BLAKE FAMILY RESIDENCE-DOVER, MA

THE BLAKE FAMILY RESIDENCE ON SITE ESTATE

AUCTION

To be held at

Strawberry Hill Street – Dover, Mass

Route I-95 South to Exit 17-MA135 watch for auction signs

By the Descendants of the Famous Francis Blake, born in 1850,

The well-known inventor of the Blake Transmitter for the original telephone.

A true renaissance man with interests in science, medicine,

 innovation and was an avid photographer.

Saturday, October 6^th at 11 a.m. 

Fine Art, Silver, Americana, Period Furnishings, Accessories,

Oriental Carpets, Photography, Books, Ephemera

PREVIEW:

8:00 a.m. preview throughout the day.

A partial listing to include Massachusetts Bonnet Top Walnut Highboy, Period Sideboards, Important Thomas Seymour Federal Period Cylinder Roll Secretary Desk, 18^th C French Commode, Period Mirrors, Period Continental Furnishings,           Important Complete Bound Set of Animal Locomotion by Muybridge in Original Wooden Box (approx 75 images),  Asian, Porcelain, Tapestries, Important Meissen, Dresden, Dinnerware, Sterling Lots, Jewelry, Fine Selection of Antique Oriental Carpets   including a 13 x 16’ Antique Bidjar with Great Design, Bronzes, Knife Boxes, Barometers, Clocks, Artwork to include Monumental Oil on Canvas “Landscape with Cows” by Thomas Sidney Cooper, Shore Birds by Frank Benson, Dodge MacKnight, John Whorf,Portraits by  Sarah W. Whitman and Sarah G. Putnam 

Lot 156. Eadward Muybridge. ANIMAL LOCOMOTION. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements. 1872-1885. By Eadward Muybridge. Published under the Auspices of the University of Pennsylvania. Plates. The Plates Printed by the Photo-Gravure Company. Philadelphia: 1887. Author’s Edition. Lg. folio. Orig coarse cloth with leather front cover label. Approximately 90 pages. Rower has been removed from the sale.

Ephemera to include Francis Blake original ALS and TLS correspondence, telephone and telegraph booklets, documents, Telephone Pioneers, patent drawings, early anesthesia, medical and 19th century Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT, late 19th century booklets and correspondence on weights and measures, astronomy, two early aviation booklets, phonograph, Francis Blake certificates, local town documents and maps, photography, Senator John F. Kennedy secretarial TLS, Henry Cabot Lodge TLS to Benjamin Blake and more

BANJO CLOCK IN PHOTO WITH SIDEBOARD HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE SALE

 450 LOTS TO BE SOLD!

The Blake Family has decided to sell the real estate and

this auction will include a wide selection of items remaining in the family home. 

There will also be a small group of select additions from other area estates. 

This will be an Old Fashioned One Day Auction Event

to be held on the property under a large tent. 

There will be plenty of off street parking available at the site.

No on-line bidding. We gladly accept absentee and phone bidding!

978-388-0400 – MA Lic#770

Terms: Visa, MC, DISC, Cash or check with proper id. 

18% Buyers Premium (3% discount cash or check)

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC