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FRIDAY MAY 19, 2023 • VOL. 53, NO. 20
Local Folk Art Excels
MadisonBouckville Looks To Have Strong Show On June 2 To 4
Hattie Brunner Painting Realizes $26,500 By Karl Pass Horst Auctioneers in Ephrata, Pa., held a two-day 813-lot catalog sale on April 14 and 15. The total gross for the multi-consignor sale was $215,340. Horst does not charge a buyer’s premium for in-house bidding. There is a 10-percent premium for absentee and online bidding. The majority of the iron in the sale came from the John Tyler collection and John Tannehill collection. Tyler was a curator at the William Penn State Museum (PHMC) and a blacksmith. He and his wife, Darlene, wrote a book, “Early American Cast-Iron Holloware,” in 2014. The late Tannehill was a professor at Millersville and collected
tools and utensils among other American metalware. Horst will be selling more Tannehill items in an upcoming speciality tool sale. Regional folk art often does well at Horst, in particular, Hattie Brunner paintings. Brunner (1889-1982) was a well-known antiques dealer in Reinholds, Pa. Late in her career she began painting in watercolor, ca. 1958. Her primitive farm and auction scenes have always been collectible and have a large audience in today’s market. An 18-by-13-inch framed winter scene (1971) with a brick farmhouse and man on horseback in foreground sold for $5,400. A similar winter scene depicting a covered bridge
Popular Weekend Series Of Shows Is Precursor To Aug. 14 To 20 Antiques Week Event
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The black leather wall pocket pin cushion with birds, heart, star, initials “F.R.” ex. Joyce Leiby, attributed to a Lancaster County, Pa., saddlery shop, brought $1,050.
Unusually large for a Hattie Brunner painting, this framed 30-by-21.75-inch autumn auction scene, ca. 1975, sold to a local collector for $26,500. The original receipt from This framed taufsheine fraktur with birds and central Brunner to the late dealer Walter Himmelreich to Robert Wiker in 1976 ($1,000) was heart and oval text cartouche in middle, possibly “Ehre Vater Artist” ex. David Wheatcroft, sold for $1,950. included.
Yellow Garage’s June Festival Of Antiques Set For June 10 Annual Event Slated For Mullica Hill, N.J. The annual June Festival of Antiques at the Fairgrounds in Mullica Hill, N.J., will be held on Saturday, June 10. Show hours will be 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., featuring quality antiques dealers from throughout the Northeast set up under pavilion cover and on the lawn at the Gloucester County 4-H Fairgrounds located at 275 Bridgeton Pike (Route 77). This is one mile south of the Yellow Garage Antiques storefront and the downtown historic district. The show will include antique country and formal furniture, pottery, fine art, glass, stoneware, textiles, quilts, dolls, jewelry, clocks, porcelain, sterling silver, toys,
advertising, metalware, and much more. Parking is free of charge, and a food truck by B&B Concessions will be available throughout the day. Visitors can also shop and enjoy The Yellow Garage Antiques Center, as well as other antiques and specialty shops on Main Street. The June Festival is scheduled to take place rain or shine; however, in the event of severe weather, festival updates will be announced on Facebook, Instagram, and www.yellowgarageantiques.com. Show tickets are available at www.Ticketleap.com or at the gate. A portion of the proceeds benefit Continued on page 4
Two small towns in New York’s Mohawk Valley have come together for great antiques and collectibles shopping twice a year for now 51 times. On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, June 2, 3, and 4, the show fields will be filled with more than 2,000 exhibitors on 14 show fields. All fields have free admission, and the local tourist board claims around 10,000 people attend the June shows. There is plenty of parking, some of which is at a charge and some free of charge. Northern New York has been well-known as a great source for fresh antiques, especially in American-made 18th- and 19thcentury furniture and household accessories. This history creates an environment at this market and again for its big Aug. 14 to 20 event where dealers and collectors converge looking for treasures either for collections, decoration, or inventories. Over the years, show names have changed, owners have retired and sold to other managers, but the fields continue to be one of the country’s premier opportunities for finding great early American antiques. Among the larger fields, Cider House Antiques has been adding several features since being taken over by Jim and Ruth Dutcher a decade ago, such as free parking, a large campground and quality food service. The Out Front Show is across the main road and among the markets with a permanent building Continued on page 6
In This Issue SHOPS, SHOWS & MARKETS . . . . . . . . . starting on page 2 SHOPS DIRECTORY . . . . . . . . . on page 4 EVENT & AUCTION CALENDAR . on page 5 AUCTION SALE BILLS . . starting on page 6 AUCTIONEER DIRECTORY . . . . on page 6
FEATURE AUCTION: Freeman’s June 4 Sale - Page 2
CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . .on page 11