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The Broadway Stoneware Cooler Comes To Auction Crocker Farm To Sell Masterwork On March 21 FRIDAY MARCH 13, 2020 • VOL. 51, NO. 11
Grand Opening For Carlisle Antique Mall To Take Place On March 21 Exciting Specials Announced For New Cumberland County Multi-Dealer Shop
The Carlisle Antique Mall is on 164 N. Hanover St. in Carlisle, Pa. Built in 1918, it was originally a Montgomery Ward & Company department store. The Carlisle Antique Mall (CAM) is excited to invite the public to its grand opening celebration scheduled for Saturday, March 21, at its location on 164 N. Hanover St., Carlisle, Pa. The ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place at 10 a.m., but the festivities will run until 6 p.m. This also happens to be the new multi-dealer shop owner’s beloved pup Bella’s chosen 4th birthday. Bella was adopted last year after being rescued from a shelter in New York City. CAM will be serving delicious refreshments and raffling items valued at over $600 from its display window to benefit the Speranza Animal Rescue located in Mechanicsburg, Pa. CAM vendors will be giving up to 30-percent discounts to customers who bring Bella a “birthday gift.” All gifts will be delivered to Speranza to assist with their important work. A list of suggested items can be found by emailing Manager@CarlisleAntiqueMall.com. CAM will also be donating the percentage they earn from the big day’s sales to Speranza as well.
History of the Building CAM was originally built to be a Montgomery Ward & Company store in 1918. For most of its life, the structure has housed some type of furniture store. It was a Myers Furniture Store from 1935 to early 1957, the Miller’s Furniture Store from 1957 to 1971, and an Andrews Furniture Store from 1971 to 2004. A Consignment Gallery opened in early 2005 and occupied the building until 2010. The rear warehouse, which is attached to the vintage department store, was originally built to be an indoor car dealership by Ralph Eppley. In the 1930s, Eppley leased the rear portion to an A&P Grocery Store that offered indoor parking for its store in the warehouse. The new owner, Richard Lawson, worked almost a year and a half to properly restore the building to its original splendor of the roaring ’20s. Conscious of preserving the building’s heritage, he
Unparalleled in artistry, the Broadway stoneware cooler is regarded as the finest example of American salt-glazed stoneware to come to auction since the famous “Elizabeth Crane/1811” punch bowl sold in 1978. Superlatives fail to describe this newly discovered work of ceramic art, which ranks among the greatest examples of 19th century American utilitarian pottery in existence. The Zipps of Crocker Farm in Sparks, Md., will offer the cooler on Saturday, March 21. The seven-gallon stoneware water cooler with exuberant incised and impressed decoration of New York City’s Broadway is stamped twice “W.H. FARRAR & CO. / GEDDES, N.Y.,” and dated 1846. Depicting a Broadway street scene during the Great National Jubilee of the Order of the Sons of Temperance, this cooler’s extravagant decoration is unprecedented in 19th century American ceramic production. The design illustrates the national headquarters of the organization, located at 315
Broadway and marked “GRAND LODGE / CITY NY,” beside a townhouse and a fire alarm bell tower with a female figure alighting a landing to ring the bell. (Period accounts note that the morning of the Jubilee was marked by a prominent ringing of bells). The distinctive dome and cupola of New York Hospital, located at 319 Broadway and a key New York landmark of the time, are visible behind the Grand Lodge. Another local landmark, the Canal Street Bridge, appears below the female figure, along with the three degrees of membership in the society, “Love Purity & Fidelity,” inscribed above. The arch of the bridge covers the inscription, “Look not upon the wine,” taken from Proverbs 23:31 and referencing the fraternal organization’s rejection of alcoholic drink. An intricately-patterned
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Potteries Of Trenton Society Annual Lecture To Focus On Trenton’s Victorian Majolica Makers
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Lecture “Majolica Mania” Set For April 4 The Potteries of Trenton Society is pleased to partner with the New Jersey State Museum to present its annual lecture. Dr. Laura Microulis, research curator at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City, will discuss Trenton’s “Majolica Mania” at the meeting to be held Saturday, April 4, beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the auditorium at 205 W. State St., Trenton, N.J. The lecture is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. Free parking is available in the lot behind the State Archives next to the auditorium. Colorful and wildly imaginative, the lead-glazed earthenware known as majolica was one of the most significant innovations in
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There is a tremendous variety of material priced to sell in today’s market.
Masterpieces Of 17th- To 19thCentury British Design The Focus Of New Exhibition on page 11
19th-century ceramics. Largely inspired by Renaissance maiolica, majolica proved to be the quintessential modern medium, a material that could be mass-produced into myriad shapes and styles for both functional and ornamental purposes. Introduced in 1851 by the renowned English firm, Minton & Co., and subsequently made by dozens of other Staffordshire factories, the eccentric designs, boldly molded forms, and richly colored glazes of majolica captured the attention of consumers on both sides of the Atlantic; the Continued on page 4
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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
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AUCTIONEER DIRECTORY . . . . on page 12 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . on page 15