Hamlin Heirlooms Available for Auction-I
Hannibal Hamlin’s estate will be auctioned off Saturday at the former site of the Bangor Theological Seminary bordered by Union and Hammond Streets. Hamlin’s heirs gave the school Hamlin’s home and its contents in 1933. The auction is being conducted by Poulin Antiques & Auctions of Fairfield. A book auction will also be held at 4 pm. in the Moulton Library.
Located at Fifth and Hammond streets, it was used as a home for seminary presidents for more than 70 years. The walnut lift-top commode of Abraham Lincoln’s first vice president is for sale, together with his upright spinet piano and 6-foot-tall painting of the Madonna and cherubs along with books from his personal library.
The seminary will also be auctioning office furnitures such as office desks and office chairs; and other antique furnitures such as tables, chairs, bookcases, artwork and more than 10,000 volumes from the Moulton Library used by students, faculty and staff for almost two centuries. The auction is the last phase of the seminary’s preparations to sell the property it was given in 1819 and on which its first chapel was erected five years later. The school moved across town to the Husson College campus in September 2005.
The sale of the property, which includes Hamlin’s former home, is expected to be completed later this summer, according to seminary President William Imes in an interview. Plans for the property have not been announced.
Doors will open at 8 am. Saturday with the auction of the antiques from the Hannibal Hamlin estate to begin at 10 am. in the seminary Commons Room, and a preview of items will be held from 10 am. to 4 pm. Friday. The remaining used furniture, office furniture and library fixtures will be auctioned off beginning at 1 pm. in the tent on the seminary grounds.
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