Fontaine Stands Tall With Collector’s Auction

PITTSFIELD, MASS. — The Collector’s Auction at Fontaine’s Auction Gallery took place on June 25, showcasing large and small-scale objects including carousel animals, a Coca-Cola vending machine and other souvenirs of leisure time in the pre-digital era. The victor of the auction pulled seniority among a catalog of mostly Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century lots; a late Eighteenth Century countertop tobacconist figure, carved and painted in a full-body figure of a Native Amer