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Pook & Pook Delivers Major Two-Day Auction The Mason-Dixon From Mahantongo Valley Chest Of Drawers To Schwenkfelder Fraktur, Folk Art Ruled The Sale By Karl Pass Pook & Pook Inc. of Downingtown, Pa., held a big multi-consignor two-day catalog sale on Oct. 1 and 2, featuring some exceptional American folk art. Of the 820 lots, 794 sold, for a 97 percent sale rate, grossing $2,843,558. Prices realized include a 27 percent b u y e r ’ s p re m i u m . T h e h i g h estimate was $2,013,900. Opening the sale was the Johannes Mayer (Northumberland County, Pa. 1794-1883) Mahantongo Valley pine chest of drawers, dated “Jenner” (January) “1829” with paint decoration attributed to Isaac Stiehly (18001869), and twice signed in pencil
Valley,” pl. 11, p. 32. Some of the previous owners were historian Henry Reed, dealers Pat Bell and Ed Hild of Olde Hope Antiques, and collector Barbara Gordon. It realized $228,600, selling to a fairly new private buyer to Pook & Pook bidding online, according to Jaime Shearer, underbid by a bidder on the phone. It brought $18,700 in 1980 at the Garbisch sale held by Sotheby Parke-Bernet. Beginning in the 1940s, Col. Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch would eventually become among the most legendary collectors of American decorative arts in the country. Their country estate (Pokety Farm) was just west of Cambridge, Md.
Map The Library Of Congress Tried To Buy Returns To Auction Manuscript To Be Offered At Brunk Auctions On Oct. 29 By Risa B. Hoag
The original 1768 manuscript survey, once purchased by Malcolm Forbes for a world-record price, will be offered by Brunk Auctions on Thursday, Oct. 29, in Asheville, N.C. In April 1982, the Library of Congress went to Christie’s in New York hoping to acquire one of the most consequential maps in American history. It did not get it. The original hand-drawn manuscript survey of the Mason-Dixon Line instead sold for $360,000 to Malcolm Forbes, then president of Forbes magazine. Contemporary Continued on page 10
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The Mahantongo Valley chest of drawers realized $228,600 to a fairly new private buyer to Pook & Pook bidding online according to Jaime Shearer, underbid by a bidder on the phone. It brought $18,700 in 1980 at the Garbisch sale held by Sotheby Parke-Bernet. Read the story for more on this well-known piece.
The American Political Items Collectors Run Show And Sale On Nov. 6 And 7 A star of both days and new discovery was this Pennsylvania ink and watercolor patriotic double-page fraktur bookplate, early 19th century, attributed to Samuel Shultz, depicting George Washington holding a rolled document, likely the Declaration of Independence, the opposing page with spread wing eagle with shield chest, unframed, 12.25 by 15 inches, sold for $228,600 to the trade bidding on behalf of a customer, underbid by a museum.
James Pook sells the first lot, the extremely rare paint-decorated Johannes Mayer chest of drawers from the Mahantongo Valley of central Pennsylvania.
“John Mayer” on a drawer rail, making this the only known signed and dated piece from the region. A well-known exhibited and published piece from the famous Schwaben Creek Valley, the elusive often paint-decorated material from this rural Pennsylvania German enclave has been sought after for more than 100 years and was being sold out of the valley by the beginning of the 20th century. In 1987, the chest of drawers was in the exhibit “Decorated Furniture of the Mahantongo Valley” at Bucknell University and in numerous publications, one of which was Henry Reed’s book “Decorated Furniture of the Mahantongo
Selling for the same $228,600, on day two, an incredible unframed full sheet Pennsylvania ink and watercolor patriotic double-page fraktur bookplate, attributed to Samuel Shultz, depicting George Washington holding a rolled document, likely the Declaration of Independence, with homestead in upper corner and a flowering tulip basket with bird, the opposing page with spread wing eagle, went to the trade bidding on behalf of a collector, underbid by a museum. Samuel Shultz was one of a few known teachers who set and decorated ciphering books in the school near the Hereford-Upper Hanover Continued on page 8
All Presidents have something more than the highest office in common. They also have their political memorabilia. From the time of George Washington to the present modern era, these collectible artifacts, buttons, badges, ribbons, and posters represent American history and will be on display and for sale Friday and Saturday, Nov. 6 and 7. This fun show will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the first day and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the second day. It will take place at the Sheraton Bucks County Hotel Continued on page 5
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Antiques & Auction News — October 23, 2026 — 3
This Week: What I Like
they will bring really strong expensive offices and hotels. Over the years, I did covet up. They outbid everyone, and anything else. prices as the condition of the A lovely French carpet deco- many Orientals. Occasion- no one knew where the rugs “Born to collect” should pieces was over the top. Who rated our home for years until ally I would dip my toe into ended up going. It was some- be the motto of Peter Seibcould imagine a 19th-century I got my first Oriental rug. it all, like when I made two thing out of a movie. ert’s family. Raised in Cencarpet with its original sheen That first Oriental, a big trips to Frederick, Md., to buy In the last few years, the t ra l Pe n n sy lva n i a , S e i b still intact? In seeing so many Meshed, came from my friend the shabbiest Chinese carpet kids have grown up to the ert has been collecting and wonderful rugs, it got me to Jay Yupcavage. It was prob- in the world. The price was point of not having toys on writing about antiques for thinking about the Orientals ably too good of a rug for a right, and so it came home. It the floor. But we still have more than three decades. By in my house, which are quite young couple with a baby and suffered from an incontinent dogs who as they age have day, he is a museum direcfar removed from the great dogs. A lot of pee and puke border terrier who loved it to more and more issues. I still tor and has worked in Pennones at Grogan’s. stains later, it was ruined. I pieces, quite literally. Strike want Orientals. So my eye, sylvania, Wyoming, Virginia My dear friend and mentor loved it, but then again, so three! and wallet, turned back to and New Mexico. In addition, Irwin Richman told me that he did everyone else. I also have been incred- the antiques markets. Big he advises and consults with stopped collecting expensive I also inherited a small ibly intimidated by the Ori- inexpensive older (let’s say auction houses throughout Orientals when he had kids nondescript runner that came ental rug market. Some read- from the 1960s) Orientals the Mid-Atlantic region, parand dogs. I embraced that from my grandparents’ home. ers remember the days when are cheaper and common, ticularly about American furphilosophy. When I was a new- I loved that rug because it trucks from New York would so they have been strategi- niture and decorative arts. By Peter Seibert lywed in my first home, it was came from family and it had arrive at country sales in cally placed where the dogs Seibert’s writings include remnant carpets from Ollies the softness that I truly loved Pennsylvania where Oriental are. And my little bit of dis- books on photography, AmerThis past weekend, I was “Good Stuff Cheap.” Ollies in old Orientals. The prob- rugs were advertised. The auc- cretionary money has gone to ican fraternal societies and watching a YouTube channel furnishes a lot of things for lem was, it had been kept in tioneer would visibly wince at smaller Orientals that go in paintings. He and his family documentary about a forth- new and established house- a damp basement for years the sight of the rug dealers corners and under furniture. are restoring a 1905 arts and coming sale of high-qual- holds to this day, but back and then in a hot attic. By the as their checks were often no They are not great, proba- crafts house filled with years’ ity Oriental carpets at Gro- in the early 1990s, they often time it came to me, it was dry good, and so he had to fight bly not even good, but they worth of antique treasures gan’s Auctions. The rugs were had remnants of high-qual- rotted and came apart. Strike to get cash from them before do have the softness of old found in shops, co-ops and at outstanding, and I am sure ity carpeting purchased for two for the Orientals. allowing a rug to be picked ones that I cherish more than auctions.
Houdini Returns: The Centennial Auction
100 Rare Objects Will Cross The Auction Block 100 Years After The Death Of Harry Houdini Marking 100 years since Calif. Titled “Houdini Returns: collection of noted Houdthe death of Harry Houdini, The Centennial Auction,” the ini collector Kevin Connolly, Potter & Potter Auctions will sale brings to the public for the auction represents one present a landmark sale of the first time 100 historic of the most significant sinHoudini memorabilia on Sat- items, many of which were gle-owner offerings of Houdurday, Oct. 31, at the famed personally owned by Houdini. ini material ever assembled. Magic Castle in Hollywood, Drawn from the lifelong The sale spans the magician’s early career through his rise to international fame, and beyond. Fe a t u re l o t s i n c l u d e signed works from Houdi- The Houdini-owned handcuffs, bearing his name stamped in the metal, is estimated at ni’s library, Houdini-owned $6,000 to $12,000. handcuffs, his family photographs, personal correspon- and $500,000. Individual used during his final Ameri- he has appeared in nearly dence, rare posters, and a lots are expected to reach can tour. This piece of appa- every magic sale we’ve constriking life-size lobby pho- as much as $25,000. The sale ratus realized $324,000 at ducted over the past two tograph used to promote offers collectors a rare oppor- auction, the highest price decades,” said Gabe Fajuri, Houdini’s shows. Among the tunity to acquire objects of paid for any magic related President of Potter & Potter most remarkable items is an value which were personally object. Record-setting prices Auctions. “Even now, 100 early photograph of Houdini handled and preserved by for Houdini pieces such as years after his death, Houdperformance artifacts, signed ini’s name remains synonyand his wife, Bess, alongside Houdini himself. The auction house has books, autographed manu- mous with magic itself. We’re the cast of the Welsh Brothers Circus. Annotated in Hou- long been at the forefront of scripts, and rare posters have honored to partner with lifedini’s own hand, this photo- the market for magic mem- defined the market for Hou- long collector Kevin Connolly graph was recently featured orabilia. Surpassing virtu- dini memorabilia and has to present 100 rare relics that on the cover of a major publi- ally all other auction house established the firm as the he has spent decades assemcation pertaining to Houdini’s sales that pertain to mate- world’s leading destination bling. These are deeply perrial related to Harry Houd- for collectors. sonal objects, items Houdini early career. The photograph of Houdini and Bess with the Welsh Brothers “Houdini has been rep- owned, used, and lived with, Potter & Potter estimates ini. Notable results include Circus, annotated in Houdini’s hand, is estimated at $10,000 the total value of these col- Houdini’s Automatic Flow- resented in Potter & Potter’s and many will be offered to $20,000. Continued on page 6 lectibles between $300,000 ering Rosebush which was auctions from day one, and
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Jordan’s Fleer rookie has become the defining card of Continued from page 4 the modern post-war basrookie card No. 407. The com- ketball hobby, combining the plete set also includes the cel- beginning of his NBA ascent ebrated high-number series, with a standard-issue release cards No. 311-407, whose scar- that continues to command city and history have become extraordinary attention in the inseparable from the mythol- highest grades. ogy surrounding the 1952 Shohei Ohtani, one of the Topps release. central figures in the auction’s Jordan returned to the top pre-sale lineup, delivered of the results with one of the another of the event’s leadmost recognizable modern ing results. A 2018 Bowman basketball cards ever issued. Chrome Shohei Ohtani Rookie A 1986 Fleer Michael Jordan Autographs Blue Refractor No. Rookie No. 57 PSA Gem Mint 10 BCRA-SO PSA Gem Mint 10, sold for $402,600. For genera- PSA/DNA Auto 10, numbered tions of basketball collectors, 121/150, reached $390,400.
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The signed rookie issue dates through the premium memto the season in which Ohtani orabilia format that helped brought his rare two-way abil- establish Exquisite as one of ities to Major League Baseball, the defining high-end basketand pairs a PSA Gem Mint 10 ball products of its era. A 1951 Bowman Willie Mays grade with a PSA/DNA Auto 10 Rookie No. 305 PSA NM-MT 8 signature. Another scarce Jordan reached $268,400. The card card from Upper Deck’s influ- captures Mays during his ential Exquisite Collection National League Rookie of the realized $378,200. The 2009 Year season and remains one Upper Deck Exquisite Collec- of the foundational rookie tion Michael Jordan Rookie cards of the post-war basePatch-Flashback No. 78A BGS ball hobby. Of more than 2,500 EX-MT+ 6.5, numbered 11/23 examples listed in the PSA and carrying MBA Gold Dia- Population Report, only nine A 1986 Fleer Michael Jordan Rookie No. 57 PSA Gem Mint 10 mond certification, reimag- carry higher grades. Modern baseball also ines Jordan’s rookie imagery realized $402,600. was represented among the strongest results by another 2018 Bowman Chrome Shohei Ohtani Rookie Autographs Blue Refractor No. BCRA-SO, this example graded PSA Gem Mint 10 and numbered 044/150, which realized $268,400. The same price was achieved by a 1980 Topps Rickey Henderson Rookie No. 482 PSA Gem Mint 10. One of just 25 examples to earn the Gem Mint grade, Henderson’s rookie is the centerpiece of the 1980 Topps issue and celebrates the Hall of Famer who became baseball’s career leader in stolen bases and one of the defining leadoff hitters in the game’s history. Complete results can be found at www.HA.com/50090. A 1955 Topps Jackie Robinson No. 50 PSA Mint 9, with just one example graded higher, sold for $292,800. The card is one of the enduring images from Topps’ celebrated 1955 horizontalformat set.
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Continued from page 1 1892, The William Penn Shop Township border. Information was renowned for acquiron Shultz is in Dennis Moy- ing antiques in southeaster’s “Fraktur Writings and Folk ern Pennsylvania. This conArt Drawings of the Schwenk- signment descended through felder Library Collection,” pgs. successive generations of the 208-212. The fraktur along with family and has been off the a small group of Schwenk- market, unseen for more than felder vorschrift (writing sam- 60 years. ples) came from The William A n o t h e r co n s i g n m e n t Penn Shop, which was a Phila- was from a New York City delphia and Reading, ca. 1930 folk art collection, lots 59 to to 1980, antiques business. 99. Many of the fraktur in the Founded as part of a family group came through David
Attributed to Wilhelm Schimmel (1817-1890) the 9.5-inchA Christian Mertel (1739-1802), Lancaster County ink and high and 12.5-inch wingspan carved and painted spread wing watercolor fraktur birth certificate for Anna Margreta eagle in original black and brown surface went for $20,320 to Bischoft, b. 1791, with large colorful rampant unicorns and dealer David Schorsch. The neck had an old repaired break. lions, central heart text block, patch and in-fill in center, bottom left corner, sold for $21,590 to dealer Greg Kramer. It is ex. Hattie K. Brunner and ex. Richard Flanders Smith. It sold for $32,200 through Christie’s at the Mr. and Mrs. Richard Flanders Smith sale on June 3, 1995.
The southeastern Pennsylvania fraktur dated 1820 for Peter Schumann, the story being the frame, a carved folk art colorfully painted wooden frame with heart and pinwheel motifs, sold to the trade for $10,795. Published in “The Magazine Antiques” article by David A. Schorsch titled “Frames Used on American Folk Paintings and Needlework, 1760-1880,” October 1991, it had sold for $12,650 on Oct. 23, A Snow Hill Nunnery redware bowl attributed to the Bell 1993, at Sotheby’s sale for Burton and Helaine Fendelman. Pottery sold for $10,795.
Bringing $22,860, was this swell-bodied copper leaping horse weathervane, 19th century, attributed to A.J. Jewell Waltham, Mass., retaining an old verdigris surface.
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Wheatcroft. From this collection was a 21-inch wingspan and 14.5 inches high spreadwing carved and painted eagle attributed to Wilhelm Schimmel, bringing $24,130. Selling to David Schorsch, it brought $36,300 in 1989 at Sotheby’s. Schorsch also bought it in 1989. One of the top tier frakturs in a sale, also from this collection, was the Samuel Gottschall (1800-98), dated 1834, vibrantly colored 13-by8.25 inch (image size) fraktur with a variety of floral and geometric devices and human faces. It sold for $101,600, going to Connecticut dealer David Schorsch, underbid by a collector on the phone. A Pe nnsylvania chal k paint-decorated rabbit figure sold for $1,143. It did $1,540 on Sept. 9, 2000, at one of the Clyde and Betty Youtz estate sales held by Conestoga Auc- Among the finest frakturs in a sale, in a sale with many stellar tion Co. A chalkware cat, with fraktur, the Samuel Gottschall (Montgomery County, Pa., 1800black spots, minor wear, sold 98), dated 1834, vibrantly colored 13-by-8.25 inch (image size) for $3,048. A Berks Co., Pa. fraktur with a variety of floral and geometric devices and paint-decorated lift-top chest human faces, incredibly rare, ex. David Wheatcroft, realized on blue ground with two $101,600. It sold to David Schorsch, underbid by a collector Continued on page 9 on the phone.
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decoration on a yellow at Pook & Pook on Jan. 13, being Historic Trappe, where in Lancaster, Pa., where he Museum of Art at Franklin & Pook and Pook floral ground, repaired break to 2022. Two small paint-dec- the portrait is already on served as the first president Marshall College. Continued from page 8 one leg, another leg replaced, o ra t e d c a r v e d ro o s t e r s view. Historic Trappe over- of Franklin College. He is most The two-day sale catalog tombstone ivory panels with sold for $5,952 at the Don and attributed to Wilhelm Schim- sees three historic sites, two remembered for his passion with prices realized is online floral decoration, feet and Trish Herr sale in 2022 at Pook mel from the Sollenberger/ of which are the Muhlenberg to and contributions in the by visiting www.pookandbase molding replaced, sold & Pook and sold at this sale Hassinger families sold for House, and the Speaker’s field of botany. Another por- pook.com. for $24,130. It previously real- for $2,159. A very fine Ream- $6,500 each about 30 years at House. The former being the trait of Muhlenberg by LanFor further information, ized $15,990 on June 25, 2021, stown, Lancaster County, Pa., a sale held by Dave Rowe at home of Lutheran patriarch caster artist Jacob Eichholtz is call 610-269-4040. Continued on page 10 at Pook & Pook’s sale for the silk on linen sampler dated the Huntsdale Fire Hall, west Henry Muhlenberg and his in the collection of the Philips Joyce Bowes Collis estate. A 1826 sold for $6,000 hammer of Carlisle, Pa. They sold on son, General Peter MuhlenNew England paint-decorated ($7,620 with premium). It sold day one of this sale, the first berg, the latter, the residence apothecary cabinet sold for for $6,000 hammer ($7,440) bringing $4,826, the second, of Frederick Muhlenberg, $3,810. On June 24, 2021, at the with the then 24 percent pre- $3,810. the first Speaker of the U.S. Joyce Bowes Collis estate, it mium in 2022 at Don and Trish An American oil on canvas House of Representatives. went for $11,070. With a “S.Bell Herr sale at Pook & Pook. It portrait of Gotthilf Heinrich Ordained as a Lutheran min& Son” stamp, the Strasburg, is an exceptional example of Ernst Muhlenberg (1753-1815) ister, the Muhlenberg in the Va., redware seated spaniel Lancaster County needlework. sold for $16,510. The buyer portrait eventually settled sold for $16,510. At a Crocker A Berks County, Pa., paintFarm sale on April 8, 2022, decorated pine “Bucher” it sold for $28,800. A minia- dome-lid box in original floral ture Pennsylvania painted and house decoration realfoot stool in original vibrant ized $7,620. It sold for $8,060
An American leather and brass tacked wooden done-lid trunk, interior with a decorated landscape scene with houses and trees, 31 inches wide, sold for $13,970. It brought $9,375 at the Sotheby’s “Visual Grace” sale from the collection of Ralph Esmerian in 2014.
With a 21-inch wingspan and 14.5 inches high, the spreadwing carved and painted eagle attributed to Wilhelm Schimmel sold for $24,130 to dealer David Schorsch bidding in the salesroom. David Schorsch also bought it for $36,300 at the Potamkin sale at Sotheby’s in 1989. It had an old wing repair.
The George Robert Lawton, Sr. (Scituate, Rhode Island, 181385), two rare carved and painted pine horses, each retaining its original polychrome surface with speckled hide, the larger with a heart-decorated saddle and original horsehair tail, sold for $53,340. The buyer was a private collector in Massachusetts.
Selling for $35,560 was an Ernest Blumenschein (1874-1960), A nearly 4-inch high paint decorated carved wooden rooster The Berks Co., Pa., paint-decorated lift-top chest on oil on canvas Western landscape, signed lower left and attributed to Wilhelm Schimmel sold for $3,810. It had chips to tail and waddle. blue ground with two tombstone ivory panels with floral verso, dated 1951. decoration, feet and base molding replaced, sold for $24,130. It realized $15,990 on June 25, 2021, at Pook & Pook’s sale for the Joyce Bowes Collis estate.
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Chew III were examining the one of the most importstrip when Chew noticed ant documents in U.S. hisContinued from page 1 that its cartouche differed tory,” stated Andrew Brunk, coverage in “The Washingfrom that of the printed CEO and President of Brunk ton Post” called the result version. Comparison with Auctions. a “world record price for an “ Ch a : M as o n” a n d “J e re : The Mason-Dixon manthe surviving eastern manautographed map.” At the Dixon” beneath an ornauscript at Princeton Uni- uscript is expected to draw same sale, a broadside of mental cartouche. versity confirmed that the significant collector interest The work required Mason the Declaration of Indepenwestern strip was an origi- and will open at $500,000 and Dixon to cross rugged dence sold for $285,000. nal manuscript drawing by when it comes to auction “This is one of the most wilderness and the Alleghalongside a related group the same hand. important documents in eny Mountains with the aid The Chew family sold the of period maps and manAmerican history,” Forbes of Indigenous guides, huntmap at Christie’s in 1982, uscripts documenting the told “The Washington Post” ers, guards and axemen. In where Forbes acquired it for survey. The auction will take after buying it in 1982. “I September 1767, 26 Indig$360,000. “The Map Collec- place at Brunk Auctions, 117 plan to loan it to Princeton enous axemen refused to tor” subsequently described Tunnel Road, Asheville, N.C., University, which owns the proceed beyond the Mononthe result as the highest and begins at 10 a.m. ET. gahela out of fear of the other third of the map.” For more information, price ever paid for a map at Surveyors Charles Mason Shawnees and Delawares. the time. 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