Collection of Anthony Athanas of Pier 4 Restaurant

Kaminski Auctions is pleased to announce a one-day auction featuring the personal scrimshaw collection of the iconic restauranteur Anthony Athanas of Anthony's Pier 4 fame. The auction includes various items from his restaurants, Anthony's Pier 4, General Glover House in Swampscott, Massachusetts, and Anthony's Cummaquid Inn in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts, and his Swampscott, Massachusetts home. The auction will take place at the Athanas family warehouse at 44 Garden Street in Danvers, Massachusetts, starting at 11:00 AM EST. Highlights of his scrimshaw collection include a historically significant 19th-century sailor-made scrimshaw polychrome sawfish rostrum depicting scenes from the sailor's voyages from New...