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Flying Pig Auctions To Offer Unreserved Western Massachusetts Estate Online-Only Sale Will Take Place On June 24 FRIDAY JUNE 21, 2019 • VOL. 50, NO. 25
Lititz Historical Foundation To Host 57th Annual Antiques Show
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Quality Country Show To Be Held June 28 And 29 At Warwick Middle School This Pairpoint Bird of Paradise lamp on the server in the dining room with a leaded glass window hanging behind it will be sold.
The 1792 Johannes Mueller house is at 145 E. Main St., Lititz, Pa., and the home of the Lititz Historical Foundation. It will be open the weekend of the antiques show. There will be a lot of great Americana for sale at the 57th annual Lititz Antiques Show in Lititz, Pa., on Friday and Saturday, June 28 and 29. Hosted since 1962 by the Lititz Historical Foundation as a fundraiser for the historic Johannes Mueller House erected in 1792, the show has evolved into a venerable, favorite event ushering in the summer antiquing season in southcentral Pennsylvania. The Lititz show is a great venue to do eclectic comparative shopping. Fifty-two country dealers from seven states will gather at Warwick Middle School to stage their antiques for sale. Dealers and collectors will find dozens of categories and thousands of items, including (but not limited to) weathervanes, Christmas and holiday items, country furniture in original paint, wood carvings, butter prints, whirligigs, redware, signs, blue decorated stoneware,
primitives, country smalls, textiles from primitive to sophisticated, wrought-iron implements and lighting, decoys, treen, hooked rugs, fraktur, tramp art, and make do’s, just to name a few things. Perennial Lititz show shoppers know just where to find their favorite dealers and make a beeline to their stands, to decide quickly on purchases and then continue to shop the show. Lititz show dealers have staked out their spaces over the years, many having exhibited at the quality show for decades. Show dates and times will be Friday, June 28, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday, June 29, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Warwick Middle School is located at 401 Maple St., Lititz, Pa. Parking is directly behind the high school. For further information, call David Geiger at 814-720-6681 or visit www.lititzantiqueshow.org.
Here is a photo from the first Lititz Antiques Show held in 1962 at the Lititz Rec Center. The popular show remains a fundraiser for the Lititz Historical Foundation.
Flying Pig Auctions is fresh off the heels of its successful premier auction and is pleased to offer an unreserved Western Massachusetts estate as the nucleus of its next sale. This auction will be an onlineonly sale held through Live Auctioneers. The items will be on display for preview at the Flying Pig
In the formal living room rests a carved Empire sofa on an 11-by-22-foot oriental rug, shown here along with some period decorative accessories. Antiques Shop during shop hours from Friday, June 14, through Monday, June 17, and also Friday, June 21, through Monday, June 24, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The estate is from two retired school teachers inspired by “The Age of Elegance.” They collected
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Online-Only Decorative Arts Auction At Pook & Pook Set For June 26
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By Kaitlyn Julian Summer is finally here, and Pook & Pook is celebrating with another one of its onlineonly decorative arts auctions, which will be held on Wednesday, June 26. Bidding will begin at 9 a.m. and is offered exclusively on www.bidsquare.com. With over 800 lots set to cross the block, this sale presents all manner of antique decorative arts, from a wide variety of furniture and folk art to continental offerings and textiles, and a great selection of fine arts including The Pennsylvania Sheraton tiger maple dressing paintings and sculptures. table, ca. 1830, will be estimated at $200-$400. Presented early in the sale porcelain, pewter, and is a collection of sterling silver of items, featuring a lot of Tiffany ster- stoneware steins, including those ling silver Audubon and Olympian by Mettlach, Villeroy & Boch, pattern flatware (est. $400-$440). Musterschutz, and Westerwald. An To follow will be more than 20 lots extensive offering of Historical Blue Staffordshire will surely attract the attention of collectors. Nearly 100 lots will present an assortment of patterns and motifs. International decorative arts of special mention will include a variety of 18th- and 19th-century Dutch engraved brass snuff boxes. From fine 18th-century furniture to early 20th-century Arts and Crafts furniture, Pook & Pook’s sale will have something for everyone. Of special note is a George II A Historical Blue Staffordshire American mahogany three-part secretary, eagle pitcher, with make-do repair, will be ca. 1760 (est. $800-$1,200); a estimated at $200-$400. Continued on page 2
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