Name/Title
The General Bell CollectionEntry/Object ID
Q1430.634.33CDescription
A catalogue advertising the sale of items from the late Major-General James Franklin Bell Collection to be offered as an unrestricted public sale on February 14, 1919. Also included is a handwritten list of perspective buyers and their addresses and a letter addressed to the American Art Association. Vol I pg. 33C
The publication provides a photograph of Major-General Bell. The first 3 pages provide an 'Introductory Note' followed by the conditions of the sale as to the bidding, payment, shipping, storage, and guarantee then a listing of the 276 items.
(buyers list
A handwritten list titled "Buyers at General Joe Franklin Bell Sale," with names and addresses of individuals and establishments:
William B. Clarke, 225–5th Ave;
Geo. J. Foran, 421 Central Park West
Mrs. Meredith Kare
E. W. Karden, Tarrytown, N. Y.
? T. Kammer, Branford, Ct.
R. A. Keller, 346 Mt. Prospect Ave., Newark, N. J.
K. Oshima, 430 N. 57 St.
Park Ave. Antique Shop, 489 Park Ave.
Brooklyn Museum, Eastern Parkway, Bklyn.
John Irwin, 31 Nassau St.
N. A. Reid, 128 Broadway
Jas. K. Symmers, 59 Wall St.
Casper Whitney, Brownsville, N. Y.
The above are purchasers at the Bell sale. A great many we are not able to give you as they private
collectors and bought under an assumed and did not wish name given.
Sincerely yours, A.H. Clark
(Letter to The American Art Assoc. dated 2-22-1919, unsigned)
Gentlemen:
Many thanks for the copy of catalogue of the sale recently made by the James Franklin Bell estate.
There are a number on this list, that as a collector I would be interested in, and if you can tell me,
as fat as you can, into whose hands they fell, perhaps I might be able to secure something that I can use.
I have a collection of museum size and am interested in many things that an ordinary collector would have
no use for.
Thanking you in advance and enclosing stamped envelope for reply, I remain.
Yours truly,Subject
The General Bell Collection
American Art Association
Arms and Weapons
Indian and Philippine Baskets
Blankets and Curios
James Franklin Bell
A. H. ClarkSubject Person/Organization
Harry L. George Collection
