Date: Fri 24-Sep-1999

Publication: Ant

Author: MARION

Quick Words:

Yorktown-pocket-watch

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NICOLE NIELSON POCKET WATCH SELLS FOR $93,000 AT YORK TOWN TWO-DAY AUCTION

(with 4 cuts)

YORK, PA. - Yorktown's marathon two-day sale, with over 500 registered

bidders, grossed over $600,000. With a total of four auctioneers working one

hour shifts, the actual selling time was just under 16 hours.

The highest single price came during the Friday evening catalog session when a

Nicole Nielsen pocket watch sold for $93,000 to a phone bidder. The minute

repeater, with Tourbillon movement, brought international interest and was

featured on the back cover of the sales catalog.

Jewelry, ceramics and silver were also strong in this session with an early

Tiffany compote selling for $6,250 and a set of Rosenthal china for $2,500.

An interesting collection of art pottery brought active bidding with a

Carnellian II Roseville vase, 9 inches high, selling for $650 and a matte

glaze Rookwood vase by Elizabeth Barrett selling for $600.

A large group of clocks was sold on Friday evening. The top lot was a Durch

Friesland Stoelklok, with damage, which sold for $1,500. A rare miniature

mahogany ripple-front steeple clock, with a replaced movement, sold for

$1,150. Four lots later, a carved mahogany shelf clock with an eagle carved

cornice, labeled Hopkin and Alfred, reached $1,250.

There were over 30 lots of Oriental rugs, ranging from 1960s Kermans to worn

antique tribals. A Mahal Sarouk from the 1930s sold for $2,300 and a 6 foot by

9 foot Chinese rug went to $1,900.

Custom furniture, a staple for decorators and some dealers, always holds its

own at Yorktown sales. A set of eight 1940s Chippendale-style mahogany chairs

sold for $4,800 and a good reproduction mahogany Philadelphia lowboy sold for

$2,900.

A Sussel-Washington artist Taufschein measuring 7 inches high by 7« inches

wide sold for $16,200. A Friedrich Speyer sold for $4,900.

A rare Etruscan baseball pitcher, 8 inches high in pastel colors, sold for

$2,050. A small landscape by Max Weyl reached $850, a small still life by

Edwin Deakin sold for $5,250, and the highlight, a palace interior scene from

Rome, by Forti, sold for $24,000.

Furniture was an interesting mix in this sale. An English mahogany Chippendale

stool brought $2,900. A Dutch inlaid chest sold for $3,300, and a Lancaster Co

fan back Windsor side chair sold for $3,500.

The October 29 and 30 sale will feature the personal museum of Thornton Tayloe

Perry of Charles Town, W VA. This collection offers broadsides, country store

items, pottery, photography, phonographs and a vast group of early paper and

documents focusing on John Brown, secession, and the Civil War.

For additional information call 717/751-0211.