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HENRY M CRANE

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  Henry George Rushby (1889-1968)The Quarry wagon load with stone drawn by horses with crane and Minchinhampton Common beyond drypoint etching signed and dated in pencil in the margin 7 3/4" x 10"; Geoffrey Wedgwood (1900-1977) Porta Appia Roma 1926 signed and titled in pencil the margin etching 8" x 7" five further engravings and two prints unframed (9).
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  Lot Of 2: Pocketwatch Items Including 1 - figural crane standing on a turtle while holding a snake pocket watch holder that includes a nonworking Chronometre pocketwatch and 1 - Henri Langin, Fils et Cie oversized display pocketwatch, missing back. Condition (Good - Very Good). Size Larger 7-1/2" x 5" x 1-1/2"
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  HENRY FARRER American (1843-1903) Sunrise on the Harbor watercolor on paper, signed "H. Farrer" and inscribed "Copyright 1907 by J.W. Crane" lower left. 22 x 36 inches Provenance: Private Collection, Connecticut. Other Notes: Tags: Painting / Paintings, Tonalist / Tonalism, Work on Paper
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  To include: 1) a Book of Designs and Materials for Grand Rapids Fibre Cord Company, 2) 1923-24 catalog for The American Line Fibre Furniture, shows some wear to pages and minor foxing. 3) catalog for John A. Dunn Co. Chairs and Rattan products, Gardner, 1919 with a 1926 price list, 1923 insert. Shows loose front cover with tear and wear. 4) Catalog for the Northfield Living Room Furniture Co., Sheboygan, WI 1925, good condition. 5) F. A. Whitney Carriage Co. catalog, 1914, Leominster, MA, good condition. 6) Two Gunn & Latchford Inc Chinese Rattan Furniture, ca. 1920-1927. 7) 15 Lloyd Mfg. Co. newsletters with interesting articles and photographs, ca. 1920. Larger one shows tears and damage. 8) 22 Lloyd newsletters 1928, 18 Lloyd newsletters 1927, 8 Lloyd newsletters 1931, 11 Lloyd newsletters 1926. 9) Kelly Bros. Gardner, MA wicker catalog. Crane Furniture catalog, Springfield, AM 1929. Henry Robertson and Co. basket catalog. Metropolitan Chair Co. catalog 1915. Everything for Basket Making, 1899, Boston. The Northfield Co. Wisconsin. 2 Wakefield Rattan Co. cards, 1939. Gendron Baby Carriage catalog.
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  A PAIR OF RARE WORCESTER TEABOWLS AND SAUCERS CIRCA 1752 Each piece of twelve-sided form with concave fluting, polychrome painted in Kakiemon style with pairs of crane-like birds in a landscape of flowering bamboo, prunus blossom, and lotus leaves, the interior rims with a rui head border(4)saucers 12cm diameter, teabowls 5cm highA very similar teabowl and saucer are illustrated in 'Worcester Porcelain', by Henry Sandon, London, 1969, Fig.8, p.34.This rare shape was produced in the early Worcester period. There would have been significant technical challenges in the production of twelve-sided and ten-sided forms, hence there are few examples. It is likely that they were made for display and decorative purposes only as this shape would have been impractical for use. Dr R. B. Cole discusses the problems of manufacture together with the short period of production of these early rare shapes, in his paper ‘Form Versus Function? A Study of some early Worcester tea wares’, NCS Journal, Vol 20, 2003-2004, p 61, fig 7. John Sandon has noted that this rare shape was conceived to set Worcester apart from contemporary pieces being produced at Chelsea, and also from conventional Chinese shapes.There are six patterns recorded on this shape, mostly featuring birds amongst flowers and foliage. A teabowl and saucer of this form, but with Chinese inspired designs, were sold at Bonhams on 18th May 2016, lot 334. A teabowl and saucer of near identical Kakiemon design were sold at Bonhams on 10th December 2008, lot 98, but with a contrasting green diaper and flowerhead border, rather than the rui head border seen on the lots being offered in this sale.
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  5 vols. Walter Crane, et al., illustrators: Crane, Walter. The Baby's Opera. London: G. Routlege, [1877 or later]. 1st ed.? 4to, orig. pictorial brown bds.; moderately worn, occasional minor chipping. Color illus. by Walter Crane. * _ _. Baby's Own Aesop. London: Routlege, 1887. 1st ed. Sm. 4to, orig. color pictorial bds.; slightly scuffed, moderate edge wear. Color illus. & endpapers by W. Crane. Scattered light foxing. * (_ _.) The Baby's Bouquet. London: F. Warne, n.d. [ca. 1900]. Sm. 4to, orig. color pictorial bds.; moderate waer, edges occasionally chipped. Color illus. & endpapers by W. Crane. * (Crane, Walter, illustrator.) Gilbert, Henry. Robin Hood and The Men of The Greenwood. Edinburgh: T.C. & E.C. Black, 1912. 1st ed. Lg. 8vo, orig. gilt-lettered & decorated green cloth, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. With 16 color plates (incl. frontis.). Minor foxing to front matter, one text leaf discolored by clippings. * (Sowerby, J.G.; Emmerson, H.H., illustrators.) Afternoon Tea: Rhymes for Children. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, [1880]. 1st Am. ed. 4to, orig. color pictorial bds.; moderate wear, edges rather worn. Color illus. 1/2 title detached, its gutter discolored.
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  La Hacienda: The John L. Jerome Collection: Group of Children's books including: Henry B. Beston The Firelight Fairy Book Illus. L. Leslie Brooke Johnny Crow's Garden Celia Thaxter Poems for Children Joel Chandler Harris Little Mr. Thimblefinger Beatrice F. Cresswell The Royal Progress of King Pepito Kate Douglas Wiggin The Diary of a Goose Girl Daisy Ashford The Young Visiters Ottilie A. Liljencrantz The Ward of King Canute Randolph Caldecott The Panjandrum Picture Book Walter Crane A Romance of the Three R's Queen Summer or the Lily & the Rose and Legends for Lionel Kate Greenway Book of Games Jane and Ann Taylor Little Ann and Other Poems M. Arnaud One Day in a Baby's Life T. Pym Pictures from the Poets J. G. Sowerby and Thos. Crane At Home Fred E. Weatherly Through the Meadows T. Baldrich The Story of a Cat Oliver Herford A Child's Primer of Natural History Juliana Horatia Ewing A Week Spent in a Glass Pond by the Great Water Beetle Frederick J. Waugh The Clan of Munes A Child's Book of Stories Randolph Caldecott Some of Aesop's Fables with Modern Instances and The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book and Owen Wister The Dragon of Wantley: His Rise His Voracity & His Downfall.
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  HERBERT HENRY CRANE (BRITISH, 1877-1955), "GLENORCHY" MID-20TH C., OIL ON BOARD, DEPICTING THE STEAMSHIP GLENORCHY (1942-1971) SAILING ON THE OCEAN, SIGNED "H. CRANE" IN PAINT LOWER LEFT, FRAMED, FOXING , STAINING, AN...Herbert Henry Crane (British, 1877-1955), "Glenorchy" mid-20th C., oil on board, depicting the steamship Glenorchy (1942-1971) sailing on the ocean, signed "H. Crane" in paint lower left, framed, foxing , staining, and scratches, ss: 7 1/4" h. x 11" w.
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  A Japanese Kiyomizu Ware vessel, from Kyoto, Edo period, 18th Century, possibly a section from a clove boiler, with side handles in the form of gourds hung with metal rings, decorated in green, blue, red and black, with a flying crane and bamboo, mounted at a later date in white metal, the cover pierced with mons and with a gourd finial, 13.5cm overall/Provenance: from the Henry Sandon Study Collection
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  A RARE WORCESTER TEABOWL AND SAUCER CIRCA 1752 Each piece of twelve sided form with concave fluting, polychrome painted in Kakiemon style with pairs of crane-like birds in a landscape of flowering bamboo, prunus blossom, and lotus leaves, the interior rims with a rui head border(2)saucer 12cm diameter, teabowl 5cm highA very similar teabowl and saucer are illustrated in 'Worcester Porcelain', by Henry Sandon, London, 1969, Fig.8, p.34.This rare shape was produced in the early Worcester period. There would have been significant technical challenges in the production of twelve-sided and ten-sided forms, hence there are few examples. It is likely that they were made for display and decorative purposes only as this shape would have been impractical for use. Dr R. B. Cole discusses the problems of manufacture together with the short period of production of these early rare shapes, in his paper ‘Form Versus Function? A Study of some early Worcester tea wares’, NCS Journal, Vol 20, 2003-2004, p 61, fig 7. John Sandon has noted that this rare shape was conceived to set Worcester apart from contemporary pieces being produced at Chelsea, and also from conventional Chinese shapes.There are six patterns recorded on this shape, mostly featuring birds amongst flowers and foliage. A teabowl and saucer of this form, but with Chinese inspired designs, were sold at Bonhams on 18th May 2016, lot 334. A teabowl and saucer of near identical Kakiemon design were sold at Bonhams on 10th December 2008, lot 98, but with a contrasting green diaper and flowerhead border, rather than the rui head border seen on the lots being offered in this sale.
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  A group of four Japanese Maruyama School prints
  
  comprising: a goose in a rocky landscape, character marks, 37cm x 13cm; a wild goose and moon, possibly by Okio Maruyama, character marks, 24cm x 37cm; a peacock, possibly by Tetsuzan, character marks, 38cm x 18cm; and a crane, possibly by Renshiren, character marks, 38cm x 20cm (4)
  
  Provenance: the Henry and Sula Walton collection.
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  THE YELLOW BOOK: An Illustrated Quarterly. Artistic and literary contributions by Aubrey Beardsley, Walter Crane, Max Beerbohm, Kenneth Grahame, Henry James, and others. 13 volumes [all published]. 4to, original pictorial yellow cloth, spines a bit darkened, some small splits at heads, few minor spots and general light wear. London and Boston, 1894-97
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  SEVEN VOLUMES: PREDOMINANTLY SHORT STORY AND POETRY COLLECTIONSSeven Volumes: Predominantly Short Story and Poetry Collections,, 'By Daylight and in Dream', John Hall Wheelock, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1970, Probably signed and dedicated 'The Collected Poems of Stephen Crane', Alfred A Knopf, New York and London, 1930 'The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman', Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1940 'The Short Stories of Henry James', Random House, Inc., 1945, This is a Wartime Book 'Twixt Land and Sea', Joseph Conrad for J.M. Dent & Sons, LTD., London, 1912 'A Changed Man...', Thomas Hardy for Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1913 'The Bridge of San Luis Rey', Thornton Wilder and Amy Drevenstedt for Albert & Charles Boni, New York, 1927
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  Greenaway, Kate - Taylor, Jane & Ann
  Little Ann and other poems. London, [c.1882]. 8vo, illustrated throughout by Kate Greenaway, original decorative boards, worn, lacking front endpaper, pages loose, chipping to page edges; Crane, Walter The baby's bouquet. London, [no date]. 8vo, original decorative boards, rubbed at edges, previous owner's ink inscription on front endpaper; Grahame, Kenneth Dream Days. London: John Lane, 1899. 8vo, original decorative yellow cloth, interior clean, bookplate; Dulac, Edmund Picture book for the French Red Cross. London, [no date]. 4to, 20 tipped in colour plates, original decorative cloth, some tearing to hinges at head of backstrip, foxing to first few leaves, previous owner's ink inscription; Harcourt-Smith, Simon & Rex Whistler The last of uptake. London, [1942]. 8vo, original red cloth, dustwrapper, chipped at edges, previous owner's ink inscription; Carroll, Lewis The hunting of the Snark. London, 1876. 8vo, illustrated by Henry Holiday, original decorative grey cloth, previous owner's ink inscription, inner hinges weak and another later copy in red cloth gilt; Sowerby, J.G. & Thomas Crane At home. London, [no date]. 8vo, original decorative boards, rubbed at edges, inner hinge weak; and 29 other childrens and illustrated volumes (37)
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  HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW SIGNED 'EXCELSIOR' POEM STANZA, 1868HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW SIGNED 'EXCELSIOR' POEM STANZA, 1868, On the back of a scrap piece of paper, Longfellow has written the first five lines of his poem 'Excelsior', followed by his signature and the year. The edges have some mild age-toning. The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior! Provenance: Stewart R. Crane Family Collection
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  EPHEMERA LOT RELATED TO ANTIQUE WICKER FURNITURE.To include: 1) a Book of Designs and Materials for Grand Rapids Fibre Cord Company, 2) 1923-24 catalog for The American Line Fibre Furniture, shows some wear to pages and minor foxing. 3) catalog for John A. Dunn Co. Chairs and Rattan products, Gardner, 1919 with a 1926 price list, 1923 insert. Shows loose front cover with tear and wear. 4) Catalog for the Northfield Living Room Furniture Co., Sheboygan, WI 1925, good condition. 5) F. A. Whitney Carriage Co. catalog, 1914, Leominster, MA, good condition. 6) Two Gunn & Latchford Inc Chinese Rattan Furniture, ca. 1920-1927. 7) 15 Lloyd Mfg. Co. newsletters with interesting articles and photographs, ca. 1920. Larger one shows tears and damage. 8) 22 Lloyd newsletters 1928, 18 Lloyd newsletters 1927, 8 Lloyd newsletters 1931, 11 Lloyd newsletters 1926. 9) Kelly Bros. Gardner, MA wicker catalog. Crane Furniture catalog, Springfield, AM 1929. Henry Robertson and Co. basket catalog. Metropolitan Chair Co. catalog 1915. Everything for Basket Making, 1899, Boston. The Northfield Co. Wisconsin. 2 Wakefield Rattan Co. cards, 1939. Gendron Baby Carriage catalog.
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  (10) FRANKLIN LEATHER-BOUND LIBRARY SHELF BOOKS(lot of 10) Limited edition library shelf books: poetry and literature, all with leather bindings, gilt page ends, raised spine bands, published by The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, of "The 100 Greatest Books of All Time" Collection, including: (1) "Lyrical Ballads," William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge; (1) "Nana," Emile Zola; (1) "Walden," Henry David Thoreau; (1) "Leaves of Grass," Walt Whitman; (1) "A Farewell to Arms," Ernest Hemingway; (1) "Poems of John Keats;" (1) "The Red Badge of Courage," Stephen Crane; (1) "Collected Poems, 1909-1962," Thomas Stearns Eliot; (1) "Essays," Ralph Waldo Emerson; (1) "The Poetry of Robert Frost;" largest: approx 9.5"h, 6 5/8"w, 2.25"d, lbs total
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  TWENTY LEATHER BOUND BOOKS by Easton Press, Oxford Press and Franklin Library. Titles include Oxford Library "Candide," by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1979; Oxford Library "Ulysses," by James Joyce, 1979; Franklin Library "The Scarlet Letter," by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1979; Franklin Library "Tales of Edgar Allen Poe," 1979; Franklin Library "Barchester Towers," by Anthony Trollope, 1982; Franklin Library "Tales From The Arabian Nights," by Leon Georges Jean Baptiste Carre, 1980; Franklin Library "Aesop's Fables," 1982; Easton Press "The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy," by Laurence Sterne, 1980; Easton Press "Maggie, A Girl of The Streets," by Stephen Crane, 1981; Easton Press "The Mysterious Island," by Jules Verne, 1959; Easton Press "The Analects of Confucius," 1976; Easton Press "The Alhambraby," by Washington Irving, 1978; Easton Press "The Turn of The Screw," by Henry James, 1980; Easton Press "The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde," 1976; Easton Press "The Deerslayer," by James Fenimore Cooper, 1980; Easton Press "Brave New World," by Aldous Huxley, 1978; Easton Press "The Odyssey of Homer," 1978; Easton Press "A Journal of the Plague Year," by Daniel Defoe, 1978; Easton Press "Madame Bovary," by Gustave Flaubert, 1978 and Easton Press "The Virginian," by Owen Wister, 1979.
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  ASIAN CHINESE ART & CULTURE REFERENCE BOOKS, 16 Sixteen reference books on Asian or Chinese art and culture comprising "China: a history in art" by Smith & Weng, "The Han Dynasty" by Michele Pirazzoli-t'Sterstevens, "Chinese Export Porcelain including Figures from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gill" by the Chinese Porcelain Company, "Korean Arts of the eighteenth century" by Hongnam Kim, "The Flowering of Edo Period Painting" by Kobayashi Tadashi, "Past, Present, East and West" by Sherman E.Lee, "The Chinese Art of Writing" by Jean-Francois Billeter, "The Emperor's Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City" by Nancy Berliner, "A Thousand Cranes: Treasures of Japanese Art" by Seattle Art Museum, "Aquarelles Chinoises" by Joseph Hejzlar, "Chinese Ceramic Glazes" by A.L. Hetherington, "Angkor and Khmer Art" by Henri Stierlin, "Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Emperor Qin Shi Huand" by Jia Qi, "Along the Riverbank - Chinese Paintings from the C.C. Wang Family Collection" by Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Imperial China: The Art of the Horse in Chinese History" by Kentucky Horse Park, "Liu Hai Su You Hua Xuan Ji" and "The great Empires of Asia" by Jim Masselos. Largest: 14.75" H x 10.5" W x 0.75" D.
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  FRANKLIN LIBRARY LEATHER BOUND BOOKS, SEVEN (7)Seven leather bound books to include: 1) Collected Poems by Marianne Moore, illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker, introduction by T. S. Eliot - Limited Edition Hardcover - The Franklin Library 1981 (100 Greatest Masterpieces In American Literature). 2) The Complete Poems of Hart Crane, Illustrated with paintings by Joseph Stella - Limited Edition Hardcover - The Franklin Library 1979 (100 Greatest Masterpieces In American Literature). 3) Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, illustrated by David Frampton - Limited Edition Hardcover - The Franklin Library 1984 (100 Greatest Masterpieces In American Literature). 4) Selected Poems by William Carlos Williams, introduction by Randall Jarrell, illustrated by Charles Sheeler - Limited Edition Hardcover - The Franklin Library 1984 (100 Greatest Masterpieces In American Literature). 5) The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, David Hockney Frontispiece - Limited Edition Hardcover - The Franklin Library 1982 (100 Greatest Masterpieces In American Literature). 6) Collected Poems by W. H. Auden, edited by Edward Mendelson - Limited Edition Hardcover - The
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  BROOM. Loeb, Harold A; editor. Broom: An International Magazine of the Arts. Group of 10 issues (includes duplicate). Comprising: Vol. 1, no. 1 (November, 1921); vol. I, no. 4 (February, 1922); vol. II, no. 2 (December, 1921) 2 copies; vol. 4, no. 2 (January, 1922); vol. 1, no. 4 (February, 1922); vol. 2, no. 1 (April, 1922); vol. 2, no. 2 (May, 1922); vol. 2, no. 3 (June, 1922); vol. 4, no. 1 (December, 1922) incomplete issue lacking last quarter of contents and most artwork; vol. 6, no. 1 (January, 1924; the final issue). 4to, publisher's decorative printed wrappers; brittle, spines defective on many covers detached, chipped and torn on some volumes; light soiling. Rome and New York: Broom Publishing, 1921-24a run of the important and influential avant-garde magazine including the first and final issues. Artistic contributions by Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Natalia Gontcharova (who also created some of the covers), Rockwell Kent, Man Ray, Wanda Gag, El Lissitzky, Fernand Leger, Alice Halicka, and many others. Literary contributions by William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, e. e. cummings, John Dos Passos, Jean Toomer, Hart Crane, and others. Its issue numbering system was rather erratic and inconsistent.
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  (EASTON PRESS) A group of 15 books published by the Easton Press. Norwalk CT: Easton Press various dates. The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde (1976). The Three Musketeers. By Alexandre Dumas (1978). The Last of the Mohicans. By James Fenimore Cooper (1979). Wuthering Heights. By Emily Bronte (1980). Brave New World. By Aldous Huxley (1978). The Decameron. By John Boccaccio (1980). Rights of Man. By Thomas Paine (1979). The Scarlet Letter. By Nathaniel Hawthorne (1975). A Tale of Two Cities. By Charles Dickens (1975). The Alhambra. By Washington Irving (1969). The Red Badge of Courage. By Stephen Crane (1980). The Portrait of a Lady. By Henry James (1978). Ivanhoe. By Sir Walter Scott (1977). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. By Mark Twain (1975). Madame Bovary. By Gustav Flaubert (1975).
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  CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE BALUSTER JARChinese Blue and White Porcelain Baluster Jar, painted with a landscape scene depicting deer and cranes, nechaving ruyi borders, height 13 1/2 inches. Provenance: Estate of Henry P. Mcilhenny, Rittenhouse Square, PA, Christie's, New York, Sale 6396, Lot 540, 5/21/87. Condition: All lots are sold "AS IS" The condition of lots can vary widely and are unlikely to be in a perfect condition. *No credit card payments will be accepted for silver, gold, or jewelry from buyers that have not purchased from our gallery in the past. Condition: Reports are available by request and answered in the order they are received
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  (VIEW) MASSACHUSETTS - CAMBRIDGE THROUGH CHARLTON: 85 POSTCARDS EARLY TO MID-20TH CENTURY(VIEW) MASSACHUSETTS - CAMBRIDGE THROUGH CHARLTON: 85 POSTCARDS, Early to Mid-20th Century, Of note: "Lathe Dept....Seavers Piano Action Co.", Shoe and Leather Exposition Building, Saks 5th Avenue University Shop, Class Day at Harvard, Harvard Square Subway Station, Craft Laboratory, Cambridge Skating Club decorated for a carnival (night - photo), Greek play at Harvard Stadium, "Best Equipped Garage and Repair Shop in New England", two early Camp Devens views, game room at the Army and Navy Y.M.C.A. and two "05 train wreck (Charlton) cards. Photos: Carverville street view, "The Square Looking North" (Cliftondale), Hostess House Reception Room (Camp Devens), Crane School (Canton), eight differing Charlemont views including I.O.O.F. building, two cards of "The Inn", bird's-eye view, School St. Charlton City and Henry W. Reed sign with standing chicken (Caryville). Provenance: The Estate of Hilary Bamford.
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  CRANE, WALTER. The First of May: A Fairy Masque. 57 engraved plates including half-title, title, dedication, frontispiece, colophon and 52 engraved plates mounted on India proof paper containing illustrations and calligraphy by Crane. 380x465 mm; 15x18 3/8 inches. Oblong folio, contents loose as issued in publisher's gilt-stamped brown cloth portfolio with color onlay, heavily worn but complete; plates with scattered marginal foxing, mostly clean. number 67 of 300 copies signed by crane. London: Henry Sotheran, 1881- 600
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  Group of 4 Books Chinese Flowers of Japan Natural History 2 Volumes ''Johnson's Natural History Volumes I II '' by Hon. S. G. Goodrich & Prof. Alexander Winchell LL.D. New York: Henry G. Allen & Co. Copyright: 1894 Henry F. Giere. ''China Mother of Gardens '' by Ernest H. Wilson M.A. V.M.H. Keeper of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University The Sratford Company MA Copyright: 1929. ''The Flowers and Gardens of Japan '' Painted by Ella Du Crane & Described by Florence Du Crane Published by Soho Square Adam & Charles Black MCMVIII.Provenance: The Thomas Buechner E
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  Nineteen Case Pocket Knives four Kissing Crane in original boxes; one Burnt Chimney in original box; one Boker Grand Canyon in original box; three Generals Grant, Montgomery and Bradley; Carl Schlieper; Browning single blade, 8-3/4 in., with leather case; Boker Airship Graf Zeppelin; Boker The Alamo; Shrade Uncle Henry; Boker two-blade with cloth case; Shrade three-blade; Shrade Old Timer three-blade; American Blade Co. two-blade; Henkel's two-blade,
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  36 vols. Library of America Titles. (New York), (1982-1987): Adams, Henry. History of The United States, 1801-09, 1809-17; Novels, Mont St. Michel, The Education. 3 vols. * Cather, Willa. Early Novels and Stories. * Cooper, James Fenimore. The Leatherstocking Tales. 2 vols. * Crane, Stephen. Prose & Poetry. * Du Bois, W.E.B. Writings. * Faulkner, William. Novels 1930-1935. * Franklin, Benjamin. Writings. * Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Novels; Tales and Sketches. 2 vols. * Howells, William Dean. Novels 1875-1886. * Irving, Washington. History, Tales and Sketches. * James, Henry. Literary Criticism; Novels 1871-1880; Novels 1881-1886. 4 vols. * Jefferson, Thomas. Writings. * London, Jack. Novels & Stories. 2 vols. * Melville, Herman. 3 (of 4) vols. * Norris, Frank. Novels & Essays. * Parkman, Francis. France and England in North America. 2 vols. * Poe, Edgar Allan. Essays and Reviews; Poetry & Tales. 2 vols. * Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Three Novels. * Thoreau, Henry David. A Week; Walden, The Maine Woods ; Cape Cod. * Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad; Roughing It; Mississippi Writings. 2 vols. * Wharton, Edith. Novels: House of Mirth, Reef, The Custom of The Country, The Age of Innocence. * Whitman, Walt. Complete Poetry and Collected Prose. All 8vo, orig. cloth, slipcases; minor shelf wear, occasionally slightly dusty. Many 1st Library of America ptgs.
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  1 vol. Frost, Robert. New Hampshire. New York: Henry Holt, 1923. First trade edition. 8vo, orig. green cloth & bds., paper cover label, gilt-lettered spine; occasionally scuffed, corners bumped, spine ends frayed. Signed & dated, "Amherst December 1923" by Robert Frost on front free endpaper recto. Crane A
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  Royal Doulton Titanian Vase, England, c. 1920, decorated by F. Henri with flying crane to a pale blue ground, artist signed and printed mark, ht. 5 7/8 in. Estimate $700-900 In very good condition throughout with no evidence of any cracks, chips or restorations. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging. Condition requests can be obtained via email (lot inquiry button) or by telephone to the appropriate gallery location (Boston/617.350.5400 or Marlborough/508.970.3000). Any condition statement given, as a courtesy to a client, is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Skinner Inc. shall have no responsibility for any error or omission.
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  FIVE BOXED BOOKS FROM LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB (LEC) NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATORS: HENRY JAMES, EDITH WHARTON, HART CRANE, FRANCOIS VILLON, PETRARCH. 1 3/4"H X 9"W X 13"D (LARGEST)Five boxed books from Limited Editions Club (LEC) numbered and signed by illustrators: Henry James, Edith Wharton, Hart Crane, Francois Villon, Petrarch., Full list: "The Ambassador" by Henry James, signed by illustrator Leslie Saalburg, copy number 763. "The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton, signed by illustrator Lily Harmon, copy number 1438. "The Bridge" by Hart Crane, signed by photographer Richard Benson, copy number 1932. "The Lyrics of Francois Villon," signed by Howard Simon, who created the wood block printd, copy number 604. "The Sonnets of Petrarch," signed by illustrator Aldo Salvadori and printer Giovanni Mardersteig, copy number 881. Dimensions: 1 3/4"H x 9"W x 13"D (largest)
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  FROST, ROBERT. West-Running Brook. Illustrated with 4 woodcuts. 8vo, publisher's 1/4 green cloth with pictorial onlay, minor rubbing to spine tips and corners; dust jacket, spine panel tanned with short chips to head and foot, few closed tears, edgewear. New York: Henry Holt and Co., (1928)/ For Mary Claudia Russell." Crane A10.
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  [THE YELLOW BOOK]. The Yellow Book. An Illustrated Quarterly. London and Boston (volumes I-X) and London and New York (XI-XIII): Elkin Mathews & John: [THE YELLOW BOOK]. The Yellow Book. An Illustrated Quarterly. London and Boston (volumes I-X) and London and New York (XI-XIII): Elkin Mathews & John Lane and Copeland & Day (volumes I-II), John Lane and Copeland & Day (volumes III-X), and John Lane (volumes XI-XIII), April 1894-April 1897. . 13 volumes (all published), small 4to. Numerous illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, Max Beerbohm, Walter Crane, and others. Original pictorial yellow cloth blocked in black, (spines slightly darkened, some minor rubbing, some minor blistering to a few volumes). . A FINE COPY of this celebrated journal, apparently a later issue without advertisements. Contributors included Henry James, H. G. Wells, Edmund Gosse, and Kenneth Grahame.   Beardsley served as art editor until, following Oscar Wilde's arrest, John Lane dismissed him. . Condition For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions. com
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  3 vols. American Poets: Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1894. 8vo, orig. green cloth, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed; new endpapers. Internally generally clean. * Frost, Robert. A Witness Tree. New York: Henry Holt, (1942). 1st ptg. 8vo, orig. green cloth; slightly scuffed, d/j (price clipped, some chipping to edges - no loss of printing, a few small cellotape repairs to verso). Portrait frontis. Crane A25.1. * Merwin, W.S.; Moore, A.D. Signs. Iowa City: Stone Wall Press, 1971. 1/200 signed by Merwin & Moore. Oblong 12mo, orig. grey cloth; light wear.
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  Henri Hayden (French, 1883-1970)'Les Fleurs Jaunes', 1927signed (lower right)oils on canvas36.5cm x 44.5cm.Provenance:Crane Kalman Gallery, London, 1962.
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  A PAIR OF RARE WORCESTER TEABOWLS AND SAUCERS CIRCA 1752 Each piece of twelve-sided form with concave fluting, polychrome painted in Kakiemon style with pairs of crane-like birds in a landscape of flowering bamboo, prunus blossom, and lotus leaves, the interior rims with a rui head border(4)saucers 12cm diameter, teabowls 5cm highA very similar teabowl and saucer are illustrated in 'Worcester Porcelain', by Henry Sandon, London, 1969, Fig.8, p.34.This rare shape was produced in the early Worcester period. There would have been significant technical challenges in the production of twelve-sided and ten-sided forms, hence there are few examples. It is likely that they were made for display and decorative purposes only as this shape would have been impractical for use. Dr R. B. Cole discusses the problems of manufacture together with the short period of production of these early rare shapes, in his paper ‘Form Versus Function? A Study of some early Worcester tea wares’, NCS Journal, Vol 20, 2003-2004, p 61, fig 7. John Sandon has noted that this rare shape was conceived to set Worcester apart from contemporary pieces being produced at Chelsea, and also from conventional Chinese shapes.There are six patterns recorded on this shape, mostly featuring birds amongst flowers and foliage. A teabowl and saucer of this form, but with Chinese inspired designs, were sold at Bonhams on 18th May 2016, lot 334. A teabowl and saucer of near identical Kakiemon design were sold at Bonhams on 10th December 2008, lot 98, but with a contrasting green diaper and flowerhead border, rather than the rui head border seen on the lots being offered in this sale.
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  A Royal Worcester reticulated cabinet cup and a miniature Spaniel, the cup by Samuel Ranford (1839-?), pierced in the manner of George Owen, jewelled and gilded with a flying crane, puce factory mark and gilder's mark SR, the rare model of a King Charles Spaniel on a 'shot silk' cushion, in natural colours, date code for 1907 (2)/Provenance: from the Henry Sandon Study Collection
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  CASED MOTOR BOAT MODEL - Historic Racing Boat 'Dixie II', 1908 APBA Gold Cup Winner, British Harmsworth Trophy Winner, designer Clinton Crane, builder Henry Nevins, helmsman Fred Burnham, owner E.S. Schroeder. Built at City Island, New York, powerplant 2477 cubic inches. Made by Lannan Ship Model Gallery, Boston. 43" hull, brass framed glass cover on mahogany base, 13 1/2" x 50 3/4" x 11 3/4" overall.
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  FRANKLIN LIBRARY AMERICAN LITERATURE BOOKS, 19 Nineteen leather-bound American literature books with gilt lettering published by Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania comprising Richard Henry Dana's "Two Years Before the Mast," and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," Justin Kaplan's "Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain," Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms," Herman Melville's "Moby Dick," Edith Wharton's "The Age of Innocence," Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," "Tales of Edgar Allan Poe," William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" and "The Reivers," F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," Eudora Welty's "The Optimist's Daughter," John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath," James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans," Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Essays," Bruce Catton's "A Stillness at Appomattox," and Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage". Largest: 9.5" H x 6.5" W x 1.5" D.
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  (Illustrators, 19th Century), Crane, Walter (1845-1915), The First of May, a Fairy Masque, London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1881, loose as issued in blue cloth folio, with fifty-six proof plates on stiff card, folio, (spotting throughout sheets and folio).
  
  spotting throughout sheets and folio
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  INSCRIBED WITH A VERSE FROM "STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING."
  A Further Range. New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1936]. Original red cloth lettered in gilt, dust jacket. Jacket with some small chips to head and tail of spine and to folds, toned and with several tears, very good.
  
  First edition, second impression, signed and inscribed in March of 1937 by Frost on the front free endpaper with the final verse from "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening": "The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, / But I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep, / And miles to go before I sleep." Crane A21.1.
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  American school (circa 1850) PAIR OF PORTRAITS: MR. AND MRS. HENRY M. CRANE OF NEW YORK oil on canvas in original frames unsigned one titled on verso H34'' W26 3/4'' overall: H46 1/2'' W38 1/2'' (2pcs) Provenance: Property of a Southern gentleman's private collection Charleston South Carolina. Other Notes: Henry M. Crane was a wealthy and influential businessman from Schenectady New York who owned a thread manufactory at Mohawkville in Rotterdam. He was also a member of the New York State Assembly. Sometime in the 1870s he made a series of unfortunate business decisions and found himself nearly penniless. He moved out West to seek new business opportunities and eventually became a porter at the Pacific Hotel in San Fransisco. He was rescued financially by his brother in 1884 and was able to return to prominence. As explained in the article: ''After Many Days.'' THE NEW YORK TIMES 16 July 1884. Mr. Crane was also a possible investor in Longwood a South Carolina plantation.
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  Goldeneye Pair by Charles E. "Shang" Wheeler (1872 Charles E. "Shang" Wheeler (1872-1949)Stratford, CT, c. 1935Charles Edward "Shang" Wheeler is recognized as the most famous bird carver from Connecticut. While his predecessors Albert Laing (1811-1886) and Benjamin Holmes (1843-1912) made early gunning decoys of exceptional quality, it was Wheeler who took the craft to the next level. He introduced innovative carving and painting techniques and created everything from sandhill cranes to sailfish. Shang, as everyone called him, was an enigmatic figure: oysterman, politician, boxer, cartoonist, public speaker, conservationist, and world-renowned decoy carver.Author Dixon Merkt remarked on Wheeler’s life: "Wheeler’s concern with the conservation of nature eventually led him into politics. Over the years he had come to know and admire Teddy Roosevelt, and as a politician he adopted Roosevelt’s brand of progressive Republicanism. Himself a skilled ornithologist, former cowboy, and avid sportsman, Roosevelt had made conservation one cornerstone of his political platform. Wheeler followed in his footsteps. During several terms in the Connecticut General Assembly he led the campaign to pass anti-pollution and wildlife conservation legislation.Unlike Roosevelt, Wheeler had no driving ambitions. He went into politics because he wanted to clean up Connecticut’s harbors and river. He did much of the hard work and then let other men win the laurels. His ties to Roosevelt and later to Herbert Hoover might have lead him to high government office, if that had been his goal. But Wheeler was satisfied with the life he had built for himself around Stratford. He had many good friends; his work kept him outdoors; and each year he had time for hunting and fishing trips."Provenance: Private Collection, ConnecticutPrivate Collection, MidwestLiterature: Dixon MacD. Merkt. "Shang. A Biography of Charles E. Wheeler," Spanish Fork, UT, 1984, p. 147, plate 136, similar decoy illustrated. Henry C. Chitwood, "Connecticut Decoys," West Chester, PA, 1987, p. 47, similar decoys illustrated.
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  [Press Books]. 6 Titles. 8vo - Folio. Hardcover. Good - very good, 4 in slipcase. ++ Stephen Crane. The Red Badge Of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War. NY: Random House, (1931). #710 of 980 printed at the Grabhorn Press, decorations by Valenti Angelo. ++ Stephen Crane. A Battle In Greece. Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press, 1936. Lacking spine. Contents near fine. Slipcase faded. One of 425, color illutrations by Valenti Angelo. ++ James Milton and Henry Louis. The Mask Of Comus. Nonesuch Press, 1937. In soiled/worn slipcase with color label. #433 of 900, with full color woodcuts by M.R.H. Farrar (5 full-page plus title). ++ William Shakespeare. The Tragedy Of Romeo And Juliet. NY: Heritage Press, 1935. Slipcase worn & soiled. 9 color plates by Sylvain Sauvage. ++ Men Of Letters Of the British Isles. Portrait Medallions by Theodore Spicer-Simson, essays by Stuart P. Sherman, preface by G.F. Hill. NY: William Edwin Rudge, 1924. Slipcase worn, partly split, slipcase's base lacking. Brief descriptions of 29 literary authors, each with portrait, on Rives paper. #10 of 530. ++ Some Greek Love-Poems. J.M. Edmonds translator/compiler. Lon: Peter Davies, 1929. #264 of 450 on Batchelor's hand made paper.
  
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  FROST, Robert (1874 - 1963).A Witness Tree. New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1942]. 8vo. Publisher's cloth, in original dust jacket. Condition: endpapers lightly toned; jacket lightly chipped, spine faded and scuffed. Provenance: Ray Baker Harris, Washington, D.C. first printing, inscribed by frost with the entirety of "the gift outright" to Washington author Ray Baker Harris in May 1942. The Gift Outright is the poem Frost recited at the inauguration of President Kennedy after the poem he had intended to read was swept away by the wind. Patriotic in tone, the poem begins "The land was ours before we were the land's …" Crane A25.
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  GLUYAS WILLIAMS (MASSACHUSETTS/CALIFORNIA, 1888-1982), TEN CARICATURES, PEN AND INK, 11" X 9.25" AND 14" X 11". UNFRAMED.GLUYAS WILLIAMS Massachusetts/California 1888-1982 Ten caricatures depicting Molly Pearson, William H. Crane, William Hodge, Gaby Deslys, Henry Miller, S. Neumann, Lou Tellegen, Ethel Barrymore, The Singer in Pagliacci and The Actor in Peganini. Each with a whimsical title upper center and signed lower right or left. Pen and ink, 11" x 9.25" and 14" x 11". Unframed. Dimensions: Pen and ink, 11" x 9.25" and 14" x 11". Unframed.
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  Pair of Portrait Miniatures and Three Related Daguerreotypes, America, mid-19th century, watercolor on ivory portrait miniatures of Albert and Mary Blair (Easton) Brown, the portrait of Albert inscribed on the interior of the case "Henry I. Brown pinxit May 18, 1844," Henry I. Brown portrait miniaturist worked in Boston, ac. 1840-51, 3 1/4 x 2 1/2 in., in a hinged leather case with gilt brass oval foremat, the portrait of Mary Brown unsigned, 3 5/8 x 2 3/4 in., and is housed in a similar case, both cases with printed labels from Smith's on Milk Street in Boston; together with three ninth plate daguerreotypes, two depicting Albert and one depicting his son Edwin c. 1855; one portrait of Albert and the portrait of Edwin with impressed name "C.V. ALLEN" on the gilt-brass foremat in matching embossed hinged leather cases; all are identified on labels affixed to the cases.
  Literature: See Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, by Ellery Bicknell Crane, 1907, Worcester County, Massachusetts, pp. 39-40. Albert Brown, the son of Samuel and Ada (Hardy) Brown, was born at Seekonk, Massachusetts, March 20, 1804, and married, Mary Blair Eaton, in 1828, and together had eleven children. Albert was a tailor and opened a shop with his brother William, "W. & A. Brown," the first clothing store in Worcester, Massachusetts, on Main Street. Albert died in 1854. Edwin was born in 1844, served as a bank teller and in the Civil War, and later went into business manufacturing machine card clothing for cotton and woolen mills.
  
  Both portraits are in very good condition. The daguerreotypes all have a dark halo around the edges.
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  An interesting collection of mainly early and mid 20th century children's books, including Robin Hood by Henry Gilbert illustrated by Walter Crane, The Mad Dog, a R Caldecott picture book, Tin Tans at Play by Gracia Kasson, etc, together with two paper bound Mickey Mouse presents - Father Noah's Ark, a Silly Symphony & Bucky & Bo, printed in England, copywright Walt Disney, Mickey Mouse Ltd, and a further early Mickey Mouse Annual (AF)
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  Franklin Library Leather Bound Books, Seven (7) Seven leather bound books to include: 1) Collected Poems by Marianne Moore, illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker, introduction by T. S. Eliot - Limited Edition Hardcover - The Franklin Library 1981 (100 Greatest Masterpieces In American Literature). 2) The Complete Poems of Hart Crane, Illustrated with paintings by Joseph Stella - Limited Edition Hardcover - The Franklin Library 1979 (100 Greatest Masterpieces In American Literature). 3) Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, illustrated by David Frampton - Limited Edition Hardcover - The Franklin Library 1984 (100 Greatest Masterpieces In American Literature). 4) Selected Poems by William Carlos Williams, introduction by Randall Jarrell, illustrated by Charles Sheeler - Limited Edition Hardcover - The Franklin Library 1984 (100 Greatest Masterpieces In American Literature). 5) The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, David Hockney Frontispiece - Limited Edition Hardcover - The Franklin Library 1982 (100 Greatest Masterpieces In American Literature). 6) Collected Poems by W. H. Auden, edited by Edward Mendelson - Limited Edition Hardcover - The
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  INTERESTING 1713 DEED FOR LAND IN DARTMOUTH SIGNED BY HENRY HOWLAND WHOSE FAMILY ORIGINALLY BOUGHT DARTMOUTH FROM MASSACHUSETTS BAY COMPANY IN 1652. This document conveys land to David Wood and is signed "This fourth day of December, 1713 and in the 12th year of Her Majesties reign Queen Anne of Great Britain, France and Ireland". Document is signed by Henry Howland, Elizabeth Tucker and Benjamin Crane, all well known families of early Dartmouth. The Howland Family goes all the way back to John Howland who was a signor of the Mayflower Compact in 1620. CONDITION: 12" x 12-1/2" sheet is watermarked laid-paper which is soiled, acid burned, foxed, cracked at folds with reductions which affect some text. Framed between two pieces of glass and quite easily read with dark ink. 50494-15