"Traveling in high style," Antique Week, The Weekly Antique Auction & Collecting Newspaper, Vol. 37 Issue No. 1822 page 1

Seats on this coach were quickly upgraded to first class at Dawson & Nye.s April 24 Gallery sale when the Enoch Wood Perry painting Pemigewasset Coach sold for $224,000, inclusive of buyer's premium (18 percent on the first $50,000; 10 percent on the remainder). As it crossed the finish line, the 34 by 54in oil on canvas set a new world record for a Perry, said John Nye, co-owner of the Morris Plains, N.J., auction house that sold it.

The signed and dated 1899 painting charmingly depicts a scene in Plymouth, N.H., with the coach attracting waves from schoolchildren as it passes the town.s Little Red Schoolhouse, now a local landmark.

The consignor had owned the painting since purchasing it at New York.s Harry Shaw Newman Gallery in 1946. He paid $3,000.

"The consignor had kept the gallery catalog and brought it in with the painting," said Dawson & Nye appraiser Valerie Bleier. "In that catalog, the painting was described as being comparable to the genre works of E.L. (Edward Lamson) Henry. We knew as the preview went on that it was going to go way above estimate."

It fact, it demolished its $30,000-50,000 estimate, selling to an anonymous phone bidder. John Nye remarked, "We had tremendous interest in this piece and stiff telephone bidding, although there also was some activity in the room."

According to Nye, the auction total exceeded $600,000 against presale expectations of $300,000-500,000.