Rago’s Estate and No Reserve Discovery Auctions Kick-Off Its Fall Season, Sept. 14-16 Rago’s Estate and No Reserve Discovery Auctions Kick-Off Its Fall Season
September 14-16 – Over 2000 Lots in Three Days
contemporary glass, and 20 lots of Daum contemporary pate de verre from a Princeton, New Jersey estate. There are approximately 25 lots of Lalique glass, notably, lot 2082, a "Mossi" vase in frosted glass with hobnail protrusions, estimated at $700-900. A noteworthy lot of Charles Lotton Glass is lot 2001, an iridescent glass Peacock lamp, estimated at $3,000-4,000. Furnishings in the sale include decorative French style furniture from a Rittenhouse Square Philadelphia townhouse, notably lot 2294, a 19th century Louis XVI Style Marble Top Console Table by John Widdicombe, estimated at $1,000-1,500. The sale contains a grouping of music boxes, including lot 2209, a Lyon & Healy upright console Music Box with a mahogany case and double comb, which includes 28 discs, estimated at $5,000-7,000. There are several cylinder music boxes, such as lot 2210, an eight tune cylinder music box with inlaid rosewood case, ca. 1900, estimated at $3,000-5,000. There is an assortment of clocks, many French, Dore bronze and porcelain. A significant example is lot 2194, a William Grant Boston Banjo clock with a Mahogany case, reverse-painted panels and eagle finial, ca. 1830, estimated at $1,000-1,500. Musical instruments include pianos, guitars, banjos and a Tomasso Carcassi violin. There are approximately 20 acoustic and electric guitars, by makers such as Gibson, Martin and Taylor. Also, there are two Steinway pianos in the sale, for example lot 2202 (912069), a Steinway Model A mahogany concert grand piano, ca. 1895, estimated at $5,000-7,000. There is a pair of 19th century French six-arm doré bronze candelabra with patinated winged goddesses, lot 2228, which was once owned by Pearl Buck, estimated at $5,000-7,000. Also of note, is lot 2296, a pair of early 20th century continental wall consoles in Fruitwood with carved pedestals from the estate of Mary Martin, estimated at $600-800. Fine art includes paintings, photographs, prints, etchings, lithographs and drawings. There is a large collection of photographs of Camp Nyoda Photographs by Jessie Tarbox Beals, which includes unmounted photos and scrapbooks from the early 20th century. A notable painting is lot 2180 by Meindert Hobbema, an oil on panel of a pastoral landscape with figures and windmill, estimated at $6,000-8,000. There are prints by Marc Chagall, notably lot 2493, which is two lithographs: "Towards Another Light," 1985, and "Die Zauberflote"- Metropolitan Opera, 1967, estimated at $2,000-3,000. Other artists in Sunday’s sale include: Eugene Paul Ullman, Howard Behrens, Robert Ward Van Boskerck, Peter Hanson, Alvin c. Hollingsworth, Antoine Blanchard, Ferry Beraton , Gabriel Spitzel, John Hauser, David Ericson, Piet Bekaert, Keith Shaw Williams, Zamy Steynowitz , John Frederick Herring, Nadia Benois, William Lewis Marple, Andre Gisson, Frederick William Kost, George Essig, George Henry Harlow, Hans Von Volkmann, Helen Farr Sloan, Jane Gilday , Peter Max, Richard de Ribcowsky, Samuel A. Kilbourne, Walter Weir Fahnestock, William Arthur Smith, Marcello Dudovich, Peter Price, Shiko Munakata, Erte, Francisco Goya, Massimo Campigli, Robert de Niro, Henry Moore, Paul Gauguin, John Constable and many more. There are approximately 40 lots of sculpture, including Vienna bronze figures and
