Access our full range of services close to home! We invite you to contact our New England Specialists based in DOYLE’s Boston gallery for convenient access to our expert appraisal and consignment services. These seasoned auction professionals travel throughout New England assisting collectors, families and fiduciaries with the appraisal of estates, collections or single items, followed by the successful auction in our salerooms to an international audience of buyers. They will oversee the entire appraisal and auction process, ensuring that you or your client achieves maximum results in the global market.

Prominent New England Estates & Collections at Doyle

The F. Gordon Morrill Collection of Chinese and Chinese Export Porcelain, assembled by Harvard benefactors F. Gordon Morrill and his wife, Elizabeth, achieved over $12 million, including a record price of $5.8 million for a Yuan Dynasty porcelain flask.

The Collection of heiress Alice Appleton Hay, whose family established the Waltham Watch Company and Appleton Farms, assembled by Ms. Hay through cherished gifts, family inheritance and special commisions. The exquisite pieces provided a glimpse into the luxurious lives led by America's elite from the Gilded Age until World War II. Of the many highlights, the collection included two important 1920s necklaces by Cartier – a platinum and diamond pendant necklace achieved a price of $187,500, doubling its estimate, and a necklace of coral, jade and black onyx beads suspending a carved jade pendant realized $50,000, also double its estimate.

The Margolis Collection of Brookline, Massachussetts featured an exceptional collection of artwork, rare books, Judaica and other objects throughout several DOYLE auctions, achieving over $1 million, including a striking bronze with black patina by Lynn Chadwick achieving an impressive $126,000, far exceeding the estimate of $50,000-70,000.

Trusts & Estates Services

For over sixty years, DOYLE has built a solid reputation for delivering professional appraisal and auction services of the highest standard. Estate executors, fiduciary advisors, collectors and heirs trust us to provide fair market value appraisals and state-of-the-art auction services tailored to the individual needs of each estate or collection.

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Gilt Molded Sheet Copper and Zinc Leaping Stag Weathervane

Estimate: $5,000–8,000
Sold for $12,800

Grandma (Anna Mary Robertson) Moses, Over the River to Grandma's House, on Thanksgiven [sic], 1943

Oil and glitter or sugar on Masonite
Estimate: $50,000–80,000
Sold for $119,700

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