DOWNINGTOWN, PENN. — Pook & Pook hosted the Collection of Margaret Berwind Schiffer on January 18, auctioning almost 400 lots of fine American antiques dating from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Centuries. The top lot of these was an important Pennsylvania Queen Anne walnut armchair, circa 1750, that sold over its high estimate at $88,200 ($50/80,000). An unusual and elegant form with the characteristically aged surface, the chair exhibited a shell carved crest over a solid splat, with outward scrolled arms terminating in knuckle hand rests. Matching shell carved cabriole legs with pointed slipper feet supported the chair’s compass seat. More on this sale and the firm’s January 19-20 Americana & International auctions in an upcoming issue.