Nye & Company's The Collectors Passion auction, online Jan. 24-25, features fine and decorative arts

BLOOMFIELD, N.J. - Jan. 10, 2024 - PRLog -- Nye & Company Auctioneers' two-day, online-only Collectors' Passion auction slated for Wednesday and Thursday, January 24^th-25^th, will feature folk art from the estate of Marjorie and Robert L. Hirschhorn; a curated selection of early American, English and Continental furniture; a fabulous assortment of silver; and a broad selection of fine art and maps.

The auction, beginning at 10 am Eastern time both days, will include property from several Tri-State area collections, including a selection of property from the Stanley Weiss collection. Real time Internet bidding and absentee bidding is available on multiple platforms, including Nye & Company's redesigned website. Telephone bidding will also be available, on a limited basis.

January is traditionally a month when Americana crosses the podium and this year is no exception. The collection of highly-inlaid parquetry furniture, canes and walking sticks from the estates of Marjorie and Robert L. Hirschhorn anchors the artwork made on this side of the Atlantic, including Johnny Cash's personal hand-carved owl-and rattlesnake-carved cane.

There are also commemorative, G.A.R., Civil War, allegorical canes and walking sticks, some with figural handles and highly carved shafts. There are examples with busts of dogs, humans, animals and even Abraham Lincoln.  The Hirschhorns accumulated a number of elaborately-inlaid pieces of furniture and clocks, including a Roxbury-style tall case clock bought in 1993.

The rare two-part clock on stand was made by Clayton Williams of Mt. Airy, North Carolina, circa 1959, and was made with 7,260 pieces of wood from 25 different kinds of wood from across the globe. The 16-Sided, Elaborately-Inlaid Center Table is one of several pieces in the collection depicted in Richard Muhlberger's American Folk Marquetry: Masterpieces in Wood.

Items from the Stanley Weiss collection include a classical giltwood overmantel mirror, a Queen Anne mahogany drop-leaf dining table and a Federal satinwood tambour secretary. Items from a Connecticut collector include a Chippendale birchwood blockfront kneehole desk, an American School double portrait of children, and a lovely Ichabod Potter mahogany drop-leaf dining table.

Other collecting areas are represented by an assortment of lighting, rugs, porcelain and glass. Internet bidding will be available on LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com, Bidsquare.com, Bidspirit.com, the redesigned Nye & Company site (www.nyeandcompany.com) and application.

An online preview is being held now thru January 24-25^t, so people can bid in absentia and online. For more, visit www.nyeandcompany.com.