ANTIQUES FOR SALE
1. Stanley Mason painting ‘A moose Comes to Town’, 16 x 16 inches, painted on a cloth. Stanley lived in Merogomish, N. S. and is now deceased. Stanley was one of the truest folk artists to turn up at the Nova Scotia Folk Art Festival which we founded in 1989. Sometime about halfway through its history, someone in Lunenburg connected with the Masons. Don Ellicott the collector from Pleasantville called our attention to his work and we bought quite a number of his pieces, as did a dealer from New York City. We visited him when he was still alive.
Price $ 125.00
2. Pine hanging shelf from a house in Mahone Bay ca. 1900 in original green paint with black trim 29 x 14 ½ inches Price $ 110.
SOLD
3. La Have River Salmon Spear of the first quality, one of barbs was sheared off, probably when hitting a rock, 14 x 7 inches Price $ 75.00
4. Ox Team pulling hay wagon, Camperdown. The story is that he made three sets for three young neighborhood boys. The person we bought it from discouraged this family from selling theirs. No doubt this anonymous maker had made others, as we have just a pair of oxen in our own collection. 16 inches long x 5 inches high Price $ 135.00 
5. Decorated Blanket Chest, Lunenburg County, 41 ¾ inches long, has some minor aggravation along the top edge moldings. Price $ 375.00
6. Pattern Rug “Mr. & Mrs. Currier” 12 x 18 inches (frame size 18 x 25 inches) 1950s, includes a frame period with the scene, Estate of Margaret Hebb Price : $ 235
7. ONTARIO Stencil – silver plate on copper, ca. 1920, 13 ½ x 4 ¼ inches. Very unusual high quality production. Price $ 50.00
8. Shadow Box Winter Scene – Lunenburg County, mid century, 20 x 15 ½ x 6 inches deep. Maud Lewis eat your heart out! Price $375.00 
9. Working Male Eider Decoy – Lunenburg County, strong whittle marks and a few buckshot scars, ca. 1950, 18 ½ x 10 x 7 inches high. Good decoys from the County that turn up which are not in private collections are almost a thing of the past
Price $110.00
SOLD
10. Exceptional example of Nova Scotia glaze-decorated redware pottery in unusual size, excellent condition, 6 1/2 high by 6 3/8 diameter, in our collection for at least 20 years. Price $110.00
SOLD
11. Pine carving signed ‘Berton Smith’, 13 ½ inches high, ca. 1970. A strong piece of Nova Scotia folk art by a little known maker.
Price $ 250.00
12. Cupboard from Barss Corner with original key, ca 1900, and nice historical accoutrements.
Price $ 165.00
13. Eight early Blown cordial glasses, four matched, all similar molded and blown design, New England or England, ca. 1830, tallest 4 ¼ inches Price $ 80.00
SOLD
14. Joe Sleep Painting, 8 ¼ x 11 inches (12 ½ x 15 framed). I chose this painting for appraising his Estate works which he left to the IWK Hospital years ago. Price $ 385.00
15. Rare burl bowl of indeterminate function, possibly salt, ca. 1800, 3 ½ inch diameter x 2 inches high. Burl is the only wood that doesn’t shrink. Price $ 135.00 
17. Stanley Mason painting of village deer, 16 x 16 inches, painted on a cloth. This is the second of six paintings – four more will come up towards the end Price $ 110.00
16. Elegant Hand Whisk, probably jute, 12 inches long, ca. 1920 found in Lunenburg County Price $ 45.00
17. Painting by Jeff Halliday “Snow, Steers & Saplings 2006.” Note that the oxen are in the process of clearing the roads, pulling a snow roller Oil on canvas, 16 x 20 inches. Price $ 190.00
SOLD
18. Spyglass Weathervane found in a house in Blockhouse, either used as a weathervane or a trade sign, perhaps in Lunenburg. 34 inches tall, arrow 30 inches, Late 19th early 20th century. Weathervanes like this are surprisingly rare to find in Nova Scotia Price $ 575.00
19. Collection of Choppers – Buyer’s Choice
A Top left $ 40.00
B Top Right $ 40.00
C Bottom $ 60.00
D Top Left $ 40.00
E Top Right $ 40.00
F Bottom Left $ 50.00
G Bottom Right $ 50.00
20. Airplane Whirligig, 36 inches long, wingspan 35 inches, Lunenburg, 1960s Price $ 250
21. Stanley Rector Bluebird, signed and dated on bottom, 7 ½ inches high x 7 inches wide .
Price $ 120.00
22. Bone Pipe, ca. 1750 bone/antler carved pipe head, 1 ¾ inches high Price $ 95.00
23. Clarence Saulnier silver planter of flowers, 6 ½ high x 7 wide x 4 deep, prolific folk artist who died some years ago, seen at Bowmanville this year. There are almost 60 individual carved pieces in this work.
Price $ 85.00
24. Surveyors Measuring Tool, Stamped “Keuffel & Esser NY”, six feet long, opening to twice that length, 1 ½ x 1 ½ width & depth - Price $ 65 
25. Tall Oak Stool with turned and splayed legs, 32 Inches tall Price $ 120.00
26. Document Box, ca. 1850, handpainted initials BBG and floral decorations, 8 ¾ x 12 x 2 inches deep. Price $ 75.00
27. Knickle Photograph “When Day Is Done” in original Knickle Studio Frame with label, 7 ¾ x 9 ¾ image Price $ 65.00
28. Knickle Photo “Bluenose” , image 5 ¾ x 7 ¾ inches, framed 10 1.2 x 12 ½ inches, pencil signed and stamped and signed J. E. Knickle Price $ 65
29. MacAskill Photograph of Schooner “Margaret A. Smith” which was the most successful challenger to the Bluenose in the run off for the first International Schooner Race off Halifax in 1921. titled and signed by MacAskill, original signature in the early 20s. We have not researched these photographs but consider this one and the next as possibly rare.
Price $ 125.00
30. Photograph signed W. R. MacAskill and identified “A Bone in her Teeth 1922” It depicts the Henry Ford which outraced the Bluenose in the 1922 contest in Gloucester. This race was passionately contested. Price $ 125.00
31. Charcoal Portrait inscribed “To Ada Himmelman ‘Wren’ with best wishes, Gordon Grant, who was a notable American marine artist who had his studio in Gloucester at the time of the races, 24 x 18 inches Price $ 185.00
32. Stanley Mason Summer Day with Green House Price $ 110
33. Stanley Mason Church $100
34. Steel Engraving of “The Daughter of Canada” designed by John Haytor and Engraved by W. H. Egleton, 1845, 12 x 9 1/2 inches,
framed 16 ½ x 14 ½ inches Price $ 95.00
35. Matched of four of English for a substantial probably dining table, from the work shop of Warren Strum in Clearland, 4 inches high Price $60
36. Watercolor copy of “Le Benedicite” by Jean Simeon Chardin (painting image verso), It was common for Chardin to make copies of his own work, but it is unlikely that he is the author of this finely executed watercolor, 19th century, 9 x 7 inches. Price $ 150
37. Stanley Mason painting of big pink flowers, Price $ 85.00
38. Stanley Mason painting of crows and butterflies Price $ 85.00
Our Last Item Comes With A Story
39. Fisherman’s Chest, Feltzen South, 36 inches wide. Price $ 465.00
Please note. You should really only purchase this chest if you are in a position to display it open. That’s where its heart is. But it’s your choice.
We have been collecting Lunenburg County fishermen’s chests for over 30 years, so we were interested in the decorative ones where the personality of either the maker and/or the owner expressed themselves in some distinctive way.
So, we were very interested to have a visit from Charlie Burden, a founder of the Bath Maine Marine Museum, and a customer of mine going back to the 1960s. He had been working for some years on a book about sea chests worldwide and he informed us that there was something unique to the Lunenburg chests which can be clearly seen in this example. It has a molding that runs around the top. Every Lunenburg County sea chest I have owned was designed this way. That would be close to two dozen examples. It’s sad to note that the Fisheries Museum in Lunenburg doesn’t have a single decorated chest.
These chests are different from seaman’s chest which were designed to hold the sailors personal articles for a trip that could sometimes be as long as three years. The fisherman’s chests were designed for the personal articles of the men who work the dory trawls for a three month voyage. Therefore, they are a good deal more humble in size and construction. In other words, they are unique to this area.
This particular chest belonged to Richard Simon Wilneff who, starting we believe in 1902, was a vessel cook out of Lunenburg and lived in Feltzen South. The chest, like many of these examples, had a fairly rough life. What struck me, and why I paid a fair amount of money for it, was that I saw, in its primitive way, how pretty it was. I realized later that probably Wilneff had decorated the top of the till with the two six-pointed carved stars. When I bought the chest, there was a small pile of about a dozen postcards that he had once tacked to the inside of the lid. But they had been removed at some point, probably to read what had been posted. Basically, it was run of the mill stuff. One card is from a sister to his wife, Laura, and mailed from Middle LaHave to Feltzen South, which, in 1915, could have been a three-hour walk, whereas today it’s a 15-minute drive.
For me the most interesting thing about this chest is that in the centre of the lid, the person who had carved and painted the six-pointed stars had begun to do the same there, as you can see in the photograph. Why he didn’t continue might be somehow explained in examining both his geometric drawing and the result of particularly the six pointed star closest to the cover on the till where he obviously ran into a problem of proportions.