Date: Fri 23-Apr-1999

Publication: Ant

Author: CAROLL

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Lancaster

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Lancaster Heritage Antiques Show

with 21 cuts

LANCASTER, PENN. -- The Franklin & Marshall College was again the host, on

March 27 and 28, for the second annual Lancaster Heritage Antiques Show.

Managed by Jim Burk Antiques Shows, over 77 exhibitors from 18 Eastern and

Mid-western states displayed their wares in the College Alumni Sports Center.

A preview for sponsors and friends of the museum was held on Friday evening

when these photographs were taken. The proceeds of the show go to benefit the

children's education programs at The Heritage Center Museum of Lancaster

County.

In commenting about the show, executive director of the Heritage Center Museum

Peter Seibert stated, "It is a wonderful show. We are thrilled to have it --

our second year. And we are so glad to be with the Burks [show managers]. It

is a great relationship. It has the makings of a great show. We have almost

doubled the number of presale tickets this year for the preview."

In the middle of the booth of Darwin Antiques, Philadelphia, Penn., Carolinn

Pocher displayed a unique "chopping block" from a smoke house. The legs and

feet are carved to look like pigs feet, age unknown. It is a lot older than

some of us. Less unique, but great, was a New Hampshire secretary, circa 1820,

in original red wash, and a 1930 Maine hooked rug. As an aside, Pocher

mentioned that she had been in the antiques business for 22 years, ever since

she had her first "shop" as a ten-year-old.

Ira and Shirley Parmer, Lititz, Penn., had a large display of white ironstone,

all made between the late 1840s and 1860s. In passing, Shirley Parmer

mentioned that they were getting ready to go to a national white ironstone

convention in Detroit, Mich., and that they would be taking an extremely rare

white leaf fan, circa 1850.

Greg Kramer of Robesonia, Penn., displayed his wares in a large double booth.

Kramer brought a nice selection of Gaudy Dutch; some great Pennsylvania

redware; a fine Lancaster County Windsor-type settee in original condition; a

Dutch cupboard and a blanket chest plus a good selection of quilts. Bruce and

Cindy Peters, Mechanicsburg, Penn., had a group of pewter plates -- some dated

from 1727; a watercolor by the American artist Alfred Bellows, and an

Eighteenth Century highboy in walnut.

Show manager, Donna Burk mentioned, "We have been promoting shows for 35

years. It is our second year here. We have 78 dealers and 68 booths -- all in

room settings. The show is absolutely gorgeous. The dealers have done an

outstanding job. You have to give the dealers credit for they are the ones

that make the show."

One of the exhibitors furthest from the show site, was Dennis Raleigh of

Midland, Mich. In the center of the booth was a fine cow weathervane of

copper, dating to the last quarter of the Nineteenth Century, and a pair of

arrow back Windsor chairs. Also, a full-size pie safe together with a

mid-Nineteenth Century walnut desk from Maine. Other long distance travelers

were the Melvins from Lebanon, Ohio. They had a fine carved eagle and a

Pennsylvania chest, circa 1830, plus a piece of tramp ware dated 1893, and

another of the popular pie safes.

Gene and JoSue Coppa offered a good one-drawer tapered stand; a Pennsylvania

dry sink together with a red painted blanket chest; and a hanging cupboard

plus a fair sized hooked rug in black and red.

The mid-south area was represented by Tucker Station Antiques, Louisville, Ky.

They featured an appliqued Princess Feather crib quilt, 50 by 50 inches, in

blue, green and red on a white cotton field. Also shown was a Hudson Valley

step back cupboard with an open top above a single plank door, together with a

set of four Connecticut bow back chairs, mid-Nineteenth Century.

Among the items that Gloria Greenwald, Lambertville, N.J., brought was a pair

of decorated plank bottom chairs, angel wing crest style Pennsylvania, circa

1840, plus a small blanket chest, Berks County, Penn. -- signed Rebecca

Swartz, dated 1839. Gloria Lonergan had a Hackensack cupboard -- Bergen

County, N.J., (based on its design); and a fine carved wood eagle dated 1910;

also an Amish seven-foot six-inch pair of hall rugs.