News from Hudson Valley Auctioneers

Hudson Valley Auctioneers, located at 432 Main Street, Beacon, New York will present an unreserved antique and estate auction with absentee, phone and online bidding through Liveauctioneers.com on Monday November 24th at 5:00 PM EST.  In house previews are Sunday November 23rd from 1pm-5pm and Monday from 2:00pm-4:30 pm or by appointment beginning 11/17. The auction features the West Nyack estate of Charles W. Yeiser, former owner of The Far Gallery, NYC along with a long held storage unit from Cold Spring. Another eclectic offering of nearly 500 lots of fresh to the market goods.

Expect to find many artworks by Charles Weiser, painted during his student days and throughout his professional career including life drawings and finished oils. Additionally, as the Far Gallery owner and director, he supported and promoted several artists' works as well as offering fine prints, books and the like. Works include artists Kenneth Frazier, A. Canella, John Falato, Edith Munroe, Marvin Hayes, August Mosca, Julian Barrow, Frank Boyd, Gabriel Spat, Hank Virgona, Charles Wells and several others. Artworks from other consigners include works by M. Charles, Werner Schier, Robert Emmet Owen, Raphael Soyer, and Theodore Haupt. 

Yeiser also collected antiques and other items of interest including several early oil portraits, decorative and antique furniture including a large easel and iron base drafting table and artifacts from South America, Greece,  

China and Asia.

Mid Century Modern offerings in the sale include a pair of Paul McCobb "shovel" chairs, a pair of Robert John steel frame chairs, a Cherner bent ply classic and three Sonnemen chrome chandeliers.

Country smalls will include country store showcases, stoneware, textiles, a fine horse weathervane, a selection of Persian and Asian carpets, clocks, several fine bronzes, vintage tin signs, sterling flatware, Baltimore hollow ware and US silver and gold currency.

Other highlights include a collection of art glass bell shades, two Japanese whaleback saws, iron garden furniture, antique French bakers racks, 

The sale concludes with several lots of estate jewelry as well as gold and gold filled pocket watches.

Plan to preview or view the sale online. Images and listings as well as bidding links for all items are available on our website after 11/14. The gallery is open for payments and pickup Tuesday 11/25 from 10am to 3pm and daily that week 9-3:30 except for Thursday, Thanksgiving. Weekend appointments can be arranged for limited pickups if invoices are prepaid. All shipping is by third party vendors only. Auction terms, links to online bidding and other info available at  www.HudsonValleyAuctioneers.com or contact sales manager Theo De Haas 845 480 2381 or auctioneer Neil Vaughn 914 489 2399.

Hudson Valley Auctioneers, located at 432 Main Street, Beacon, New York will present an unreserved antique and estate auction with absentee, phone and online bidding through Liveauctioneers.com on Monday October 20th at 5:00 PM EST.  In house previews are Sunday October 19th from 1pm-5pm and Monday from 2:00pm-4:30 pm or by appointment beginning 10/13. The auction features combined estates from Westport CT.; an estate from NYC and Water Mill NY; a Garrison NY lot; collections from Akron Ohio, Rosendale NY and several others; another eclectic offering nearly 500 lots of fresh to the market goods. 

 Expect to find a fine selection of 18th and 19th century American and Continental furniture and accessories including several case pieces, an exceptional colonial campaign partners desk, excellent seating and several tables. An exceptional collection of English antique brass lighting and hearth items, fine porcelain tableware and decorative vases, Mettlach steins and Buffalo Deldare as well several continental figural bronzes. Victorian cast and wrought iron garden furniture, while somewhat out of season, needs to be sold. A collection of interesting ethnographic masks and figures from Africa and other locales were donated by an arts patron to the WSW in Rosendale to further their programs along with additions from two other collections. 

Artworks include portraits by Raphael Soyer, Kenneth Frazier, and two from the NYC estate attributed to Gilbert Stuart, 2 by Takeo Shiiki, a fine Felix Speth oil of a millhouse, several dog and horse paintings and an early old master oil on panel. Earnest Olsen, a local painter, is represented by several oils as well as his personal papers. Another offering from a recent storage lot discovery is apparently the entire collection of work by Robert Boernstein of which his initial offering consists of 20 abstract oils and constructions, some very large and somewhat unique. 

A large collection of Asian items from the Akron estate by way of Briarcliff NY will include fine porcelains, several Chinese and Japanese bronzes, cinnabar lacquer, cloisonne, Chinese and other carpets, a large Canton tableware set and other artifacts.  The ever popular Mid Century Modern grouping this sale has several stand outs including an Eames table, two Saarinen Knoll tables, a marble dining table in black and white, an Aldo Londi sculptural bird bowl, a wrought iron garden table and chairs, a large Raymond Loewey china service "Quince", a rare Tom Dixon iron framed lounge, a strange brass table purportedly from the Helena Rubenstein estate and a three fold art deco screen originally purchased from Otto Vern and purportedly originally from the sale of the Art Deco ocean liner SS Normandie.

The sale concludes with 75 lots of estate jewelry, mostly from the Westport estate to include mostly fine gold and other. Expect several hundred ounces of sterling flatware, hollowware and coins as well as an exceptional Russian .84 icon probably by Ivan Yegorov.

Plan to preview or view the sale online. Images and listings as well as bidding links for all items are available on our website after 10 /13. 

The gallery is open for payments and pickup Tuesday 10/21 from 10am to 3pm and daily that week 9-3:30. Weekend appointments can be arranged for limited pickups if invoices are prepaid. All shipping is by third party vendors only. Auction terms, links to online bidding and other info available at www.HudsonValleyAuctioneers.com or contact sales manager Theo De Haas 845 480 2381 or auctioneer Neil Vaughn 914 489 2399.

Hudson Valley Auctioneers, located at 432 Main Street, Beacon, New York will present an unreserved antique and estate auction with absentee, phone and online bidding through Liveauctioneers.com on Monday Monday September 15th at 5:00 PM EST.  In house preview is Sunday prior from 1pm-5pm and Monday from 2:00pm-4:30 pm. and features combined estates from Westport CT.; Heritage Hills, Somers; Tarrytown NY; Garrison NY, collections from Gramercy Park NYC, northern Mass. and many others. Another eclectic offering over 550 fresh to the market goods.

Expect to find a large selection of Arts and Crafts period oak furniture with many Stickley pieces, art and studio pottery, large lighting selection including many panel lamps, period lamp bases, Hammerton Studios chandeliers and decorative accessories from the period.

A rare offering of 22 original United States patent models acquired directly from O'Rundell and Richards Gilbert. A large selection antique furniture featuring an excellent bookcase secretary signed T. Timpson, ex Israel Sack with a letter by Sack describing it to the eventual buyer, a not to be overlooked swing leg drop leaf dining table with stylized dolphin foot and carved knees, a large selection Biedermeier examples primarily from an old NY club and a Sleepy Hollow NY estate and a collection of country furnishings from an old Rosendale NY mountaintop cabin.

Also from the Sleepy Hollow estate comes a collection of train related material amassed by a German American typesetter whose interest spanned all aspects of the US train system. The collection includes a very large collection Baltimore and Ohio Railroad china, a collection of train related stereopticon cards, several lanterns, telegraph insulators, an Edison poster and Marklin, Lionel and KBN toy trains. 

A selection of artwork from many periods is led by a recently discovered pastoral scene by Aaron Draper Shattuck and is joined by the works of Arthur Kurtz, Romero Britto, Samuel Bell Waugh, Marcotte de Quivieres, Andrew Vargish, A. Maillol, Carole Kunstadt, E.L. Sumner, James Coignard, Fran Ferryman, John McClellan, George Parker, Steve Story (5), Judith Holt (6) and many others. 

The ever popular Mid Century Modern grouping this sale has several stand outs including a period Eames lounge and ottoman and 4 swivel chairs, a pair of Sigurd Ressel "Falcon" chairs, 3 pieces Hamada Shoji  studio pottery along with potters Margaret Israel, Hiroshi Nakayama and Carles Graham, wood works by Kelly Donn and Timothy Lydgate, an early Plycraft chair, Wright Steubenville and Iroquois sets and 4 Aalto stools.

A fine pair of bronze Meiji period planters, a large polychrome wooden Japanese parade dragon and several groups of Chinese porcelain are scattered throughout. Country smalls including stoneware, textiles, decorative accessories, fine china sets, a large selection of Persian and Asian carpets, clocks, bronzes, signs and hundreds of ounces of sterling hollowware and flatware will also join the fray. 

Several sure to be highlights include a tremendous 6 panel stained and leaded glass scene of a Roman man with wine barrel measuring 7' by 14' tall, a titled 1973 Triumph Bonneville 750 motorcycle, a Hartzell Propeller Company  6 ft prop in original finish and decals on a custom mount, a  unique vintage galvanized tin door door cabinet ca. 1940/50  and a rare collection of several pieces of original Peter Hunt decorated furniture.

The sales conclude with 100 lots of estate jewelry as well as a one owner collection of gold and gold filled pocket watches.

Plan to preview in person (recommended!) or view the sales online. The gallery is open for payments and pickup Tuesday the day after the sale from 10am to 3pm and daily that week 9-3:30. Weekend appointments can be arranged for limited pickups if invoices are prepaid. All shipping is by third party vendors only. Auction terms, links to online bidding and other info available at our interactive website www.HudsonValleyAuctioneers.com or contact sales manager Theo De Haas 845 480 2381 or auctioneer Neil Vaughn 914 489 2399.

Hudson Valley Auctioneers, located at 432 Main Street, Beacon, New York will present an unreserved one owner collection with absentee, phone and online bidding through Liveauctioneers.com on Monday August 11th at 5:00 PM EST.  Previews are by appointment only beginning 7/28. The sale features one man's lifelong interest in American postal history, stamped and unstamped historical letters, rare postmarks, hotel postmarks, Civil War; Union and Confederate covers, stamps and postmarks, some colonial currency, CDV and cabinet cards and other interesting material. 

A few examples of dated letters' authors include Peter Gansevoort 1818, Jared Sparks 1822, John Rogers 1878, James Turner 1836, Mathew Livingston Davis, Willian Hendricks 1820, Abraham Oakey Hall 1895, Thaddeus Stevens 1842, Charles Augustus Dewey 1846, James Guthrie 1855, Franz Lehar, Andrew Beaumont, Jacob Meyerbeer 1859 and many others. Two lots of particular interest are a group of three ca.1780 Erasmus Hall Library bookplates and a lot of two early bookplates from the New York Society Library. This auction is the first of several sales of like material from the same collection.

 Plan to preview or view the sale online. Images and listings as well as bidding links for all items are available on our website. The gallery is open for payments and pickup Tuesday 8/12 from 10am to 3pm and daily that week 9-3:30. Weekend pick up appointments can be arranged for limited pickups if invoices are prepaid. All shipping is by third party vendors only. Auction terms, links to online bidding and other info available at our interactive website www.HudsonValleyAuctioneers.com or contact sales manager Theo de Haas 845 480 2381 or auctioneer Neil Vaughn 914 489 2399

Hudson Valley Auctioneers, located at 432 Main Street, Beacon, New York will present an unreserved antique and estate auction with absentee, phone and online bidding through Liveauctioneers.com on Monday June 9th at 5:00 PM EST.  In house previews are Sunday 6/8  from 1pm-5pm and Monday from  2pm-4:30pm or by appointment beginning 6/2.

The sale includes the remaining select contents of the Richard Ramsdell's long closed Chester Square Antiques building and the choice contents of the historic Yelverton Store and Inn in which he lived for almost 50 years. " Rick" had completely furnished the inn and meticulously curated the contents with the desire to donate all to the local historical society, a plan that didn't reach fruition. Expect a large NY stoneware collection, lots of lighting, country and period furniture, textiles, lots of hearth items, fine baskets, several ash burl bowls, needleworks, decoys, oriental carpets, several fine portraits, antique and reference books and early glass. 

 Several other estates contributed continental furniture, hundreds of ounces sterling flatware and hollowware, estate jewelry, a fine Parzinger sideboard and other mid century furniture and decorations, a clock collection, 4 vintage pinball machines and many other items of interest. The city of Beacon decommissioned a fire department originally formed in the 1880's and have consigned 3 silver plate engraved chief horns, spelter statues and oak chairs and benches. 

 Plan to preview or view the sale online. Images and listings as well as bidding links for all items are available on our website. Gallery is open for payments and pickup Tuesday 6/10 from 10am to 3pm and daily that week 9-3:30. Weekend pick up appointments can be arranged for limited pickups if invoices are prepaid. All shipping is by third party vendors only. Auction terms, links to online bidding and other info available at our interactive website www.HudsonValleyAuctioneers.com or contact sales manager Theo de Haas 845 480 2381 or auctioneer Neil Vaughn 914 489 2399