The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-11-26
THE STAMFORD WHITE SALE
DAVID WARFTELD AND WILLIAM
N. HEARST BIDDERS.

Top MARK nj tho Day. R74O. Paid ny
Prof. RashTOrd Dean for a SUIT O6
ArmOr -IWIlIam AstOr hnnIe n Buyer
sale Continues -TO-dRy-SOme Prices.
Near the end Of yesterdays session of
the Stanford White sale at the American
Art Galleries Prof. Bashford, dean OF Co
Mmbia University. helped bid a suit Of
armor up TO S24O. and then. iguratively
speaking. walked away with it. 1t was
the biggest individual sale Of the day.
Mr.. White paid $3.50 for the armor at the
Heber r. Bishop sale a few years ago.
This sale Ia called a supplementary"
one. Many of the objects were selected
for Stanford Whites " use and Others
were intended for use in homes he might
be called upon to design. A few, bought
by Mr.. White for his clients but not used
as originally intended, are included in the
sale and in the catalogue are marked with
an asterisk so that you may know them.
David Warield went early and planked
himself down in a chair up in front near
William r. Hearst and abOu at the spot
where David Belasco did his bidding at the
White sale last spring. The very first
thing offered. a miniature chair carved
and gilded, Mr.. Warield appropriated at
Sll. From then on the bidding at Auction
eer Kirby's behest was spirited and when
the session closed the satisfactory total Of
S7.2T8 had been reached.
Others seated i'm the front rows were
Mr.. and Mrs. c.. b. Alexander. Mrs. John r.
COwden. Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs. Mrs. Dan
lei Bacon. Mrs. Hobart Warren. MIR. and
Mrs. Edison Bradley. Cass Gilbert. V. Ever
EFT Macy m the preferably anonymous
woman who bids under the name Chelsea"
After David Warfield's chair came a
candlestick-a -hippopotamus tusk sup
porting two candle branches. 1t went to
William Aston CHAMBER. and a moment later
Mr.. Chanler also got n pair OF Satsuma
vases. The Tiffany Studios and NJ. l..
PruYn went eagerly after Spanish Moorish
plaques and what they wanted sometimes
came as low as one figure. A Spanish
faience plaque vent to Edison Bradley at 500.
Object No. 21 was a Rhvton-a reduced pro-
duction OF a famous Roman original. Mr..
Warfield took notice and il was his for $40.
The attendants held aloft a pair of snuff
boxes, rams read design, wrought in
silver and counted on real rams horns.
Warfield again, $3.50 apiece for the pair.
For $3.50 also Mrs. Bennett acquired
a guitar fashioned from the shell Of an
armadillo.
When a pair of antique Moorish pottery
VASES appeared, WIN CneTuDlm on the
handles, a raised cOat OF arms and clusters
Of fruits, flowers and leaves, Mr.. Hearst
frowned, but not at the Cherubim. That
is Mr.. Hearst's way OF bidding. He got
the Jar for $50.
Warming pan lids proved attractive to
Mrs. Owens. There were five Of them on
the list and she bought them all, paying
$40 for n and SIS for the others. An an
tique Danish plaque went to H. $. Bowen for
$50. In the centre il had a repousse Orna-
mentatiOn representing Caleb and Joshua
with the grapes of Eshcol. Adam and
Eve on an old Dutch plaque, with tree and
serpent convenient, were worth $40 To Mrs.
Herbert Warren, and two antique Japanese
kemans OF gilded brass, with lotus scroll
and tassel designs, $28 to Mrs. Daniel Bacon.
The lamps arrived. An talian one,
designed for a sanctuary, a William
Aston Chanler's for SIS. And then a set of
chimes four brass bells, three of them
inscribed: PrOfddI AntOnius Gdmbdrini BO-
ROnicrs;s, MDCCLXXXIV. Bid flashed up
bert Johnston said Two hundred and ten,"
and at that figure Mr.. Johnston won out.
Cass Gilbert bought an antique Italian
~reliQuary for $40, and Chelsea a French
coat of arms for $50. And for $40 again
David Warfield got an eCusson Of carved and
gilded wood.
Folks stood I'D when the attendants
a Stanford White sale-a full rugged frigate
some four feet long. Frank ID. Millet got
10 for SI35.
The next TO the last item was another
curiosity, seventeen old Chinese rain hats
Of woven bamboo, for wall decoration.
They went to Architect Cass Gilbert for 81.
The sale will continue at $50 o'clock this
afternoon. Tapestries will he to-day's
feature and marbles to-morrow'e. On
Friday evening the Offering will bepictures.