Auctioneer and Appraisal Services
PRE-CHRISTMAS FALL ONLINE AUCTION
CATALOGUE ONLINE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH
BIDDING OPENS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27TH
BIDDING CLOSES THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3RD 6 PM Atlantic Time
Artwork including Stanley Royle, Anthony Law, Joe Norris, Henry Rosenberg, Joseph Purcell, Earl Bailly, Jack Humphrey, Franklin Arbuckle, Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita, Arthur Lloy, John Cook, Wm. deGarthe, Paul Caron, Joe Sleep, Tom Forrestall, Andrew Sherrif Scott, Henry Cooper, Nelson Surette, Everett Lewis, Pitsiulak, William Ronald, Frederick W. Hutchison, Louis Boswell Hurt, Dusan Kadlec, Danish teak mid-century furniture sideboard, Inuit art collection with 32 items, sterling including Birks 6-piece tea and coffee set with tray; several Birks flatware sets, 18th, 19th & 20th century ladles, bowls, tazzas, dresser sets, Bitossi Rimini Blu pottery bird, Lorenzen mushrooms & rare Alma Lorenzen pottery mask, Jim Smith, Atmos clock, Vincent & Cie. Bracket clock, coins, Canada 1976 Olympic full set, various Franklin Mint sets, gold jewellery including bracelets, earrings, rings, sterling jewellery, hand knotted rugs & carpets & a wonderful collection of Nova Scotia decoys, mallards, black Canada goose, etc.
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Crowther and Brayley Services
Paul Henry
F.H Varley 12×14.5
Crowther & Brayley Ltd. has been in business now for over 36 years. Below are some of the highlights of those years.
- First auction house in Nova Scotia to sell a work of art for over $100,000, not once, but three times.
- First auction house in Nova Scotia to advertise nationally including the Globe and Mail, the Montreal Gazette, etc.
- First auction house in Nova Scotia to advertise internationally including the Antiques Trade Gazette, London published weekly, Arts & The Antiques Weekly, USA
- Roger Crowther & Bill Brayley appeared as appraisers on the CBC TV produced program The Antiques Roadshow
- Other highlights include top prices
- $27,000 for Dusan Kadlec, Yarmouth Harbour
- $24,000 for Maud Lewis, Digby Pines, 9 x 11”
- $27,000 for Maud Lewis, Oxen Team Ploughing
- Group of Seven – $75,000 – A. J. Casson
- $60,000 – Frederick Horsman Varley
- Russian silver miniature ciborium, c.1760 – $37,000
- Mosque lamp, $8,700
- Irish Bog, oil on canvas by Paul Henry – $70,000
- Tortoiseshell and pewter inlaid European cabinet – $27,500
- “Playing at the Beach” by Jan Zoetelief Tromp, oil on canvas – $85,000
- Serape oriental carpet, 10 x 14” – $12,000
- Fisherman in a Dory by Jack Gray $42,000
