Spillman Engineering Company of North Tonawanda, New York, produced portable carousels for carnivals and country fairs.
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Netsuke Overview Having no pockets in their traditional kimono dress, the Japanese, beginning in the 17th century, developed a miniature sculptural form called a netsuke (pronouced net-ski in the west, but closer to netskeh in Japanese) to function as a toggle securing personal items to their robe’s sash (called an obi). Netsuke are mostly a feature of Japanese male culture. Women would tuck small personal items into their sleeves, but men suspended their accesories [...] Click here to continue reading. Dieppe, France – Ivory Carving During the 1600′s, Dieppe, France was a flourishing seaport and a major commerce center, one of the first in France. The Merchant Prince, D’Ango or the Medici of Dieppe (as he became to be known), brought great supplies of elephant tusks from India to the port of Dieppe. The abundance of this material helped to establish Dieppe as a center known for its fine ivory carvings. Even though Dieppe [...] Click here to continue reading. The Lear-Storer-Decatur Family and their role in American History Courtesy of James D Julia, Inc. (Winter Antiques & Fine Art Auction, February 4 & 5, 2010). The Lear-Storer-Decatur family is one encompassing a number of important historical figures in the 19th, 18th and 17th centuries. Their roots begin with Sir William Pepperrell Baronet, born June 27, 1696 and died July 6, 1759. He was born in Kittery Point, Maine (where all of this material [...] Click here to continue reading. .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. David Y. Ellinger (American, 1913 to 2003) The following obituary for David Y. Ellinger was published in the May, 2003 issue of the Maine Antique Digest, page 4-A. “David Ellinger wanted to be remembered as an antiques dealer first, then as a painter,” said Charlie Steinberg, the Abington, Pennsylvania antiques dealer. “He was a very good picker. He found many things now in the Geesey Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and he [...] Click here to continue reading. Silhouettes Silhouettes are side-view portraits much in fashion between 1770 and 1860 as a lower cost alternative to oil or watercolor portraits. Silhouettes are also known as “shades” (for shadows) or more correctly as “profiles” (profiles in miniature). The origin of silhouettes is thought to go back to the shadows cast by a fire on the walls of caves so it can be claimed that silhouettes or “shades” were an important influence in the [...] Click here to continue reading. Pietra Dura Pietra dura (also pietre dure) is an Italian phrase, with pietra meaning “stone” and dura meaning “hard” or “durable.” While pietra dura is the preferred term (at least according to The Getty’s Art and Architecture Thesaurus at http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/), the terms micromosaic or Florentine mosaic are occasionally encountered. (Some find “micromosaic” to be a little objectionable, applying only to the “rougher” forms of the art produced for the tourist trade.) Pietra dura is [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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