Pook & Pook Americana & International Auction
October 5, 6, & 7
463 East Lancaster Avenue Downingtown, PennsyLvania 19335
www.PookandPook.com
info@PookandPook.com
610-269-4040

DOWNINGTOWN, PENN. — Over three days on October 5, 6 and 7, Pook & Pook will present its largest ever Americana and International sale, comprising just over 1,400 lots. Featuring nine private collections and estates from the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions, with further consignments of European, Asian antiques, fine art and accessories and a large variety of silver, there is something for everyone.

Session One begins with the collection of Max and Polly DeHart, a family home collection of rural Pennsylvania antique furniture and utilitarian items from their farm in Milton. The DeHarts’ interest was in collecting and preserving the work of local artisans. Guided by their friend Bill Koch, they discovered many fine central Pennsylvania works. Among the treasures are three Pennsylvania Dutch cupboards: a Northumberland County painted poplar two-part cupboard, Nineteenth Century, retaining its original red surface; and a walnut two-part cupboard, circa 1810, with chamfered corners, the base with shell carved doors and French feet.

Several of the many fraktur lots include a Pennsylvania pen and ink fraktur for Abraham Grase, born 1802, with bold spreadwing eagle, potted flowers and angel heads, with provenance from the John Gordon collection of folk Americana, and a central Pennsylvania ink and watercolor fraktur for Johannes Schuct, born 1828, Centre County, with profusely decorated bird trees emanating from hearts; provenance: David Wheatcroft.

Many will know and remember Elaine B. Buck of Elaine Buck’s Antiques, West Chester, Penn. A long-time dealer and presence at the Pennsylvania Antiques Show, her specialty was Pennsylvania paint-decorated furniture and decorative arts. Of the 200 lots offered, massive New England burl bowls and carved and painted bird trees perch atop a myriad of colorful painted furniture, which includes a large pine bench table, Nineteenth Century, retaining an old blue/green surface; and a Pennsylvania painted pine two-part corner cupboard, late Eighteenth Century, retaining an old scrubbed blue surface.

Ending Session One are several collections of Historical Blue Staffordshire, 85 lots in all. A private Pennsylvania collection of Historical Blue Staffordshire occupies 57 lots, with both a Lafayette at Franklin’s Tomb tea and coffee service and a MacDonnough’s Victory tea and coffee service, as well as America and Independence plates, platters and pitchers, and a wide variety of local and New England subjects.

Session two begins with fine art. Artworks include Charles Henry Demuth (1883-1935), a Lancaster, Penn., painter who began spending his summers in the New Hope artist enclave during his PAFA years 1908-1911, sketching and painting the environs. His watercolor view of Lambertville, N.J., bears a Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Water Club, 10th Annual Philadelphia Water Color Exhibition 1912 label verso. Other notable art lots include a profile portrait by Jacob Eichholtz, a watercolor profile portrait by Jacob Maentel, a William Louis Sonntag Sr oil on canvas landscape with gentlemen fishing on the banks of an idyllic tree-lined river; and two oil on canvas landscapes by Hermann Ottomar Herzog.

The Michael and Susan Hudson collection is an assortment of mostly Eighteenth Century furniture and decorative items from their historic 1739 home, the Philip Rogers House, in Warwick Township, Penn. Over 24 years the Hudsons collected period items to decorate their home. One highlight is a Chester County Queen Anne walnut spice chest on frame, circa 1740, with two tombstone panel doors enclosing a 15-drawer interior, resting on a three-drawer base, supported by graceful cabriole legs terminating in Spanish feet, and a Massachusetts Queen Anne mahogany wing chair, circa 1765, has an elegant arched back and outward scrolling arms, over cabriole legs ending in pad feet joined by stretchers.

A Chester County, Penn., silk on linen needlework sampler inscribed Alice B. Cheyney’s work – 1817, Mary H. Walter teacher, with potted flowers and trees, all within a trailing vine border is one of a group of Chester County works created between 1800 and 1830.

The top weathervane lot will be a swell-bodied copper running stag, circa 1880, retaining an old verdigris and gilt surface. A swell-bodied copper horse and rider weathervane, late Nineteenth Century, and a full-bodied copper peacock are also not to be missed. A carved and painted cigar store Indian maiden, late Nineteenth Century, is attributed to the workshop of Samuel Robb, New York.

From the estate of the late Peter Tillou comes a Berks County, Penn., swivel barrel long rifle, approximately .50 caliber, attributed to Adam Angstadt (1740-1812), with a boldly figured maple stock with engraved four-piece, openwork patch box, and silver inlays, 36¾-inch barrels ($8/12,000).

Clocks include a New Jersey Chippendale walnut tall case clock, late Eighteenth Century, the eight-day works with painted face, signed Morgan Hollinshead Moores Town No. 66.
Session Three highlights include a 40-piece collection of New York and other stoneware that comes from Michigan. Among the Clarkson Crolius, John Remmey III, Paul Cushman, Seymour, Warne & Letts and Boston Jonathan Fenton and Frederick Carpenter examples are four works by Thomas Commeraw, America’s first Black pottery owner. Other important stoneware lots include a New York crock, circa 1800, attributed to John Remmey III, Manhattan-Wells, with incised decoration of a Hudson River sloop, the opposing side with bold incised tulip; and a Morgantown, W.Va., 2-gallon stoneware jar, circa 1860, with dark cobalt decoration of a camel and a cow under a tree with a milkmaid figure, rouletted band on shoulder.

The gallery exhibition will start on Saturday, October 1, at 9 am. Pook & Pook is at 463 East Lancaster Avenue.
For information, 610-269-4040 or www.pookandpook.com.

Several collections of Historical Blue Staffordshire
Giltwood mirror
Large collection of New York stoneware
Mary Avery
Terrestrial globe
Engraving of Boston Massacre
Banjo clock
Peacock weathervane
William Louis Sontag
Dozens of lots of silver
Arts & Crafts furniture & accessories including Stickley
Boston, MA sampler
New England Queen Anne corner chair
Oddfellows staff
Collection of Shaker furniture & accessories
Mt. Lebanon, New York Shaker cupboard
Boston weathervane
New York Chippendale card table, ca. 1775
Massachusetts tall case clock
New England Queen Anne high chest