Antiques & Auction News - May 8, 2026

Booth Sale Excels At Pook & Pook

Pennsylvania German Decorative Arts In

By Karl Pass

“It sold to a dealer bidding on behalf of a collector, underbid by a collector who was on vacation. He had a phone line and was in Ireland,” said Jaime Shearer of Pook & Pook discussing the stoneware crock decorated with a marching elephant selling for $177,800. The folk art crock was on day two of a three-day single-owner sale on behalf of Alice and Art Booth. Alice passed away last year, and Art is in an assisted living home. The sale was April 15, 16, and 17.

Alice and Art Booth of Wayne, N.J., were antique collector/dealers. They collected American stoneware and redware with an emphasis on Pennsylvania redware; Pennsylvania German folk art such as fraktur, wood carvings, carved butter prints, wallpaper boxes, cookie cutters, and Lehnware; and textiles including quilts and patchwork pillowcases. They also collected antique holiday material, namely Halloween and Christmas items (day three of the sale included the antique holiday items). They set up at Pennsylvania shows such as York and Elverson for many years, specializing in holiday material. They bought at big sales and for decades came to Pennsylvania most weekends, where the action was and still is, especially in the 1980s and ‘90s. I first met them in the late ‘90s, set up

Demand

Selling for $43,180 was this rare Centre County, Pa., mid 19th century, red, yellow, green, paint-decorated sewing stand, #6 written in drawer, with small round pin cushion top, round, rotating spool holder with wire rods to hold the spools of thread, and resting on red turned feet. It sold for $19,000 on Jan. 26, 2002, at Horst Auction Center at the Roy Buck sale. Read the story for more.

Surrealist Masterpiece Heads To Auction

A rare version of Maria Martins’ “Impossible” (1946), a key work of Surrealist sculpture, will be offered in Rago/Wright’s Post War and Contemporary Art auction on Thursday, May 14, marking one of the most significant appearances of the artist’s work in recent years. One of only three known examples, “Impossible” is exceptional not only for its rarity but also for its institutional context: the other two examples are held in museum collections, making this the only version currently in private hands

To Be Sold

By Karl Pass

Dana Auctions of Princeton, N.J., will hold the first auction of the Parker and Neal Mola Collection on Saturday, May 16, offering 200 lots of hand-stitched mola panels from the Guna Yala comarca of Panama. The auction marks the first public dispersal of one of the most significant and best-documented private collections of mola textile art ever assembled in the United States.

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under the pavilion at the then Black Angus in Adamstown. They kept notes on what they paid for many items and had such info on many of their objects. They loved antiques and had the means to buy and sell at a high level. It’s not often, if ever, a collection possesses multiple Compass Artist boxes, two Weber doll cradles, two rare Centre County, sewing stands, an abundance of Lehnware items including multiple seed chests, “Bucher” paint-decorated boxes, multiple Simmons birds and canes, and multiple Schimmel carvings. The couple put together a great collection of early Pennsylvania folk art. Other collections included a grouping of crooked knifes, which are sometimes called a “mocotaugan” and are a Woodlands Indian carver’s draw knife, basically a multipurpose tool having a blade bent at or near

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the tip combined with a handle with an unusual shape. Today, they are folk art items. There was New England redware; and Gaudy Dutch china, which is English and was popular with the Pennsylvania German market throughout the 19th century. The bulk of holiday items consisted of Germany Christmas items, such as antique ornaments and candy containers, Halloween lanterns, and German rabbit Easter eggs. As a whole, it did well, as evident from prices realized. This speciality market has strength.

With that said, it was a Pennsylvania sale and the kind that put Pook & Pook on the

A surprise to some in the salesroom, was when this rare Pennsylvania Remmey type stoneware double-sided feeder, 19th century, with cobalt tulip decoration, sold for $50,800. It’s the only decorated example currently known.

map. Its gross total (including a 27 percent buyer’s premium) was $2,272,050, and 902 out of 913 lots sold (99 percent).

The Booths were active at the Robacker sales. Dr. Earl and Ada Robacker of White Plains, N.Y., were authors and collectors who lived with antiques on a massive scale. Sold over the summer of 1989, it took eight days of auctions in four sessions; each session were Friday and Saturday auctions and spaced about a month apart held by Horst at the Farmersville Fire Hall. Each catalog is worth owning today, and the sales were a big deal and achieved some equally big prices. From a generation of collectors who accumulated on a level unheard of today, Earl’s passion was summed up by the quote inside the front

Folk pottery did well, such as this stoneware jug with applied handle and large odd cobalt figure with top hat selling for $10,795. The Booths paid $3,500 from the late Steven Score in 1982.

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cover of the first sale’s catalog in Alan Keyser’s introduction, “Drawn by the thrill of the hunt they frequented antiques shows, auctions, and antiques shops. And after assembling a collection containing in excess of seven thousand items, Earl confided, ‘I have never been sorry for anything I ever bought, just for the things I didn’t buy.’”

Lovers of Pennsylvania antiques, it isn’t a surprise the Booths were drawn to these major sales. The era during the ‘80s and ‘90s was the heyday of the marketplace. A wrought iron tulip-form trivet sold for $825.50. The Booths paid $1,250 in session two of the Robacker sale.

A Rev. Henry Young taufshein of a man in profile view flanked by birds, floral

An early 19th-century New York stoneware flask with incised fish and incised bird decoration (other side) sold for $16,510.

work and stars in upper corners, contained some staining, and glued down, yet a rare design, sold for $25,400 at the Booth sale. “It’s the only one known,” mentioned a collector in the salesroom describing the design of a single man in profile. A prolific fraktur artist, Young’s work is very collectible. The Lycoming County ink-and-watercolor birth certificate was for George Pane (b. 1819).

A miniature redware (eightsided) loaf dish, likely northern Lancaster County origin, with yellow and green slip decoration, sold for $17,780 to a local collector in the salesroom. It brought $2,000 at the Walter Himmelreich sale in 1973 held at Pennypacker’s, and the Booths paid $21,240 in 2021 at Conestoga Auction Co., ex. Eugene and Vera Charles. A nearly identical example sold for $16,500 at Paul and Rita Flack’s sale at Pook & Pook on Oct. 28, 2000. The following lot was a related miniature redware dish, but oval, with yellow and green slip decoration that realized $6,096 to dealer Greg Kramer. The Booths paid $22,420 in 2021 at Conestoga Auction Co., ex. Eugene and Vera Charles. Kramer underbid it at that sale. It sold for $1,200 in 1973, at the Himmelreich sale.

The marketplace is strong for Schimmel and Simmons folk carvings. Three Simmons wooden carved and painted folk art birds sold early in the sale. Schtockschnitzler Simmons (active 1885-1910) was an itinerant carver in the Moselem Springs area of Berks County, Pa. A wooden carved and painted red and green parrot on turned ball base,

the

for $58,420.

10 inches high, illustrated in Machmer’s “Just For Nice,” and sold at Pook & Pook’s Richard and Joane Flanders Smith sale on Oct. 30, 2010, for $18,960, sold at this sale for $12,700.

The tip of beak was restored.

A Simmons bird, cream base with green wings on ball/knob finial base, sold for $20,320.

The Booths paid $4,600 in 1995 at Richard and Joane Flanders Smith sale held by Christie’s.

The third day one Simmons bird, with red breast, yellow and green body on turned finial base, sold for $22,860. It had an old repaired break to beak and realized $9,200 in 1995’s Christie’s sale for Richard and Joane Flanders Smith. It was illustrated in “Just for Nice” and included in accompanying exhibit in 1991 at the then Historical Society of Berks County. A small yellow goldfinch on perch and stand sold for $4,318. In 1995, the Booths paid $3,680. Also in the Pennsylvania folk art category were the two

Collector Anecdotes And Antics

The Return Of The Neo Geo!

By Shawn Surmick

When Atari released its Video Computer System (also known as the Atari 2600) in 1977, it became the very first successful home video game console. This would pave the way for a multibillion-dollar industry to be born, and home video games would never be the same again. Unfortunately, Atari’s success was short-lived due to a disastrous decision to sell the company to Warner Communications, which allowed a glut of low-quality games to enter the marketplace. Atari also faced massive competition from upcoming competitors, most notably the Mattel Intellivsion and Coleco’s infamous Colecovision. This set the stage for what is commonly known as the great video game crash of 1983. Consumers were tired of the amount of product being made just to capture their dollars with no regards to the quality of the games being produced. For every

memorable game like Asteroids, Missile Command, or Pitfall, countless others were produced that either disappointed or bored the end consumer. As a result, home video games were seen as a passing fad, and Atari was left near bankrupt.

It would take two full years for a relatively unknown Japanese company named Nintendo to finally be able to convince retailers that its new product, aptly named the Nintendo Entertainment System, had what it takes to reignite excitement in the home video game market once again. By 1987, Nintendo had managed to capture close to 90 percent of the home video game market in the United States, and countless competitors took notice. Sega became Nintendo’s fiercest and closest competitor of the late 1980s and 1990s with the success of its 16-bit Sega Genesis system. The console boasted twice the graphical capability of the original Nintendo and launched in late 1989 in North America. With a back catalog of Sega arcade titles that could easily be recreated for the system and a catchy advertising slogan telling buyers that “Sega does what Nintendon’t,” Sega had an advantage. This is when arcade game creators saw an opportunity to begin creating more and more of their arcade titles for home consoles. Unfortunately, though, arcade video game machines were much more powerful than most home video game systems at

the time. This meant that true arcade quality games would not be fully possible on most home video game systems. As a result of this, one lone Japanese arcade company saw an opportunity.

Shin Nihon Kikaku is a Japanese arcade company better known as SNK. Its name roughly translates to New Japan Project in English. In the 1980s, the company was a publisher of various Nintendo games and was known to arcade patrons due to its incredible success with the Ikari Warriors game franchise. SNK was secretly working on an arcade video game system that would allow one single arcade game cabinet to use multiple different games contained on a cartridge. This would allow arcade operators to save money by simply changing out the individual games rather than having to order brand new machines. SNK had an incredible idea to create an elaborate home video game system using this same idea and test it in the rental market first to see if the concept was viable.

The result was the Neo Geo Advanced Entertainment System that would be nothing like ordinary home video game consoles. After a moderately successful roll out in rental outlets across North America and Japan, SNK officially launched the system, which would have an estimated retail price of $649.99, in 1991 under the name the Neo Geo AES. Additional game cartridges could be

Presidential Autographs And Photography Sale

Abraham Lincoln Signed Photographs Expected To Lead May 7 Sale

This Abraham Lincoln signed photograph will be estimated at $100,000 to $150,000.

Swann Galleries will offer important signed photographs from a California collection on Thursday, May 7. The sale features a remarkable selection of early cabinet cards, portraits, and candid photographs signed by influential figures across politics, science, religion, pop culture and more.

American presidential autographs include two signed portraits of Abraham Lincoln, one vignetted cartede-visite by James Gardner (est. $100,000 to $150,000), and a signed albumen print

from 1861 portraying one of the most reproduced images of the 16th president (est. $80,000 to $120,000). Notably, a signed and inscribed photograph of John Wilkes Booth is also present (est. $7,000 to $10,000).

A ca. 1960 candid photograph of John F. Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower, signed by both men, will be offered (est. $20,000 to $30,000), as well as a large photograph by George Prince showing Theodore Roosevelt and the nine members of his 1906 cabinet, signed by each (est. $15,000 to $25,000), and a group of four photograph of the Paris Peace Conference ending WWI signed by the important attendees, including Woodrow Wilson (est. $15,000 to $25,000). First ladies are also present with Edith Kermit Roosevelt (est. $3,000 to $4,000), Julia D. Grant (est. $3,000 to $4,000), and Lucretia Garfield (est. $2,000 to $3,000).

Further American figures include an exceedingly uncommon photograph of frontiersman Kit Carson (est. $35,000 to $50,000); General William Tecumseh Sherman with an attractive carte-devisite showing a bust portrait by Matthew Brady signed by

purchased for about $149.99 each. Now you may be wondering, who would buy a system for close to $700 in 1991 knowing that for each additional game purchased they would have to spend another $150, when your average Nintendo or Sega video game at the time cost $49.99 and competing systems could be had for well under $200? Well the reason the Neo Geo was so expensive was because, unlike other home video game systems at the time, the Neo Geo was the arcade! The same games being produced for the arcade version of the Neo Geo called the MVS (short for Multi Video System) were being converted into home Neo Geo games. The cost was a problem due to the amount of memory and chips that both the systems and games used (in the 1990s cartridge-based games were very expensive to produce).

Pundits and industry insiders at the time loved the system for what it represented (a true home arcade experience), but noted it would most likely fail. However, diehard enthusiasts clamored to own the system, and SNK managed to continue supporting it well into the early 2000s even as the company emerged from bankruptcy.

Like most pop culture oddities and vintage video game technology to come out of the 1990s, the Neo Geo stands as one of the most collectible video game systems ever created. Thanks to its cost, certain games that originally came out for the system were produced

in record low numbers. Some of these games only had a production run of a few hundred pieces and can be seen selling today for tens of thousands of dollars on the secondary market. And as nostalgia driven collectors rediscovered this system of yesteryear, a lot of these highly sought-after games have steadily increased in value and demand over the years.

Unfortunately, since the 1990s, SNK went through several restructurings and a bankruptcy, and the actual rights to its technology and games are now owned by a subsidiary of the Misk Foundation since 2022. As a result, all hopes of a revival were seen as dim, until one glorious day in April 2026. That’s when the internet started buzzing with rumors of the Neo Geo’s triumphant return. And then it happened! The company who owns the rights to the system and games showed off a perfect recreation of the original system for a price of $250, this time with games only costing $90 each and a release date of November 2026. As word spread, eager fans were excited while hardcore collectors were left wondering what is now going to happen to the cost of the original games on the secondary market with re-releases only costing $90? And that is why we are having this discussion; because the internet incorrectly believes the relaunch of this system is going to make the original hardware and games fall in value. And to those who think that, it is possible over the short term that many collectors may hold off paying thousands of dollars for an original game fearing that prices could collapse. But these are re-releases, and if the U.S. Mint, or Topps the baseball

card company, or even Marvel Comics for that matter decided to reproduce some of their most sought-after collectibles in the year 2026, how would it affect the market for the originals over the long term? It wouldn’t, because reproduced collectibles are just that, not original. And that is why we are having this discussion. So, if you are a diehard Neo Geo fan like me, November 2026 is almost upon us, and preorders for the system and games are available now. Collectors of the originals? Over the long term, these re-releases will have little impact on the true value of your original games, so let’s all welcome the return of the Neo Geo! Shawn Surmick has been an avid collector since the age of 12. He currently resides in his hometown of Boyertown, Pa., and is a passionate collector of antiques and collectibles. His articles focus on various topics affecting the marketplace.

Sherman on Brady’s original mount in astonishingly good condition (est.

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sewing stands also bought the Rev. Young fraktur. Samuel Bentz (1792-1850) was the head schoolmaster at the Weidmansville School. The school house still stands but today is referred to as Wood Corner School two miles west of Ephrata. Bentz is still referenced as The Mount Pleasant Artist, and made extra money by producing fraktur. The distinctive color palette using red and black geometrical designs, urns, spheres, orbs, and diamonds, the work of the very artistic Bentz is widely recognized today among folk art collectors. An ink-and-watercolor fraktur birth certificate for Catherine Schweigert (b. 1834) from the Booth collection, 53 years ago, sold for $1,300 on May 21, 1973, at the Pennypacker’s sale for Walter Himmelreich. And 24 years ago, on Oct. 19, 2002, it sold to the late Chris Machmer for $17,600 at Conestoga Auction Co. A year

later, on Nov. 15, 2003, the late Ruth Bryson paid $12,650 for it at Chris Machmer’s sale also at Conestoga, and at Bryson’s sale on April 14, 2018, held by Pook & Pook, the Booths bought it for $4,148. It realized $3,302 here.

A redware shallow bowl, dated “1854” with dramatic slip decoration of a leaping stag surrounded by green and yellow swags, sold at Conestoga Auction Company’s sale for Gordon Sleigh on May 13, 1995, to the Booths for $9,900. Sleigh bought it from Hattie Brunner. It sold at the Booth sale for $8,255. A redware flask with profuse slip floral decoration in yellow, brown, green, wheel thrown, sold for $9,525. They paid $23,000 in 2013 at Crocker Farm. A Jacob Maentel portrait of a man in profile view sold for $3,810. The Booths paid $9,150 in 2018 at Pook & Pook (Bryson sale). Two David Bixler woodblock watercolor fraktur, one depicting a bird, the other a church, sold for

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A very fine miniature New England painted pine dresser, mid19th century, retaining its original vibrant salmon, yellow, and green surface, sold for $9,075 at the major sale in 1986 held by Sotheby’s, of the collection of Don and Faye Walters. There are losses to two demilune sections on front right corner of top. Notice the heart cutout on back splash. It sold here for $12,700.

This Soap Hollow, Somerset County, Pa., painted poplar chest of drawers, dated “1866,” initialed “FKM” and signed by the maker Jeremiah Stahl, retaining its original stenciled gilt decoration on a vibrant red ground, realized $69,850.

A Compass Artist paint-decorated wooden lift-top dome chest, 12.25 inches wide, sold to a phone bidder for $27,940. It brought $11,100 at Horst in 1994.

This Peter Brubaker (Lancaster County, Pa., 1816-1898), carved and painted wooden horse, with black body, white accents and tin ears, illustrated in “Just For Nice,” sold for $10,160. The Booths bought it on April 27, 2019, at Horst’s sale on behalf of the Clarke Hess estate for $26,500.

The Booths were known for their holiday collections, particularly Christmas and Halloween. This German Santa Claus riding a camel pull toy, early to mid-20th century, brought $10,795.

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The collection was formed by Ann Parker and Avon Neal, co-authors of “Molas: Folk Art of the Cuna Indians” (Barre Publishing, 1977), the first definitive book on the mola tradition and still the standard reference in the field. Parker, a photographer, and Neal, a folklorist and writer, traveled repeatedly to the San Blas Islands across the 1960s and 1970s, collecting directly from Guna women and documenting the textile tradition for scholarly publication. Their book has been cited by the Smithsonian Institution, the William Benton Museum of Art at the University of Connecticut, and institutional collections worldwide.

“Collections of this provenance almost never come to market,” said Dana Balsamo, proprietor of Dana Auctions.

“These are the panels Ann Parker and Avon Neal chose to keep for themselves while building the scholarship that defined the field. The breadth of iconography, the technical range, and the documentation behind every piece make this an extraordinary opportunity for collectors and institutions alike.”

The 200 lots span every major iconographic category Parker and Neal documented in their book, such as narrative and documentary panels, including a mola

commemorating the Apollo moon landing, one depicting the Panama Canal, and another depicting a helicopter with passengers. There are political commemoratives commemorating the First Kunayala Congress (the foundational event of modern Guna political autonomy), a Canal Zone contact-era naval vessel, multiple campaign portraits, and a portrait of President Galindo. And also advertising and brand imagery, a category Parker and Neal were among the first to study. Other categories will be pop-culture panels, such as Topo Gigio, the Italian television mouse, Antonio Aguilar as Charro, and the Merlion of Singapore, and religious and syncretic imagery, cosmological and biblical syncretism, the temptation of Adam and Eve, commemorating Saint Francis of Assisi, dated 1962, and multiple Nativity and crucifixion panels. Others will be classic zoomorphic and mythic subjects, such as twin owls, paired hummingbirds, thunderbird-and-halibut mythic scenes, soulbird panels, caimans, and spirit figures; and botanical and geometric abstraction, labyrinths, stepped-meander grounds, and dense polychrome leaf-lattices.

The May 16 sale will start at 11 a.m. EST, in person and simulcast online. A preview will be held Friday, May 15, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. No hidden reserves and shipping

GEORGIA

05/07-10/2026, Atlanta - Thu

10 AM - 5 PM, Fri & Sat 9 AM -

6 PM, Sun 10 AM - 4 PM, 3650 & 3850 Jonesboro Road, Scott Antique Markets

MARYLAND

05/02-03/2026, PoolesvilleSat 10 AM - 5 PM, Sun 10 AM4 PM, 19120 Jerusalem Road, Mid Atlantic Antique & Garden Festival

MASSACHUSETTS

06/20/2026, Brookfield - Sat 10 AM - 3 PM, 19 Martin Road, Walker Homestead

NEW JERSEY

05/02/2026, Landisville - Sat

11 AM - 6 PM, Buena Spring Festival Artisans, Antiques & Collectibles

05/17/2026, Ringoes - Sun 10 AM - 4 PM, 1207 Route 179, Hunterdon County Antiques Fair

05/31/2026, Ocean Grove - Sat 9AM -4PM, From Great Auditorium to the ocean.

06/13/2026, Mullica Hill - Sat 9 AM - 3 PM, 275 Bridgeton Pike, The Yellow Garage Antiques & June Festival of Antiques

11/13-14/2026, Allendale - Fri 5pm - 9pm & Sat 10am - 4pm, 165 West Crescent Avenue, North Jersey Depression Glass Club Show & Sale

NEW YORK

07/04/2026, Stormville - Saturday & Sunday 8AM - 4PM, 428 Rt 216, Stormville Airport Flea Market

09/05-06/2026, StormvilleSaturday & Sunday 8AM - 4PM, 428 Rt 216, Stormville Airport Flea Market

10/10-11/2026, StormvilleSaturday & Sunday 8AM - 4PM, 428 Rt 216, Stormville Airport Flea Market

OHIO

11/28-29/2026, Columbus - Sat & Sun, 717 E 17th Avenue, Scott Antique Markets

is available. Dana Auctions LLC is located at 3490 US-1 Suite 17B, Princeton, N.J.

This will be part one of multiple planned sales from the Parker and Neal collection. Future sessions will be announced through Dana Auctions’ regular channels.

To learn more, call 732-221-3560.

About Dana Auctions

Dana Auctions, based in Princeton, N.J., specializes in

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$6,985. The Booths paid $1,422 in 2012 at Pook & Pook (Flack sale). A Schwenkfelder fraktur floral bookplate attributed to David Kriebel realized $1,270. The Booths bought it in 2018 at Pook & Pook (Flack sale) for $732.

“I was on a mission,” stated the buyer of the Schimmel squirrel carving on day two. It realized $27,940. In excellent condition, the carving was underbid by the buyer the last time it came onto the market, 26 years ago at the first Clyde and Betty Youtz sale on April 1, 2000, at Conestoga Auction Co., where the Booths paid $19,800.

As one can see from the short recap, some items proved

PENNSYLVANIA

01/02-12/31/2026, LewisburgEvery Sun. 8-4 (except Easter), 150 Silvermoon Ln.

05/02-03/2026, Reinholds - Sat & Sun 7 AM, 607 Willow Street, Shupp’s Grove Antique Market

05/08-10/2026, Wayne - FriSun 10 AM - 6 PM, 288 Swedesford Road, Gateway Vintage 05/08-10/2026, Carlisle - Fri & Sat 8 AM - 5 PM, Sun 8 AM - 4 PM, 1000 Bryn Mawr Road, Carlisle Antique Fest

05/09-10/2026, Reinholds - Sat & Sun 7 AM - 4 PM. 607 Willow Street, Shupp’s Grove Antique Market

05/09-12/31/2026, Wayne - Sat & Sun 10AM - 6PM, 153 Swedesford Road, Gateway Vintage 05 /16-17/2026, ReinholdsFri & Sat 7 AM, 607 Willow St, Shupp’s Grove Antique Market

05/23-24/2026, Reinholds - Sat & Sun 7AM - 4PM. 607 Willow Street, Shupp’s Grove Antique Market

05/30-31/2026, Reinholds - Sat & Sun 7AM - 4PM, 607 Willow St, Shupp’s Grove Antique Market

06/20/2026, New Oxford - Sat 8 am - 3 pm, 200 West Golden Lane, New Oxford Antique Show

06/24-28/2026, AdamstownWed - Sat, N Reading Road, 7 mile stretch

07/02-03/2026, LancasterThu & Fri 10 AM - 4 PM, 881 Rock Ford Road, Celebrate America’s 250

09/23-27/2026, AdamstownWed - Sat., N Reading Road, 7 mile stretch

10/02-03/2026, Lebanon - Fri 8 AM - 4 PM, Sat 8 AM - 2 PM, 80 Rocherty Road, Miss Morgan’s Milkweed Antiques & Artisan Show

10/18/2026, New Oxford - Sat

8 AM - 3 PM, 200 West Golden Lane, New Oxford Antique Show

TENNESSEE

05/01-02/2026, Clinton - Fri

12 PM - 7 PM, Sat 9 AM - 5 PM, Historic District, Clinch River Antique Festival

antique and vintage textiles, including quilts, lace, and ethnographic textiles. Founded by Dana Balsamo, an AQS Certified Appraiser, and having appeared on “Antiques Roadshow,” the firm is known for its expertise, transparency, and commitment to connecting important material culture with collectors worldwide.

Dana Auctions holds Pennsylvania Auctioneer License AU006175 and Kentucky License 278800.

to be hits and some misses, as with any large collection in any marketplace. Some areas of the market have contracted and others have expanded and are experiencing growth. It is always fun to be along for the ride. The captions tell more of the story.

To learn more, call Pook & Pook at 610-269-4040 or visit www.pookandpook.com.

INDIANA

AUCTIONS

05/15/2026, ShipshewanaFri 9:30 AM & Online, chupp auctions.com. 9 gas pumps, man y Sinclair items, 300+ oil tins, license plates, toy trucks & more! Chupp Auctions

05/27/2026, Shipshewana - Wed 9 AM, shipshewana tradingplace.com. Sign/Advertising auction. Shipshewana Trading Place

06/19-20/2026, Shipshewana - Fri & Sat 8AM - 4PM, shipshewanatradingplace. com. Weekend Flea Market & Antique/Vintage Market. Shipshewana Trading Post

MARYLAND

05/09/2026, Historic Frederick - Sat 9 AM, parzow auctions.com. Jewelry, silver, fine art , glassware, old cameras, antique & vintage, mirrors, lamps, garage finds & mo re! Howard Parzow, Auctioneer

NEW JERSEY

05/16/2026, Princeton - Sat 11 AM & Online, danaauctions. com. The Parker & Neal Mola Collection part 1. 200 lots of mola panels with themes including political, religious, mythical, zoomorphic, botanical, pop culture, advertising & more! Dana Auctions

PENNSYLVANIA

05/01/2026, Manheim - Fri 9 AM & Online, hessauctiongroup. com. Spring Antiques & Americana. Hess Auction Group

05 /01-17/2026, HellertownSoft Close Sun at 7PM, Online only, lesbeyerauctioneer.hibid. com. Primitives, mid-century items, Longaberger baskets, textiles, collectibles, household, decor & more! Les Beyer Auctioneer

05/01-02/2026, Ephrata - Sat 9 AM, www.horstauction.com. Cataloged antique auction. Horst Auction Center

05/02/2026, Lebanon - Sat 8 AM, bachmanauctioneer.com. Firearms, mechanics tools, collector trucks, furniture, antiques, collectibles, mounts. Harry H. Bachman Auctioneer

05/02/2026, Willow StreetSat 9 AM, auctionzip.com #1914. Coke collection, antiques & collectibles, furniture & more!

“Max” James Fishel Auctioneer

05/02/2026, Orwigsburg - Saturday 10 am, www.auctiontimebidboard.com. Firearms, coins, jewelry, antiques & vintage, furniture, toys, video games, collectibles, sports collectibles, instruments & more! Auction Time Bid Board

05/03/2026, Ephrata - Sun 3 PM & Online, gehmanauctions.hibid.com. Vinyl records. Gehman Auctions

05 /04/2026, Dillsburg - Sat 9 am, www.haars.com. Tools, collectibles, furniture & more! Hardy’s Auction Service

05/05/2026, Myerstown - Tues 1 PM, Online only, kleinfelters. com. Spring Firearms & ammunition sale. Kleinfelter’s Auction, Inc.

05 /09/2026, RichlandtownSat 9 AM, auctionzip.com #8116, Life-long collection of musical items & clocks. Michael Goepfert Auction Hall

05/09/2026, Lancaster - Sat 9 AM, 1406 Old Lampeter Road, hibid.com/company/5037/ leaman-auctions-ltd. Antiques, collectibles & Household items & much more! Leaman Auctions, Ltd

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Maria Martins

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to become available.

“Major works by Maria Martins, of this scale and importance, almost never come to market,” said Lauren Bradley, director of fine art at Rago/Wright.

Estimated at $150,000 to $200,000, the sculpture exemplifies Martins’ singular visual language, merging biomorphic forms with mythological and psychological themes. Created during Martins’ New York period in the 1940s, “Impossible” reflects her close relationship with Marcel Duchamp, an exchange widely seen as

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shaping some of the most psychologically charged works of Surrealism.

“Works of this caliber are rarely seen at auction because it’s really, in effect, her masterpiece,” says Francis M. Naumann, leading Duchamp scholar and author of “Impossible: The Love Affair between Marcel Duchamp & Maria Martins.” “Things like that are usually already in museums. Luckily, there are three versions of this. The other two are already in museums. This one isn’t.”

Martins, a Brazilian artist active in the United States and Europe, developed a distinctive sculptural vocabulary influenced by Amazonian mythologies and Surrealist biomorphism. Her work explores themes of transformation, desire, and the generative forces of nature, often blending human, vegetal, and animal forms into psychologically charged compositions.

The present example is believed to be the earliest of the three, further underscoring its importance within Martins’ oeuvre. “Impossible” stands as one of the most powerful expressions of Surrealist sculpture of the mid-20th century and a defining work of the artist’s career.

The work is on view in New York City through Thursday, May 14, at Rago/Wright, 501 W. 20th St., ahead of the auction which will take place in Lambertville, N.J.

For further information, call Rago/Wright at 312-563-0020.

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