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DISCOVERY AUCTION
Sold at auction on Thursday, June 19, 2008.
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Two Wallace Nutting Windsor Brace-back Continuous Armchairs, no. 401, with impressed model no. and one with impressed full script signature, (imperfections, one with break at arm end). $200-$250
Wallace Nutting Tiger Maple and Pine Seat, block branded mark. $300-$500
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Pair of Wallace Nutting Pilgrim Maple Armchairs, no. 493, unsigned, (refinished), ht. 47, wd. 25 in. $1,000-$1,500
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| Wallace Nutting?s Quarter-sawn Oak Chest Desk, non-production variant no. 748, c. 1925-1930, partial-ebonized with maroon painted liner mouldings framing five front panels and three side panels, block branded mark. ht. 30, lg. 66, wd. 36 in. $6,000-8,000
Provenance: Purchased from the Wallace Nutting Estate by the Nutting?s longtime business and personal attorney, Mr. Arthur Gay. Mr. Gay installed the desk at his home in Boston, Massachusetts. The desk was later inherited by his son and installed
at his home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, along with archival legal and business documents and correspondence. In 1971, the Duxbury house, along with the desk and archive were sold to the consignor. Accompanying this lot are a ?late 30s? pen and watercolor illustration titled ?Same Old Hole,? depicting the Nutting office, by Ernest J. Donnelly, and a July 19, 1941 period-typed Nutting Shops, Park St., Framingham, inventory listing. Accompanying this lot is a written history of the desk from the consignor.
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Contact Garrett Sheahan at 978.779.6241 or gsheahan@skinnerinc.com
SKINNER
Auctioneers and Appraisers of Antiques and Fine Art
63 Park Plaza, Boston, MA 02116 Tel: 617.350.5400 * 357 Main Street, Bolton, MA 01740 Tel: 978.779.6241
www.skinnerinc.com
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