Fairfield Auction Plans

Diverse Sale November 19

Fairfield Auction, 53 Church Hill Road, will conduct its largest sale of the year Sunday, November 19. With more than 500 lots culled from local estates, the sale includes American, English, and Continental furniture, accessories, paintings, clocks, silver, a collection of music boxes and more than 200 lots of marine art and nautical antiques from the estate of Ron Kaderly of Newtown.

A good selection of paintings includes works by Mauritz DeHaas, Henry Botkin, John Bunyon Bristol, George Bogert, William Fitler and Oscar Van Young. Charcoal sketches by Raphael and Moses Soyer will also be sold as well as works in the manner of Guardi, Grueze, Edward Moran, and Arthur Fuller Graves.

Consigned from an estate in Ridgefield is a group of modern lithographs including Picasso’s “Dwarf Dancer” and Paul Klee’s “Der Waldmann,” both pencil signed. Works by Le Corbusier, Miro, Kisling, Gottlieb, and Alexander Calder will also be sold.

More than 20 music boxes will be sold, including a Komet musical tall clock playing 13-inch disks. Other disk machines include a Symphonian upright “Musik Automat,” a Kalliope “Gloriosa” musical Christmas tree stand, and an unusual Symphonian musical mantel clock. Several very good cylinder music boxes include a Perrin-Choupard “Overture” box, an interchangeable box playing four cylinders, and a Paillard orchestral music box with 19-inch cylinder.

Three early key-wind boxes, including a LeCoultre, will be sold. A fine Vienna picture clock with musical element, a 21-inch French singing bird, a serinette bird organ, and a silver cased bird box will also be sold.

Items of special interest include a Bosendorfer Imperial piano, a double sheet Alphonse Mucha poster, “La Dame aux Camelias,” George Ohr pottery, and a Belcher Studios leaded glass mosaic window. A Continental carved ivory tankard with cherubs and a 36-inch Meissen porcelain mirror should also find bidders.

A group of Morgan silver dollars includes two of the key coins to the series, the 1893-S. The San Francisco minting of the Morgan was the lowest mintage of all Morgan silver dollars with only 100,000 minted. Other coins being sold include an 1894 Morgan and an 1893-CC graded MS-60.

The second session of the sale will be devoted to the marine art and nautical items from the estate of Ron Kaderly. Leading a group of nearly 100 ship portraits are three by Antonio Jacobsen. Other portraits by Waring, Derick Smoothy, and Patrick Dunbar will be sold as well as several Italian gouaches of ships and unsigned American School portraits. More than 40 works by contemporary painters Jerome Howes and Joe Wilhelm depicting maritime subjects will also go under the gavel.

Other nautical items include more than 20 ship models, the largest a ten-foot luxury liner. A group of more than a dozen Currier & Ives with ships, as well as other late Nineteenth Century ship-related lithographs will be sold.

A sign for the New Haven Steamboat Company, 28 by 42 inches, in its original frame should garner interest as should several Cunard signs. An unusual nautical apothecary case with contents and a ten-foot half hull should also find bidders. Additionally, the collection includes hundreds of books, nautical postcards, photographs, posters, and other ephemera.

Previews will be from 1 to 6 pm Thursday, Friday, and Saturday preceding the sale and on auction day from 9 to 11 am. For further information 364-1555 or www.fairfieldauction.com.