Tradewinds Spring 2010 all-cane auction Tradewinds is pleased to present our 36th all-cane live auction on April 24, 2010, at 11:00 AM, with preview at 9:00 AM. The sale will be held the Marriott Peabody just off route 128 at exit #28, in P
News-Antique.com - Mar 29,2010 - At 6:30 PM on Friday, April 23, 2010, the night before the auction, we are pleased to present a special event at the Peabody Marriott Hotel on Peabody, MA. We will be hosting our 11th pre-auction lecture. It will feature Anita Blackaby, Executive Director of the House of Seven Gables in Salem Mass. She will be presenting a talk entitled: Salem’s House of Seven Gables-100 Years of Preservation and Community Service
For carved ivory figural canes, highlights include: A wonderful Japanese eagle & monkeys, a great Chinese kneeling woman, a fabulous tethered dog, a fine treed bear, a fancy student’s cane, a donkey, a splendid cavalier, a large duck, a lady in a cloak, an all-ivory with a lotus, a Pierrot cane, a gorilla, a hoof & fetlock, a lion with gold caps, Airedales on discs, a panther, a whimsical boy & monkey, a full elephant, a bulldog with rat, a foraging mouse, a smaller duck, a lion head, Hercules in a lion cloak, a nude with snakes, a cobra, a coy maiden, a hunting dog with rabbit, a horse head, a cupid, a large knot, two ivory skulls, a lady with raised arms, a snake with egg, a 1000 faces ball, a cockatoo, a wolf as Grandma, Alexander the Great, a dog & hunting gear, two negroes, an “ L” lion, a kneeling Sage, a wolf, a chameleon, a turtle family, a mouse in nest, a knight, a chow dog, a man with bug, a hound on stem, a rabbit, a bulldog, a reticulated 1000 faces, a monkey/jockey, a fist & snake, a lady’s leg, an eagle in relief, and more
For decorative canes, highlights include: An outstanding Tiffany over agate, a1705 pique, great blue & white Saint-Cloud, a fine rock crystal & enamel, a pretty damascene loop, a fabulous ivory shibayama, a great mixed metals, a lovely chalcedony with snake, a gold actor’s cane, a silver priest’s cane, a malachite egg, a rhodonite ball, an 1834 ivory & silver, a silver niello, a tortoiseshell ball, an early ivory & malacca, a boars tusk, a Tiffany with thistle, an Endicott gold, a smooth 14k, a bloodstone with amethyst, a 17th C ivory, a porcelain Imari colors, an 1884 gold presentation, a lapis ball, an ivory on rhino, a silver over rock crystal, a brown agate with damascene, a Turkish amber, an Essex crystal flowers, a blue enamel champleve, a blue- john egg, a silver with amethysts, a damascene tau, a silver over MOP, a rope carved silver, and more.
For gadget canes, highlights include: A superb French sunscreen, a scarce La Terrible curio, a great sword with quillons, a fine Holuska watch, a great cosmetic kit, a splendid ivory eagle traveling cane, a fine wood duck glove-holder, an outstanding pepperbox curio, an early staghorn sword, a desirable Remington crook gun curio, a South American flute, a pencil with gold, an “L” staghorn sword, a Masonic silver sword, a goose call, a plated gun curio, a gilded & jeweled pillbox,