Items of Value Inc

            When you are in the house, you will feel like you are in a 1960s California house with huge windows and wonderful views.  The house is on a hillside and the hillside continues in back of the house.  The couple enjoyed decorating with fine items including furniture and artwork.  The result is that the feeling in the house is vintage (now retro) because of MUCH teak furniture, upholstered leather chairs, huge "sunburst" wall decoration.  Note the vintage black/white porcelain dinnerware set in the dining room.  It is "Papageno" by Thomas of Germany.  It is the quintessential  "postwar modern" statement.  We have counted 7 medium size Lladros and one large one (girl on a swing).  Typical of collecting interests of post-war Americans in Europe, you will find a rather extensive collection of Hummels, 33 to be exact.  We have assembled them on a table in front of the huge window in the dining room.  Beyond this, there is period pottery and statuary to intrigue you.  The couple liked to collect samples of different forms and colors.   Blue was perhaps her favorite color.

     The couple had varied interests.  You will find much pertaining to sailing from boat models to prints to nautical items.  The best nautical theme item in the signed Leroy Neiman yacht print.  The walls are filled with framed artwork, filling the 2-story stairwell and the walls throughout the house.  One area of interest was Native Americans, so you will find one wall on the first floor filled with prints mostly by one artist.  Perhaps they took a trip to China because there are Asian items including FINE carved boxwood figure, carved stone, porcelains.  You will find a black Chinese cabinet with stone onlay in the dining room, typical of the 1980s.

     There are a few antique items in the house:  a foldover top gaming table, two pewter whale oil lamps, two pressed clear glass whale oil lamps, and an 18th century octant with 1774 label and maker's name.  We have decided to showcase these on two round black-top tables in the living room.  Please do your pricing research before you come.

     Among framed artwork, you will find some items that have passed down through the family, some of them needing restoration.  Included among these is a nautical watercolor, a nice painting of a sailing ship, a male portrait with gentle face and beard and mustache, a large seascape.  Of particular interest for you people from or with relatives in Maine is the print copying a painting by Abbott Graves depicting faces of people at an 1895 town meeting in Kennebunkport.  It has been given two titles:  "Town Meeting" and "Ag'in Water".  It is most intriguing because the composition is made up entirely of portraits of heads and shoulders of people, identified by name.  The various faces make up an intriguing composition.  We have two writeups on this picture to accompany its sale.

     By far a major interest was reading in many different areas and subjects.  You will see bookcase after bookcase of books in several rooms.  So, you book lovers should plan considerable time to go through them and also bring many canvas bags and/or boxes.  Aside from all there there is a basement amply filled with tools, tool chests, and supplies.  This continues into the 2-car garage which is stuffed with items that we are going to try to spread out for you to see.

      The house is furnished primarily in teak-veneered furniture from the 1960s.  We have never seen so much, with such variety, and in such FINE condition at one time.  There are small bookcases, followed by wall unit with lighted top, followed by cabinets of different sizes and shapes including one that opens up to interior compartments, one with a bow front, a china cabinet with two sliding glass doors in the upper case set back over base cabinet blind doors.  The very RARE piece is the dining table with "V"-shaped legs, accompanied by 8 chairs with black vinyl seats -- all in very good condition.  We ask that purchasers arrange to pick up these items on Sunday afternoon, the last day of the sale.  Again, we recommend Bungii for delivery to your home.  Alternative pickup date would be a few days the following week, when we are clearing out the premises.

     There is a lot of convalescent gear including a hospital bed, wheel chairs, exercising apparatus.  Research the cost of buying a new hospital bed if you may need one for someone you know.

      Please consider wearing a face mask to protect you from others, also bring plastic gloves if you wish since you will be going through hundreds of items that have sat untouched for decades.  Look forward to enjoy simply being and wandering through this house, also admiring the hundreds of items that were collected and taking home at least one souvenir.