“That was a beautiful carving. It may have been used as advertising in front of a theater. We had tremendous bidding on it,” Lynda Cain observed about the sale’s top lot, this circa 1860 carving of actor Edwin Forrest in his role as Metamora from King of the Wampanoags. A private collector won it for $76,200 ($5/8,000).
Review by Madelia Hickman Ring
PHILADELPHIA — As it always does, Freeman’s | Hindman scheduled its annual spring American furniture, folk and decora