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Unique Kentucky Stoneware Pitcher Sets Record At $143,750
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Crocker Farm Sells E.H. Wood Rarity Wallace Nutting Collectors Club Conference Set For Sept. 22 To 24
FRIDAY AUGUST 26, 2016 • VOL. 47, NO. 35
Ohio’s Zoar Antique Show: On Its Way To New Heights
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By Karl Pass On July 16, Crocker Farm of Sparks, Md., sold a rare three-gallon stoneware pitcher stamped “E.H. Wood” and dated “1840” by Ezekiel H. Wood, Maysville, Kentucky. With unusual incised bird on branches applied decorations, and impressed decorations, the pitcher was heavily embellished. Four different techniques – incising, impressing, sprigging, and slipdecorating, lavishly done — place the pitcher in rare company. Estimated
at $45,000-$65,000, it sold for $143,750 to dealer Clifton Anderson on the phone, underbid by dealer Kelly Kinzle in the salesroom. Ezekiel Wood and his brother, John, manufactured stoneware in Maysville for a short period roughly between 1840 and 1845. A small number of pieces possess the mark “J & E. WOOD.” Likely done by Ezekiel Wood, as opposed as being made for him, it was a show piece and one of the most elaborately decorated stoneware pitchers in existance. The price achieved is an auction record for Kentucky pottery. To learn more, visit www.crockerfarm.com.
Vintage Movie Poster Offering At Heritage Auctions Tops $1.7 Million on page 4
Old Sturbridge Village Acquires Important Portraits This is a bit of the Zoar skyline, including the greenhouse (foreground), bakery building and Zoar church, which stands on a hilltop overlooking the early 19th century settlement.
By Paul Locher Usually if you take an antiques show, change the management, replace one-third of the dealers and completely alter the overall physical presentation, you wind up with an antiques show that doesn’t much resemble what you started out with. Not so with Ohio’s annual Zoar Antique Show, which despite salvos of change this year, came out
Show manager Steve Sherag, owner of Early American Antiques in Canfield, Ohio, is shown in his designer booth, a room-setting he kept filled during the show with some of the most desirable pieces he spotted in dealers’ spaces across the floor. Above, he poses with an early dough box on legs, decorated circa 1860 in the Pennsylvania German style.
looking remarkably similar to its previous 42 incarnations. And that’s a very good thing. Because for lovers of American country antiques, Zoar has consistently been something of a grail - a yearly touchstone of unparalleled excellence. Since its beginning, the Zoar Antique Show has established Continued on page 2
Swala’s Antiques of Jefferson, Pa., showed up with some real knock-your-socks-off decorated stoneware that had showgoers buzzing. Above, Frank Swala shows off an ovoid field jug with a highly detailed incised and cobalt-highlighted American eagle, which was marked $85,000, while the large cooler next to it was $1,400. Decorated stoneware items filling a cupboard in the background ranged in price from $300 to $4,500.
Old Sturbridge Village has recently acquired two portraits painted by noted artist John Ritto Penniman. The portraits, dated 1831, are of Tilly Mead, a cabinetmaker from Hardwick, Mass., and his wife Caroline Hathaway Mead. The story of acquiring these portraits begins with Jane Nylander, who serves on the Board of Old Sturbridge Village as a Trustee and former Chair of the Collections Committee. Nylander was leafing through a copy of “The Magazine Antiques” earlier this spring, when she came across an advertisement featuring the two portraits. Nylander, historian and former Old Sturbridge Village curator, immediately recognized the importance of the portraits, and brought them to the attention of the Village’s staff and Collections
This is Caroline Hathaway Mead painted by John Ritto Penniman in Hardwick, Mass., April 1831. The oil-on-board measures 21-by-18-inches.
Royal Doulton Figurines on page 10
This is Tilly Mead painted by John Ritto Penniman in Hardwick, Mass., April 1831. The oil-on-board measures 21-by18-inches. Committee. The Committee unanimously recommended to the Board that the Village pursue the portraits. An anonymous donor and several other supporters provided the necessary funds, and the Village was able to acquire the portraits in May. “These portraits will benefit Old Sturbridge Village in many ways,” said Jim Donahue, President and CEO of Old Sturbridge Village. “Not least among them letting the public know that the Village is adding to its collection of significant early 19th-century New England objects.” Old Sturbridge Village already has a substantial collection of more than 50,000 late 18th- and early 19thcentury objects and paintings; these two new acquisitions offer an enormous opportunity for research Continued on page 4
Draw A Pen Or Pencil At The Emporium on page 14
Unreserved Variety Auction Slated For Aug. 27 At Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates on page 15
In This Issue SHOPS, SHOWS & MARKETS . . . . . . . . . . starting on page 3 SHOPS DIRECTORY . . . . . . . . . on page 5 EVENT & AUCTION CALENDAR . on page 6 AUCTION SALE BILLS . . . starting on page 6
FEATURED AUCTION: William Bunch Auctions - August 30 in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania - Page 12
AUCTIONEER DIRECTORY . . . . . on page 7 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . on page 15