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Article: Queen Anne item crowns sale.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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- The Boston Herald
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- February 9, 2003
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Byline: Frances McQ.-J. Mascolo
Bidders leapt at the chance to take home American furniture at Grogan & Co.'s Feb. 2 sale in Dedham. Top lot was a Queen Anne walnut highboy with a flat top, carved fans and original brasses that sold for $60,375. The same dealer took a set of six Queen Anne walnut balloon-seat side chairs for $43,800.
The furniture came from the Cambridge estate of U.S. Judge Bailey Aldrich, who died at 95 in September.
A pair of Chippendale mahogany armchairs with shell carving brought $40,250, and bidders were eager for other chairs as well.
A Federal inlaid mahogany tall case clock with a rocking ship dial by Stephen ...