Sell your American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts with Freeman's
Freeman’s has had great success with selling American antiques over the years, establishing auction records for a Fraktur with a verse from a hymn to the nightingale which sold for $366,750 to a painted, decorated and incised pine candlebox from the Esther Ludwig Estate. Our American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts department has had the privilege of bringing to auction such prestigious collections as the Historic Muhlenberg Property, Property Deaccessioned by the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, Historic Lemon Hill, and Property from the Reed & Barton Archives.
"The variety and quantity of material that has come through these doors is staggering." - Lynda Cain, as quoted by The Philadelphia Inquirer
FREEMAN'S ENCOURAGES WORK OF THE FOLLOWING STYLES AND MAKERS:
Furniture:
Chippendale, Queen Anne, William and Mary, Pennsylvania German, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, Colonial, George II, Cabriole period, Pennsylvania Dutch, and Federal.
Decorative Art:
Portrait miniatures, fraktur, needlework, needlework sampler, folk art, native American, federal, classical, gothic revival, neoclassical, Greek revival, silver, Tiffany silver, American silver, coin silver, tin, Pittsburgh glass, Chinese export, knife boxes, weathervanes, red ware, stone ware, Windsor chairs, blanket chest, scrimshaw, carved whalebone, tall case clock, and miniature furniture.
Makers and Designers:
New England, Philadelphia, New York, Rembrandt Peale, Charles Willson Peale Robert Edge Pine, Benjamin West, American school, Duncan Phyfe, Gilbert Stuart, William Savery, Joseph Armitt, John Folwell, Thomas Affleck, Jonathan Shoemaker, Griffith Owen, Thomas Tufft, Joseph B. Barry, David Rittenhouse, Benjamin Rittenhouse, Thomas Stretch, William Stretch, Isaac Thomas, and Justice Daily.
Contact the American Furniture Folk & Decorative Arts Department:
Fill in the form at the top of this page, or for a private, complimentary appointment contact the American Furniture Folk & Decorative Arts Department:
Andrew Taggart
267.414.1225
ataggart@freemansauction.com
For more information about selling your fine art at auction visit our Selling guide.

An extremely rare painted cast iron and lead mechanical "Coasting Bank"
Design attributed to Charles A. Bailey (1848-1926) for J. & E. Stevens Co., Cromwell
Sold for $266,500

Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828)
Portrait of Daniel Webster (1782-1852), 1825
Sold for $75,000

Painted and decorated yellow pine blanket chest
attributed to Johannes Spitler (1774-1837), Massanutten, Page County, VA
Sold for $350,500