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Slug: Estate And Fine Art Auction January 16

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MANCHESTER, VT. — On Sunday, January 16, at 11 am, Eric Nathan Auction Company will conduct an Estate and Fine Art Auction in the Rockwell Room of the Equinox Hotel in Manchester Village. Featured in the auction will be the property from the Gatling estate of Old Bennington, Vt., also known as the “Isaac Technor Robinson House.”

This will be a cataloged auction of 450 fresh-to-market lots merging generations of significant antiques and personal property featuring exceptional American family provenance. American regionalist Waldo Peirce will be represented by an oil painting that has never been out of the family, a picture of Ernest Hemingway being served a drink in Sloppy Joe’s Bar, Key West, Fla., 1936.

Furniture includes a 34-inch-wide Chippendale tiger maple slant front desk; early Pennsylvania black walnut tavern table; a tall case clock and others; vintage estate jewelry including many fine diamonds and a Patek Philippe watch; vintage clothing and textiles including Persian carpets; fine dinner services; a Gorham sterling silver tea set and others; old bottles; books; stamps; Steiff animals; a rare scrimshaw tooth from the ship Atlantic and many other interesting and high quality estate items.

For information, 802-362- 3194 or www.nathanauctions.