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Title: Rago Great Estates: featuring the Fleecydale Cottage American Collection   

Auction held in: Lambertville, N.J.

Sale Date:  12/3/12

No. of Lots: 617

No. of Pages: 140

Condition:  Very Good

Illustrated in Color

A Great Reference On Cottage Americana From Seasoned Collector!!! 

Bidders will find over 160 lots of American painted furniture, whirligigs, carnival shooting targets and prize figurines, signage, hard-to-find paintings by Amos Shontz, outsider art, garden and architectural ornaments, whimsies and folk carvings, tramp art. Also in the mix are many other unexpected pieces of decorative arts that compliment and diversify the Cottage’s folk art collection, from a fabulously large and ornate wood chandelier in paint to a curious bench reputed to have been created for use in a bordello, Bakelite, framed tattoo art, Deco furniture and accessories.

“This is a fine collection compiled over fifty years by a couple that has a great aesthetic sense matched to a love of whimsy,” said Tom Martin, head of the Estates department at Rago’s. “It’s the kind of property that’s been increasingly hard to find in the market, whether you are a dealer or a collector. It’s colorful, folksy, playful.  There’s nothing “brown” about it.”

The owners of Fleecydale Cottage began their collection in the late 1960s and continued to gather through the 1990s, filling their beautiful old Carversville, PA stony, its adjoining cottage and garden. They collected from most of the leading dealers in Americana at the New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware shows, as well through shows, flea markets and dealers in Bucks County, New Jersey, upstate New York and New England. The majority of the pieces have been off the market for decades. 

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