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Hand Colored Photograph of Nantucket Street Scene by Marshall Gardiner, Ca 1910
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique Hand Colored Photograph of Nantucket Street Scene by Marshall Gardiner (1884-1942), circa 1910, a period hand tinted photograph entitled "Nantucket Shearing Cart and Quakers" showing classic grey shingled houses on a cobblestone paved street, with a couple in horse drawn cart riding away from the viewer, and four women on doorstep and sidewalk, all dressed in period Quaker attire. It is interesting to note that the couple in cart are seated on antique Nantucket Bow Back Windsor chairs. The photograph was titled and hand signed in pencil across the bottom of the old acid foxed mat; the photograph is now mounted in new archival acid free matting, and a photocopy of the original pencil inscription has been preserved on the reverse. The photograph itself remains in excellent condition.
H. Marshall Gardiner (1884-1942) was born on September 18, 1884 in Windsor, Ontario, and immigrated to the United States circa 1890, where his father W.H. Gardiner opened two photographic studios, one in Detroit during the winter months and a second at Mackinac Island during the more tourist-oriented summer months. Recognizing the potential of Florida's rapidly growing tourist trade, around 1894-95 he moved with his family from Detroit to Daytona, Florida which proved much more accommodating to the family's photographic business during the colder winter months.
Marshall learned many of his photographic techniques from his father prior to going out on his own at a relatively early age. Whereas his father generally used wet collodian negatives, technology had advanced to where he was able to use gelatin dry plates in his earlier years, and later the less expensive and much more convenient roll film. Another very important lesson learned from his father was strategy of setting up shop in a tourist resort. Early in his career he traveled to Bermuda where he shot a series of beautiful Bermuda scenes that he hand-colored and successfully sold over a number of years to the local tourist trade.
Around 1910, at the age of around 24, he first traveled to the island of Nantucket. The year-round population of Nantucket was then just over 2500, not nearly enough to sustain a photographic business for the entire year, so he opened a joint Photography and Art Supplies Store. Working as Nantucket's exclusive agent for Eastman Kodak, his business expanded to include the island's only photo-finishing service. However, with such a small year-round population, even the addition of a Gift Shop to compliment the hand-painted photographs, general portrait...
Category
Early 20th Century American Other Photography
Materials
Paper
Early 19th Century Needlework "Show Towel" Dated 1836
Located in Nantucket, MA
Lovely early 19th century "show towel" likely from Pennsylvania. Show towels were special towels with decorative accents stitched into the fabric - often di...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century American Decorative Art
Materials
Cotton, Linen
Early 20th Century Hooked Rug of Dove and Cherry Branch, Mounted for Hanging
Located in Nantucket, MA
Turn of the century/early 20th century hooked rug, mounted for wall hanging on black linen and foam core stretcher. With evergreen ground and white and variegated striped border. Cen...
Category
Early 20th Century American Quilts and Blankets
Materials
Wool
19th Century, Elongated Hexagonal Appliqué Penny Rug, Mounted for Hanging
Located in Nantucket, MA
Vibrant 19th century appliqué "Penny Rug" featuring felted wool appliqué on ivory cotton field. Elongated hexagon shape, mounted on black linen stretcher wi...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool, Felt, Cotton
19th Century Hooked Rug with Greek Key and Flowers, Dated 1891, Mounted
Located in Nantucket, MA
Lovely 19th century hooked rug with black braided border surrounding rug with vibrant red and teal highlighted Greek key border. Inset blue striped border around central floral medal...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Quilts and Blankets
Materials
Cotton
19th Century American Geometric Pattern Mounted Hooked Rug
Located in Nantucket, MA
Vibrant antique hooked rug composed of numerous hexagons of various colors, all surrounded by black borders. Professionally backed with burlap and ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Quilts and Blankets
Materials
Cotton
Seascape with Ship Racing a Barkentine, by C.A.S. Orne, 1920
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique Seascape with square-rigged ship racing a Barkentine, by C.A.S. Orne, 1920, a watercolor on paper stormy seascape with two square-riggers running before the wind, with choppy...
Category
Vintage 1920s American Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Paper
Seascape with Clippership by George Howell Gay (American: 1858 - 1931), ca 1890
Located in Nantucket, MA
Seascape with Clippership by George Howell Gay (American: 1858 - 1931), circa 1890, an oil on canvas bow view of a clippership under full sail, running with stun'sls and skysails set, on lively sea under blue cloudy sky, with a second square-rigger visible in the background, signed in the lower right, and titled on the reverse "Clipper Ship Before the Wind." A beautiful and dramatic painting with a cool, brisk feel.
The painting is in fine condition, with one small patch along the upper margin and a tiny spot of corresponding inpainting.
Measures:24 in H x 20 in W
Framed: 29 in H x 25 in W
George Howell Gay was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and educated in Chicago under Paul Brown and Henry Elkins, and in 1889 moved to Bronxville, New York. He worked in all media, but was especially fond of watercolor, which allowed him to capture the transparency of the ocean and the luminous qualities of sunlight and clouds. Gay worked along the Northeastern coast from Rhode Island to Maine, but also painted summer and winter landscapes throughout New England.
Gay’s seascapes were exhibited at the Boston Art...
Category
Antique 1890s American Other Paintings
Materials
Canvas
19th Century China Trade Seascape with a Junk, Signed, circa 1870
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century China Trade Seascape with a Junk, by Lee Heng, circa 1870, an oil on board seascape with large Chinese Junk under full sail in the fo...
Category
Antique 1870s Chinese Chinese Export Paintings
Materials
Other
18th Century English Oak Coffer
Located in Nantucket, MA
18th Century English Oak Coffer with iron ring hinge, iron lockplate (no key), and bootjack legs. Consistent with age, this piece has a warped top ...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Blanket Chests
Materials
Iron
19th Century Chromolithograph of a Sailor Boy
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century chromolithograph of a sailor boy, circa 1880, a colored print on canvas view of a young American sailor boy sitting astride a bowsprit. A class...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Victorian Prints
Materials
Canvas
19th Century Seascape with Lighthouse
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century seascape with lighthouse, circa 1890, an oil on canvas view of a white-washed lighthouse tower on a small offshore rocky ledge, most...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas
19th Century Italian Painting of Ladies in Waiting
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique Italian painting of ladies in waiting, Naples school, second half 19th century, an oil on wooden panel realist portrait of two Neapolitan c...
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Other Paintings
Materials
Wood
Nantucket Basket with Stencil Decorated Top, by Harry Hilbert, 1995
Located in Nantucket, MA
Nantucket Basket by Harry Hilbert, 1995, a Nantucket purse having a solid mahogany hinged top with colonial or federal style stenciled decoration on ebonized reserve, fine brass hinges minutely inlaid, and tropic wood cross-band inlay around perimeter; double carved wooden swing handles attached with bone mounts; nickel clasp; two tone woven cane wrap on oak staves; signed and dated by wood-burnt stamp on the mahogany bottom. This is a beautiful basket made with astounding craftsmanship by one of the finest artists in the field.
The basket remains in superb, barely used condition. I found one scuff above the stenciled reserve.
Harry Hilbert (1917 – 2010) was an acclaimed Nantucket Basket maker known for his fine inlay and superb craftsmanship. He originally made his baskets as personal gifts, but later sold them through Wayne Pratt...
Category
1990s American Folk Art Decorative Baskets
Materials
Cane, Wood
19th Century Watercolor Seascape with Shipwreck
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique seascape with shipwreck on a rocky shore, mid-19th century, a watercolor on paper seascape with a shipwrecked brig on the rocks, with another squall rolling in on horizon, un...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century American Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Paper
Original Watercolor Ski Poster "Pontresina" by Herbert Leupin, circa 1949
By Herbert Leupin
Located in Nantucket, MA
Original Watercolor Ski Poster "Pontresina" by Herbert Leupin (Swiss: 1916 - 1999), a watercolor and gouache painting original for one of Leupin's celeb...
Category
Vintage 1940s Swiss Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper
Folk Art Maine Rocky Coast Seascape, by D. A. Fisher, circa 1900
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique Folk Art Maine rocky coast seascape, by D. A. Fisher (1867 - 1940), circa 1900, an oil on board seascape with gentle combers breaking on rocks on the foreground, with two sloops sailing in the background, signed lower right. The reverse retaining the label for Frost & Adams Academy Boards, Artists' Tube Colors, etc. , dealers in fine art materials in Boston from 1869 to 1921. There is also a label from The Thomas Co, Picture Framing, Washington D.C.
D.A. Fisher lived in Portland Maine and was a prolific painter of primarily marine landscapes, with subjects focused primarily in southern Maine, but also Massachusetts and New Hampshire. While his work is quite similar and sympathetic with "The Brushians," a group of about 16 artist from Portland that painted on outings around Casco Bay...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Other
18th or 19th Century French Ship Chandler's Trade Sign
Located in Nantucket, MA
18th or 19th century French ship chandler's trade sign, circa 1800, an oval pine double sided sign built with large dove-tails, advertising Cooperage and...
Category
Antique 1790s French Folk Art Nautical Objects
Materials
Pine
European Flower and Farmer's Market, Charlottenburg School, 1927
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique Impressionist Flower and Farmer's Market, Charlottenburg School, 1927, an oil on canvas urban landscape painting of town square with flower venders, signed illegibly A___ V____ (looks akin to A__ssy V_erge) and dated 1927 lower left. An autumnal scene with classic "viktualienmarkt" that looks so much like the Munich Altstadt but is almost surely the park alongside the Prussian Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin. This is a very charming and beautiful painting.
The Charlottenburg area was the seat of the Berlin Secessionist school of German progressive artists that espoused modern art, especially impressionism and expressionism. Max Liebermann in particular, a painter and printmaker, was one of the leading proponents of Impressionism in Germany and continental Europe, and a leading light of the Berlin Secessionism. The Charlottenburg art community became a sort of German "Left Bank" and was at the avant garde of of the visual arts and literature, including the likes of Alfred Döblin, Otto Dix, Gottfried Benn, Else Lasker-Schüler, Bertolt Brecht...
Category
Vintage 1920s German Other Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Seascape with a Five Masted Bark, by Julius Gregersen, circa 1920s
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique Seascape with a Five Masted Bark, by Julius Gregersen (German: 1860 - 1953), circa 1921 - 1928, an oil on canvas seascape with view of the five masted bark KOBENHAVN sailing ...
Category
Vintage 1920s Danish Other Paintings
Materials
Canvas
19th Century Yellow and Green Painted Buffet
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century pine buffet in original yellow paint with contrasting green painted panels. Two side-by-side drawers over two doors with single shelf interior and nicely shaped skirt. P...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Canadian Buffets
Materials
Pine, Paint
19th Century Sunset Coastal Seascape
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th century sunset coastal seascape, an oil on canvas impressionist seascape with gaff-rigged sloop ashore at low tide, other sails in bay under a s...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Other Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Vintage Seltzer Bottle Lamp
Located in Nantucket, MA
Vintage green glass seltzer bottle converted to lamp. Sits on custom wooden base mounted with lamp arm and accompanying shade. Great addition to a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Table Lamps
Materials
Aluminum
Vintage Canada Goose Decoy
Located in Nantucket, MA
Vintage Canada standing Goose Decoy on bent nail legs, by carver of birds and working decoys William "Roy" Mill (1902-1982), Kensington, Prince Edward Island.
Category
Mid-20th Century Canadian Decoys
Materials
Iron
18th Century English Oak Side Table
Located in Nantucket, MA
Late 18th century English oak two drawer side table with two side-by-side drawers, each with single brass Chippendale drawer pull, H-stretcher ...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Side Tables
Materials
Brass
Late 19th Century Quebec Paint Decorated Plant Stand, circa 1890
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique Quebec paint decorated plant stand or bucket bench, circa 1890, pine slat construction with three shelves, fluted backsplash and apron, and deli...
Category
Antique 1890s Canadian Folk Art Painted Furniture
Materials
Pine
Mid 19th Century Sailor's Elaborate Woolie
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique Sailor's elaborate woolwork, circa 1855, with a photograph of the sailor held in a woolwork frame set on the British flag on a cruciform reserve; with the "Honi Soit Qui Mal ...
Category
Antique 1850s English Folk Art Nautical Objects
Materials
Wool
19th Century Oak Game Table with Single Drawer
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th century Oak card table, with lift-off top, single drawer, and interesting wavy x-stretcher.
Category
Antique 19th Century Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Oak
19th Century Dry Sink with Zinc Top and Mustard Paint
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th century Pine dry sink in original yellow vinegar paint. Inset zinc top above two drawers over two paneled doors. Interior with single shelf. Reverse...
Category
Antique 19th Century North American Cabinets
Materials
Zinc
Large Cast New England Bank Patriotic Eagle and Clipper Ship Plaque
Located in Nantucket, MA
Cast and Gilded Patriotic Eagle with Clipper Ship Plaque, with a Clutch of Arrows and an Olive Branch in it's Talons, mid 20th Century, from a Boston Bank...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Federal Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Composition
Elmer Crowell Quarter Sized Canada Goose Decoy, circa 1930s
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique Quarter Sized Canada Goose Decoy, by J.Elmer Crowell, East Harwich, MA (1862 - 1952), circa 1928 - 1943, a hand carved and painted diminutive Can...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Folk Art Decoys
Materials
Cedar
Turn of the Century Wooden Checkerboard
Located in Nantucket, MA
Late 19th/early 20th century checkerboard with inlaid contrasting woods. Converted to wall hanging with felted reverse and hanging clip.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Game Boards
Materials
Wood
Large Turn of the Century Antique Copper Pot with Handled Copper Lid
Located in Nantucket, MA
Large turn of the century antique copper pot with handled Copper Lid.
Category
Early 20th Century Serving Pieces
Materials
Copper
19th Century Bentwood Box in Red Paint
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century bentwood box. Round form with red paint.
Category
Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bentwood, Paint
Turn of the Century Pittsburgh Glass Cake Stand
Located in Nantucket, MA
Turn of the century clear glass cake stand with hint of lavender color (likely due to age). Pittsburgh glass, circa 1900.
Category
Antique Early 1900s American Glass
Materials
Glass
19th Century English Brass Fire Fender with Urn Finials
Located in Nantucket, MA
Brass fire fender with urn finials atop shaped molding on either side of pierced front.
Category
Antique 19th Century English Fireplace Tools and Chimney Pots
Materials
Brass
19th Century English "Harnan" Oat Cake Stand
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th century harnan stand. Used for drying out and hardening oat cakes before the fire.
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Fireplace Tools and Chimney Pots
Materials
Iron
19th Century English Brass Tea Tray with Floral Design
Located in Nantucket, MA
Oval form brass serving/tea tray with reeded edge and central incised floral design, 19th century.
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Platters and Serveware
Materials
Brass
19th C. English Brass Bound Camphor Wood Campaign Trunk
Located in Nantucket, MA
Lovely 19th century Campaign Trunk, camphor wood construction with nice, mellow patina, bound in brass, with brass lock escutcheon embossed...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Campaign Blanket Chests
Materials
Brass
19th Century Russian Icon of Saint Nicholas
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th century Russian Icon of Saint Nicholas, likely first half 19th century, with I believe egg tempera on gessoed wooden panel, depicting Christ in a h...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Ukrainian Other Paintings
Materials
Pine
19th Century Impressionist Seascape with Schooner
Located in Nantucket, MA
Late 19th century Impressionist Seascape, signed H Mehz, circa 1880s, an oil on panel seascape with a bow view of a schooner dropping its sa...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Unknown Barbizon School Paintings
Materials
Wood
19th Century French Redware Tian Bowl
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th century French redware tian bowl with inside green glaze, serving spout, and natural finish on the exterior.
Traditionally used to prepare conf...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Pottery
Materials
Terracotta
19th Century Pine Box with Brass Embellishments and Painted Interior
Located in Nantucket, MA
Lovely 19th century box with lovely mellow patina, brass "batwing" escutcheon on front, brass bail side handles, and hinges at rear. Teal painted interior.
Category
Antique 19th Century English Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
19th C. Pie Safe in White Paint With Punched Tin Decoration
Located in Nantucket, MA
Diminutive 19th century pie safe cupboard in old white with punched tin details throughout. Decorations include a chicken, stars, rosettes, and pinwh...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Cabinets
Materials
Tin
Primitive 19th Century Rocking Cradle
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century rocking cradle in original red paint, with shaped detail at head and foot, on carved rockers. Old age crack along one side.
Category
Antique 19th Century North American Children's Furniture
Materials
Wood, Paint
Early 19th Century Pollard Oak Floor Screen
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th century Oak floor screen with insert Pollard Oak panels. In four sections with brass hinges.
Category
Antique Early 19th Century British Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Oak, Burl
Red Lacquered Chinese Hat Box
Located in Nantucket, MA
Heavily lacquered Chinese hat box with bold red surface. Great silhouette.
Category
20th Century Chinese Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
19th Century Wooden Box with Inlaid Decoration
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century wooden box with hinged top. Inlay in various woods throughout with patterns including hearts and diamonds. Illegible graphite inscription on interior.
Category
Antique 19th Century North American Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
19th Century Pine Demilune Plant Stand
Located in Nantucket, MA
Four tiered plant stand in original green paint with patina and wear from use. Sturdy construction and overall demi-lune form.
Category
Antique 19th Century North American Pedestals and Columns
Materials
Pine, Paint
19th Century Tramp Art Vegetable Rack
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century Tramp Art wall hanging rack with carved crossed sticks and carved rosettes on one side.
Category
Antique 19th Century North American Outsider and Self Taught Art
Materials
Wood
19th Century Tin Bucket, Converted to Lamp
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th century tin bucket with swing handle, in black paint, converted to lamp, with wooden base. Old dent to top and slight bend in socket mount.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century North American Table Lamps
Materials
Tin
Turn of the Century Slatted Eastlake Style Armchair in Blue-Green Paint
Located in Nantucket, MA
Slatted Eastlake-style arm chair with detailed apron in original pale blue/green over red paint.
Category
Early 20th Century North American Armchairs
Materials
Wood, Paint
19th Century Green Painted Stool with Splayed Legs
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th century stool with thick 11 inch oval seat, widely splayed legs, in original green paint.
Category
Antique 19th Century North American Stools
Materials
Pine, Paint
19th Century Long Pine Bench in Orange Paint
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century Pine Bench in rather long size. With original orange paint and boot jack legs.
Category
Antique 19th Century North American Benches
Materials
Pine, Paint
19th Century Painted Side Table and/or Tall Bench
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th century pine side table(or tall bench) in blue-green paint with stretcher and boot jack base. Old crack in top.
Category
Antique 19th Century North American Side Tables
Materials
Pine, Paint
19th Century Pine Desk Table with Painted Base
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century Pine Desk Table. Unpainted two board top with thin breadboard ends. Base in old green and yellow paint over original red paint. Two drawers, side-by-side, and turned ...
Category
Antique 19th Century North American Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Pine, Paint
19th Century Pine Single Drawer Stand
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th century Pine side table in natural finish. Thick top with rounded corners and good overhang. Large single drawer with two turned wooden knobs ...
Category
Antique 19th Century North American Side Tables
Materials
Pine
19th Century Pine Single Drawer Stand
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century Pine Stand in natural finish with pegged construction, single drawer with large molded edge, ending on tapered legs.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century North American Side Tables
Materials
Pine
19th Century Pine Convent Stand with Single Drawer
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century Pine Convent stand with two board top, single, overlapped drawer, and hand-forged nails. Missing original pulls, lockplate missing key.
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Canadian Side Tables
Materials
Pine
19th Century Pine Chest with Applied "v" Molding
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century yellow pine coffer with traces of green paint. Applied molding with central "V" on front. Interior till. Unfinished on reverse.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century North American Blanket Chests
Materials
Pine, Paint
