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VOL. 46, NO. 37 FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 2015
The Harry Hartman Estate Sale: Session Two By Karl Pass
onestoga Auction Company of the Hess Auction Group held a two-day unreserved 969-lot sale for the late Harry B. Hartman on Aug. 14 and 15. This was the second of what will be three two-day sales. The first was held on May 15 and 16, and the third is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, Nov. 20 and 21. This second sale of Hartman’s estate realized $660,027 (including buyer’s premium), bringing the total so far to $1,374,702 (including the first session). The August sale had 250 in-house registered bidders, as well as 1,086 online registered bidders the first day and 1,212 on the second day. Friday’s sale began with contemporary folk art, mostly Shooner redware. Greg and his wife, M a r y SpellmireShooner, re-create traditional American redware pottery in Oregonia, Ohio. They exhibit and sell their work at
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numerous traditional craft shows. A Shooner molded seated cat figure with spots dated “2004” sold for $153.40, and a sgraffito decorated Shooner jar with fish decoration sold for $295. A painting by Virginia folk artist Jonathan Bastian of Wilhelm Schimmel with two small wooden carved spread-wing eagles on the lower portion of the frame This very rare blue blown glass ribbed pear form kugel, 4 inches high, sold for $21,240. The buyer was a phone bidder who is a second generation South Jersey glass collector, and the underbidder was an online bidder, according to Jeff DeHart. The large redware plate or charger attributed to the Medinger pottery with an incised eagle and shield under a potted urn with floral designs sold to a collector for $2,714. It sold for $4,446 on Oct. 24, 2008, at the Richard and Rosemarie Machmer sale at Pook & Pook.
and dated “1989” sold for $472. Hartman paid $525 for it on April 5, 2014, at Conestoga’s on-site sale at Taylor Mansion on behalf of the Breininger family. A life-size carved and painted wild turkey by Keith Collis sold for $885. One of the surprises was a Dave Ludwig spreadwing eagle selling for $4,484. It was 12 inches high with a 25.5-inch wing span and carved and painted in the style of Schimmel. The buyer was a collector from Maryland. The underbidder was an agent representing a private collector, who was an active buyer at both sales and is expected to be a major buyer at the third sale. Ten lots of contemporary Don Carpentier mocha china also sold on day one. A tobacco leaf and cat’s eye pattern pitcher sold for $885; a seaweed decorated dome-top coffee pot was $2,950; an earthworm decorated flared edge bowl, $472; and a cat’s eye decorated tankard sold for $442.50. Assorted china, glassware, toys, carpets and rugs, a large grouping of quilts and glass kugels rounded out the day one offerings. A nine-block and geometric crib quilt in red and green brought $383.50, and an Amish center diamond pattern patchwork crib quilt in red and purple, mid-20th century, sold for
$708. An early 19th-century brown with stripes, homespun wool, twopart blanket sold for $224.20, and a four-color geometric pattern twopart overshot coverlet with no fringe sold for $265.50. A vintage Navajo rug with serrated This 17-inch diameter rye straw bee skep with a few minor losses and wear sold for $560.50.
diamond pattern, some edge wear and minor fading, realized $472, as did a vintage Southwest Indian rug with serrated repeating line pattern. Hartman’s fine, large, 15by-21-foot-and-5-inch, Persian geometric and floral pattern roomsize rug from the 19th century brought $33,630.
Fireworks occured when 45 lots of antique glass German kugels were sold in the afternoon. “There will be a few more in the last sale,” said Oliver Overlander following the sale concerning kugels. A large grouping of kugels (73) were sold at the end of the first day in the May sale, and the market responded with consistently high prices realized. The The salesroom was standing room only for much of day two at the sale, o ff e r i n g s which ran from 9 a.m. to about 5 p.m. in this sale did not disapA wooden carved and paint-decorated Schimmel-style pair of p o i n t roosters facing one another with a basket of flowers in the cen- b u y e r s . ter all on a green rectangular base sold for $442.50 to Judi A rare Overlander, Oliver Overlander’s wife. It was made by Andy b l u e Van Brookhoven of Lititz, Pa. ribbed pear form kugel
A flame and grain paint-decorated Dutch cupboard in excellent condition sold to Oliver Overlander for $8,850. The miniature sulpher inlaid walnut chest on turned ball feet with Hartman’s initials “H.H.” inside the date “1781” and from Lancaster County, Pa., sold for $27,140. “Harry owned it for at least 30 or 35 years and kept it in his bedroom. He never offered it for sale,” said the buyer Oliver Overlander, who bought it on behalf of collectors.
achieved a new auction record, selling for $21,240. “It is a very rare form, and only a couple are known to exist,” said Jeff DeHart. It sold to a phone bidder who is a second generation South Jersey glass collector. It was underbid by an online bidder, according to (Continued on page 2)
In original red milk paint, this early Pennsylvania softwood shrank with bold stepped cornice, two arched raised panel doors, three drawers with secret compartment under center drawer, resting on large onion ball feet realized $8,850.
The reproduction tobacco leaf and This large oil-on-board painting measuring 34.25-by-52.5-inches depicting cat’s eye pattern decorated mocha A very good Pennsylvania floral pattern patchwork crib quilt, 46.5 inches 11 cats, signed and dated “Barbara Strawer 1979,” sold for $2,950 to a col- pitcher by the late Don Carpentier square, professionally mounted, sold for $442.50. sold for $885. lector from Maryland bidding in the salesroom.