Charles H. F. Turner 1898 Lady Portrait, Frame: 31"x25"; Image: 23"x17", signed CHF 98 & Boston Art Club Exhibition label verso

Folk Art Frame & Repousse Bethlehem Flute Boy

Important Fine American Folk Art Frame & Repousse Flute Boy, Signed Curtis, 1904

This is an original and beautiful 25 inch by 45 inch hand-painted and hand incised wood framed work of art -and containing a wonderful hand hammered copper repousse panel of the iconic Bethlehem Shephard Boy Flute Player. It was created by one of America’s important turn of the last century arts and crafts artisans, William...

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American Unique Antique Hand Crafted “Children’s Celebration” Wood Bench 1905

This is a unique and original beautifully hand-incised hand painted settle or bench signed and dated 1905 . This unique work of art is hand-incised using a pyrographic (pyrography) wood burned technique and then hand stained/painted on front with images of four children, tulips, pretzels, a windmill and even a stein- a family celebration! Original...

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Hand Crafted “CHERUBS” Aesthetic Walnut Serving Cabinet

Aesthetic Walnut Serving Cabinet, “Cherubs”, With 20 finely incised inlaid panels This is an original and beautiful hand crafted and hand incised walnut wood Aesthetic period 1890 cabinet replete with twenty (20) finely incised panels and original engraved gilt brass hardware.. Each panel in this unique work of art is painted using stains and oils...

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American Antique Arts Crafts End Table Unique Native American Good Luck, Signed 1910

Exhibiting a fine Native American Motif, Signed This is a one-of-a-kind original and beautiful hand incised broad top wooden end table -a unique creation- finished in attractive native American “Good Luck” symbols motif. This unique work of art is hand-finished while exuding graceful age. It is signed on bottom of one of its two drawers:...

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Rhode Island Four Seasons Pyrography Screen

Romantic Hand Decorated “Four Seasons” Arts & Crafts Wood Screen Rhode Island

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 four panel Screen “Four Seasons”, painting and pyrography on wood attributed to the circle of Lawrence Pennington, early 20th century, Warwick, Rhode Island. This is a beautiful...

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Fine Pair American Antique Hand Decorated “Grape & Vine” Arts & Crafts Chairs

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...

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Important America’s Chieftain Ceremonial Wood Seat “Duho” Cave Find, 500 Yrs Old

Pre-Columbian, Hispaniola, Arawak Peoples, Taino Native Indians, 1000 to 1500 CE. This is a fine and important Taino Cacique Chief’s hand carved hard wood seat -Duho- an ancestor ceremonial sculpture from the Arawak Peoples of the Greater Antilles Islands. It is at least 500 years old and comes from an important Florida collection having originally...

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Ancient American “Human Effigy” Stone Paint Pallet, Anasazi Culture 900 AD

Early American Pre-Historic Human Effigy Stone Paint Pallet, Anasazi culture 900 AD All stone carvings from America’s Prehistoric southwest are scarce. The majority of known carved stones come from the Mimbres, Hohokam or Casas cultures. So examples of stone carvings from the Anasazi culture (circa 900–1300 AD) are rare especially human forms which are the...

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Ancient American “Human Effigy” Stone Pipe, Woodland Period

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...

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Fine antique hand carved folk art BIRDS house, signed early 20th century

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...

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Native America, an ancient hand carved stone head effigy, Yokuts People, Collected Private ranch 1960, Tulare Lake Basin, San Joaquin Valley, Kettleman City, CA

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,

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Charles H. F. Turner Antique Pyrography Lady Portrait in original oak frame, Frame: 17.5″x11″; Image: 11.25″x5″, signed front CHF upper left corner

Charles H. F. Turner: Boston Etcher and Professional Pyrographer Charles Henry Francis Turner (1848-1908) , a Boston etcher and fine arts painter at the turn of the century, created some of the finest, most detailed pyrographic artworks. Because of his sojourn to France in the late l880’s, he specialized in European and French influenced...

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Taboret, fine black & gilt “Arabic” design and finish, dated bottom July 24, 1899 with star graphic, 28″hx25″w

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An ecumenical set of four wooden “cross” plaques, J.W.Fosdick, commissoned for Bishop’s House, Burlington, Vermont, circa 1890’s, approx 37″ & 44″H x 11.25″w

Discovered in the estate of Walter Aigner, Taos, New Mexico, were this set of four (4) pyrography plaques featuring crosses. Two are signed by J.W Fosdick. They reportedly were commissioned for the Bishop’s House at 52 Williiams Street, Burlington, Vermont.

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Four panel Screen “Four Seasons” , painting and pyrography, 54″h x 60, attributed to the circle of Lawrence Pennington, early 20c. Warwick, Rhode Island

Part of an exquisite suite of three furniture scale works of art including this four panel screen, a settle, and a throne chair, the settle marked "LeRoy", the suite decended into the Smith family of Providence, Rhode Island and was originally acquired at auction in Warwick, RI sometime in the 1940’s.

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Throne chair, painting and pyrography, 47.5″hx23.75″wx19.5″deep, attributed to the circle of Lawrence Pennington, early 20c. Warwick, Rhode Island

Part of an exquisite suite of three furniture scale works of art including this throne chair, a settle, and a four panel screen, the settle marked "LeRoy", the suite decended into the Smith family of Providence, Rhode Island and was originally acquired at auction in Warwick, RI sometime in the 1940’s.

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Taboret, finely carved & burned “poppies”, 25″h.x27″w.

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Canada, Quebec Church Crucifix,, 39″h x 21″w, undated and unsigned, circa 19th century

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Norway, Round ” Viking Ship” Box, 5 3/4″d

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France, Corner Shelf, “Butterflies & Flora”, 37″hx23″w

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Austria, Commemorative Plate, 13″d

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A. Kohlbagen 1886 Giant Love Plaque, Provid. R.I., 58″hx46″w, signed and dated lower left

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Grandfather Clock, dated 1931, fine quality, 89″hx16″w

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Tiffany Style Desk Set, very fine quality, 9″lx5″d, unsigned

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Salesman sample, two sided pyrographic plaque of a dog with words FLEM-AR-CO/ EXPRESS WAGON/No. 5210,; 3/16″ – 3 PLY; section II., manufacturers flemish art Co New York & Brookly N.Y., patent applied for, Site: 7.5″h x 7.25″w

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William Fuller Curtis (1873-1938), carved and painted wooden frame dated 1904 with burned monogram WFC verso. Frame holds a hand hammered copper repousee panel of a shepherd boy playing a flute among goats: frame: 26″h x 45″w; site: 16.25″ x 35.75″

William Fuller Curtis was born in 1873 in New York, studied in Paris at the Julian Academy under Lefebvre and Fleury, and later returned to work in Washington D.C. His works are in many museums and private collections. He died in 1938.

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J. William Fosdick, Shield of Kennard Family 1901, Dimensions: 32″ x 34″, Signed and dated 1901 with slogan “At Spec Non Fracta” or “Hope is never crushed”

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World’s First pyrography ? Peru, Nazca culture gourd bowl with bird motif and shell inlay, Nazca (c. 400 CE), 6″

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A.G.Gilbert Portrait of Native Children, Frame: 13.5″d; Site: 8.5″d, signed obverse, dated lower left 1901

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Lodge Chair Table, 31″hx42″wx27.5″deep, signed with over one hundred signatures, addresses, and dates from 1905 – 1917, unique work of art, fine quality, formerly exhibited at Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont .

Currently being exhibited at Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont “Lotus Lodge” inscription Alice L Granbury Sept 2 ’14. Other signatures are signed and dated 1905 through 1917 and include patrons from Ohio, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania.

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Card and Poker Chip Game Box, 7″hx7″wx7″d, signed “Who is shy Jack”

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Anonymous, Magnificent Lion Panel, 22″x30″, unsigned, circa 1910

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Bauhaus Style Chair, 36″hx15″w, signed F.A.U. to J.A.P., June 11th, 1908

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Shakespearean Portrait Panels

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“Welcome Elks” Fraternal/Black American Trade Sign, 16″hx12″w

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America’s Earliest known Dated Pyrography Portrait Panel , Pennsylvania Portrait of a man and woman dressed in traditional clothes appropriate for the period and attending a flowering tree, 12.25″x9″, dated lower left 1819,

America’s earliest known dated pyrography panel Provenance: ex Carol and Richard Smyth collection, originally found in Pennsylvania, and featured in their book THE BURNING PASSION, p.7 Description in the Smyth book follows : BEFORE: (refers to ealier time preceeding the invention of advanced platinum points and tools)...

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Monumental “Climbing Roses” Magazine Stand, burned and stained, 49″Hx18″wx14″d, unsigned

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Ball Hughes, Portrait of Gilbert’s “Trumpeter”, Frame: 30″ x 26″; Site: 24″x19″, Signed Reverse:This Picture was burnt with a Poker from Gilbert’s Painting of the Trumpeter, Ball Hughes Fecit Boston 1864

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Monumental “Red Roses”Plate Rack, burned and stained, 54″Lx18″h, unsigned

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Dr. Norman W. Kingsley , self portrait of Rembrandt, 18″x15″, signed and dated reverse “NWK June 1899”

American artist Dr. Norman W. Kingsley (1829â1913), called the Father of Orthodontia, was less known for his artistry than for his dentistry. Nevertheless, his remarkable skill, innovation, and art are an integral part of everything he did. And if all of his accomplishments in dentistry and art were not enough, he is also known for...