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The Most Widely Read Collector's Newspaper In The East VOL. 45, NO. 23 FRIDAY JUNE 6, 2014
Published Weekly By Joel Sater Publications www.antiquesandauctionnews.net
The Greater York Show And Sale: A Revamped Success By Karl Pass
he Greater York Antiques Show and Sale was held May 2 and 3 in Memorial Hall East on the York Fairgrounds in York, Pa. The long-running semi-annual event received a needed boost when new owner/managers Bob Bockius and Dave Strickler of Mitchell Displays Inc. took over in 2013. Mitchell Displays Inc. of Westville, N.J., provides cases for
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numerous shows and in recent years has taken over managing and promoting. In addition to the Greater York Show, the company now runs the Michigan Modernism and Southfield Pavilon shows. Long mired with ineffective management, the Greater York show has resurfaced better than ever in 2014. Bockius and Strickler now print a brochure with a map and exhibitor contact info and have brought a level of professional management to the twice-a-year
Cheryl Mackley of Red Lion, Pa., asked $1,750 for her This inlaid sugar chest from the Shenandoah Valley of boxed set of soldiers and band. Virginia was offered for $9,500 by Libby Wojcik of Ad Lib Antiques and Interior Design based in Raleigh, N.C. Wojcik was new to the show and stated she had bought the chest privately.
A very extensive array of fine ceramics could be studied at the show from such dealers as Dennis and Dad, Sally Good, Maria and Peter Warren, Bill and Teresa Kurau, Elinor Penna, Bill Shaefer, and Margaret Johnson Sutor, to name a few.
Van Tassel-Baumann of Malvern, Pa., priced this embroidery by Margaret Childs, dated 1830 from Mrs. Buchanan’s school in Marietta, Pa., at $7,500. It was in the original frame and glass.
A Pennsylvania crib quilt mounted for display with vibrant red and yellow was $650 from Ken and Robin Pike of Nashua, N.H. Jim Emele of Dublin, Pa., asked $495 for the pair of horse and rider cookie cutters.
These fish decoys were $100 each The tape loom dated 1812 was priced at $5,500 from Axtell’s Antiques of from Wayne, N.J., dealers Alice and Art Booth. The white painted tiered Deposit, N.Y. stand was for display purposes.
Jane Langol of Medina, Ohio, asked $610 for her plant stand with an early inset photograph. The stand with carved decorative features was found in Iowa.
Leatherwood Antiques of Sandwich, Mass., was new to the show. The bear Robert Hartman of Country Huzzah piano stool seen here with extendable in Burke, Va., wanted $750 for the red painted cast iron fox doorstop. seat was priced at $9,500.
Americana event. “We made a lot of progress in one year, but we still have a long way to go and hope to re-establish the show in the MidAtlantic region and beyond,” stated Bockius. Bockius actually now finds himself L e a t h e r w o o d with a waiting list of Antiques asked dealers wanting to do $3,900 for the the show. “We have a woolwork picture growing list,” said of a British sail Bockius on opening and steam ship, day. The spring show English, dated 1867. The four had 85 exhibitors. hat Dealer Mo mannequin stand heads were Wajselfish of $2,900. Leatherwood Antiques in Sandwich, Mass., had never done a show in Pennsylvania before. “I think the show is becoming a positive force in the industry,” stated Wajselfish. The range of American decorative arts and antiques at the show is a major plus. Material at every price level could be found, which enables anyone to enter the field of collecting. Showgoers do not need to have unlimited resources to dec- A pair of zinc parade poles orate a house with period items in were $2,900 from Clear Spring, (Continued on page 2)
Md., dealer Lisa McAllister.