Nostalgic opportunity. America’s friendliest Santa or Saint Nicholas – the jolly man standing 15 inches tall clutching his mischievous elf helpers, gifts, and a musical instrument destined for some lucky child. A rare early American whimsical hand cast iron sculpture remarkably still exhibiting its original hand painted colors of red, blue, cream white, green, and...

From an important thirty year old New England collection of hand decorated pyrography Arts & Crafts furnishings. Unique work of art with a Rhode Island origin. A romantic composition of a family executed in a hand carved and hand painted one-of-a-kind settle or bench painting and pyrography on wood attributed to the circle of Lawrence...

From a New England collection and a unique find An all original work of art signed on lower back NWK 1899. This is a beautiful hand incised image “After Rembrandt” hand created by Norman Kingsley and dated 1899 on reverse. It is all hand incised and hand stained. It details a subject image after Rembrandt...

America’s Earliest known Dated Pyrography Portrait Panel of a Pennsylvania couple. This unique work of art is hand-incised using a pyrographic (pyrography) wood burned technique and then hand stained/painted. A Pennsylvania Portrait of a man and woman dressed in traditional clothes appropriate for the period and attending a flowering tree. On wood panel. Dated lower...

From an Important thirty year old New England Collection of Hand Decorated Pyrographic Arts & Crafts Chairs This is a beautiful pair of 19th Century chairs hand decorated in a lovely “grapes and vine” pattern. Both chairs are in solid and sturdy condition ready for many decades of future use. They are artfully hand incised...

Early American Pre-Historic Human Effigy stone pipe, woodland period, 2500 BP Formerly in the Harold French collection, Amboy, Indiana (photo) All stone carvings from America’s early history are scarce. Human effigy stone carvings such as this pipe example rarely come on to the market and are considered to be desirable. This pipe is likely unique...

This is a beautiful 12 inch high hand made, hand carved old wooden Folk Art Birds house- handmade in great detail with two pairs of carved and painted birds sitting atop a bird house . It is also executed in hand finished wood burned art – pyrography- and pencil signed on bottom: made by A...

Native America, an ancient hand carved stone head head effigy, Yokuts People, Collected Private ranch 1960, Tulare Lake Basin, San Joaquin Valley, Kettleman City, CA, 7″ diameter granite, Circa 1000-1500 AD,  

              

Currently being exhibited at Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont              

                

                      

          

American Folk Art Pyrography Grandfather “Family, Friends, & Puppies” Clock, dated 1931 in the interior, 89 inches high and 16 inches wide, two pieces Provenance: Forty year old private collection Douglas Schneible, Charlotte, Vermont                    

World’s First ancient pyrography… Peru, Nazca culture gourd bowl with bird motif and shell inlay, Nazca culture (c. 400 CE) Three inches hi8gh and Six inches diameter.

  

Currently being exhibited at Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont