Main Line Auction, Inc, conducted recently conducted its inaugural sale featuring more than 485 lots of antiques and fine arts from 55 consigners. The highlight of the auction was a Passmore family Chester County spice box, circa 1760. The box, featuring double arched tombstone doors and ogee feet, sold for $92,000 – setting a world record for this style. The Passmore family Bible box, circa 1730, also attracted alot of interest and sold for $37,375. The box still held thePassmore family bible and numerous family documents, includingEnoch Passmore’s temperance lectures. A Chester County sampler, circa 1807, sold to a telephone bidder for $28,750 – just shy of the world record; and the Captain Samuel Rixey tall case clock, manufactured in 1871 by Aaron Willard Jr, sold for $34,500. Pennsylvania Impressionist Walter Baum’s “Road to Hendricks, Pennsylvania” sold for $7,475, and his “Church at Hosensack” sold for $5,175. Other artists represented in the sale included George Washington Nicholson, George Thompson Hobbs, Carl Weber, Carlton Thoedore Chapman, Yvonne Canu and Oscar Detering. Other items of note from the sale include two large japannedtin tea bins, manufactured by Henry Troemner Company ofPhiladelphia, circa 1850, that sold for $2,645; and a lock ofAbraham Lincoln’s hair made into a heart for the Great SanitaryFair of 1864 brought $1,610. A silver teapot, circa 1780, sold for $3,220; and a wonderful pair of continental porcelain urns signed by the artist, Collot, sold for $4,370. All prices include a 15 percent buyer’s premium.
01 Mar 2005 / 0 Comment
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