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Collection of Earle and Yvonne Henderson, Charming Forge Mansion, Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania CHARMING FORGE MANSION¦AT A GLANCE Charming Forge Mansion, located in Berks County, Pennsylvania, is nestled atop a hill overlooking a site that once buzzed with industrial activity and the clanking of a forge hammer. The forge is closed now and many of the buildings are gone but the mansion still looks out over the Tulpehocken Creek that once powered this magnificent [...] Click here to continue reading. Tongzhi The term Tongzhi refers the reigning era name for the 10th Qing Emperor, Aixin-Jueluo Zaichun (1856 to 1875), who reigned from 1861 to 1875. The Tongzhi emperor was the third to last emperor to reign over all of China before 2,000 years of imperial dynastic history came to an end in 1911. Fylfot Decorative Motifs Fylfots are early design forms of the swastika. The design is frequently encountered in Pennsylvania Dutch decoration in a form that many say resembles a pinwheel. Never a widely used word, etymologists attribute the meaning to Middle English on the basis of one usage in a text from 1500. There, fylfot is used for the design because it was allegedly frequently used to “fill” the “foot” of a stained glass window [...] Click here to continue reading. Dentzel Carousel The Dentzel carousel shop was started in Philadelphia by a German immigrant named Gustav Dentzel in the 1860′s. His son William Dentzel continued the company until 1928, when it was sold to the Philadelphia Toboggan Company. It employed many fine carvers including the Muller brothers and was known for its realistic carving style. Yoruba Culture The Yoruba culture and language is indigenous to southwestern Nigeria and parts of Benin and Togo. Samuel Yellin, Artist in Metalwork Yellin as born in 1885 in Mogilera, Galacia, Poland. He was enrolled in a specialized school for arts and crafts as a child. There he was recognized for his drawing ability and interest in iron work. Family and teachers got him an apprenticeship to a local Russian blacksmith. Yellin became a mastersmith at the age of seventeen. In 1902 he left home and is believed to have traveled to [...] Click here to continue reading. John Brown Walker John Brown Walker, born in Washington County, Pennylvania, in 1815 and died in 1908 in Michigan, had strong ties to Geauga County, Ohio. Possibly trained as a stencil cutter, Brown spent long stretches of time during the 1880s in the Burton, Ohio, area where he produced fanciful cut-paper designs for friends and acquaintances. His work was the subject of a retrospective exhibition and catalog, titled Your Wellwisher, J.B. Walker, at Michigan State University. The Armitage-Herschell Company The Armitage-Herschell Company manufactured carousel animals in North Tonowanda, New York in the late 19th century. They were known for their simply carved animals, but more importantly, for their portable carousels that were the mainstay of traveling carnivals. Their factory still stands and is a museum dedicated to the carousel. See Manns et al, Painted Ponies. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc. Shaker Wood “Finger” Boxes Small oval wood boxes were used throughout the nineteenth century to store foodstuffs in the pantry, ladies’ sewing accessories and notions and small collectibles in general. Many of these boxes were formed with sides from a single thin “band” of wood with shaped “fingers” at one end. These fingers overlapped the opposite end of the band to which they were joined with copper, iron or brass tacks, thus forming the [...] Click here to continue reading. Wilhelm Schimmel Wilhelm Schimmel, regarded today as one of America’s most famous folk carvers, was a colorful itinerant who roamed throughout the Cumberland Valley region of Pennsylvania in the latter half of the nineteenth century. He likely immigrated to America from the Hesse-Darmstadt region of Germany. Over the course of at least 21 years, from 1869 to 1890 the year he died, Schimmel stayed with families mostly of German descent. He moved from farm [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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