This arresting upstate New York Regionalist Precisionism painting conveys the grittiness of the urban train yard, in the early dawn hours just before the hustle and bustle begins, just as night is beginning to lift, in the years following World War Two. The painting is oil on canvas on board, signed and dated 1954 by R. Hasreiter. This industrial painting depicts the downtown area around the Central Train Terminal in upstate New York, with N.Y.C. clearly marked on the railroad car, symbolic init ...click for details
This wonderful circa 1870s-90s oil on canvas rendition of the Civil War Bouquet Battery memorializes a well known image that first appeared in the June 1, 1861 edition of "Harper's Weekly. This Battery was a strategic outpost at the Relay House erected on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad crossing on the Patapsco River near Baltimore. The Battery comanded the bridge at the Relay House and was manned by Union volunteers who searched all trains going west to Washington and points south. O ...click for details
This extremely well executed large miniature oil on ivory half-length portrait depicts a British officer in the Royal Artillery. He is in full dress uniform with his white-gloved hand resting on the bill of his forage cap. He sports large bushy sideburns and his sword rests at his side. The painting is quite large, measuring 4 x 3 inches, and sits in a new frame that measures 6-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches. The portrait is behind UV museum quality glass.
Antique miniatures have been around for 450 year ...click for details
This delightful antique miniature portrait of the pretty young Comtesse di Folleville seated at her harp. Of watercolor on elephant ivory and enhanced with a silver gilt frame, the portrait depicts the young lady seated at her harp, dressed in a billowy pink gown, with hair fashionably powdered. The hallmarked frame is backed with the original silk, and the painting is signed lower right (appears to be the name Delaurent) and covered with glass. Dimensions: 3-1/2 x 2-1/2 inches.
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This lovely sterling silver dish by Reed & Barton in the ever popular Francis I pattern was made in 1953 (see date letter). Dimensions: 11-3/4 x 7-1/2 inches end to end; 7 x 3-1/4 inches, flat surface. Weight: 14.21 troy ounces.
It's always a treat to find a set of 6 vintage sterlng silver goblets free of monograms. this one dates from the 1920s and is especially nice. The goblets are by Amston, the Meriden, CT silver maker which went out of business in 1960. These measure 6-1/2 inches high x 3-3/8 inches at the top and 3-3/8 inches in diameter at the top x 2-3/4 inches in diameter at the base. They weigh approximately 3.99 troy ounces each.
Here are 3 vintage sterling silver Wallace 122 goblets with no monogram. Wallace is a successor to a silver company that began as early as 1833 and produced especially fine holloware in the 1950s, when these goblets were likely made. With gold washed interiors, the goblets measure 6-3/4 inches high x 3-1/2 inches in diameter at the top and 3 inches in diameter at the base. They weigh on average approximately 4.24 troy ounces. They are $180 each.
Everyone wants one of these Gorham A1693 sterling silver goblets, and they are especially desirable to many people without a monogram. Dimensions: 6-1/2 inches in height x 3-1/2 inches in diameter at the top x 2-3/4 inches in diameter at the base. The goblet has a gold washed interior, bears the date letter (tree) for 1928, and weighs 4.44 troy ounces. Grab it before someone else does!
These ever popular Gorham 1693 sterling silver goblets are quickly snapped up whenever they come on the market to fill in, whether they are monogrammed or not. These 3 goblets have a gorgeous period (1925) "W" monogram. The goblets measure 6-1/2 inches in height x 3-1/2 inches in diameter at the top and 2-3/4 inches in diamter at the base. They weigh an average of 4.63 troy ounces. Each one sells for $195.
In 1906-7 Gorham acquired several silver companies and they began to operate ...click for details
William Meyerowitz was born in the Ukraine, Russia 1885 or 1887 and died in New York City in 1981. He emigrated from Russia with his father to New York in 1908, leaving the rest of his family behind. They took up quarters in the Lower East Side of New York on Orchard Street. Through a childhood job with an architect, he began to show promise with his drawing. He studied at the National Academy of Design from 1912-1916, and won honorable mention in the Prix de Rome in 1917.
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