Lot 017 - Antique Oil Painting On Canvas, Portrait Of A Seated Woman With Book And Spectacles, Unsigned, In Gesso Frame, 14-3/4" x 17-5/8"

Lot 017 - Antique Oil Painting On Canvas, Portrait Of A Seated Woman With Book And Spectacles, Unsigned, In Gesso Frame, 14-3/4" x 17-5/8"An antique oil on canvas portrait depicting a seated woman wearing spectacles and holding a book in her lap, seated in a green upholstered chair. Presented in a gilt gesso frame with rococo style shell and scroll ornament. The canvas extends past the wooden stretcher on the reverse, suggesting the stretcher and or frame may not be original to the painting. The painting is in poor condition with visible paint loss, cracking, and evidence of prior

Here is a lovely size 6 sterling silver ring in the shape of a beautiful rose encrusted with shining silvery gems

various scratching throughout

Antique 1/6th plate ambrotype photograph depicting an impatient-looking little girl wearing an off-shoulder dress

and has some signs of age such as rust spots or paint chipping

Here is a breathtakingly beautiful antique Victorian Eastlake style parlor set that includes a sofa with two matching chairs

including an image inside Napoleon's tomb

This sign is single sided and measures 11

There are various scrapbook clippings such as trade cards and other images attached to the cloth that scroll by as the knobs are rotated

Pre-Auction Notes: Original stand

published by Harry Stanley

They appear to be boxer puppies

Zoological Series IV