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BRIGGS AUCTION, INC. SPECTACULAR ESTATE ANTIQUE AUCTION FRIDAY, MAY 20^th, 2005 This Exciting Auction Featured an Excellent Assortment of Items Fresh To the Marketplace from Local Estates and Collections, including: Formal and Country Antique Furniture Quality Reproduction Furnishings Clocks • Fine Art Estate Oriental Carpets Decorative Accessories Country and Asian Accessories Sterling/Silver Fine Porcelains & China, Crystal & Glassware, Art Pottery Fine Estate Jewelry, and More Items from MAIN LINE and DELAWARE VALLEY Homes and Estates in Chestnut Hill, Media, Philadelphia, Broomall & Kennett Square, PA, and Wilmington, & Millford, DE, with additions.
SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS: (Note: All prices include 10% Buyer's Premium)
FORMAL AND COUNTRY ANTIQUE FURNITURE
Walnut Queen Anne Tavern Table with Breadboard Top $6,050	English Hepplewhite inlaid-Mahogany Sideboard on Tapered Legs $3,850	Federal Pine 2-pc. Corner Cabinet on Bracket Feet $3,300
Salmon-decorated Corner Cabinet with yellow-sunburst painted panels $2,420	French Inlaid Music Cabinet with marble top and ormolu mounts $1,760	24-drawer Apothecary Cabinet in Green Paint $1,705
Set 6 Mahogany bench-made Chippendale-style Dining Chairs (Attrib to Feldencress, Philadelphia) $1,540
CLOCKS
Gilt-trimmed Presentation Girandole Wall Clock, with reverse painting of Classical Scene, hand-crafted by Victor Wadlund, Broomall, PA $4,180	Gilt-trimmed Presentation Banjo Wall Clock, with reverse painting, hand-crafted by Victor Wadlund, Broomall, PA $1,650	Gilt-trimmed Presentation Banjo Wall Clock, with reverse painting, of the battle of the Constitution, hand-crafted by Victor Wadlund, Broomall, PA $1,045
ESTATE ORIENTAL CARPETS
Room-size Serapi (9' x 12') $13,750	Room-size Bidjar (9' x 15'4") $6,380
FINE ART
Oil/Canvas of Sailboats, signed "Paul King" (image size: 4" x 5") $3,630	Oil/Canvas, Still Life/Hunt Scene with Gamebirds, signed "Wimmer" (41-1/2" x 49-1/4") $3,960	Oil/Canvas, Sailboat Scene, Signed "R. Wimmer" (35-1/2" x 20" $3,520
Oil/Canvas of Mother Cat with Kittens, signed "Wimmer"; early 20th C. (31" x 23-1/2") $1,760
STERLING SILVER
Tiffany & Co. Sterling, including Hourglass-shaped Wine Carafe with raspberry finial $990 Art Deco Footed Center Bowl $715 Ornate Sterling Picture frame (not pictured) $2,090	Tiffany & Co. Sterling Water Pitcher $935
FINE PORCELAINS & CHINA / CRYSTAL & GLASSWARE, ETC.
Heavy Lalique Glass Vase with swirl design $468 2 Lalique Frosted-glass Bud Vases with raised-leaf decoration $1,128	Pair of Dresden German Porcelain Figures of Children $1,100	Herend Floral-decorated Soup Tureen with underplate and Bird finial $880
Pair of Glass Plates with Enameled Butterfly and Fern Decoration $660	Large Art Nouveau Belleek Vase with Peacock Decoration $550	Lot of Bureau/Trinket Boxes, including Japanese Lacquered Box $1,320 Brass-bound Enameled Box with floral design $715 White French-style Bureau Box with 2 miniature Perfume Bottles $495 Ruby-glass Brass-bound Box with 4 miniature glass Perfume Bottles $770 Chinese Silver Trinket Box with Enamel and Gemstone Decoration $468 Cut-glass Bureau Box with Sterling Trim (not pictured) $770

ESTATE FINE JEWELRY
14k Yellow Gold Ring with apx. 7.85 Oval Opal Cabochon, surrounded by Diamonds $1,980	Lot of 5 14k Yellow Gold Charm Bracelets with assorted 14k & 18k Yellow Gold Charms $1,870	Round, Brilliant-cut Unset Diamond; aprox. 1.0ct $1,870
18k Yellow Gold Panther-link Necklace $1,155	14k Yellow Gold Charm Bracelet with 28 Charms $1,320
OTHER NOTABLE ITEMS
Wide Mahogany Breakfront, bench-made by Charles Bus Talley, Wilmington, DE $2,200 Inlaid, Double-pedestal Dining Table with 2 leaves $1,075 Tall Secretary Desk with glass-door bookcase top, and fitted interior $1,100 Pine Settle with raised-panel Back $1,760 Set of 8 Inlaid Dining Room Chairs with matching Chair-back Settee $1,705 Step-back Pewter Cupboard with twist-column front and inlaid drawer fronts $1980 Carved-Walnut Tall-case Clock with Phases of Moon Dial $3,300 Room-size Oriental Carpet; 10' x 13'5" $2,970 Signed Duck Decoy (Mergansen) $363 Blue-decorated Stoneware Pitcher with brown slip interior $550 Stoneware Crock signed Reppart, Greensboro, PA $523 Small Redware Pottery Pitcher with spout on side $253 Miniature Blanket Chest on bracket feet, bench-made by Marshall Brinton $550 3 Chippendale-style Courting Mirrors, bench-made by Marshall Brinton $396 Set of 4 Silk Needleworks of Racing Themes by Stevens $743 Aprox. 117 pcs of Meissen Blue & White Dinnerware, sold in 23 lots $1659 total Lenox Cobalt Tea Set with Silver Overlay $770 Set 8 Royal Doulton Service Plates with ornate gilded border $468 Set 12 square Limoges Game Plates $220 Set 11 square Limoges Fruit Plates $176 Set 12 Imari Luncheon Plates $550 European Porcelain Urn with snake-design handle $578 Heavy, cut-glass Vase with Bronze mounts, signed "Harris" $688 Crystal and Brass-bound Inkwell $385 Ruby Cameo-glass Perfume Bottle (no lid) $605 French Daum-Nancy Art-glass Vase $330 Small Cloisonne "fish"-decorated Vase with Stand $330 Pr. Matching Japanese Cloisonné Vases $385 German Bisque Baby Doll $451 Ornate Metal Incense Burner with 2 handles $330 $20 US Gold Coin on 1k Yellow Gold Rope Chain $825 14k Yellow Gold Mesh Bracelet with Plaque Charms, Pearl and Foxtail Fringe $495 Schreiner Costume Demi-parure in Yellow, consisting of Necklace Bracelet, Earrings $275

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