On Saturday February 7th at 5pm Michael and Seth Fallon of Copake Auction Inc. conducted an unreserved catalogued Estate sale with select additions. The sale consisted of over 500 lots from a New Paltz NY estate, a Forest Hills NY estate, a prominent NYC gallery and a Red Hook NY contemporary home. “It was a full house and the prices were very good, overall the sale was a success”, according to Seth Fallon partner and general manager at Copake Auction. The sale received over 450 absentee and bids and there were 250 registered bidders.

“Folk art including weathervanes, carved items, signs and other items with a unique or rare quality are all doing very well. This sale featured a full bodied horse weathervane with rider which brought $4,400”, Michael explained. Other weathervane highlights include: Crowing Cock $2,860, Eagle $1,650, Grass hopper with glass eyes $2,200, Peacock $3,960, and a Running fox $2,310. Some furniture items worth mentioning include an 18th c. Pennsylvania walnut 12 drawer tall chest which sold for $1,375 and a 18th c. mahogany pie crust tilt top table which brought $1,320. “There were some great decorated boxes and blanket chests in this sale”, Seth added. A decorated document box dated “1878” sold for $1,980 and an early Spanish colonial polychrome desk box brought $1,265.

Seth Fallon has conducted several specialty Textile auctions over the years and Copake Auction consistently features a selection of textiles in their regular American sales as well. This sale featured a selection of quilts which all sold for very reasonable prices. Two Navajo blankets exceeded expectations and brought $4,510 (large transitional blanket circa 1900) and $2,420 (“crystal” blanket circa 1930).

A selection of fine art that sold included a 19th c. portrait of Ann Rankin by Waldo & Jewett, oil on wood panel $1,595, a pair of John S. Blunt 19th c. portraits in period frames $6,050, a still life vase of flowers, signed “Nell Walker Warner” $2,200 and a 19th c. oil on canvas portrait of a woman attributed to Robert Street (1796-1865 Germantown PA.) $1,155.