This terrific sterling silver railroad presentation pitcher was made by Reed & Barton and was presented to George W. Wildin, President of the New York Railroad Club on December 18, 1914 from the Executive Committee. The New York Railroad Club appears to be a forum for railroad executives which met as long ago as 1896 to discuss common railroad issues like safety and capacity of freight cars. (See the NY Times archived article from an 1896 New York Railroad Club meeting minutes.)Many names im ...click for details
This exceptional circa 1920s English fox hunting scene watercolor entitled "Full Cry" is signed lower left by the artist H. Murray and has been archivally framed in a black glass mat. H. Murray is a pseudonym for the Birmingham, England illustrator Horace Hammond, who flourished in England around 1920. Hammond also worked under the pseudonyms of J. Barclay and A.D. Bell. Hammond worked in the style of Myles Birket Foster (1825-1899). Foster's landscapes and watercolors were typical ...click for details
ALFONS BACH (American, 1904-1999) painted this Modernist oil on board depiction of Florida Sailboats circa 1950s-60s. Signed l.r., it measures 24 x 20 in., sight size, floating in a frame with overall size 27-3/4 x 23-3/4 in. Born in Magdeburg, Germany, Alfons Bach studied architecture at the University of Berlin and at the Reimann School. He came to the U.S. in 1926 and established an industrial design firm in 1932 in New York City. In 1937 he moved to Stamford, CT, becoming president of the Am ...click for details
This wonderful 1930s Eames-era podium/lectern/register stand was made by the St. Louis firm Royal Bond, Inc. It is lighted and would be terrific in your foyer or up front in your restaurant. Dimensions: 46 inches high; lecturn measures 15 x 18 inches; base 11 inches in diameter. Very good condition.
This Modernist oil on canvas painting was painted by the abstract artist Thomas Brownell Eldred (1903-1993). The painting is signed lower right, is unframed, and dimensions are 32 inches x 22.
Like so many aspiring artists of the 1920s and 30s, notably Jackson Pollock, Thomas Brownell Eldred (1903-1993) studied in New York City at the Art Student’s League with the famous Thomas Hart Benton and Guy Pene du Bois. Eldred was born in Climax, MI where the walls of his childhood home became surfaces ...click for details
This Modernist oil on canvas depiction of a reclining figure measures 26 x 35 inches, unframed, and is signed upper right. Like so many aspiring artists of the 1920s and 30s, notably Jackson Pollock, Thomas Brownell Eldred (1903-1993) studied in New
York City at the Art Student’s League with the famous Thomas Hart Benton and Guy Pene du Bois. Eldred was born in Climax, MI where the walls of his childhood home became surfaces for his illustrations and doodles.
He studied economics at Kalamazo ...click for details
This American Victorian sterling silver four-piece child's set was made by William B. Kerr & Co. (Newark, NJ, 1885-1906. An extreme rarity in its completeness, the set consists of a plate, a creamer, a porridge or cereal bowl, and a mug. In 20 years, this is the first complete set we have seen. The Kerr firm was purchased by Gorham in 1906 and eventually moved to Providence in 1927. Each piece is beautifully monogrammed AEH. Dimensions are as follows: Plate, 6-1/2 in. in diameter, weighi ...click for details
This handsome vintage presentation walking stick sports a gold-filled knob handle above an ebonized ebony shaft that terminates in a bi-metal tip. The handle, which is 2 inches in length by 1-1/2 inches in diameter, is engraved in beautiful old script "Louis Rohrer Presented by the Students and Graduates of Rohrer's Commercial College." The tip is 1-2/4 inches and overall length of the stick is 34-1/2 inches. There is a Rohrer College of Business at Rowan University in Glassboro, N ...click for details
Elmo Gideon (b. 1924-) studied Impressionist art techniques in Paris and this painting dates from that period. An American painter and sculptor of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, he is 85 years old and currently lives in Thomasville, Georgia where he still creates art. His paintings and sculptures included works of the Holocaust. Signed Gideon (though early works were sometimes signed E. Gideon), he covered a great many artistic styles----Abstract, Impressionist, Modernist, portr ...click for details
This large oil on canvas urban scene by George Humbert Cuneo (American, 1898-1991) depicts Pier 7 at the New Jersey Train Yard. Cuneo was born in Carlstadt, NJ and painted there in the 1930s and 1940s but moved to Maryland by the 1950s, maybe earlier. Cuneo studied at Beaux-Arts Institute of Design (NYC), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the U. of Kentucky, University of Grenoble in France and Columbia University. He was Assistant State Director of Federal Arts Project (WPA) in New Jersey ...click for details
