Antiques & Auction News 102717

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Pulp Fiction Collectors Preserve The Old Magazines Of The Past

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Pulp AdventureCon Will Take Place In Bordentown, N.J., On Nov. 4 FRIDAY OCTOBER 27, 2017 • VOL. 48, NO. 43

Annual Bucks County Antiques Dealers Association Show Set For Nov. 11 And 12

Luke W. Gottshall: The Wagon Man Of Reinholds

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On Saturday, Nov. 4, the annual Pulp AdventureCon will convert the Ramada Inn of Bordentown, N.J., into a pulp fiction collector’s mecca. Vendors will display for sale rare magazines, movie posters, and vintage paperbacks, and other related paper memorabilia. Pulp magazines are collected mainly for their connection to modern comic books and their cover paintings. In their heyday, characters like “The Shadow,” “Tarzan,”

and “Zorro” prospered in the pulps. Authors such as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Ray Bradbury started their careers in such old magazines, before moving into the lucrative realm of Hollywood. The pulps were inexpensive entertainment in a world before the internet and television. The pulp format appeared with Argosy in 1897 and flourished on newsstands

New Book Gives An Intimate Portrait Of Andrew Wyeth’s Most Recognized Models on page 4

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The artist working in his studio, dated December 1976. Courtesy of the author.

By Karl Pass Luke W. Gottshall (1899-1993) resided much of his life on Mechanic Street in Reinholds, Pa. Reinholds is a small West Cocalico Township town in northern Lancaster County close to the Berks County border. He worked in Wyomissing at Narro Fabric, a company that produced fabric rickrack (often spelled ricrac). Gottshall had one brother and three sisters. His sisters were Aquillia, Lizzie, and Vesta. His brother, Israel. All are buried at St. John’s Cemetery in Sinking Springs, Berks County. Israel operated a grocery in West Reading. Luke married Fannie Klapp (1891-1976) of Vera Cruz, a village along Route 897 near Reinholds. Her parents were Abiram and Mary Weinhold Klapp. Fannie was one of seven children and had a younger

D’Amore Sells Out Dealer Spots For D.C. Big Flea In A Week

Pook & Pook Teams Up With Stuart Kingston Galleries For Oct. 28 Jewelry Auction on page 10

Full 600 Booths Will Fill Dulles Expo Center On Nov. 4 And 5

A small birdtree collage. sister by two years named Hattie. Hattie Klapp Brunner (18891982) had a near lifelong involvement in the antiques business. Her mother-in-law, Hattie Sweigart Brunner, was an antiques dealer. Continued on page 2

Here is a Gottshall hay wagon with giant hay fork, family, and team of horses along with a birdtree collage.

Joan Sides, show manager of D’Amore Promotions, reported that just one week after its September D.C. Big Flea and Antiques Market, the next edition was sold out of exhibitor spaces. The Dulles Expo Center can fill 600 booths. The hall, home for the show for nearly 20 years, has been a popular site for D’Amore’s big The D.C. Big Flea and Antiques Market in Chantilly, Va., will be antiques and vintage held Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 4 and 5. collectibles event, but in the last few years its popularity antique furnishings, art, jewelry has gained renewed attention with and home décor. Many dealers will shoppers, collectors, decorators, and also offer vintage collectibles and the general public as the best “go-to” holiday material. The show is held at the Dulles show in the Mid-Atlantic. Sides continues to build the Expo Center, 4320 Chantilly show through strong advertising, Shopping Center, Chantilly, Va., just publicity, and internet support, and off Route 28 between I-66 and the exhibiting dealers have been Route 50. It will take place on responding accordingly, knowing Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 4 and 5, that the show has renewed energy from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on day one and attendance keeps breaking and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on day two. Admission will be $10 and previous records. The shoppers come to this good for both days. Plenty of free Washington, D.C., suburban loca- parking is available. Future show dates will be Jan. 6 tion for the selections and great values offered by the dealers. The and 7, 2018, and March 3 and 4. For additional information, D.C. Big Flea and Antiques Market is in its 19th year, offering a total 600 readers may call 757-430-4735 or booths filled with traditional visit www.thebigfleamarket.com.

The Moravians And Their Decorative Arts on page 9

Vendors Reflect On Antique Extravaganza Season on page 16

In This Issue SHOPS, SHOWS & MARKETS . . . . . . . . . . starting on page 3 SHOPS DIRECTORY . . . . . . . . . on page 5 EVENT & AUCTION CALENDAR . on page 7 AUCTION SALE BILLS . . . starting on page 7

FEATURED AUCTION: Morphy Auctions - October 28 in Denver, Pennsylvania - Page 12

AUCTIONEER DIRECTORY . . . . . on page 8 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . on page 19


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