Date: Fri 12-Feb-1999

Publication: Ant

Author: DONNAG

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Legare-postsale

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LEGARE POSTSALE

(with 3 cuts)

BYFIELD, MASS. -- Unusually warm weather and a rare mahogany Chippendale table

brought a huge crowd to Leo Legare's February 3 auction.

The single drop leaf, ball and claw foot table came out of a North Shore,

Massachusetts home, where it had been in the same family for generations.

After attracting national interest and spirited bidding, it sold to a Boston

antiques dealer for $65,000.

Several pieces of period furniture from the same home also brought strong

prices. A Queen Anne button foot armchair, with a crusty old surface, sold for

$7,000. A mahogany Chippendale double drop leaf table brought $12,000, and a

Salem mahogany Sheraton card table, with reeded legs, went for $2,220. A

four-piece coin silver tea set by J.W. Forbes, from the same house, sold for

$2,200.

Although there was a core of fine American period antiques, the sale also

featured several pieces of Mission furniture, art pottery, and fine

accessories. A Stickley dining table #713, with three leaves, went for $2,250;

five Stickley dining chairs, #1340, sold for $2,050; and a Limbert smokers'

footstool, #225, brought $700. A Handel lamp shade attracted much interest and

sold for $2,150; an early fireplace fender brought $2,100; a Gustave Stickley

hammered copper candlestick lamp, #233, sold for $2,150; a Marblehead pottery

planter, brought $500; and a Satsuma ginger jar went for $3,700.

Legare's next sale is scheduled for April in Byfield. For information,

978/352-6996.