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	BRIGGS AUCTION, INC. SPECTACULAR ESTATE ANTIQUE AND FINE ART AUCTION DECEMBER 2^nd, 2006 This Exciting Auction Featured an Excellent Assortment of: Antique and Quality Reproduction Furniture Modern Furnishings Estate Fine Jewelry Fine Art; Clocks and Decorative Accessories Silver; Fine Porcelains, China, and Glass, and much more With Items from MAIN LINE and DELAWARE VALLEY Homes and Estates including the Estate of Constance Biddle, Newtown Square, PA, a Collection from Historic New Castle, DE, and additions.
SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS: (Note: All prices include 10% Buyer's Premium)
ANTIQUE AND CUSTOM REPRODUCTION FURNITURE
George Nakashima Cherry Furniture: Pr. 3-drawer Stands on cross-stretcher bases, $8,250; 2-tiered Coffee Table with free-form Top, $5,390; Pair of Armchairs, $2,860; 4-drawer Chest (Not Pictured), $4,290; Table with narrow free-form top (Not Pictured), $935	Queen Anne Walnut Candlestand with Birdcage Support $8,360	4 Queen Anne/Transitional Walnut Dining Chairs $3,630
Kittinger/Biggs "Old Dominion" Inlaid-Mahogany Sideboard $3,190	Kittinger Colonial Williamsburg (CW 37) Mahogany Hunt Board $2,750	Set 6 Centennial Chippendale-style Dining Room Chairs $2,420
Mahogany Henkle-Harris (VA Galleries) Corner Cabinet $2,365	Regency Brown-leather Armchair $2,200	Regency Inlaid Chest-on-Chest $1,980
NOT PICTURED: Carved-Mahogany Bookcase with bow-glass doors: $1,320 Mahogany 10-pc Chippendale-style Dining Room: $1,320 Victorian High-back Bed and matching marble-top Bureau: $1,265 Walnut Corner Cupboard with 12-light door, 2-door cupboard base: $1,210 Mission Oak Bookcase with 2 glass doors: $1,110	Centennial Mahogany Partner's Desk $1,925	Victorian Cherub-carved High-back Bed and Matching Bureau $1,760
ESTATE FINE JEWELRY
Platinum-set Diamond Ring with apx. 4.49ct Center stone flanked by 6 round, bezel-set accent Diamonds $20,900	3-stone Diamond Ring in Filigree Platinum Setting with accent Diamonds' apx. 3.73ct tdw $10,450	Platinum and Diamond Bracelet; apx. 6.33ct tdw $9,350
Diamond and Sapphire Ring set in Platinum (apx. .8 and .9ct Diamonds) $5,500	Diamond Engagement Ring set in Platinum; apx. 1.25ct $4,730	Bow-shaped Platinum Pin with Diamonds; apx. 2ct tdw $2,640
14k Opal and Diamond Pin; apx. 3ct tdw $2,420	Pr. 14k Diamond Earrings in "buttercup" setting; apx. 2.5ct tdw $2, 420	Diamond Ring in Filigree Platinum Setting $2,090
NOT PICTURED: 18k Coral Cameo Pendant: $1,100 Ladies' Elgin Platinum and Diamond Wristwatch: $1,320	18k "Blooming" Flower Pin with Gemstones $1,320	Platinum and Yellow Gold Bar Pin with Diamonds $1,980
CLOCKS / DECORATIVE ACCESSORIES / ORIENTAL CARPETS, ETC. SILVER
Elmer Stennes Dwarf Clock with Inlaid-Mahogany Case $3,190	Pr. Victorian Shell Sculptures under Glass Domes $2,750	Miniature Decorated Blanket Chest by Joseph Lehn $1,320
Room-size Kirman Carpet $2,200	Room-size Heriz Carpet $2,090	Presentation Wooden Walking Stick To Amelia Briggs, From FDR, 1937 $286
NOT PICTURED: Area-size Oriental Carpet: $1,430 Stevensgraph Framed Needlework of the Mersy Ferry: $264 Lithopane Lampshade (as is): $935 Brass Table Lamp (Cornelius, Philadelphia): $385	Handel Table Lamp with leaded green glass Shade $962.50	English Sextant in fitted wooden box $605
FINE ART
Hugh Campbell Oil, Clover Street, Mt. Holly, NJ; 25" x 30" $3,575	Morris Hall Pancoast Oil, Winter Coastal Scene; 12" x 16" $2,860	Pearl Hill Oil, Kittens in Basket; 6-3/4" x 9-1/4" $1,430
Lennart Anderson Oil, San Marino Landscape; 10" x 14" $1,100	Cross, Gilt-framed Oil of Soldier; 43" x 34" $935	Frederick Wagner, Oil; Winter Landscape; 8-1/4" x 10" $770
NOT PICTURED: Mitzi Melnicoff Watercolor, "Lunch Break, Dock St. Phila": $660 Grace Bliss Stewart Oils: - "Uplands", $632.50 - "Brittany Marketplace" $550 Th. Evans Bassett Oil, Farm Landscape: $605 Bonnie Whittingham Oil of Clowns: $330 Oriental Bottle Vase: $440	Mucha Art Nouveau Plaque, Repose de la Nuit $687.50	Signed Andrew Wyeth Print, "Gen. Washington at the Battle of the Brandywine" $797.50
SILVER / FINE PORCELAINS / CHINA / GLASS, ETC.
Alan Alder Sterling Gravy Boat $429	4 J.E. Caldwell Sterling Dishes with ornate reticulated edges: $412.50	Pr. Silver-plated Roycroft Candleholders $220
Sterling-bound Inlaid-Mahogany Tray: $715	Large Oval Sterling Platter: $357.50 Sterling Compote: $143	Pr. Oil Lamps with Cranberry-glass Fonts and Shades $385
NOT PICTURED: Silver-plated Pickle Caster with decorated, Cranberry-glass Insert: $357.50 Tiffany Steling Tea Strainer with Enamel Decoration: $495 Sterling Stamp Box: $264 Johnson Bros. Red Transfer Soup Tureen: $264 Mason's Vista Transfer Compote: $302.50 German Beer Stein with Pewter Lid (Reservest Roth): $357.50	Pr. Bristol Lustres with long prism drops $440	Miniature Tiffany Yellow/Iridescent Art Glass Vase, marked "LCT" $522.50

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