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The Clock Collection of Mr. Raymond B. Mundt Raymond B. Mundt’s love for clocks began when he was a young child living in Wisconsin. At a young age, he could be found taking clocks apart in his house and fixing minor problems. He was fascinated by their mystery and beauty. A Mr. Mundt grew into an adult, his interest in antique clocks developed. The variety of cases and styles were interesting to this avid [...] Click here to continue reading. Timothy Pickering (1745 – 1829) Timothy Pickering was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in July 1745. He graduated from Harvard University in 1763, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1768, serving for some time as Register of Deeds for Essex County. Initially, Pickering was reluctant to sever ties with Great Britain but reconsidered his position and played a vital role in the Revolution’s success. He accepted General Washington’s offer to become Adjutant [...] Click here to continue reading. Jugendstil Movement In the late 19th century there was an artistic Renaissance in southern Germany, led by the artists and designers of the Jugendstil movement in the area around Munich. While Jugendstil artists like Arnold Bocklin are often thrown in with the French Art Nouveau artists of the same period, their art was stylistically original and focused on Germanic themes and mythology. The term “Jugendstil” originated in 1896, when it was published in the [...] Click here to continue reading. The Crow Clockmakers of Delaware Clockmakers surnamed Crow were active in the Wilmington, Delaware and Philadelphia areas as early as 1740 when George Crow was making and selling clocks and surveying instruments (through circa 1770). His son, George Crow Jr., is known to have continued this business in Wilmington, circa 1800. Thomas Crow was making and selling clocks in Wilmington circa 1770 and had moved to Philadelphia circa 1790, and later removed to West [...] Click here to continue reading. Richard & Rosemarie Machmer Provenance The following remembrances were publishing the Pook and Pook auction catalogue for this sale, held on October 24 and 25, 2008. For coverage of this sale, please see the account in Maine Antique Digest, published in January of 2009, available at http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=1014. About thirty-five years ago, I traveled around two hours to an evening country auction in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania. As I walked into the auction house, facing me was [...] Click here to continue reading. Sevres Porcelain Sevres Porcelain is known for its high quality, gilded and hand-painted decoration and wealthy and aristrocratic clientele, the French Sevres Porcelain Factory was founded in 1738 at Chateau de Vincennes, by local craftsmen from a nearby porcelain factory at Chantilly. Louis XV, the French “Sun King”, was a partial owner of the Sevres works and granted them a twenty year monopoly along with the title of Royal Manufacturer of Porcelain. Circa 1759 [...] Click here to continue reading. Solomon Parke, Clockmaker Solomon Parke maintained a clockmaker’s trade in Newtown, Pennsylvania, circa 1780, before he moved to Philadelphia, circa 1790. At the time of this move Parke signed his clocks “Solomon Parke, Philad”, five years later his clocks were marked Solomon Parke & Company, and circa 1805 his clocks began being marked Solomon Parke and Son, or Parke and Son. .style1 { margin: 4px; } The Foster-Lemmens Collection THREE GENERATIONS OF ANTIQUARIANS Foster’s Antiques of Wexford, Pennsylvania, like so many American businesses, had a small grass roots beginning. Bud Foster returned from World War II and started the business with his wife Tommie in 1946 on Route 910 in Allegheny County. The timing could not have been more perfect. GFs were returning home, and with the help of government financing, were [...] Click here to continue reading. Estate of Joseph Stanley For more than 200 years, residents and visitors passing in and out of New Hope, PA along Old York Road have scene a handsome high-walled mansion on the hill. Built between 1816 and 1823, Cintra was the dream of William Maris, a romantic and financially reckless entrepreneur who modeled his grand residence on a Portuguese castle of the same name. For twenty-three years, the interior of the New [...] Click here to continue reading. Thomas A. Gray Tom Gray of Old Salem, North Carolina is an heir of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company family fortune. A graduate of the Winterthur program in Early American Culture, Tom curated the corporate collection of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. He partnered with his mother, Anne Pepper Gray, to found the Old Salem Toy Museum. Gray has a long association with the Old Salem Inc. historic restoration, including vice president [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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