Pook & Pook – Americana & International Auction
Thursday, April 18TH & Friday, April 19TH, 2024 AT 9AM
463 East Lancaster Avenue Downingtown, PA 19335
www.pookandpook.com

DOWNINGTOWN, PENN. — The April 18-19 Americana and International sale at Pook & Pook will offer a broad assortment of antiques and art, everything from antiquities to Amish quilts, English delft chargers to Chinese export platters, stoneware to redware, Gothic brass candlesticks to American silver, pewter and iron, fraktur to Modern art, early American glass to Native American objects. The second day of the sale is devoted almost entirely to several international collections, including that of Robert S. Miller.

Always strong in folk art, the auction features a Schimmel eagle, a Mountz poodle, a cigar store Indian and a massive Noah’s Ark on a custom shelf with 18 feet of switchback ramp on which 194 animals can be lined up to board. Elaborately carved Northern European mangle boards, tramp art frames, a miniature painted stool and miniature blanket chest, Bucher boxes, a Compass Artist dome lid box and saffron cups by Joseph Lehn compete for attention. Fraktur features rare works from Mahantango Township, Schuylkill County and the Springing Deer Artist, with Mrs and Dr Donald Shelley provenance.

Furniture includes Philadelphia Chippendale tables, Pennsylvania William and Mary high chests, New England Queen Anne tiger maple high chest, a large New Jersey or Pennsylvania William and Mary walnut gateleg dining table and a pair of Boston Queen Anne dining chairs. The Jonathan Paschall Pennsylvania Queen Anne dining chair has descended in the family. One standout is a Pennsylvania walnut chest on frame, with allover line and fan inlays, dated 1791 and signed. The headline furniture item is the William Barch, Lancaster, Penn., Chippendale carved walnut desk and bookcase, signed by cabinetmaker William Dennis and dated 1789. Colorful painted furniture is also always present, with Pennsylvania German dower chest from Center and Lancaster counties and a painted chest of drawers providing highlights. There are always tall case clocks at Pook & Pook, exemplified in this sale by an important Philadelphia Chippendale walnut clock with eight-day works signed Jacob Godshalk Philadelphia.

A large swell-bodied copper rooster, a full-bodied Cushing & White running horse and a swell-bodied gilt copper bull are a few of the weathervanes offered. From an Aspen, Colo., collection comes an assortment of wrought iron.
In baseball memorabilia, there is a scarce McLoughlin Bros The World’s Game of Base Ball, copyright 1889.
Redware and stoneware categories include a rare Pennsylvania redware lidded crock signed John Boll 1832, a rare Pennsylvania sgraffito mug dated 1797, a North Carolina painted redware face jug, a Lanier Meaders stoneware face jug, Remmey type and Cowden & Wilcox stoneware, just to name a few.

The influence of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts is seen in works by artists such as John McCoy II, Philip Jamison Jr, Antonio Martino, Seymour Remenick, Ezio Martinelli and Walter Baum. Other featured lots include Philadelphia artists Robert Conover and Earl Horter, Jacob Maentel, and works by J. Alden Weir and Beatrice How. Two 1930s oil on canvas paintings for the covers of American Legion Magazine depict wintry scenes by Lester Stevens and Magnus Colcord Hendon. The highlight is a massive mixed media work by Lawrence Carroll titled “No Patience for the Past.”
Native American Indian art and antiques features historical items descended in the family of the Hon. Lewis V. Bogy, commissioner of Indian affairs under President Andrew Johnson, 1866-67, leading the category with moccasins and beadwork, kachina dolls, photographs and two portraits in oils of Native American dignitaries. Items from the collection of Douglas and Janet Connor of Aspen include Hopi dolls, Acoma pottery, Apache baskets and Navajo and Pueblo jewelry.

The second day of the sale features the Robert S. Miller collection. One of the specialties at Pook & Pook is Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century brass candlesticks, and the offering from the Miller collection continues this strength. More than 30 auction lots feature Tudor, English trumpet, Flemish Gothic, Nuremberg, Heemskerk, Spanish capstan, Queen Anne and other candlesticks. Brass wares include a standish and upright snuffer stand, and a Richard Lee Jr strainer, as well as a collection of 14 brass tinder lighters.
The Miller collection offers many early Nineteenth Century blown three-mold American glass examples, including a rare miniature cobalt glass creamer. The collection of glass hat whimsies is the center of much attention. Ranging from the rare to the extremely rare, they include an olive-green bottle glass hat with George McKearin provenance, a purple-cobalt, one of only three recorded examples, a deep cobalt hat and a unique amethyst hat, among others.

Pook & Pook Auctioneers and Appraisers is at 463 East Lancaster Avenue. For further information, www.pookandpook.com or 610-269-4040.

William Matthew Prior
Native American Indian material
Owl gateposts
Fourteen tinder lighters
Leo Sewell
Mulliken clock
McLaughlin Bros. game
463 EAST LANCASTER AVENUE DOWNINGTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA 19335 P: (610)269-4040 INFO@POOKANDPOOK.COM WWW.POOKANDPOOK.COM
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