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Woodbury CT Multi-Estate Online Auction

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Holiday Fine Estates Auction

Tuesday, November 17th • 4PM

Our Holiday Fine Estates Auction features over 350 lots of eclectic choice lots sourced from estates and collections in the tri-state area. The sale includes Asian and Continental decorative arts from an estate in Watch Hill, Rhode Island; several fine pieces of gold and diamond jewelry from three Connecticut estates; an A.D. Blake oil on canvas nautical scene of "Gloriana" sailing vessel, and two fine artworks by Frank Schoonover owned by a Norwalk estate; fine art and folk art from two estates in Lyme; and a large selection of gold and silver jewelry and coins from a local Woodbury estate. Lastly, the sale features a fine single owner collection of 170 pieces of contemporary Japanese pottery from a long-time collector in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Please watch this website for specific preview and bidding information. In person preview is by appointment, with an open preview from 11am to 4pm on Friday, November 13, 2026. Interested bidders should contact the firm by phone or email to arrange preview by appointment at other times. Please consult the firm's website for additional information. The firm's email is info@woodburyauction.com and the phone number is 203-266-0323. The deadline for absentee and phone bids is noon on Monday, November 16th. The sale will be "live online" through Live Auctioneers and Invaluable and will begin at 4:00 pm on Tuesday, November 17th.



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Celebrating 250 Years of American History
For the past 55 years, I personally and through my businesses have been uniquely connected to our nation's founding history through my chosen specialty in American Material Culture, beginning with objects from the Revolutionary period and before and particularly the Federal period that followed. I am proud to be an American and to have had the privilege to curate many thousands of objects that were a part of our nation's history and its development and transformation from a revolutionary outpost to a world-leading society and symbol of individual freedom.
- Thomas Schwenke






Recent Fine Estates Auction

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Tuesday, August 11th






The Phelps-Hathaway Connecticut Queen Anne
Cherrywood Bonnet Top Highboy
Suffield-Windsor Area, circa 1750-65
87" high, 39" wide, 19" deep.
On Loan and Exhibited Since 1988
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Hartford CT
Property from a Pennsylvania Collector



Pair Framed Continental W/C, Allegorical Figures
Frame size: 14" high, 11 3/4" wide.
Property from a Washington CT Collection

Pair Chinese Polychrome Pottery Foo Dogs
18" high, 8" wide, 13" deep.
Property from a Washington CT Collection



John Phillip Osborne (Am. b 1951)
Oil on Canvas "Irish Street"
Frame size: 22 1/4" high, 18 1/4" wide.
Property from a Litchfield CT Collection



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Welcome to Schwenke Auctioneers

Schwenke Auctioneers is located in historic Woodbury, Connecticut, nationally known in the antiques community as "The Antiques Capital of Connecticut" and situated at the beginning of the "Connecticut Antiques Trail". Woodbury is convenient to all major east coast cities, is home to several dozen fine antique shops, and boasts several first class restaurants, inns and spas, all nestled in the scenic general area called the "Litchfield Hills".

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