Historical Society Will Debut Fall Antiques Show On Sunday

Newtown Historical Society has announced the details of a new Fall Antiques Show. The event will take place on Sunday, September 28, from 10 am to 4 pm. The event – like the society’s spring show – will be in the gymnasium of Edmond Town Hall, 45 Main Street (Route 25) in Newtown.

Due to the tremendous success of the society’s Annual Antiques Shows held in March, many participating dealers asked to have another show in September. Newtown’s shows present diverse merchandise to a public that comes to buy, making it an all around popular antiques event.

The society has put together an outstanding group of antiques dealers for the September show. Some favorites will be returning and some exciting new dealers will be added. Among the offerings showgoers can expect to find early brass candlesticks, woodenware, American furniture and accessories, Staffordshire, pattern glass, Steiff bears and animals, dollhouse miniatures, toys, holiday items, American country primitive items, berry baskets, ironstone, European antiques, antique linens, jewelry, and more.

From country to formal, furniture to miniatures, this new show promises one of the best selections of any area antiques show this fall.

Admission is $4 at the door. Proceeds of this fundraiser benefit Newtown Historical Society’s public programs as well as preservation of the Matthew Curtiss House-Museum and its collections. The circa 1750 Curtiss House, located across the street from the antiques show, will be open during show hours for free tours by costumed guides.

Edmond Town Hall is easily accessible from major highways including I-95 (use Exit 27A), Merritt Parkway (Exit 49N), and Exits 9 or 10 when traveling on I-84. Call the society for further information, 426-5937.

The Copper

Knocker’s Daughter

Nancy Lee Schulz, a Newtown resident since 1969 and a student of an art form her family has been working for three generations, will share her work and offer demonstrations of copper knocking at The Matthew Curtiss House on September 28. Mrs Schulz will be at the Curtiss House from 10 am to 4 pm.

In 1990 Mrs Schulz decided to continue her family’s business with the help of her father, Ike Tucker. She had found a copper grasshopper in the barn and asked if her father would teach her how to create copper pieces as he had done. That collaboration lasted nine years. During that time Ike taught his daughter copper knocking, woodcarving, whittling, and how to sculpt using plastalene, a non drying clay.

Mrs Schulz – who has adopted the moniker The Yankee Copper Knocker’s Daughter – carves wooden molds for some of her own copper designs. For others she made models in plastalene. From the model she created a plaster mold, which she then took to a foundry to have cast into a metal mold. Mrs Schulz took her show on the road and did craft fairs for five years.

While at The Matthew Curtiss House later this month, Mrs Schulz show some of her copper pieces, demonstrate their creation and answering questions about her work, and also offer pieces for purchase. Admission to the Curtiss House and the demonstration-program is free.