Capital District 18th Century Home Packed Full

Important Estate Sale

18th Century Home - same family since 1790

4 day sale

Thursday, October 30th; Friday, October 31st; Saturday, November 1st; & Sunday, November 2nd.

This house is packed full. We have been working for over a month and there are still

large dusty crawlspaces full of old boxes, crates and trunks to be unpacked.

Decorative objects and smalls galore

Paintings, prints and sculpture

Chinese export and early soft paste porcelain

Bottles, crocks and stoneware

Jewelry and silver

Good antique furniture, furnishings and mirrors

Many good quilts and coverlets, loads and loads of linens

Sleigh, Carriage, many country oddments pulled from 200 year old packed barn

Important collection of paintings by Mary Vanderveer including oil paintings and pastels, Sir William Johnson 1750, many other paintings including Hudson River school, and antique prints, nice pair of dated and identified 1830 silhouettes

Good mirrors, including with original, gilded surfaces, ogee, convex with eagle, nice eglomise panel with acorns and unusual turnings.

Period american country furniture and decorative smalls, nice tiger maple chests, beds and stands, Primitives, jugs crocks, some Blue decorated stoneware. A nice group of tea caddies including a very nice condition Chinoiserie.

many boxes of historic local scene glass photographic plates, identified cased daguerreotypes and ambrotypes

Mineral specimens including Herkimer diamonds and other crystals

Many postcard albums including Halloween, Adirondack & fire RPPC, Holiday, Topical and Views, Nice Victorian, trade card and die cut albums.

Nice collection Victorian jewelled hat pins, antique ornate English Sterling page turner, ornate antique cobra Inkwell

exceptional Steenaerts (German imperial Court jeweler) 800 silver mounted jeweled Bible box, 

Strings and groups of nice Victorian buttons, nice antique satsuma and good 18th century too. Canes and fancy parasols, many fans, including French with mother-of-pearl.

Nice group of 19 century china head dolls, some of unusual high-quality. Early 1813 Schenectady dated and identified sampler, needle, work, sewing accessories, pin cushions, sent bottles

Egg yolk Amber, faceted cherry Amber, masonic jewels, gutta percha jewelry, faux tortoiseshell, Early eyeglasses and cases, old cork screws

Old toys and trains, advertising, lots of vintage clothing, trunks, many clocks

large collection of Christmas Department 56 houses and accessories, lots of other Christmas decor and collectibles

Vintage record albums: country, and rock ‘n’ roll, Elvis and rock ‘n’ roll picture sleeve 45s, many CDs and DVDs, some VHS and cassette tapes.

Musical instruments including nice antique Conn silver 1920’s trumpet with Case, Early sousaphone, clarinet, mechanics, toolbox, and tools.

Vintage 1950s 60s airline posters, and promotional materials, many antique and vintage books, scrapbook, 19th century ephemera, diaries, lots of interesting paper, early documents and broadsides.