Kaminski Auction
October 29 at 11 am
44 Garden Street, Danvers, MA 01923
www.kaminskiauctions.com
978-927-2223

DANVERS, MASS. — Kaminski Auctions will present Part Two of the Anthony Athanas collection, the restauranteur of Anthony’s Pier 4 fame. The auction will take place Saturday, October 29, at the Athanas warehouse in Danvers. The auction will include furniture, furnishings and fine art from the General Glover House in Swampscott, Mass., and Anthony’s Cummaquid Inn in Yarmouth Port, Mass.

Anthanas, a self-made millionaire, had restaurants that at one point had sales close to $12 million annually and served more than 700,000 meals per year. In the 1960s and 1970s Anthony’s Pier 4 was the place to be seen in Boston. It was the go-to restaurant for out-of-town celebrities, athletes and film stars visiting the city

His hard work and attention to detail permeated every aspect of running his restaurants, including decorating each one with unique original furniture and nautical antiques. In May 1970, Athanas attended the auction conducted by the David Weisz Company, which auctioned off the furniture and furnishings from the Metro Goldwyn Mayer film sets in Hollywood, Calif. Many of the furnishings original to his four restaurants came from this historic sale.

Of particular interest from the David Weisz Company sale is a Seventeenth Century Italian cassone with intricately carved leaf decoration and detailed marquetry inlay of hunt scenes. The inlay is a combination of specialty woods and bone, the cassone has carved gargoyle corner posts and large hairy paw feet ($5,5/8,500).

Fine art in the auction features two Louis Dodd (British, 1943-2006) paintings. The first, titled “The 74-Gun Vermont,” portrays the last American ship of the line in the East River New York. It is an oil on board, signed, and the second, also oil on board, is titled “Ship Flying American Flag,” Both are from the General Glover House in Swampscott.

A Yamaha ebony case “Disklavier II” player piano with a matching leather-top stool and the original manual is also on offer, along with a cased wooden ship model of the HMS Speedwell, built in 1875 and restored by M. Costagliola in 1967, from Anthony’s Cummaquid Inn in Yarmouth Port.

Decorative items continue with a selection of several large carved and paint-decorated wooden fish, several more cased wooden ship models, wrought iron weathervanes, carved trade signs, English brass sextants from Heath & Co, London, and ships binnacles.

Silver from the restaurants includes a pair of circa 1830 wine coolers, several pairs of Reed & Barton silverplate champagne buckets on matching stands, a silverplate covered food warmer and pairs of three-branch silverplate candelabra.

This auction will take place Saturday, October 29, starting at 11 am EST at 44 Garden Street in Danvers. Preview days are Wednesday-Friday, October 26-28, 10 am to 4 pm. On the day of the sale, preview begins at 8 am and is open while the auction is live. For information, www.kaminskiauctions.com, 978-927-2223 or 508-367-4311.

The Anthony Athanas Collection: Contents of The General Glover House & The Cummaquid Inn in Swampscott, MA.
Preview to be held at 44 Garden Street, Danvers, MA 01923, from October 26th-28th (Wednesday-Friday 10-4 PM). The preview is open while the auction is live starting at 9 AM.