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Antique Bronze & Alabaster 5-Light Candelabra Pair
This is a fabulous pair of alabaster and bronze candelabra with 5 candle holders. Very ornate and very beautiful. Condition is very good. There is a small chip to the bottom corner of one piece that does not detract and one ring insert in the candle holder is missing. Notice the lovely pear shaped alabaster center motif. They stand 21" tall and the base is 4" square. The back sides are flat which make me think they were designed that way to fit better on a mantle. I am unable to find any markings, but I expect these are 19c. Just fabulous! |
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Bronze and Silver Religious Plaque France
Beautiful religious motif plaque with stand is cast of bronze and has a silver relief in the center. I think it depicts Jesus and Joseph, or possibly Jesus with a child. Very detailed and beautiful. Size 4.25 X 2.5 inches. Condition is very good. Stand is slightly bent. Signed France. |
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Animal Horn Ship 4 Mast Unique
Very unique four masted sailing ship made out of animal horn. Not sure of the type of horn; steer, ox, buffalo; you be the judge. Great nautical piece. 14 in X 16 in, excellent condition. |
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Framed Sailboat Seascape Signed & Numbered Print
Beautiful sailboat print number 16/375 signed R.R. with a certificate of authenticity on the back of the frame. It looks like the original was a pastel in rich sunset colors of orange, yellow and red. Matted in a terracotta color and with a gold metal frame. I do not have any information about the artist. Came from a local estate. |
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Vranian Governors Palace Williamsburg VA Print
Palace of the Royal Governors, Williamsburg, VA by Richard Vranian. Black and white drawing. Size 11 X 14 & in very good condition. Print was covered with plastic when photographed creating some glossy spots in the picture. |
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Italian Framed Floral Prints Convex Bubble Glass, Pair
Pair of ornate Italian framed floral printa with convex or bubble glass. These would make great frames for your antique family poitraits. Size 13 1/4" X 10 1/2" with red felt and hanging rings on the back. Price is for the pair. |
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Duck Decoy Wood Carving Unsigned 9 in
Beautifully handpainted duck decoy wood carving. Has glass eyes and a blue green bill. 9" long. Very good condition. |
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Duck Decoy Figurine Wood Carving signed Earl Houck
Charming little wood carving by Earl Houck of a duckling. Very detailed carving and painting, glass eyes and yellow bill. Signed Earl Houck, 1984. Mr. Houck is a well known carver from Amish country in Lancaster, Penn. Size 3 1/4", excellent condition. |
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David Camden Pottery Raku Pot Bowl Vessel
Handmade Pottery Raku Pot, Bowl or Vessel crafted by David Camden, Camden Clayworks, Glen Allen, VA. Beautiful copper luster and black rough footed exterior and ivory raku crackle smooth interior. Stands 8 1/2 in. tall and 6 1/8 in diameter. Wonderful collector piece of pottery in excellent display condition. Signed. |
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Vintage Chickadee Print Signed A Marlin 1959 Swiss
Vintage Chickadee Print Signed A Marlin 1959 printed in Switzerland, copyright by Stehil Freres S. A. Editeurs, Zurich. Series 1416 No. 11. Size 10.25 X 13.25. Good condition, with a couple of small soil areas. |
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Ray Harm wildlife Print of Broad-winged Hawk
Ray Harm wildlife Print of Broad-winged Hawk on a Fig-nut hickory tree. Size 14 X 17 in very good condition; 1/8 in tear in edge.
Artist: Ray Harm is the co-founder of the modern limited edition print industry in America and has been a nationally known wildlife artist over 30 years. This has been documented by the Filson Historical Society' quarterly journal 4/98 Vol.72 No.2.
His parents were both concert violinists in the 1920's so music has been a significant influence in his life and he learned several instruments from an early age. Born in the mid twenties in West Virginia (also his father's native state) Ray's childhood was imbued with his fathers later work and study as an herbalist and naturalist digging and selling herbs on the pharmaceutical market. The stock market crash in '29 had forced his father off of the concert tour and back to West Virginia to an earlier interest in herbal medicine. The young man was strongly tutored in the ways of nature by his woodsman/naturalist father.
In his mid teens he went west to work as a cowboy on cattle ranches, rode the rodeo circuit in the bull and bronc riding events and when he won enough to purchase a roping horse and trailer, competed as a calf roper. He even satisfied a dream that many youngsters have by working with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Baily circus, then a tent show, training horses. Always he sought the outdoor life and work with animals.
Three years of Navy service made him eligible for the GI Bill of World War II and later, after more cowboying on the ranches, he chose Art School in 1948. As he puts it "at least some kinda schooling would make my mom proud." Proud indeed, with only six grades of public school, today he holds Honorary Doctorate degrees from six colleges and Universities where he lectures regularly. Making a living as a wildlife artist in the early 1950's was not easy! This was when limited edition reproduction prints, as we know them today, did not yet exist and selling original fine art paintings, one by one, was a very difficult way to make a living, especially when just out of art school and unrecognized. It was a struggle for some nine years as he drew heavily from his earlier "roustabout" experiences to support his family, training horses, digging ditches on construction jobs and driving truck while trying to establish himself as an artist.
By 1961 Ray had almost given up when he met Wood Hannah, a Louisville businessman and art collector. Hannah became personally interested and together in 1962 they founded a publishing company that was the beginning of the Limited Edition print industry that opened a market for artists everywhere. This market today supports thousands of artists through the medium of Limited Edition prints and Ray is proud of this. The public acceptance of Ray Harm wildlife prints in an ensuing collection, introduced in Kentucky, spread rapidly from coast to coast. He was in demand as a lecturer, wrote a popular weekly nature column and authored two illustrated books, but his paintings of wildlife remained primary. His pictures are appreciated for being from living animals and wildflowers, sketched on location, not copied photographs (which is so commonly done today). All this coupled with his extensive knowledge of the subjects he paints, he feels, is more the essence of fine art as opposed to commercial illustration.
Ray has always been physically close to wildlife, since in his lifetime he has always lived rural. He still lives with his wife Cathy on their H Rafter Ranch, very rural with Antelope, Bear, Cougar, Bighorn Sheep, Javelina and a profusion of the bird life of southern Arizona at his beck and call. His studio is on the ranch and is always open to interested people by appointment where he is happy to show original works, discuss painting, commissions and of course chat about art, wildlife, horses and cattle if the subject suits.
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Ray Harm wildlife Print of Wild Turkey
Ray Harm wildlife Print of Wild Turkey. Size 14 X 17 in very good condition.
Artist: Ray Harm is the co-founder of the modern limited edition print industry in America and has been a nationally known wildlife artist over 30 years. This has been documented by the Filson Historical Society' quarterly journal 4/98 Vol.72 No.2.
His parents were both concert violinists in the 1920's so music has been a significant influence in his life and he learned several instruments from an early age. Born in the mid twenties in West Virginia (also his father's native state) Ray's childhood was imbued with his fathers later work and study as an herbalist and naturalist digging and selling herbs on the pharmaceutical market. The stock market crash in '29 had forced his father off of the concert tour and back to West Virginia to an earlier interest in herbal medicine. The young man was strongly tutored in the ways of nature by his woodsman/naturalist father.
In his mid teens he went west to work as a cowboy on cattle ranches, rode the rodeo circuit in the bull and bronc riding events and when he won enough to purchase a roping horse and trailer, competed as a calf roper. He even satisfied a dream that many youngsters have by working with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Baily circus, then a tent show, training horses. Always he sought the outdoor life and work with animals.
Three years of Navy service made him eligible for the GI Bill of World War II and later, after more cowboying on the ranches, he chose Art School in 1948. As he puts it "at least some kinda schooling would make my mom proud." Proud indeed, with only six grades of public school, today he holds Honorary Doctorate degrees from six colleges and Universities where he lectures regularly. Making a living as a wildlife artist in the early 1950's was not easy! This was when limited edition reproduction prints, as we know them today, did not yet exist and selling original fine art paintings, one by one, was a very difficult way to make a living, especially when just out of art school and unrecognized. It was a struggle for some nine years as he drew heavily from his earlier "roustabout" experiences to support his family, training horses, digging ditches on construction jobs and driving truck while trying to establish himself as an artist.
By 1961 Ray had almost given up when he met Wood Hannah, a Louisville businessman and art collector. Hannah became personally interested and together in 1962 they founded a publishing company that was the beginning of the Limited Edition print industry that opened a market for artists everywhere. This market today supports thousands of artists through the medium of Limited Edition prints and Ray is proud of this. The public acceptance of Ray Harm wildlife prints in an ensuing collection, introduced in Kentucky, spread rapidly from coast to coast. He was in demand as a lecturer, wrote a popular weekly nature column and authored two illustrated books, but his paintings of wildlife remained primary. His pictures are appreciated for being from living animals and wildflowers, sketched on location, not copied photographs (which is so commonly done today). All this coupled with his extensive knowledge of the subjects he paints, he feels, is more the essence of fine art as opposed to commercial illustration.
Ray has always been physically close to wildlife, since in his lifetime he has always lived rural. He still lives with his wife Cathy on their H Rafter Ranch, very rural with Antelope, Bear, Cougar, Bighorn Sheep, Javelina and a profusion of the bird life of southern Arizona at his beck and call. His studio is on the ranch and is always open to interested people by appointment where he is happy to show original works, discuss painting, commissions and of course chat about art, wildlife, horses and cattle if the subject suits.
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Ray Harm wildlife Print of Baltimore Oriole
Ray Harm wildlife Print of Baltimore Oriole on a Tulip tree. Size 14 X 17 in very good condition; slight edge crimp.
Artist: Ray Harm is the co-founder of the modern limited edition print industry in America and has been a nationally known wildlife artist over 30 years. This has been documented by the Filson Historical Society' quarterly journal 4/98 Vol.72 No.2.
His parents were both concert violinists in the 1920's so music has been a significant influence in his life and he learned several instruments from an early age. Born in the mid twenties in West Virginia (also his father's native state) Ray's childhood was imbued with his fathers later work and study as an herbalist and naturalist digging and selling herbs on the pharmaceutical market. The stock market crash in '29 had forced his father off of the concert tour and back to West Virginia to an earlier interest in herbal medicine. The young man was strongly tutored in the ways of nature by his woodsman/naturalist father.
In his mid teens he went west to work as a cowboy on cattle ranches, rode the rodeo circuit in the bull and bronc riding events and when he won enough to purchase a roping horse and trailer, competed as a calf roper. He even satisfied a dream that many youngsters have by working with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Baily circus, then a tent show, training horses. Always he sought the outdoor life and work with animals.
Three years of Navy service made him eligible for the GI Bill of World War II and later, after more cowboying on the ranches, he chose Art School in 1948. As he puts it "at least some kinda schooling would make my mom proud." Proud indeed, with only six grades of public school, today he holds Honorary Doctorate degrees from six colleges and Universities where he lectures regularly. Making a living as a wildlife artist in the early 1950's was not easy! This was when limited edition reproduction prints, as we know them today, did not yet exist and selling original fine art paintings, one by one, was a very difficult way to make a living, especially when just out of art school and unrecognized. It was a struggle for some nine years as he drew heavily from his earlier "roustabout" experiences to support his family, training horses, digging ditches on construction jobs and driving truck while trying to establish himself as an artist.
By 1961 Ray had almost given up when he met Wood Hannah, a Louisville businessman and art collector. Hannah became personally interested and together in 1962 they founded a publishing company that was the beginning of the Limited Edition print industry that opened a market for artists everywhere. This market today supports thousands of artists through the medium of Limited Edition prints and Ray is proud of this. The public acceptance of Ray Harm wildlife prints in an ensuing collection, introduced in Kentucky, spread rapidly from coast to coast. He was in demand as a lecturer, wrote a popular weekly nature column and authored two illustrated books, but his paintings of wildlife remained primary. His pictures are appreciated for being from living animals and wildflowers, sketched on location, not copied photographs (which is so commonly done today). All this coupled with his extensive knowledge of the subjects he paints, he feels, is more the essence of fine art as opposed to commercial illustration.
Ray has always been physically close to wildlife, since in his lifetime he has always lived rural. He still lives with his wife Cathy on their H Rafter Ranch, very rural with Antelope, Bear, Cougar, Bighorn Sheep, Javelina and a profusion of the bird life of southern Arizona at his beck and call. His studio is on the ranch and is always open to interested people by appointment where he is happy to show original works, discuss painting, commissions and of course chat about art, wildlife, horses and cattle if the subject suits.
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Ray Harm wildlife Print of Mallard Duck
Ray Harm wildlife Print of Mallard Ducks. Size 14 X 17 in very good condition; slight edge crimp.
Artist: Ray Harm is the co-founder of the modern limited edition print industry in America and has been a nationally known wildlife artist over 30 years. This has been documented by the Filson Historical Society' quarterly journal 4/98 Vol.72 No.2.
His parents were both concert violinists in the 1920's so music has been a significant influence in his life and he learned several instruments from an early age. Born in the mid twenties in West Virginia (also his father's native state) Ray's childhood was imbued with his fathers later work and study as an herbalist and naturalist digging and selling herbs on the pharmaceutical market. The stock market crash in '29 had forced his father off of the concert tour and back to West Virginia to an earlier interest in herbal medicine. The young man was strongly tutored in the ways of nature by his woodsman/naturalist father.
In his mid teens he went west to work as a cowboy on cattle ranches, rode the rodeo circuit in the bull and bronc riding events and when he won enough to purchase a roping horse and trailer, competed as a calf roper. He even satisfied a dream that many youngsters have by working with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Baily circus, then a tent show, training horses. Always he sought the outdoor life and work with animals.
Three years of Navy service made him eligible for the GI Bill of World War II and later, after more cowboying on the ranches, he chose Art School in 1948. As he puts it "at least some kinda schooling would make my mom proud." Proud indeed, with only six grades of public school, today he holds Honorary Doctorate degrees from six colleges and Universities where he lectures regularly. Making a living as a wildlife artist in the early 1950's was not easy! This was when limited edition reproduction prints, as we know them today, did not yet exist and selling original fine art paintings, one by one, was a very difficult way to make a living, especially when just out of art school and unrecognized. It was a struggle for some nine years as he drew heavily from his earlier "roustabout" experiences to support his family, training horses, digging ditches on construction jobs and driving truck while trying to establish himself as an artist.
By 1961 Ray had almost given up when he met Wood Hannah, a Louisville businessman and art collector. Hannah became personally interested and together in 1962 they founded a publishing company that was the beginning of the Limited Edition print industry that opened a market for artists everywhere. This market today supports thousands of artists through the medium of Limited Edition prints and Ray is proud of this. The public acceptance of Ray Harm wildlife prints in an ensuing collection, introduced in Kentucky, spread rapidly from coast to coast. He was in demand as a lecturer, wrote a popular weekly nature column and authored two illustrated books, but his paintings of wildlife remained primary. His pictures are appreciated for being from living animals and wildflowers, sketched on location, not copied photographs (which is so commonly done today). All this coupled with his extensive knowledge of the subjects he paints, he feels, is more the essence of fine art as opposed to commercial illustration.
Ray has always been physically close to wildlife, since in his lifetime he has always lived rural. He still lives with his wife Cathy on their H Rafter Ranch, very rural with Antelope, Bear, Cougar, Bighorn Sheep, Javelina and a profusion of the bird life of southern Arizona at his beck and call. His studio is on the ranch and is always open to interested people by appointment where he is happy to show original works, discuss painting, commissions and of course chat about art, wildlife, horses and cattle if the subject suits.
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Ray Harm wildlife Print of Little Screech Owl
Ray Harm wildlife Print of Little Screech Owls on a Jersey Pine tree. Size 14 X 17 in very good condition.
Artist: Ray Harm is the co-founder of the modern limited edition print industry in America and has been a nationally known wildlife artist over 30 years. This has been documented by the Filson Historical Society' quarterly journal 4/98 Vol.72 No.2.
His parents were both concert violinists in the 1920's so music has been a significant influence in his life and he learned several instruments from an early age. Born in the mid twenties in West Virginia (also his father's native state) Ray's childhood was imbued with his fathers later work and study as an herbalist and naturalist digging and selling herbs on the pharmaceutical market. The stock market crash in '29 had forced his father off of the concert tour and back to West Virginia to an earlier interest in herbal medicine. The young man was strongly tutored in the ways of nature by his woodsman/naturalist father.
In his mid teens he went west to work as a cowboy on cattle ranches, rode the rodeo circuit in the bull and bronc riding events and when he won enough to purchase a roping horse and trailer, competed as a calf roper. He even satisfied a dream that many youngsters have by working with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Baily circus, then a tent show, training horses. Always he sought the outdoor life and work with animals.
Three years of Navy service made him eligible for the GI Bill of World War II and later, after more cowboying on the ranches, he chose Art School in 1948. As he puts it "at least some kinda schooling would make my mom proud." Proud indeed, with only six grades of public school, today he holds Honorary Doctorate degrees from six colleges and Universities where he lectures regularly. Making a living as a wildlife artist in the early 1950's was not easy! This was when limited edition reproduction prints, as we know them today, did not yet exist and selling original fine art paintings, one by one, was a very difficult way to make a living, especially when just out of art school and unrecognized. It was a struggle for some nine years as he drew heavily from his earlier "roustabout" experiences to support his family, training horses, digging ditches on construction jobs and driving truck while trying to establish himself as an artist.
By 1961 Ray had almost given up when he met Wood Hannah, a Louisville businessman and art collector. Hannah became personally interested and together in 1962 they founded a publishing company that was the beginning of the Limited Edition print industry that opened a market for artists everywhere. This market today supports thousands of artists through the medium of Limited Edition prints and Ray is proud of this. The public acceptance of Ray Harm wildlife prints in an ensuing collection, introduced in Kentucky, spread rapidly from coast to coast. He was in demand as a lecturer, wrote a popular weekly nature column and authored two illustrated books, but his paintings of wildlife remained primary. His pictures are appreciated for being from living animals and wildflowers, sketched on location, not copied photographs (which is so commonly done today). All this coupled with his extensive knowledge of the subjects he paints, he feels, is more the essence of fine art as opposed to commercial illustration.
Ray has always been physically close to wildlife, since in his lifetime he has always lived rural. He still lives with his wife Cathy on their H Rafter Ranch, very rural with Antelope, Bear, Cougar, Bighorn Sheep, Javelina and a profusion of the bird life of southern Arizona at his beck and call. His studio is on the ranch and is always open to interested people by appointment where he is happy to show original works, discuss painting, commissions and of course chat about art, wildlife, horses and cattle if the subject suits.
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Ray Harm wildlife Print of Arctic Tern
Ray Harm wildlife Print of Arctic Tern. Size 14 X 17 in very good condition.
Artist: Ray Harm is the co-founder of the modern limited edition print industry in America and has been a nationally known wildlife artist over 30 years. This has been documented by the Filson Historical Society' quarterly journal 4/98 Vol.72 No.2.
His parents were both concert violinists in the 1920's so music has been a significant influence in his life and he learned several instruments from an early age. Born in the mid twenties in West Virginia (also his father's native state) Ray's childhood was imbued with his fathers later work and study as an herbalist and naturalist digging and selling herbs on the pharmaceutical market. The stock market crash in '29 had forced his father off of the concert tour and back to West Virginia to an earlier interest in herbal medicine. The young man was strongly tutored in the ways of nature by his woodsman/naturalist father.
In his mid teens he went west to work as a cowboy on cattle ranches, rode the rodeo circuit in the bull and bronc riding events and when he won enough to purchase a roping horse and trailer, competed as a calf roper. He even satisfied a dream that many youngsters have by working with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Baily circus, then a tent show, training horses. Always he sought the outdoor life and work with animals.
Three years of Navy service made him eligible for the GI Bill of World War II and later, after more cowboying on the ranches, he chose Art School in 1948. As he puts it "at least some kinda schooling would make my mom proud." Proud indeed, with only six grades of public school, today he holds Honorary Doctorate degrees from six colleges and Universities where he lectures regularly. Making a living as a wildlife artist in the early 1950's was not easy! This was when limited edition reproduction prints, as we know them today, did not yet exist and selling original fine art paintings, one by one, was a very difficult way to make a living, especially when just out of art school and unrecognized. It was a struggle for some nine years as he drew heavily from his earlier "roustabout" experiences to support his family, training horses, digging ditches on construction jobs and driving truck while trying to establish himself as an artist.
By 1961 Ray had almost given up when he met Wood Hannah, a Louisville businessman and art collector. Hannah became personally interested and together in 1962 they founded a publishing company that was the beginning of the Limited Edition print industry that opened a market for artists everywhere. This market today supports thousands of artists through the medium of Limited Edition prints and Ray is proud of this. The public acceptance of Ray Harm wildlife prints in an ensuing collection, introduced in Kentucky, spread rapidly from coast to coast. He was in demand as a lecturer, wrote a popular weekly nature column and authored two illustrated books, but his paintings of wildlife remained primary. His pictures are appreciated for being from living animals and wildflowers, sketched on location, not copied photographs (which is so commonly done today). All this coupled with his extensive knowledge of the subjects he paints, he feels, is more the essence of fine art as opposed to commercial illustration.
Ray has always been physically close to wildlife, since in his lifetime he has always lived rural. He still lives with his wife Cathy on their H Rafter Ranch, very rural with Antelope, Bear, Cougar, Bighorn Sheep, Javelina and a profusion of the bird life of southern Arizona at his beck and call. His studio is on the ranch and is always open to interested people by appointment where he is happy to show original works, discuss painting, commissions and of course chat about art, wildlife, horses and cattle if the subject suits.
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European Framed Print Signed in Pencil
Really nice vintage drawing framed and signed in pencil. I can't read the title or the signature. Maybe you can...it might be someone special. View is of a European city with a lady walking a child wearing 1800's clothing. Size 18 X 15 1/2 inches framed in a black wooden frame. |
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Contemporary Mixed Media Original Framed
Original mixed media art work of hand made paper painted with watercolors and displayed in a formation that completes the picture. Colors are rich orange, yellow, green, grey and white. White mat and nuetral wooden frame that has a white-washed finish. Signed by the artist, Gary Bowling, 1991. Purchased at an art show in Virginia.
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Vranian Powder Magazine Print Williamsburg VA
Powder Magazine, Williamsburg, VA by Richard Vranian. Black and white drawing. Size 11 X 14 & in very good condition. Print was covered with plastic when photographed creating some glossy spots in the picture. |
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Duck Decoy Wood Carving Unsigned 7 in.
Beautifully handpainted duck decoy wood carving. Has glass eyes and a brown bill. 7 1/4" long. Very good condition. |
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