Collection of antique clubs, consisting of 4 golf clubs and 2 Chole clubs. 1st Item: An early hickory shafted "blacksmith's" cleek, with a smooth-faced dish face, hand tooling on the hosel, leather grip, ca. 1840. 43" Length. 2nd Item: A Willie Park Jr. patent compressed brassie club, stamped "W. Park's Patent Compressed", scared head (splice), […]
Lot 625: 7 19th C. Natural History Books, Ornithology & Botanical, incl. Color Plates
Seven (7) finely illustrated French-language nature books, all but one with color plates, including studies of birds, mammals, and horticulture. 1st-3rd items: L'ILLUSTRATION HORTICOLE, Vols. 15,16, and 23. Published in Ghent, Belgium in 1868,1869, and 1876. Each includes approximately 37 chromolithographs including foldouts, with plates in Volume 23 by Pieter de Pannemaeker (Belgium, fl. 19th […]
Lot 626: 6 Antique Wood Shaft Golf Clubs 1840-1920
Collection of six (6) antique wood shaft golf clubs. From left to right in photos. 1st Item: A smooth-faced rut niblick with an unusual shaft of greenheart (as hickory was the preferred wood by the 1890s), Heavy hand-tooled hosel, stamped G. BURROWS RANELAGH WARRANTED HAND FORGED. 38 1/2" Length. Note: Stamp refers to the Course […]
Lot 624: Pair Signed Watercolor Botanical Floral Paintings or Theorems c. 1800
Pair of two (2) watercolor floral paintings, possibly schoolgirl studies for a theorem or Female Academy album. Includes "Punica Granatum" or pomegranate by Maryann Humphries, dated July 1807, and "Anemone Pratensis" or small pasque flower by Elizabeth Bolton, dated Dec. 1813. Each framed under glass in a later giltwood frame with hand-colored and gilt mat. […]
Lot 623: 6 Ornithological Illustrations, incl. William Goodall Watercolors & Leitner Etching
1st-4th items: Four (4) William Goodall (England, 1757-1844) watercolor and ink drawings, including one (1) titled "Pale Stonechat" depicting a stonechat with a low waterfall in the background; one (1) titled "White-eared Bustard" depicting a bustard upon a tropical riverbank, scale legend to lower edge of the image; one (1) titled "Richards Antus" depicting Richard's […]
Lot 621: 2 J.D. Knapp W/C Sporting Art Landscape Paintings of Waterfowl in Flight
Two (2) Joseph Day Knapp (New York, 1875-1962) watercolor sporting art paintings depicting ducks in flights departing or returning to marshy banks amid bodies of water, including one (1) with pintail ducks flying in winter landscape with icy patches and an overcast sky and one (1) with pintail ducks and female mallards flying in a […]
Lot 622: J.D. Knapp W/C Landscape Painting, Mallards Landing
Joseph Day Knapp (New York, 1875-1962) watercolor on paper sporting art landscape painting titled "Mallards Landing" depicting male and female mallard ducks flying over a marshy coastline with a cloudy blue sky overhead. Signed "J.D. Knap" lower left. Label from Copley Fine Art Auctions, Hingham, MA en verso. Housed and matted in a contemporary chrome […]
Lot 620: 2 J.D. Knapp Duck Watercolors, Springtails Sailing In & Through the Mists
Two (2) Joseph Day Knapp (New York, 1875-1962) watercolor on paper sporting art or hunting related paintings depicting ducks flying over a marshy landscape, including one (1) titled "Through the Mists – Black Ducks" depicting black ducks flying over grassy coastline below, and one (1) titled "Springtails Sailing In" depicting female mallards flying over open […]
Lot 618: 6 Framed 19th C. Edward Orme Tiger Hunting Prints plus 1 Sea Lion engraving
Six (6) big game hunting plates from ORIENTAL FIELD SPORTS, after Samuel Howitt and Captain Thomas Williamson, 1805-1807, hand-colored aquatint engravings published by Edward Orme, London. All are matted and framed under plexiglass in simulated birdseye maple frames. Sight – 19 1/4" x 15". Frame – 28" x 24". Plate – 18 3/4" x 14 […]
Lot 619: 2 J.D. Knapp Large Sporting Art W/C Paintings, Ducks Over Water
Two (2) Joseph Day Knapp (New York, 1875-1962) watercolor and gouache on paper hunting related landscapes, depicting woterfowl flying over a marshy coastline under cloudy skies, including one (1) depicting pintail ducks and one (1) depicting female mallards. Both signed "J.D. Knap" lower right corners. Both are housed and matted in contemporary wood frames under […]
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