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5” Open Round Nantucket Lightship Basket by Paul Willer – $3755” Shallow round Nantucket lightship basket with double wrapped rim and shaped handle.
Signed on the bottom “Willer”. Made by Paul Willer, b.1930.
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7 ½” Open round Nantucket lightship basket with cane staves and oak handle and ears that are finely shaped and extend to the bottom plaque.
The bottom plaque is heavily turned and scribed on the interior of the base.
Most likely used as a berry basket. Unidentified maker, c. 1880.
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8½” Open round Nantucket lightship basket Attributed to Davis Hall – $20008 ½” Open round Nantucket lightship basket with shaped Oak handle and lollipop style ends.
Attributed to Davis Hall (1829-1906) c. 1880-1890.
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12” Shallow Round Nantucket Lightship Basket Attributed to Davis Hall – $2900Large 12” shallow round Nantucket lightship basket with shaped Oak handle and lollipop style ends.
Attributed to Davis Hall (1829-1906), 1880.
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One Egg Basket by Mitchy Ray – $9002 ½” Open round “One Egg” Nantucket lightship basket with swing handle and brass ears.
Attributed to C. Mitchell Ray(1870-1956), c. 1940’s.
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3” Open Round Nantucket Lightship Basket by Paul Willer – $3753” Open round Nantucket lightship basket with double wrapped rim and shaped Oak handle.
Signed on the bottom “Willer”. Made by Paul Willer, b. 1930.
5” High to rim.
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– $1850
9″ Open Round Salmon Painted Nantucket Lightship Basket – $38009” Open round salmon painted Nantucket Lightship basket with wooden ears and original paint.
The nails on the interior bottom indicate this was probably used as a vegetable basket, Unknown maker, c.1880-1900.
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– $135012” open round Nantucket lightship basket with Oak swing handle and Mahogany bottom.
Attributed to Ferdinand Sylvaro (1868-1952) c.1930.
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Carved and Painted Whale Board by George Grant – $18,000Carved and painted six whale species board attributed to George Grant of Nantucket (1857-1942).
Grant, the son of whaling captain Charles Grant, was born in 1857 during a whaling voyage. His mother, Nancy Grant traveled with her husband and gave birth to all her children at ports in the Pacific during voyages.
George Grant harpooned his first whale at age sixteen and continued in the whaling business into his thirties.
Later, as curator of the Whaling Museum, he was a wonderful source of information about Nantucket’s whaling past.
18 ½” x 34 ½”. circa 1920.
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Sailor-Boy Whirligig by Lincoln Ceely – $1800Carved and painted sailor-boy whirligig made by Lincoln Ceely (1865-1950). Ceely was a well known Nantucket cabinet and clock maker who also painted and carved. Stamped on the back, each paddle has ‘Nantucket, Mass’ written in pencil.
19” overall on stand.
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Fishing Boats “Old South Wharf” by Charles Gordon Harris – $4800Oil on Canvas.
Signed, Charles Gordon Harris (1891-1963).
24 1/2″ x 29 1/2″.
Signed and inscribed on back “Fishing Boats Old South Wharf” and Dated 1947.
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The Town Clock by George Lear – $3500Oil on Canvas 19” x 18”, sight.
George Lear (1879-1956).
Scene of the iconic Nantucket clock as seen from Stone Alley.
Signed lower right and date 1945.
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Nantucket Tambour Desk – $12,500Nantucket tambour desk made of fine mahogany and inlays. The tambour slide top section consists of eight drawers with a fine inlaid center door. The bottom section has a fold out writing desk and three drawers with a shaped skirt on tapered inlaid feet.
The desk was found with an 1899 scales receipt, purchased from Joseph Remsem. Remsen was the Sankaty Lighthouse Keeper from 1892-1919.
53″ x 42″ x 20 1/2″
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The Sailor’s Return by Samuel Davis Otis – $28,000Painted Plaster Shadowbox, 19 1/2″ x 24″, c.1930-1940.
Samuel Davis Otis (1889-1961).
Samuel Davis Otis was born in Sherwood, NY, the son of Stephen and Mary Otis. Otis was a nationally known artist and illustrator, and one of the founding members of the Silvermine Guild of Artists.
His great Grandfather was James Gorham, a Nantucket Whaler. In the summers he and his family resided in Sconset. It was on the island where he bacame interested in plaster. He made full figured molds as well as pictorial painted shadow boxes.
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Chrysanthemums in a Vase by Elizabeth Coffin –Oil on Canvas, 30” x 25” Sight.
Signed and dated, Elizabeth Coffin 1888.
Elizabeth Rebecca Coffin (1850-1930).
See more photos...Elizabeth Rebecca Coffin was born of Nantucket Quaker parentage in Brooklyn, New York. She studied at Vassar College, The Hague Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Students League in New York, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, in addition to traveling extensively in Europe and California. She was a pupil of Thomas Eakins.
Beginning in the 1880s, Coffin began to summer regularly on Nantucket, painting brilliant genre scenes and portraits that capture the quaint and fading way of life of post-whaling Nantucket. After moving to Nantucket permanently in 1900, her artistic output declined, and she began to devote her energies to reviving instruction in handicrafts at the Coffin School.
An eighth-generation descendant of original Nantucket settlers Tristram and Dionis Coffin, the artist returned to the island of her ancestors, leaving a legacy of outstanding paintings and devoted public service.