For: Scudder’s decision

Slug: Old Treasures at Oldwick Christmas Show

#613797

TG – 12cuts, mailed and veloxed

Review and Photos

By Nancy J. Vozar

OLDWICK, N.J. — This scenic area is known for high quality antique shows, including the Christmas Antique Show, managed by Ellen Katona and Bob Lutz, that was on December 4 and 5, and featured 52 dealers from New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Kentucky.

“We are very pleased with the gate,” commented Bob Lutz, “and the dealers’ booths all look good.” The dealers’ efforts were not lost on patrons. “This is one of the nicest shows we’ve ever been to,” noted antique shoppers of some 20 years, Cindy and Gerard Geiger of Port Murray, N.J.

“I’ve noticed the customers are both knowledgeable and selective. They want good quality,” remarked show participant Steve Redler from Olde Country Antiques, Hightstown, N.J. Olde Country did well, selling an Eighteenth Century blue-green painted blanket chest, a circa 1830–1840 splay leg painted table, a Pennsylvania walnut desk, an 1885 butter churn and a Nineteenth Century Windsor chair.

Next door, Emele’s Antiques from Dublin, Penn., displayed a rare Bucks County, Penn., circa 1900, schoolhouse quilt from the Old Turnpike Road School. A circa 1870, yellow grain painted dry sink with a dovetailed well from Lehigh County, Penn., complemented this colorful textile. Another Pennsylvania painted piece displayed was a salmon colored, circa 1830, wood chest in a rare 48-inch-long size

Howard Graff, show promoter for Vermont Antiques Dealers’ Association Show, traveled from Townshend, Vt., to display his antiques. Items that sold include a turn-of-the-century pedestal sewing stand, an ogee mirror, an early Nineteenth Century door with original hardware and paint, and a number of early iron implements.

Marsha and Carl Batts from Distant Past Antiques, Mount Laurel, N.J., sold a Popeye whirligig, a pine painted cupboard, a dough box, a long painted bench and various tool carriers while dealer Helen Bryan, H&L Antiques, Princeton, N.J., found new homes for a mid-1800s red painted blanket chest on turned legs, and a very primitive blue painted watch safe.

Early games and toys, a floral hooked rug, a diorama and a rocking horse all proved to be crowd pleasers in the booth of Mad River Antiques. Owners Steve and Lorraine German, North Granby, Conn., also displayed a Nineteenth Century dome top trunk with a calligraphic bird painted in gold, a Nineteenth Century New York State stamped and hand painted Northeast Indian gathering basket in blue and salmon colors, a circa 1870 red and white sawtooth pattern quilt, a mid-Nineteenth Century H. Stager, Mount Joy, Lancaster County, Penn., five-color coverlet, and a collection of decorated stoneware.

Dealer Ali Rickstrew, who trades under the name The Kentucky Sandpiper, set up here before returning home to Russelville, Ky. The sale of a fireplace mantel and a hand painted flower and bird courting-mirror helped lighten her load for the trip home. Some of her folk art objects included an early American clothed bedpost doll, a Nineteenth Century hand carved Noah’s Ark which was completely filled with 57 animals, an Eighteenth to Nineteenth Century Russian hand puppet and a Pennsylvania sculpture of Abe Lincoln.

For Worcester, Mass., dealer Donna East, it was a copper eagle weathervane that offered the right atmospheric conditions for its new owner. Her other treasures included an 1886 inlaid mahogany Swiss music box in working condition; six, circa 1800, English Chippendale mahogany chairs; a circa 1720–1730 Queen Anne two-drawer chest with original brasses and copper pin hinges in early red paint; and a canvas on board portrait that was attributed to Prior.

The next area show for Ellen Katona and Bob Lutz is the Heart of Bucks Antique Show on Saturday, February 5, at the George School in Newtown, Penn. For more information, phone 856-459-2229.

For 12/31

Slug: Estate And Fine Art Auction January 16

#613742

TG – 4 cuts, emailed

MANCHESTER, VT. — On Sunday, January 16, at 11 am, Eric Nathan Auction Company will conduct an Estate and Fine Art Auction in the Rockwell Room of the Equinox Hotel in Manchester Village. Featured in the auction will be the property from the Gatling estate of Old Bennington, Vt., also known as the “Isaac Technor Robinson House.”

This will be a cataloged auction of 450 fresh-to-market lots merging generations of significant antiques and personal property featuring exceptional American family provenance. American regionalist Waldo Peirce will be represented by an oil painting that has never been out of the family, a picture of Ernest Hemingway being served a drink in Sloppy Joe’s Bar, Key West, Fla., 1936.

Furniture includes a 34-inch-wide Chippendale tiger maple slant front desk; early Pennsylvania black walnut tavern table; a tall case clock and others; vintage estate jewelry including many fine diamonds and a Patek Philippe watch; vintage clothing and textiles including Persian carpets; fine dinner services; a Gorham sterling silver tea set and others; old bottles; books; stamps; Steiff animals; a rare scrimshaw tooth from the ship Atlantic and many other interesting and high quality estate items.

For information, 802-362- 3194 or www.nathanauctions.