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Bill D’Anjolell Publishes “My Antiques Journey”
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 2019 • VOL. 50, NO. 38
Center For Pennsylvania German Studies To Open In Trappe Historic Dewees Tavern Is On Main Street
Dewees Tavern in Trappe, Pa., was built ca. 1740/1800/1830.
A longtime friend of Antiques & Auction News, Bill D’Anjolell, recently published a memoir titled “My Antiques Journey.” According to the author, it includes everything you need to know about buying and selling antiques, whether you’re a collector or a dealer. It also explains the behind-the-scenes of an antiques show, an appraisal “roadshow” with lots of antiques and collectible values on a variety of genres. The memoir mentions the best antiques stores and auction houses in the Philadelphia/Bucks County and also Cape May County area. This is where dealers and collectors get much of their merchandise. It also includes a good reference section, including a chapter on millenials, the anatomy of a flea marketeer, and what’s hot and what’s not. Readers will also find an autobiographical history of the author as an antiques dealer and appraiser including some anecdotal stories about growing up in Philadelphia, his life in the antiques world, and the interesting and eclectic people
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he has met along the way. It is sure to become a fun mustread for the serious collector and both past and present-day antiques dealer. “My Antiques Journey” is available on Amazon.com for $24.95 with free shipping and is soon to be available at Barnes & Noble, among other book stores.
York Antiques Show And Sale Set For Sept. 20, 21, And 22 on page 6
By Lisa Minardi Trappe, Pennsylvania, home to the Muhlenberg family of German Lutheran fame, will open a Center for Pennsylvania German Studies this fall. Combining exquisite objects and cutting-edge scholarship, the new center will be housed in the historic Dewees Tavern, longtime headquarters of the local historical society. It focuses on the Pennsylvania German (or Pennsylvania Dutch) descendants of the approximately 80,000 German-speaking people who immigrated to Pennsylvania by 1775. This diverse group of people, including Lutherans, Reformed, Amish, Mennonites, Dunkards, Schwenkfelders, and Moravians, and their distinctive artwork will be featured in five exhibition galleries spread over the first floor of the center. Four of the galleries have semi-permanent displays, while the fifth is for special exhibitions. On the second floor, the center houses a research library and archives with extensive holdings on Pennsylvania German decorative arts as well as local history and genealogy. There is also a dedicated fraktur and
Palmer Museum Presents Exhibition In Connection With Bauhaus Centenary This redware plate, signed by Solomon Grimm, Berks County, Pa., 1816, is courtesy of The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College.
textile study center in which classes and workshops will be offered to provide up-close study sessions on fraktur, needlework, and other household textiles. Immigration and settlement are highlighted in the first gallery, which features a German immigrant’s chest from 1744 and artifacts associated with the Ephrata Cloister, including a writing desk, hanging cupboard, and Martyr’s Mirror. Quaker, Dutch, and Swedish objects are also included to represent the cultural diversity of southeastern Pennsylvania. The second gallery focuses on Pennsylvania German furniture and features stunning examples with painted, carved, or inlaid decoration. There is a magnificent Lancaster high chest, a desk and bookcase, and a walnut tea table that descended in the family of Jacob and Anna (Brackbill) The painting of the Montgomery County Almshouse, Pa., by Neff of Strasburg, who Charles Hofmann, Montgomery County, Pa., 1874, is courtesy of married in 1755. Also the Dietrich American Foundation, 6.4.1023. Continued on page 2
Plenty Of Exciting Activity At The Grist Mill on page 6
Interdisciplinary Symposium Slated For Sept. 19 To 21 At Penn State University On Sept. 3, the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University in State College, Pa., opened an exhibition in celebration of the centenary of the Bauhaus, the influential school founded in Weimar, Germany, that unified fine arts, design, and architecture in its curriculum. The Palmer joins organizations worldwide in marking the 100-year anniversary with its opening of “Bauhaus Transfers: Albers/Rauschenberg” and will host a variety of related programming throughout the fall season. Artist Josef Albers (1888–1976), a student and then instructor at the Bauhaus, fled Nazi Germany for the United States after the school was forced to close in 1933. Albers took a post as head of Black Mountain College, a new art school in western North Carolina, and became a formative educator for many artists. Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) first attended the school in 1948–49 and considered Albers “the most important teacher” he ever had. This exhibition pairs Albers’ painting “Homage to the Square (It Seems),” from 1963, and Rauschenberg’s print Continued on page 4
South Jersey Auction Sells Over 4,000 Lots In Aug. 25 Sale on page 8
Bodnar’s To Auction Over 1,000 Boxes Full Of Comics, Pop-Culture Items, And Toys On Sept. 26 on page 11
Robert Rauschenberg’s “Booster,” from 1967, is a color lithograph and screenprint, from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, gift of the International Graphic Arts Society Inc., in honor of Carl Zigrosser, 1967, courtesy of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
In This Issue SHOPS, SHOWS & MARKETS . . . . . . . . . . starting on page 3 SHOPS DIRECTORY . . . . . . . . . on page 7 EVENT & AUCTION CALENDAR . on page 9 AUCTION SALE BILLS . . . starting on page 9
FEATURED AUCTION: Morphy Auctions - September 24 and 25 in Denver, Pennsylvania - Page 12
AUCTIONEER DIRECTORY . . . . on page 10 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . on page 19