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By Old Kinderhook Auction Company
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Aug 3, 2021
Valatie, NY, United States
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Old Kinderhook Auction Company is proud to present our Most August Estate Auction. Highlighting the sale will be a breathtaking group of archaistic jade from a single owner Hudson Valley collection, together with some alluring Asian erotica and rare porcelains. We will begin the sale with a large offering of fine period frames and art, followed by fantastic home furnishings and lighting, and finish with a massive single owner Hummel collection. As always, a wide net to capture the interests (and guilty pleasures) of any connoisseur. All To Be Sold With No Reserve.
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LOT 25:
E. M. Lines, "Nancy Hanks"
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Start price:
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100
Estimated price :
$200 - $300
Buyer's Premium: 25%
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E. M. Lines, "Nancy Hanks"
American, ca. 1893, oil on canvas depicting the famous race horse, titled, signed, and dated l.r. "Nancy Hanks, E.M. Lines, 1893" housed in a period lemon gold frame, 16" x 24" canvas, 19 1/4" x 27 1/4" framed. Nancy Hanks (1886 - August 16, 1915) was an undefeated Standardbred trotting mare named for Abraham Lincoln's mother. She was the first 2:05 trotter in harness-racing history. She was foaled in 1886 on what is now known as Poplar Hill Farm, near Lexington, Kentucky. Bred by Hart Boswell, she was sired by Happy Medium; her dam, Nancy Lee, was by Dictator. While owned by John Malcolm Forbes, on September 28, 1892 the brown mare trotted a mile in 2 minutes and 4 seconds at Terre Haute's Four Cornered Track with a bicycle sulky, breaking all Sunol's mark of 2 minutes 8.25 seconds set in 1891. Nancy Hanks lost one race heat (in her first start), but was undefeated in her races. She was inducted into the Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame in 1955. Nancy Hanks died on August 16, 1915 at age 29, and is buried in the Hamburg Place equine cemetery. A statue of her was created by sculptor Charles Cary Rumsey. A passenger train from Atlanta to Savannah from 1947 to 1971 was named in her honor.
