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Annual Maine Summer AuctionMonday August 21, 2017 – 1:00 PM

Previews: Sunday, August 20, 4pm–7pm • Day of Auction 9am to 1pmRockland Elks Lodge • 210 Rankin St. • Rockland, Maine 04841 • Fully Air Conditioned

We are pleased again this year to offer another fresh estate auction of antiques, paintings, silver, and many other items of interest, all gathered from prominent Maine estates and col-lections. We have several antiques from the Wooster Farm on North Haven, Maine, summer home of Frank W. Benson (many photographed in the Benson House archive), Imperial silk pieces and more from the Chinese collectors Richard B. Hobart and his wife Janet Elliott Hobart, a pencil drawing by Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) of Ann Call (model for the tem-pera Beauty Mark), an important 7 foot harvest table, rare New England corner cupboard in

orange/salmon paint, fresh to the market painting by Juho Rissanen (1873-1950) of a young lady starting a fire, other artists are Willem de Kooning, Maurice Prendergast, A. Lassell Ripley and more, also 19th century Native American beaded bandolier, several good frakturs, fresh to market 6 mast schooner painting from an Islesboro, Maine estate, rare photographs of Iwo-Jima by famed WW2 photographer Joe Rosenthal along with undiscovered views of the island from the lens of John Whitehouse. Other highlights include a wonderful palace carpet, early American and English antiques, Folk Art, collectibles, and more!!!

Please join us this year at the summer auction to help complete auction week in Maine. Go to the website www.gamageantiques.com for a hundred plus colored images and auction listing.

See you there! Bruce

Andrew Wyeth 1017-2009 pencil drawing 11x14 in. titled Skylight Study 1981 (copyright

rights) Andrew Wyeth A.R.S. New York

Close-up of Wyeth pencil drawing Early Native American beaded bandolier

Close-up of Early Native American beaded bandolier

Oil on canvas by Juho Rissanen 1873-1950 30x38in.

Willem de Kooning 1904-1997 oil on paper 14 x16 in. Rare Chinese brass large bowl, Belonging to Janet Elliott Hobart wife of collector Richard B. Hobart. 22 in. dia. 14in tall

Close-up of Rissanen oil 18th c. Queen Anne lowboy from the Frank W. Benson farm North Haven, Maine Period wing chair from the Benson Estate(Inset photo: Gleason label attached to lowboy. 1753)

Willem de Kooning 1904-1997 oil on paper 9.5x14in.

18th c. harvest table

with stretcher base

92in.x30 in

Salmon paint 18thc. corner cupboard (81 inches tall)

Gouache on paper by Maurice B. Prendergast 1858-1924 7x10 in.

Close-up of Wiegand oil

Oil on canvas, 6 mast schooner by H. Wiegand

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BRUCE GAMAGE JR.ANTIQUE/ESTATE AUCTIONEER

467 MAIN ST., ROCKLAND, ME 04841207-594-4963 • FAX 207-594-0674

E-MAIL: BGAMAGE@MIDCOAST.COMMAINE LICENSE #0480

TERMS15% Buyer's Premium

Checks accepted with proper I.D. or preapproval MC/Visa/American Express

Maine sales tax of 5.5% appliesDealers must supply tax I.D. certificate

Auctioneer reserves the right to hold certain items until checks clear

All listings are subject to error

Rare Queen Anne hankerchief table (Benson Estate)

Mixed media by John W. McCoy 1910-1989 22x36 in. Wonderful palace carpet from the Benson Estate

Early Pennsylvania German fraktur

Early watercolor fraktur Wonderful early whaletail wall shelf

Watercolor from the Benson Estate by Elliott Beveridge (hung in the front bedroom)

Chinese Imperial silk robe. (Richard B. Hobart collection) Over 20 press photos of Iwo Jima by WW2 photographer Joe Rosenthal

along with photo album

Chinese silk embroidery runner (Richard B. Hobart collection) Miniature painting in 14k brooch Chippendale mahogany pie crust tea table circa 1780

Fine 19th c. enamel walking stick with jeweled collar Carved pheasant attrib. to Gus Wilson

Incredible 18th c. stepback cupboard Paul Klee 1879-1940 signed print Watercolor by A. Lassell Ripley 1896-1969 17x21in.

French oil on canvas titled (The Village) 15.5 x 23.25in.

Louis Vuitton suitcase Early salmon painted furkins