SPECIAL WILTON SECTION

WILTON HERITAGE MUSEUM DEACCESSION W/CUTS

SS/JAR SET 9/1

A special feature of the DAR show will be a silent auction of some items being deaccessioned for the Wilton Historical Society. Six pieces of decorated stoneware, a redware crock, a Noah’s Ark, a game board and several Nineteenth Century frames have been deemed extraneous to the collections, according to curator Kathryn Torg.

The stoneware pieces were part of the Dana Blackmar collection acquired by the museum in 1993. Because the museum collection concentrates on Norwalk-made redware and stoneware, these pieces are not appropriate for the collection., One Norwalk piece, however, is being deaccessioned. “Because we have two similar manganese splotched storage jars, we are disposing of one to help pay for a recently acquired ‘Cheap dish’ plate and the ‘Edward Smith’ recently purchased at Northeast Auction, adding to our collection of Norwalk redware,” said Marilyn Gould, museum director.

The stoneware group includes a three-gallon bird-decorated crock marked New York Stoneware Co., Fort Edward, N.Y., a very large ovoid jug with a highly unusual decoration that seems to defy identification and other smaller jars that have cobalt decoration, but no maker marks.

The game board, measuring 20 by 31, is mustard and black and is almost identical to the one sold recently at Northeast Auction for $2,900, except that this board is a single board, not two.

Several other pieces are being deaccessioned from the collection that might find interested buyers include a tri-partite overmantel mirror missing some veneer and two general store pieces: a large lithographed tin “Woods Boston Coffees” bin and a “Best Japan Tea” bin. The sale of these items will help the museum to expand other collections, including vintage toys and Norwalk redware and stoneware.

This silent auction will take place at the DAR Antiques Show on September 19 at the Wilton High School Field House. For more information, call 203-762-7257.