SKINNER American Furniture & Decorative Arts

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428.
Paint-decorated Pine Chart Box, America, 19th century, hinged lid on
rectangular box, the top, front, and interior lid painted with stylized fruit
and flowers with foliage in red and yellow on a black ground, ht. 5 1/4,
wd. 32, dp. 7 in.
$1,000-1,500
429.
Shagreen-cased Drafting Kit, probably England, late 18th/early 19th
century, containing eleven ivory, ebony, brass, and steel instruments
with conforming compartments, in a black shagreen covered case with
hinged cover, (lacking one instrument), lg. 6 3/4 in.
$600-800
431.
Black-painted Copper Slant-front Binnacle Compass, by Negus,
New York, late 19th/early 20th century, slant-front case with carrying
handle and rectangular bevel-edge glazed viewing window, houses a
wet compass in gimbals with cardinal points in block lettering, fleur-delis
at North and maker’s inscription “Ritchie, Boston, USA,” with sidemounted
copper oil lamp, ht. 19 1/2 in.
$250-350
431A.
Carved Cane, England or America, 19th century, the carved bone
handhold in the form of a cow’s head joined by the ebony collar with
ivory band to the turned tapering rosewood shaft, and horn tip, lg. 38
1/2 in.
$300-500
430.
Mahogany-cased “Admiral Fitzroy’s Barometer,” England, late 19th
century, the barometer and thermometer on a lithograph printed paper
dial with Admiral Robert Fitzroy’s “Remarks,” (toning, losses, stains to
lithograph), 37 x 7 3/4 in.
Note: Admiral Robert Fitzroy was a career naval officer, who upon his
retirement from service in 1850 turned his attention to meteorology.
Though he did not design the barometers bearing his name, he is most
remembered for consolidating weather information and presenting his
“Remarks” which are printed on the barometers carrying his name,
which simply explains the meaning of rising or falling mercury.
$300-500
432.
Jonathan Orne Johnson “J.O.J.” Frost (Marblehead,
Massachusetts, 1852-1928)
THE BAY VIEW. Signed “J.O.J.F.” l.l., titled and rowing figures
identified “J.O.J. Frost/Stroke, Charles Coates, Joe Coffin, John Coffin”
in inscriptions below. Oil on board, 8 1/4 x 34 in., in a period molded
wood frame. Condition: Very good.
Provenance: The painting is reported to have been sold in the 1920s
by J.O.J. Frost to a Marblehead, Massachusetts, couple, and was
displayed at their summer home in Martha’s Vineyard.
$8,000-12,000
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