Set of Gorham ‘Strasborg’ sterling silver flatware, 123 pcs. 8 piece plate setting for 12 including shrimp forks, salad forks, icetea spoons, forks, teaspoons, soup spoons, knives and butter knives, plus 27 serving pieces including fork and knife carving set, 4 cake/ pie servers, 4 serving forsk, 4 tablespoons, 3 ladles, sald fork and spoon and 8 other serving items. 3874 grmas.

Baranger Studios electric automaton fortune teller store display, denoted M-129 in John Daniel’s Baranger – Displays in Motion -“Your fortune will be read as you see the answers in the Magic Eye,” as the spinning wheel stops, the fortune teller nods his head, a scarce motion due to many having been “dismantled for salvage” according to Daniel, front placard inscribed A Happy Future for You with one of our Beautiful Diamonds, 16 3/4″ h.
Condition
No shipping box, wheel rotates and fortune tellers head moves, front peep hole window opens and closes and image rotates, 3″ hairline at neck line, some paint flaking to placard, gold paper loss to front edge of table.

Ulua Valley, Honduras, Late Classic, c. 600 – 850 AD

Expertly painted with two underworld palace scenes, each with a mythological half-figure seated under a flamboyantly decorated canopy holding a large feathered implement with long tassel or ribbons to the front, another standing figure tilted way forward from the waist and looking intensely at a small stepped pyramid altar, while holding a bag with one hand and a wand in the other. In excellent condition. Examined under blacklight: no apparent repairs or restorations, three short stress cracks, one strengthened with glue.

Provenance:
From the collection of Dr. and Mrs. Henry Gans

Height: 7 ¾ inches

An eight piece set including a bratina (4 x 6.25 in. diameter), six charki, and a circular tray (13 1/8 in. diameter); the bratina marked for the assay master Vasily Aleksandrovich Petrov of Moscow and dated 1884, 88 zolotnik; five of the six also marked for Khlebnikov and 88 zolotnik; the tray in two pieces and marked by two different assay masters, each dated 1885, the center marked for 84 zolotnik and the outer ring with enamel marked for 88 zolotnik; the bratina and charki raised on three claw feet. Presented in a Bulgari fitted case. For this lot, payment accepted only by wire transfer.

77.25 total troy oz.

Exceptionally fine workmanship in cobalt, light blue, white, red and green enamels with delicate silver gilt twisted wires.

Very good estate condition. The presentation box with some scuffing to exterior.

Prototype of the Macintosh Personal Computer, with 5-1/4 inch “Twiggy” disk drive, Cupertino, CA, 1983, electronic components contained in pre-production plastic molded housing, 330 x 245 x 250 mm (excluding keyboard and mouse); with various disks. Slight yellowing of plastic components, otherwise fine.
Provenance: Issued to Encore Systems and used in the early development of MacWrite. Owned by the company’s former CEO and President since the 1980s; Exhibited (and operated) at the Mac@30 Anniversary Celebration held on January 25, 2014 at the Flint Center in Cupertino, CA.

THE EARLIEST MACINTOSH—THE MACHINE THAT “HAS CHANGED OUR LIVES FOREVER” (Wozniak). Extremely rare working example of the earliest Macintosh prototype, with a functioning 5 ¼ inch Apple proprietary twiggy drive, one of only two known machines that survived after the move to the Sony 3 ½ inch drive.

A gilt bronze lamp featuring Loie Fuller, circa 1901, signed “A. Leonard/ S cld” on the verso. Fuller was an American dancer who became a sensation at the Folies Bergere in Paris. She was subsequently immortalized as a favorite subject of many fin de siecle French artists including Jules Cheret, Auguste Rodin, and Henri de Toulouse Lautrec. From the living room at Taylor’s Bel Air residence.
LITERATURE Catherine Opie, 700 Nimes Road (Munich: DelMonico, 2015), pictured on page 15.

Height, 23 inches

PROVENANCE From the Estate of Elizabeth Taylor

Rectangular, with quadruped base, upswept handles and domed cover with rectangular finial. Body decorated with a mask and flower design on a blue ground. Four-character Qianlong mark on base. Height 10.5.”

late 19th/early 20th century, each carved mahogany frame, set with green leather upholstery with brass tacking, 38 in.; Provenance: Private Collection, Asheville, North Carolina
Condition
good condition, modern upholstery with very minor scuffs, frames with minor wear and abrasions (especially at knees and feet)

Captain Hook flagship in finely detailed, decorated resin. Base.
Stamped to underside WALT DISNEY CLASSICS COLLECTION ENCHANTED PLACES THE JOLLY ROGER with limited edition numbers.

Issued: c. 1993
Dimensions: 10″H x 10″W
Edition Number: 5375 Edition Size: 10000
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Classics Collection
Country of Origin: United States

Still Life. From a Westchester storage. – Dimensions: 40″ x 31″
Condition
good