buyer from Dallas, for $8,400.

This 41-inch-tall Nineteenth Century American convex mirror was white-painted and sold to a prominent buyer for $5,880 ($650/950).

The “prominent” buyer who prevailed at $5,880 for a white-painted Nineteenth Century American convex mirror may have been the same buyer who bought the bed with drapes and matching curtains.

Prices quoted include the buyer’s premium as reported by the auction house. For information, 978-927-2223 or www.kaminskiauctions.com.