- TWO STERLING SILVER TABLE ITEMS Including
TWO STERLING SILVER TABLE ITEMS Including one S. Kirk & Son bread plate with floral motif around the rim, marked S. Kirk & Son, Sterling, 127F to the underside, 6¼"; together with one Henry James Hulbert sterling gravy boat, marked H&J, Thistle, and O., 4¾" x 7" x 3¾"; total weight, 14.745 toz.
- 19TH C. US GLASS BOTTLES - CARTER'S
19TH C. US GLASS BOTTLES - CARTER'S INK & WARNER'S (4)North America, United States, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A fine collection of 4 glass bottles in cobalt, dark brown, amber, and aqua hues. The largest is the cobalt storage jar for early 20th century era Carter's permanent blue-black ink and contains the original wood stopper and paper label on the front. This unique bottle is hexagonal and embossed like arched gothic cathedral windows complete with quatrefoil detailing on each face and has a raised "CARTER" along the bottom faces. The next is embossed with "WARNER'S SAFE CURE" in a brown glass with a money safe embossed in the center. The other brown bottle is a nearly identical Rochester New York version labeled "WARNER'S SAFE KIDNEY & LIVER CURE ROCHESTER." Last is an aqua blue bottle from Philadelphia for S. Twitchell & Bros bottle supplier, embossed with "TWITCHELL / PHILAD. A" with a large T in the center on both sides. Size (Carter's): 4" W x 11" H (10.2 cm x 27.9 cm)
Hulbert Warner was a wealthy business owner that sold fire and burglar-proof safes, which he later incorporated into his bottle designs. Warner contracted Bright's disease and drank some medicinal "Dr. Craig's Original Kidney Cure," and recovered shortly after. Whether it was the potion or not that saved his life, Warner bought the formula and rights to the product and began to advertise in 1879 under the new name "Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure." In 1884 he opened his Rochester New York headquarters where approximately 7,000 US gallons (26497 Liters) of this medicine was produced a day! In 1889 he sold the company to an English investment group, which rebranded as H. H. Warner & Co. Ltd., hence the London labelled version of the bottle.
Carter's Ink Company (1858 to 1975) was one of the largest ink an pen producers in the world, based in Boston and Cambridge Massachusetts and their exquisite gothic window shaped bottles are highly collectable- more so with the label and stopper intact!
Provenance: private Lumberton, Texas, USA collection, acquired before 2010
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#169600
Condition:
Twitchell bottle is intact with nice iridescence, minor surface chips, and mineral deposits. Carter's ink is intact with the original lid and label attached. Both of Warner's bottles are intact. Nice iridescence on the Rochester bottle.
- JAMES KIVETORUK MOSES - MIXED MEDIA
JAMES KIVETORUK MOSES - MIXED MEDIA - INUIT HUNTINGJames Kivetoruk (Kivitauraq) Moses (Inupiat/Inupiak, ca. 1899-1982). Mixed media on paper, ca. 1960s. Signed and inscribed "Home Alaska" on lower left. A sophisticated mixed media work (likely a combination of watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, and India ink) by Alaskan self-taught artist James Kivetoruk Moses with impressive provenance as delineated below. The scene depicts an Inuit seal hunter (with his catch) navigating the ice floes, and is delineated with Moses' signature rigid postures, rich color palette which set him apart from his contemporaries who generally worked in an achromatic manner, and observant eye for detail. Prior to becoming an artist, Kivetoruk Moses was a hunter and a trapper in Alaska; however, an airplane crash resulted in serious injuries to his legs that ended this chapter of his life. While recuperating, Kivetoruk Moses took up drawing, an activity he had enjoyed as a child. His art honored the life he knew - people, places, and events that he either experienced directly or observed; hence, he has been praised for his work as both an artist and a documentarian. Size: 4.5" L x 10.75" W (11.4 cm x 27.3 cm) Frame: 8.875" L x 14.875" W (22.5 cm x 37.8 cm)
On the verso of this piece is an informative biographical description that includes, "Moses' paintings are painfully detailed as he feels a deep obligation to record for history how the Eskimo lived, worked and played and to accurately portray historical and mythical events that occurred in the North. His paintings of the Siberian Eskimo who used to visit his village is already a page from the past, along with his depictions of the Eskimo legends which were previously handed down verbally."
Alaskan native James Kivetoruk Moses was an Outsider Artist whose art career began late in life following injuries due to a plane crash. During his youth and middle years, Moses was a hunter, trapper, and reindeer herder in Siberia and his native Cape Espenberg on the Seward Peninsula. However, in 1954, due to his injuries from a plane crash, Moses' hunting days came to an end, and he decided to teach himself to paint. Dubbed an Arctic Henri Rousseau, Moses is known for honoring his ethnic heritage with his art, depicting hunts, polar bears, walrus, maritime voyages, shamans, the arrival of white men in northern Alaska, Inuit legends, and the ceremonial Wolf Dance.
According to Michael Engelhard, "Moses' hunter-naturalist eye for detail matched a knack for narrative angles. His colored-pencil, watercolor, and India ink landscapes and seascapes deftly rendered clothing, subsistence and social activities, ice, weather, even light and shadows typical of the seasons or hour of day. Species-specific fur, wood grain in boards, tan lines, chin tattoos, lip plugs, tonsure hairdos, and ashen cloud-bellies brushing horizons segueing from powder-blue to peach reflect skills he kept honing. Seal blood spatters onto snow, shorthand for the brusque northern existence." (Michael Engelhard - "The Life and Paintings of Alaska Native Artist James Kivetoruk Moses" – Alaska Magazine - October 1, 2021)
James Kivetoruk Moses' art has been collected by esteemed museums such as the California Academy of Sciences, the Anchorage Museum of History and Art, the University of Alaska Museum in Fairbanks, the Alaska State Museum in Juneau, and the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.
Provenance: Private Boulder, Colorado, USA collection, acquired from William A. Winn of Juneau, Alaska in 1986; ex-Dorothy Jean Ray, an author and anthropologist known for her books on Native Alaskan art and culture who acquired the painting as a gift from Betty Hulbert, Director of the Sheldon Jackson Museum in Sitka, Alaska
All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back.
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PLEASE NOTE: Due to recent increases of shipments being seized by Australian & German customs (even for items with pre-UNESCO provenance), we will no longer ship most antiquities and ancient Chinese art to Australia & Germany. For categories of items that are acceptable to ship to Australia or Germany, please contact us directly or work with your local customs brokerage firm.
Display stands not described as included/custom in the item description are for photography purposes only and will not be included with the item upon shipping.
#170924
Condition:
Set in a custom frame behind glass, this piece has not been examined outside the glass but appears to be excellent. On the verso, an informative biographical description is attached to the gallery paper. The piece is wired for suspension.
- A white metal livery badge, 19th Century,
A white metal livery badge, 19th Century, with a crest above the armorial of Hulbat of Farnham, Surrey and Hulbert of Corsham, Wiltshire/Note: Neither of the above named families have a dolphin crest so it is possible that this badge shows the adopted arms of Shropshire based Charles Hulbert (1778-1857), writer of The History and Description of the County of Salop (1837)
- KATHERINE HULBERT FOREST POND LANDSCAPE
KATHERINE HULBERT FOREST POND LANDSCAPE PAINTING Massachusetts, California,1859-1939Depicts lush trees and spindly birch trunks surrounding a glistening pond. Hulbert studied at the School of Design in San Francisco, the National Academy of Design, and with John Ward Stimson. She maintained a studio in Sacramento California before moving to Massachusetts with her husband and fellow artist Charles Allen Hulbert.
- AARON SOPHER. TWO PEN AND INK ILLUSTRATIONS
AARON SOPHER. TWO PEN AND INK ILLUSTRATIONS (American, 1905-1972). For "Rivers of the Eastern Shore" by Hulbert Footner. 1.) "Home Sweet Home," signed "Aaron Sopher" lr, sight size: 9 x 11 1/4 in., framed. 2.) "Spencer Hall," signed "Aaron Sopher" ll, sight size: 7 3/4 x 13 3/4 in., framed.
- MERWIN HULBERT AND COMPANY LARGE FRAME
MERWIN HULBERT AND COMPANY LARGE FRAME SINGLE ACTION REVOLVER. .44 WCF six-shot cylinder with scoop-type flutes 7'' round barrel hard rubber grips. S/n 1165. Action good bore with some corrosion and pitting overall gray patina with scattered oxidation.
- Books on antique firearms: Blanch and
Books on antique firearms: Blanch and Rywell, English Guns and Gun Makers ; Gerald Kelver, The Schuetzen Rifles History & Loading ; Gerald Kelver, Major Ned H. Roberts and the Schuetzen Rifle ; McDonald Hastings, English Sporting Guns and Accessories ; Merwyn Carey, English, Irish and Scottish Firearms Makers ; Lewis Winant, Early Percussion Firearms ; R. T. Huntington, Hall's Breach Loaders ; Smith and Curtis, signed by authors, The Pinfire System ; W. O. Smith, 1943, The Sharps Rifle ; Tily, The Uniforms of the U.S. Navy ' Frank Sellers, 1978, dust jacket, Sharps Firearms , inscribed by author; Jamieson, 1988, Bullard Arms , dust jacket with some water damage ; John Barber, The Rimfire Cartridge ; Art Phelps, Merwyn, Hulbert & Company Firearms ; James Grant, 1947, Single-Shot Rifles ; James Grant, More Single-Shot Rifles ; Ned Roberts, 1967, dust jacket, The Muzzle-Loading Cap Lock Rifle ; Madison Grant, Powder Horns and Their Architecture ; Buffalo Bill Historical Center, The Sumptuous Flaske ; Martin Rywell, The Powder Flask ; Nathan Swayze, Engraved Powder Horns ; James E. Hicks, Nathan Star: Arms Maker ; Torsten Lenk, 1965, dust jacket, The Flintlock ; two copies George Cameron Stone, dust jackets, A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor ; Louis Winant, Firearms Curiosa ; D. R. Baxter, Blunderbusses ; Charles Sawyer, The Firearms in American History ; Merwyn Carey, American Firearm Makers ; Henry Kaufman, Early American Gunsmiths ; Frank Sellers, first edition, dust jacket, American Gunsmiths , inscribed by author; Herbert Arment Sherlock, Black Powder Snapshots , Standard Publications, 1946, with slip case, slip case with damage ; William Brophy, L. C. Smith Shotguns ; 1877 one-page advertisement, Directions for Handling the Fox Gun, New Model ; Fox's Patent Breach-Loading Shotgun , Boston, 1876; Catalog No. 51, Greener's Sporting Guns and Accessories ; William Rhea & Sons catalogue, Boston, undated, probably 19th century, Fine Guns and Rifles ; Browning Arms Company, St. Louis, 1942, A History of Browning Guns ; 1902 price list reprint, Remington Arms Company ; 1967 and 1968, The Weatherby Guide , some tears and chips to cover (51 pieces); detailed photographs and descriptions not available for this lot. Generally good condition. Collection of Courtney Smith, Sr., Highland Springs, Virginia.
- MERWIN HULBERT & CO. DOUBLE ACTION
MERWIN HULBERT & CO. DOUBLE ACTION REVOLVER. Medium frame. .38 caliber five-shot. Ribbed 3 1/2'' marked barrel. Nickel-plated frame folding hammer hard rubber grips. S/n 2371. With original box.
- MERWIN HULBERT AND COMPANY MEDIUM FRAME
MERWIN HULBERT AND COMPANY MEDIUM FRAME DOUBLE ACTION REVOLVER. .38 caliber five-shot cylinder 5 1/2'' round barrel nickel-plated and engraved finish ivory grips. Retains about 40-50% original plating with moderate oxidation and some pitting action smooth marks worn.
- MERWIN HULBERT AND COMPANY LARGE FRAME
MERWIN HULBERT AND COMPANY LARGE FRAME SINGLE ACTION REVOLVER. .44 caliber six-shot cylinder with scoop-type flutes 7'' round barrel nickel-plated finish ivory grips. S/n N5424. Retains 50-60% of original plating with scattered light oxidation action smooth wear to marks age cracks in the ivory grips bore with light pitting.
- MERWIN & HULBERT REVOLVER. Large frame
MERWIN & HULBERT REVOLVER. Large frame double action revolver .44 caliber 5-1/2'' ribbed barrel nickel finish and pearl handles. Company and patent date marked on rib ''Calibre Winchester 1873'' on left side of frame. Folding spur hammer with ''Jan 27 85'' date. Comes with 3-1/2'' extra barrel. All matching serial numbers. S/n 9957. Very minor wear excellent condition. Bore is clean good rifling on both barrels. Suction is strong.