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
dogs, and marble sculpture including items from the Reingold Collection. Notable, is lot 2565, attributed to Austrian sculptor Franz Xavier Bergman, a cold-painted and gilt bronze of two minstrels, ca. 1910, estimated at $600-800. This piece was illustrated in "Bronzes: Sculptors and Founders, 1800-1930" by Harold Berman, 1994. There are more than 30 lots of Asian items, including carved ivories, porcelain, and lacquered furnishings. A significant lot is #2338, an early finely carved Chinese Immortal with traces of gilding possibly from Jianding region, 17th/18th century, estimated at $10,000-15,000. Porcelain includes Majolica, Meissen, Ott & Brewer, Royal Crown Derby, Royal Doulton, Royal Dux, Staffordshire, Wedgwood, Limoges, Lenox, KPM, Haviland & Co. and Boehm. There are about a dozen lots containing over 100 pieces of Meissen Blue Onion porcelain. An example of one of these is #2472, three 19th/20th century serving pieces: a dual fish platter and two covered soup tureens, estimated at $600-800. There is a decorative porcelain collection from Boehm’s limited edition flower and bird group, for example: lot 2489, "Birds of Paradise," estimated at $600-800; and lot 2492, "Iris (Silver Showers)," estimated at $600-800. There are a few lots of Majolica game dishes, notably lot 2373, a Minton Majolica covered game dish with basketwork base, acorn and oak leaf decoration, estimated at $700-900. American pottery features a rare piece of Cowden and Wilcox stoneware, lot 2140, a Stoneware Jar decorated with a bird on a branch surrounded by grapes, Harrisburg, PA, estimated at $1,500-2,500. Native American lots include bead work, Hopi Kachina dolls, pottery and weavings, for example: lot 2106, a late 19th century Plains Indian beaded vest lined with deer skin, estimated at $1,000-1,500. There are several early 20th century Tompkins Wild West Show Posters, ca. 1914, such as lot 2096, consisting of four by the Donaldson Lithograph Company with a Native American chief, cowboys on bucking horses, stagecoach shoot out and log cabin shoot out, estimated at $800-1,200. There are about 45 lots of military items, including civil war letters, swords, rifles and muskets. Lot 2625 is a Civil War buckle, Pennsylvania 114th Vol. Infantry with original belt and pouch, estimated at $1,000-1,500; and there is an Indian jeweled Mughal dagger with the grip and pommel in gold set with cabochon rubies, emeralds and diamonds stretched over iron, from the collection of Robert Kenmore, estimated at $8,000-12,000. Notable coin and currency lots include: lot 2674, an 1894-S $20 gold coin, EF 45, estimated at $1,400-1,800; lot 2664, a 1919 Mexican gold 20 Pesos, 15 gr., estimated at $700-900; lot 2687, an 1895 5C, proof 64 NGC, estimated at $300-500; lot 2692, a Carson City $1, and an 1891-cc, an 1892-cc, an 1890-cc, an 1884-cc, an 1878-cc, an 1879-cc and an 1882-cc, estimated at $600-800. A notable currency lot is #2654, a U.S. FR-1193 $50 Gold Bank Note, Lyons/Roberts 1882 F-15, estimated at $700-900. Other noteworthy lots include a fine English Webb rock crystal liqueur set by George Woodall / Thomas Webb, comprising of a rock crystal decanter
