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Rose Valley Museum At Thunderbird Lodge To Hold Benefit Auction Online Sale Closes Oct. 25 FRIDAY OCTOBER 23, 2020 • VOL. 51, NO. 43
Soulis Auctions Tops $1 Million From Sales Of Mueller Collection And Tucker Collection Of Shooting Gallery Targets
The Rose Valley Museum at Thunderbird Lodge, located in Rose Valley, Pa., will hold an online auction closing Sunday, Oct. 25, at 1 p.m. EST. The museum will host this curated sale of high-quality Arts and Crafts antiques and fine art from the turn of the 20th century as a benefit event. Proceeds will be used by the museum to purchase works created by Wharton Esherick for Hedgerow Theatre in
Rose Valley. Items to be sold were both donated and consigned, with a commission going to the museum. There will be nearly 200 lots, including a Wharton Esherick signed woodcut of Hedgerow Theatre, rare furniture by Esherick Continued on page 3
Auction Guests Enthusiastically Embraced Soulis’ New Drive-Up Bidding Option As Social-Distancing Alternative This spectacular American Satsuma Art Nouveau vase with a Rookwood association will be estimated at $1,000-$1,500.
The only known example of William F. Mangels’ (Coney Island, N.Y.) cast-iron lightup clown painted gallery target referred to as “Rowdy,” monumental at 26-by-19.5 inches in size, depicted in the book “American Vernacular” by Maresca/Ricco, sold for $35,200, believed to be a world record price for a shooting gallery target sold at auction. The buyer resides in Beverly Hills, Calif.
This rare 53-inch “Shorty” cast-iron shooting gallery target in the form of a gunfighter, by William F. Mangels (Coney Island, N.Y.), early 20th century, depicted in the book “American Vernacular” by Maresca/Ricco, sold for $33,000.
“We set up about a dozen reserved parking spaces around the perimeter of the tent to allow bidSome bid by phone, while oth- ders to watch the auction from their ers bid online, absentee or in per- vehicles and bid by holding their son in a country-style socially dis- paddles outside their car windows,” tanced tent setting. But in this peri- said owner/auctioneer Dirk Soulis. od of COVID-19 watchfulness, Dirk “Some attendees sat inside their Soulis added something new to hatchback vehicles with the rear accommodate safety-conscious doors opened up. Others pulled in as bidders at his company’s Sept. 19 closely as they could, remained in and 26 Americana Week in Missouri their front seats, in some cases wearing masks, and monitored the proauction series: drive-up bidding. ceedings by tuning to 87.7 on their FM dial.” Soulis left no detail to chance, even providing each drive-up bidder with a long-handled bidding paddle crafted from a fly swatter with a numbered bidding card attached. “It was a simple concept that worked extremely well,” continued Soulis. The million-dollar double-header held over two consecutive weekends started with the Sept. 19 sale of A dozen car spaces were available to reserve ahead of the Jerry and Cathy Mueller time for drive-up bidding. Each drive-up bidder was given Americana collection. The a long-handled bidding paddle fashioned from a fly 30-year assemblage, which swatter with a bidding card affixed to it and could Continued on page 2 monitor the auction via their FM radio.
This Bradley & Hubbard Arts and Crafts stained glass oil lamp will be estimated at $1,500-$2,000.
Historic Supersized Howard Finster Painting To Be Spotlighted In Slotin Folk Art Auction
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Painting Comes From Church He Pastored In Georgia An early Howard Finster painting believed to be his largest, yet one of the least well-known of his early masterworks will be the highlight of Slotin Folk Art Auction’s Self-Taught Art Masterpiece Sale on Saturday, Nov. 14. The Buford, Ga., based auction house has handled the sale of
many early Finster pieces, but never one as large as the 1977 painting,’ “Chelsea Baptist Church,” numbered 641, which measures 103.5 inches wide by 44 inches high, including frame. The narrative painting, tractor enamel-onmasonite, is centered around the northwest Georgia church where the preacher-turned-folk-artist ministered from 1950 to ’65.
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Howard Finster’s important 1977 painting, “Chelsea Baptist Church,” was painted for the congregation where he ministered from 1950 to ’65. The large work is 103.5 inches wide by 44 inches high, including frame. Proceeds will benefit the church and Paradise Garden. Read the story for more. Images courtesy of Howar Pousner, for Slotin Folk Art Auction.
Esteemed Mel Getlan Collection Is Star Attraction Of Morphy’s Coin-Op And Antique Advertising Auction On Oct. 29, 30, And 31 on page 10
In This Issue SHOPS, SHOWS & MARKETS . . . . . . . . . . starting on page 3 SHOPS DIRECTORY . . . . . . . . . on page 4 EVENT & AUCTION CALENDAR . on page 6 AUCTION SALE BILLS . . . starting on page 5
FEATURED AUCTION: Embassy Auctions International - October 29 in Kinzers, Pennsylvania - Page 5
AUCTIONEER DIRECTORY . . . . . on page 6 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . on page 11