Sylvia Antiques is the leading source for Nantucket Related Antiques
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 – Sold!Oil 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 – Sold!Painted 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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