Annual Bucks County Antiques Dealers Association Show Will Be Held On
Nov. 9 And 10 Show To Take Place In Jamison, Pa.
By Winston Lennon
The Bucks County Antiques Dealers Association will present its 77th Annual Antiques Show on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 9 and 10.This will be the third year at the newer venue for the show, the St. Cyril of Jerusalem Church rental hall located at 1410 Almshouse Road in Jamison, Pa. Show hours will be 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $6 or $5 with a show card or ad. The BCADA has been in existence since 1966, and exhibitors are from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Virginia. This “Little Show That Could” has been rated the best antiques show in the Delaware Valley by local magazines.
Veteran dealers include C & C Antiques, who carry ceramics,
linens, and rare tools; ELtiques sells fine ephemera and artwork; KT Antiques will return with country and primitive items; and Ivy Iris Antiques sells eclectic primitives and whimsies. Author Bill D’Anjolell of Imagine Antiques will present art, ephemera, historical collectibles, metalware, and ceramics.
From Point Pleasant, Pa., BCADA matriarch Julia Bartels, of River Run Antiques, sells Staffordshire and classic Victorian era holiday items. Chestnut Hill native Ruth Peckmann of Antiques in Bloom will provide decorative primitives and equestrian antiques, while Ruth’s nephew, Peter Sutor of Mill Road Antiques, delights us with metalware, English ceramics and art.
Long Spring Antiques brings Native American items and
primitives; Serapi Antiques exhibits textiles, silver, and estate jewelry; Pentimento specializes in interesting ephemera, tin types and advertising; and Bob Lucas will display and sell extraordinary historical documents, Civil War items, and early photography.
New members Peter Fury Antiques will display primitives and country furniture; Sentiment Depot Antiques will offer metalware, vintage kitchen items, farmhouse furniture, early trains, and glass. Stan Gorski Books and Ephemera will dazzle shoppers with his eclectic array of early first-edition books, maps, and other paper, and Patty Herman of Love My Country Prims showcases country primitive material.
Members from New Jersey include author Patricia H. Burke,
who brings fine art glass, silver, and porcelain. The Very Thing exhibits Sterling silver and Oriental antiques; Georgian Interiors sells silhouettes, samplers, and miniatures; Magic Mettle Blacksmithing has metalware and tools; and, from Delaware, Michael Gunselman will present quality metal toys and advertising. Last but not least, from Virginia, Jim’s Antiques will set up offering high-end art glass mixed with Civil War items.
This show has quality, diversity, and affordability.
For more information, visit www.BCADAPA.org or call 215-290-3140.
What’s nice about buying antiques for your home is that it adds character, uniqueness, and a style that defines you. You won’t want to miss this “Little Show That Could.”
By Karl Pass
A captivating surrealist painting from 1956, “The Magician,” by Chicago artist Gertrude Abercrombie, levitated past expectations at Freeman’s/Hindman’s Post War and Contemporary Art Auction held Sept. 25, achieving $469,900, over six times its pre-sale estimate of $70,000-$90,000. The sale marks a new auction record for the artist.
By Karl Pass
Who says you need the internet? Dave Rowe of Rowe’s Auction Service sold a cobalt decorated stoneware mug for $10,000 on Oct. 14.The company doesn’t typically hold sales on a Monday, typically every Thursday. It came from the estate of dealer Nancy Noll and sold to the trade. Mint condition, many thought it was made at the Cowden & Wilcox pottery in Harrisburg. The decoration helps lead that theory. The form is quite rare for the prolific 19th century
Frances Tipton Hunter: A Brief History Of An Illustration Artist
By Michael Remas
Frances Tipton
Hunter,
the famed artist who designed illustrations for numerous publications while publishing two books for children, has been remembered with the erection of a Pennsylvania State Historical Marker. The event took place on June 9 during the annual Way’s Garden Art Show in Williamsport, Pa.
The Bald Eagle Art League, which sponsors the show, joined personnel
from the Pennsylvania Historical Museum Commission (PHMC), the Lycoming County Historical Society, the city’s Thomas T. Taber Museum and the James V. Brown Library (JVBL) of Williamsport in the installation. The PHMC has installed numerous markers at various communities in the state’s 67 counties over the years to call attention and remembrances of famed persons and events.
Hunt er (1896-1957) designed covers for
magazines such as “Good Housekeeping,” “The Saturday Evening Post,” and “Ladies Home Journal.” Much of her artwork included children and pets.
Born in Howard, Pa., she moved at age 5 or 6 with her brother after her mother died and her father sent them to live with an uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Edward McEntire in Williamsport. It was said that when she was 3 or 4 and visited her grandmother, she would draw on stairway wallpaper. Her childhood interest in art was evident in early letters she wrote, often adding
drawings “This is a perfectly natural thing,” she said later, “for the first impulse is to express oneself, and the easiest way for a child to do this is by pictures.” Her first watercolor art was done in the sixth grade at Transeau Elementary School and showed two pups, which she titled “We Bark for Transeau.”
At Williamsport High School (WHS) she drew for its “Cherry and White” magazine (the school colors) and as a senior in 1914 won first place in a Williamsport Civic Club essay competition on her three most-admired
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works at a JVBL art exhibit, with judges saying she was tops explaining the artists’ meanings of their works. The last 1914 issue of “Cherry and White” was designed by her prior to graduation. She relocated to Philadelphia, where she was a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. While there, her early work was to draw fashions for children’s clothes sold by department stores, during which in 1918 she won a $500 Wanamaker Department Store prize, roughly the equivalent to $10,000 today.
She continued her study at the academy, later stating that her instructor would say the difference between other artists and illustrators is that the artist paints what the eye sees as the illustrator paints an image formed
in the mind. “Hunter’s next move was to New York City, where she sought to enter the magazine trade. Among her accomplishments were having her artwork published in “A Saturday Evening Redbook,” “Women’s Home Companion,” “Cosmopolitan,” “Good Housekeeping” and others. This was the golden age of both the magazine
trade and illustration art. Beside the big weeklies, she did advertising illustrations for large firms such as The Firestone Tire Company. Hunter was asked in 1946 to illustrate the “Sandy in Trouble” series of books that continued for 11 years, showing the daily woes of a boy and his pet dog.
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Collector Chats With Peter S. Seibert
This Week: Where Have The Books Gone?
By Peter Seibert
The other week, having helped my daughter catalog a landmark sale of Native American items, I realized that my personal library on that subject was lacking. This happens a lot in the antiques world when you find yourself connecting to a new (or in this case an old) category of objects and need to catch up on your learning. For a collector, it means taking stock of your personal library and adding new titles.
I will be honest and say that I usually hit eBay when it comes to obtaining used reference books, first, because I am looking for books to use and not necessarily signed first editions. Thus condition
is not as big a deal to me. Second, exhibit catalogs often command crazy prices in the secondary market if the subject is particularly desirable. EBay can be that place to a find a bargain in a limited edition publication. So, I hit the auction site, and after about a half dozen offers made and accepted, I was looking forward to filling out my shelves. One thing that struck me, however, was that there were no books on my list published during the last decade. What I found were books from the 1990s and early 2000s published by my colleagues at various museums. But I could not find any catalogs from recent shows. I next jumped on ABE.com and went looking there. Nothing to see there either except for several recent Canadian museum catalogs. It then hit me: the realization that museums are not producing printed catalogs any longer. Back in the day, every museum wanted to have a catalog of its own collection. In many cases, those catalogs were the result of a lifetime of work by a curator or scholar. An example from my own career was Clarke Hess’ monumental “Mennonite Arts” book that we did
when I was director of the Heritage Center of Lancaster County. It remains, in my opinion, the magnum opus on this topic. Another is the book “Ute Indian Arts and Culture: From Prehistory to the New Millennium.” I recall when first working with Native American objects, every collector advised me to get a copy of this book. When in doubt as to what tribe to attribute something to, go to the Ute. This was the mantra of many collectors who used this book like a Bible of the work of this important tribe whose arts reflect the work of numerous other tribal influences.
So what happened to the next generation of books? Sadly, the changing nature of book consumerism has wiped out the publication program of so many museums. That is unfortunate, as a new generation of scholars will never get the opportunity to publish their findings in a way that future readers will be able to embrace and study.
The use of books for researching antiques feels somedays to me to be rather “old school.” I watch my daughter and her colleagues in the auction business use online tools to identify and document objects. The phone
is faster than a stack of books. But is it more accurate? That is the question. Much of what we do in the antiques world is built upon the subjective knowledge that years of studying things brings to us. No amount of internet images can replace handling and physically studying objects.
I will miss the era of great museum catalogs and books, but I also know that they will never be fully replaced by a phone and a camera.
“Born to collect” should be the motto of Peter Seibert’s family. Raised in Central Pennsylvania, Seibert has been collecting and writing about antiques for more than three decades. By day, he is a museum director and has worked in Pennsylvania, Wyoming, Virginia and New Mexico. In addition, he advises and consults with auction houses throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, particularly about American furniture and decorative arts. Seibert’s writings include books on photography, American fraternal societies and paintings. He and his family are restoring a 1905 arts and crafts house filled with years’ worth of antique treasures found in shops, co-ops and at auctions.
Morphy’s Chosen To Auction The Wayne Edens Fishing Lure Collection
Comprehensive Grouping Includes One Of Eight Legendary Heddon “Factory Board” Frogs, Hand-Carved, Ca. 1898
Dan Morphy, president of Morphy Auctions, has always enjoyed fishing in his native Pennsylvania, and he recently announced a big catch that is neither trout nor bass. Morphy’s has been commissioned to auction the renowned Wayne Edens collection of antique and vintage fishing lures. A three-part auction series is planned, with a debut sale slated for Tuesday, Dec. 10, with the other two in 2025. Each sale will feature 600 to 700 lots.
The largest, most comprehensive and historically important collection of its type in the marketplace, the Edens assemblage contains many exquisite examples, including an elusive, 100-percent original Heddon “Factory Board” frog lure, ca. 1898, and hand-carved.
Fishing lure expert Scott Jedd, who is cataloging the collection, confirmed that the Heddon frog is one of eight such lures or baits, as they are also called, that were personally crafted by James Heddon, founder of the Heddon Company, and subsequently exhibited on a display board at the factory. “In the world of lures, those eight frogs are as rare and coveted as Faberge eggs,” remarked Jedd. “They represent the original American wood baits.”
In 1977, Clyde A. Harbin Sr., an outdoorsman, author and fishing lure archivist known as “The Bassman,” was invited by Heddon to visit the factory and declutter the board by removing any baits that were not Heddon productions. The eight frogs were present on the board both before and
after the board was thinned out, and were photographed many times. Harbin would later write a book titled “Heddon Historical Footprints” in which he details where each of the eight frogs ended up. Today, it is believed that one of them is held in the Bass Pro Shops corporate collection, a few others are privately owned, and another may be in an aquarium’s collection in Oklahoma.
The frog lure in Wayne Edens’ collection was acquired from Dudley Murphy (19402022), co-founder of the National Fishing Lure Collectors Club. Murphy obtained the lure directly from the Heddon factory. In addition to its unbroken line of provenance, Edens’ lure has been definitively photo-matched to one of the original eight “board” examples. It will make its first auction appearance with a $30,000-$60,000 estimate, although Jedd suggests that “if the wind is blowing in the right direction, the frog could leap over that estimate and sell for $80,000, maybe even more.”
Shakespeare, Haskell and scores of other top brands. We estimate the collection’s value to be around three million dollars,” commented Morphy. Morphy Auctions representatives will be set up at the Nov. 7 to 9 Savannah Southern Classic Antique Tackle Show co-produced by the Carolina Antique Tackle Collectors and Florida Antique Tackle Collectors clubs. They look forward to discussing highlights of the Edens collection with show attendees.
To learn more, visit www. morphyauctions.com.
“Being entrusted with the Wayne Edens collection is a great honor for Morphy’s. Wayne’s collection is, in a word, astonishing, and contains many special-order and one-of-a-kind lures, some in their original picture boxes. Many have never before been offered at public auction. In addition to Heddons, there are rare productions by Immell Chippewa,
Here is an angled view of one of the original eight Heddon “Factory Board” frog lures hand-carved, ca. 1898, by Heddon Company founder James Heddon. Image courtesy of Morphy Auctions.
Mickey Mantle Sets Another Record To Help Fall Sports
Catalog Auction Hammer Home A $17.8 Million Finish
Topps 1959 Mint 9 Card Realizes $300,000
It’s the best time of the year for baseball, the post-season, when the contenders pull away from the pretenders and anyone can become immortal with one swing of the bat. And more than a few champs were crowned during Heritage’s Oct. 4, 5, and 6 Fall Sports Catalog Auction, among them, who else but Mickey Mantle.
The Commerce Comet, just last week deemed the reigning “King of the Hobby” by “Sports Illustrated,” †added another record to his ledger when his 1959 Topps card graded a Mint 9 by PSA realized $300,000, nearly three times the previous auction record set in 2021. PSA has graded more than 10,700 Mantles from the ‘59 series, awarding only 27 examples a Mint 9 grade, this one now
the most valuable among that relatively small lot.
The three-day event, which realized $17,831,180 thanks to more than 3,600 bidders worldwide, was filled with such gems that shone in the spotlight.
“This auction showcased the enduring strength of the sports collectibles market, with iconic names continuing to set new records,” says Chris Ivy, Heritage Auctions’ Director of Sports. “The excitement and passion from collectors worldwide reflect not just the value of these rare items, but the stories and legacies they represent. As always, it’s a privilege to see such coveted and historic pieces find new homes with collectors who deeply appreciate their significance.”
Hank Aaron’s 1969 Topps
cards is one of the hobby’s most historic and storied gems; as the catalog notes, “This card is distinguished by its classic design and iconic image of Aaron.” And, only four of these beauties have been graded PSA Gem Mint 10. One stepped up to the plate during this auction and realized a record-setting $111,000. As “Sports Collectors Daily” noted over the weekend, “The last PSA 10 1969 Topps Hank Aaron came to market in 2018, where it sold for $23,060.”
Babe Ruth, who over the summer claimed from Mantle the title of “The World’s Most Valuable Sports Collectible,” saw his 1916 M101-5 Blank Back Sporting News rookie card graded Good+ 2.5 sell for $384,000. That’s the third-highest price ever achieved at Heritage for
this historic card. But more remarkably, that’s $36,000 more than the price realized for a Very Good/Excellent 4 example that sold in March.
The top lot in this auction was one of its most prized pieces, a complete set of 1968 Topps baseball cards that sits at No. 2 on PSA’s set registry, which realized $765,000. But for the second Sports Auction in a row, fans of the modern cards tussled over signed offerings from the Upper Deck Exquisite series, which was first produced in 2003, when packs sold for a then-unheard-of $500. As Ivy recently wrote, the Exquisite series went on to become “one of the most groundbreaking sets that the hobby had ever seen.”
Mickey Mantle’s 1959 Topps card graded a Mint 9 by PSA realized $300,000 almost three times the previous auction record set in 2021. PSA has graded more than 10,700 Mantles from the ’59 series, awarding 27 examples a Mint 9 grade.
A complete set of 1968 Topps baseball cards that sits at No. 2 on PSA’s set registry sold for $765,000.
Fall Vintage Poster Sale Scheduled For Nov. 7
Categories Include Modern Art, Travel, Advertising, Entertainment, And War And Propaganda From Legacy Designers And Publishers
Potter & Potter Auctions is pleased to announce a 646-lot event to be held on Thursday, Nov. 7. This auction will be held live at Potter & Potter’s gallery, located at 5001 W. Belmont Ave. in Chicago, Ill. It will also be live streamed on the company’s website, which can be found at www.potterauctions.com. Phone and absentee bids are welcome.
The expected top lot is Leslie Ragan’s (1897-1972) “Chicago/New York Central Lines,” estimated at $4,000$6,000. This linen backed poster was printed in 1929 in Brooklyn by Latham Litho & Ptg. Co., illustrated with a woman strolling in Grant Park with the Edward H. Bennett-designed classical peristyle, towering buildings of Michigan Avenue, and clouds in the background. This was Ragan’s first poster for New York Central Lines.
Other eye-catching highlights of this sale include Alphonse Mucha’s (1860-1939) “Theatre de la Renaissance /
Sarah Bernhardt / La Samaritaine,” estimated at $3,500$5,000. This two-sheet, color lithograph poster from 1897 was printed in Paris by F. Champenois. It is presented in a gilt frame and promotes the biblical-themed play by Edmond Rostand, who dedicated the work to Bernhardt. The play follows Photina, a Samarian girl who meets Christ and becomes a follower. In the mosaic behind Bernhard is the word “Yahweh” in Hebrew.
Chung Ling Soo’s (b. William Ellsworth Robinson, 1861-1918) “A Name to Conjure With / Chung Ling Soo / Marvelous Chinese Conjurer” is estimated at $3,000-$4,000. It was published in the early 1900s in England by Horrocks & Co. Ltd. Art Printers. This linen backed poster depicts the magician juggling several paper lanterns, surrounded by a woman and a spirit-like figure in the dark background.
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Leslie Ragan’s “Chicago / New York Central Lines” is estimated at $4,000-$6,000.
picnic posters is estimated at $2,500-$5,000, published in the 1970s-90s time frame. Each is mounted to a foam core board.
Joseph Feher’s (1908-87)
“Hawaii / United Air Lines” is estimated at $2,000-$3,000. This ca. 1950s era, linen
backed example features a beautiful hula dancer standing larger than life on one of the Hawaiian islands, surrounded by tropical fish and plants, Hawaiian men and women on surfboards and outriggers, and a United Boeing Stratocruiser flying overhead.
Joseph Feher’s “Hawaii / United Air Lines” is estimated at $2,000-$3,000.
“This auction has standout lots in nearly every category, from our travel posters and a wonderful collection of Pan Am posters, to war and propaganda,
advertising, and classics of the Art Nouveau and Belle Epoque,” according to Joe Slabaugh, director of cataloging. To learn more, visit www. potterauctions.com. www.stingerfineart.com
Alphonse Mucha’s “Theatre de la Renaissance / Sarah Bernhardt / La Samaritaine” is estimated at $3,500-$5,000.
Mark Von Arenburg’s “Fly to Rio by Clipper / Pan American World Airways” is estimated at $1,500-$2,500.
The Wingender Family Pottery Of Haddonfield, N.J.
A Brief History Of The Operation
By Justin W. Thomas
The Wingender family name is synonymous today with red earthenware and stoneware production in the southern New Jersey and Philadelphia region from the late 19th into the early 20th century. To get a better understanding of this business, the utilitarian pottery production that preceded this company’s existence in Haddonfield, N.J., should be examined.
Based on advertising from the Wingender Pottery in 1910, the company promoted itself as having been a continuation of previous potteries in Haddonfield, which they cited began as early as 1750. This 18th century production was very likely red earthenware and likely had a Philadelphia or southeastern Pennsylvania influence.
Specifically, the original site that the Wingenders established their business on in Haddonfield did retain a rich history of pottery production. The original pottery was built in 1805 and owned by John Thompson, who purchased it on April 30 of that year from Charles French and John Brick,
The Wingender Pottery in Haddonfield, N.J., ca. 1890-1904, produced red earthenware pipkins and flowerpots as seen outside of the pottery business, along with members of the Wingender family and factory workers.
Courtesy Historical Society of Haddonfield, New Jersey.
executors of the estate of Elizabeth Hinchman. But around a decade later, Thompson sold the pottery business and property to Thomas Redman Jr. Redman then sold the business to two brothers, Jacob and David Roberts; however, upon the death of Jacob Roberts, Redman and John Gill, his executors, jointly with David Roberts, sold the estate to Richard W. Snowden before
Here is “The Old Haddonfield Pottery, 1805-1905,” as published in the 1910 booklet written by Sarah Crawford Hillman, titled, “Historical Sketch of Potter Street in Haddonfield, New Jersey.”
1820. Snowden had originally worked and learned the pottery trade from John Thompson. The Snowden family then produced red earthenware and possibly some stoneware on this property until 1883, when the business was leased to Barton Rixon, a former employee of the Snowdens. Rixon’s company did not last long, with the Wingenders establishing their business in 1890.
The Wingender Pottery William (1862-1915) and Charles Wingender (1856 to ca. 1823) were both German trained potters. William had studied at a ceramics school in Hoer bei Koblenz, Germany and migrated to the United States in 1880, while Charles also learned his trade in the stoneware potteries in Hoer bei Koblenz and arrived in America a year later in 1881. The brothers initially sought out employment at Richard C. Remmey’s (1835-1904) pottery in Philadelphia in the 1880s, before establishing their own
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business in Haddonfield, located just across the Delaware River. There are accounts suggesting they established their business because they desired creative freedom in what they produced.
The Haddonfield business was really a throwback to potters migrating to America in the 17th and 18th century, where they brought with them the potter’s craft that they learned in their home countries/regions. It was no different with the Wingenders, who may have also been influenced by Remmey. For instance, both companies made stoneware pitcher and mug sets, among other similarities in production.
According to an article written by Edwin Atlee Barber (1851-1916) of the Philadelphia Museum of Art for Volume XXV of “The Clay-Worker” in February of 1896, titled, “Some Recent German-American Stoneware,” “The Wingender brothers devoted themselves to the development of ornamental stoneware, in addition
to the manufacture of the usual line of goods for household purposes. Some of their current work includes the ornamentation of mugs, jardinieres and pitchers, water coolers, large ice jugs of different sizes and Toby ale jugs. They were in the process of manufacturing some of the finest stoneware ever produced in America.”
One of the beer mugs produced in Haddonfield is entirely covered with an elaborate relief design representing the Battle of Teutoburg Forest, which took place in September of the year 9 A.D., when Quinctillius led the Roman troops against the Germans. The spirited design was originally used at the Hoer bei Loblenz factory but had been remodeled for use at the Haddonfield Pottery. Barber and the Philadelphia Museum of Art were able to acquire stoneware immediately after it was made, along with some special production requests. There are also some objects and artifacts known today in a private collection that descended through Wingender family ownership until the latter part of the 1900s, which includes potter’s tools
This is a ca. 1895-1905 stoneware pitcher decorated with a spread winged eagle and a shield, possibly made by Charles Wingender (1856-ca. 1823) in Haddonfield, N.J., otherwise made by another Mid-Atlantic potter. Courtesy Winterthur Museum.
and a group of photographic plates documenting a variety of stoneware and red earthenware forms made by the Wingenders.
decorator at the business. Other records reveal that some other unrelated migrant German potters had come to America and were working for the Wingenders. This business was essentially entirely made up of migrant German potters and their families. Furthermore, it may not be well-known today, but after William died in 1915 and Charles passed away about 1923, the pottery factory continued to operate through family ownership. William’s son, William O. Wingender (1901-55), who was born in New Jersey in 1901, is first listed as a 19-year-old potter in the 1920
United States Federal Census. He is eventually listed as the proprietor of the Haddonfield company, which according to published advertising was still manufacturing stoneware and red earthenware as late as 1945. The Wingender Pottery eventually ceased production in 1950.
Sources Barber, Edwin Atlee. “Some Recent German-American Stoneware.” “The Clay-Worker,” February 1896. Hillman, Sarah Crawford. “Historical Sketch of Potter Street in Haddonfield, New Jersey.” Haddonfield, N.J.: Haddon Gazette Press, 1910.
In 1904, the Wingenders abandoned the property for a new location, where the company remained until the 1940s. Additionally, a firsthand account of this business was published in 1910 in a booklet written by Sarah Crawford Hillman, titled, “Historical Sketch of Potter Street in Haddonfield, New Jersey.” According to Hillman, “The new building is situated on Lake Street, near the western limits of the borough. It is a prosperous business with plenty of orders in advance. They manufacture Plain and Ornamental Stoneware, and Red Earthenware, and are importers of HighGrade Ivory-glazed Mugs and Tankards. Of the salt-glazed blue stoneware, the articles made include butter-pots, jars, jugs, pitchers, water-coolers, vases, etc. Of the red earthenware, they made pipkins, beanpots, stove-pipe collars, pieplates, hanging baskets, flower-pots, garden vases, etc., and casseroles, the stew pans, seen at Wanamaker’s (department stores located in Philadelphia and New York City in the early 1900s). Metallic cooking vessels being no longer used by hotels and restaurants, there is a great demand for casseroles. These are sauce-panshaped red earthenware vessels, varying in size, from three to eleven inches in diameter, with a simple glass glaze on the inside. So increasing is the demand for this specialty, that it is difficult to keep the trade supplied.”
This firm now manufactures flowerpots by machinery, which enables them to turn out hundreds in the same time, than could possibly be done by the hand molding process. The Haddonfield Pottery as mentioned above sold to department stores in Philadelphia and New York City, and also sent orders to Chicago.
The Wingenders formerly lived on the corner of Fowler Avenue, where they also had a store for the display and sale of their wares: this method of advertising added immensely to their trade.
Some additional interesting facts about the Wingender Pottery is that according to the 1910 United States Federal Census, Charles’ wife, Frances Wingender (b. 1864), was listed as a pottery
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The location of the ca. 1905-45 Wingender Pottery in Haddonfield, N.J.
Courtesy Historical Society of Haddonfield, New Jersey.
Here are potter’s tool from the Wingender Pottery that descended through family ownership until the later part of the 20th century. Courtesy Private Collection.
These are various stoneware objects acquired by Edwin Atlee Barber for the Philadelphia Museum of Art directly from the Wingender Pottery. The mug shown to the right in the middle row was decorated on the exterior by Barber.
Courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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that time and again in this auction, with Michael Jordan’s high-flying Number Pieces
Autographs numbered 12 out of 23, leading the charge at $562,800. Kobe Bryant’s Heritage
Noble Nameplate Autograph numbered 23/25, featuring a patch from one of his Lakers jerseys, sold for $174,000. Not far behind was LeBron James’ Limited Logos-Autograph Patch rookie card numbered 03/75, which realized $150,000.
This PSA Gem Mint 10 Hank Aaron 1969 Topps card sold for a record-setting $111,000. The “Sports Collectors Daily” reported the last PSA 10 1969 Topps Hank
which came to auction in 2018, sold for $23,060.
Speaking of Jordan, one of his rarest cards, an autographed 1995 Upper Deck SP Top Prospects card, dating to his 127-game tenure as a Birmingham Baron, was a smash hit in this auction. There are only two cards graded higher than this PSA Near Mint 7, PSA/DNA Auto 8 example,
which accounts for why this one realized $132,000.
One of the auction’s highlights was the $144,000 realized for Kimo von Oelhoffen’s 2005 Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl XL championship ring. The former Steelers defensive end is donating the proceeds to his alma mater,
Moloka’i High School, which didn’t even have a football team when von Oelhoffen attended and is trying to transition now from eightman ball to 11-man football
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Fueled by an intense bidding war via phone from the firm’s Chicago saleroom, the sale marks another record-breaking moment for Abercrombie’s
without the necessary facilities. This ring’s sale will help allow that dream to become a reality. To learn more, visit www. HA.com.
work. The auction house surpassed its own record for the artist for the second time, following the sales of “The Dinosaur” for $387,500 in February 2022 and “Untitled (Woman with Tethered Horse and Moon)” for $437,500 in December 2022.
Casting spells was Gertrude Abercrombie’s “The Magician,” 1956, selling for a record $469,900.
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pottery firm. Rowe’s holds live in-person only sales and has no buyer’s premium.
There is no internet bidding. They are located at 2505 Ritner Highway, Carlisle, Pa. For additional information, email linden hall@aol.com or visit www. rowesauctionservice.com.
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One of just three PSA Gem Mint 10 Rod Carew 1973 Topps card sold for $46,800.
The History Of Sweitzer Barns In Lancaster County
Lecture To Take Place Nov. 23
Historic Rock Ford welcomes author Greg Huber as he presents “The History of Sweitzer Barns in Lancaster County” on Saturday, Nov. 23, at 1 p.m. The two-level bank barn, also known as the “Sweitzer,” was likely the first barn of its specific type in North America that appeared initially in the middle third of the 18th century. Hear about the various factors that helped to influence the making and use of this magnificent type of barn. This presentation will take place in the Langmuir Education Room located on the first floor of the Rock Ford Barn, which is an example of
this style of barn architecture. After the presentation, Huber will have copies of his book, “The Historic Barns of Southeastern Pennsylvania,” available for purchase and signing. General admission is $10, and tickets may be purchased at www.rockford. yapsody.com.
Greg Huber is a barn and house historian, an independent scholar, consultant and principal owner of Past Perspectives and Eastern Barn Consultants, both historic and cultural resource companies based in Macungie, Lehigh County, Pa. Since 1974, Huber has specialized in pre-Civil
War era house and barn architecture of Holland Dutch and Pennsylvania Swiss-German areas. He has documented more than 8,000 vernacular buildings that include more than 5,000 homestead barns. He is author of more than 340 articles on barn and house architecture.
Historic Rock Ford, located at 881 Rockford Road, Lancaster, Pa., is comprised of the ca. 1794 General Edward Hand Mansion and the John J. Snyder Jr. Gallery of Early Lancaster County Decorative Arts. It is operated by the Rock Ford Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization.
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A “Saturday Evening Post” (SEP) article of the
time stated, “Hunter longed to remember the happiness of her youth and earliest
childhood memories and this remained a constant theme throughout her life’s work.” During the mid-1930s and into the ‘40s, she designed 18 covers for “The Saturday Evening Post.”
In 1920, she told a Williamsport Sun Newsman, “I have always had the idea of a child I want to put on paper in my mind and I’m never satisfied until I get that child on paper. Sometimes I destroy half a dozen then because they are not in my mind for I know that I cannot rest until I have accomplished what I started out to do.” One of her jobs was painting for the Monroe Leaf book for boys and girls, “Boo, Who Used to be /Scared of the Dark,” published in 1948 at Random House. “Hunter spent time with the Williamsport Art Guild, eventually becoming its president, and during the city’s sesquicentennial in 1956, she was named one of the initial Pennsylvania ambassadors by the state chamber of commerce and a distinguished daughter of Williamsport.
Hunter had donated most of the artwork in her possession to The Taber Museum, the Lycoming Historical Society, the JVBL, and the Williamsport Home. The Taber collection features her archives, while the JVBL has 10 framed illustrations in its Welch Children’s Wing. She also donated an original watercolor to the high school.
Frances Tipton Hunter died at age 61 on March 3, 1957, in Philadelphia and was interred in her birth town of Howard.
meal chest, lift lid desk/2 interior drawers, agate tray highchair, blanket chest/till, Boston rocker. SMALLS: Collect. 1-2 doz. carved motif butter molds, pottery food molds, sad irons, CI scale/ brass pan, stoneware crocks & jugs, rolling pins, Bethlehem liquor jug, desk box, var. agate ware, glass butter churn, keys, hanging spring scale, 2 coffee mills, slaw cutter, var. budder paddles, lots of cookie cutters-tin & alum., var. banded bowls some in nests, mocha pitcher, framed colored Taufschines, kitchen & butcher ladles, forks/dippers, flatware divided tray, 2 pc. majolica stand & urn, yellow ware bowls & pitchers, blue bowls & saltboxes, hanging scale, blue dec. “cake” type crock/lid, sm. spice size counter top 5 dr. box, majolica umbrella stand, 3 dr. spool type cabinet, Stangl yellow & blueberry set, 6 mini. kero. lamps, st. razors, var. Hummel figures, var. baskets, lg. copper kettle/added glass for end table, var. chamber sets & extra pcs, PA German culture & antique books, old Royal typewriter, wdn. rocking horse, bake board, milk white pcs., triple cow bell, long brass horn (Auto?), AHSN jacket, school bells, bellows, stomper, fish creel, graters, cherry pitter, wicker doll stroller, adv. tins, 2 Mack decanters, Pepsi tin carrier, Neuweiler tray & var. game head steins, 2 Horlacher mugs, toy CI beer wagon, Midge & other doll cases/contents, shaving stand, tin toy stove, youth books, child sew. mach., toy candle stick phone/ringer, animal figures, prim snow sled, Christmas tin full buttons, R. Crown Cola store display, lg. flour tin storage bin, spr. cans, milk can, copper boiler, ice tongs, etc. Mod. Estate: flat TVs, oak DR set, as new washer/drier, ladders, soft goods, tools, BR furniture, var. lawn & garden tools. BYO chairs & snacks, porta-potty on site. See pics on auctionzip! 2 auctioneers bring bidder buddy.
Terms: cash, PA checks only, NO CREDIT CARDS, NO buyer fees.
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The barn at Rock Ford is an outstanding example of Sweitzer barn architecture.
•SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 • 9:00 AM Cataloged Lots Online bidding available.
SALESMAN SAMPLES: (7) Salesman sample & child’s stoves of all kinds; Stover Windmill, Freeport IL; Puffer Hubbard silo; horse-drawn farm equipment including cultivators, wagons, hay rake, plow & baling machine; Coca Cola pop cooler; Wilbur’s Horse & Cattle Stock Food bin; hog & cattle feeder; ADVERTISING SIGNS: (6) Different wooden Wm. Kovars Dry Goods signs; Red Ball Transit Co. lighted sign with hanger; flanged Evinrude Outboard Motors; (3) Sunbeam Breads; all kinds of pop & drink related; (2) Mail Pouch Tobacco thermometers; Associated Gasoline; Sunray D-X Petroleum Products; all kinds of petroleum signs; 10’ wooden New Stoughton Wagons; wooden Tennessee Wagons; all kinds of farm-related signs; feed & seed signs; livestock signs; MISC ITEMS: (6) gas pumps including visible; all kinds of petroleum pieces; SnoSki airplane with Continental airplane engine -works!; 72”L brass & cast iron B-O 4-6-2 Class P-7 model locomotive with coal tender; copper & brass A.J. Morse & Son diving helmet; pocket watches; Griswold Santa, rabbit & lamb cake molds; Mockingbird brass steam whistle; kitchen primitives; Newhouse Community traps include #2½, #4, #0, #4½ and #44; cast iron door stops & nut crackers; FARM PRIMITIVES: Studebaker & Harvard goat wagons; collection of RARE primitive butter churns; cast iron butchering kettle with pig embossing; Becker & Newton box wagon seats; stockyard collectables from all different kinds of stock yards; tree branch hitching post with bird; other hitching posts & horse ties; RARE hand corn shellers; 30 lb. Fisher anvil; other anvils up to 469 lbs!
WEATHERVANE ARROWS • LIGHTNING ROD BALLS: Arrows include Shinn eagle, large sheep, various horses, cow, rooster, RARE Cole Bros wraparound with pointing hand and other wraparounds plus many more arrows; variety of lightning rod balls & pendants; COUNTRY STORE: Enterprise #5, #7 & #9 coffee grinders; 8’ & 44”L Gloekler butcher meat racks; Sherer 8-drawer seed counter; various display cabinets; Dr David Roberts Veterinary Medicines product cabinet; decorated crocks; PEDAL CARS: Murray Skipper boat; 1920’s American National; Austin J40 car; Steelcraft Chrysler; Steelcraft airplane; 1920’s Buick; early locomotive & more; TOYS • PEDAL TRACTORS • 1/8 SCALE TRACTORS • CUSTOM HORSE DRAWN MODELS: John Deere pedal tractor with 2-row mounted picker; custom Ford battery operated tractor; Pauley custom 1/12 scale Case thrashing machine; (13) 1/8 scale Scale Models tractors; (8) toy boat motors; custom made farm implements all hitched to horses or mules! Much, much more!
