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The Lifetime Collection of Carl & Joyce Mueller, Tallmadge, Ohio
“For over one half century, we have collected – lived with – and enjoyed antiques”.
Carl spent over fifty years in the commercial radiator business started by his father in 1920. Joyce is a retired elementary public school teacher. Our first collecting passion was for Edwardian era antique automobiles and mechanical music (music boxes, automaton, orchestrion, etc.) Shortly after our marriage in [...] Click here to continue reading.
The Collection of El Roy and Helene Master
The offering of the antiques and collectables of El Roy P. and Helene Livingood Master comes with some degree of sadness. This collection has remained intact for five generations and it is hoped that others can now appreciate its beauty and fine craftsmanship.
Helen, Harry and Minnie Janssen
This legacy started with the arrival of Henry Janssen and Ferdinand Thun from Germany at the turn [...] Click here to continue reading.
Property from the Collection of Margaret Scott Carter and Winthrop L. Carter
Scotty and Win were certainly well known to many of us as an integral part of the New England antiques business for over forty years. In the early 1960′s Scotty was exhibiting at an antiques show that Win came to as he was looking for items for a show where he would be exhibiting. Win walked into Scotty’s booth and found many [...] Click here to continue reading.
Ex Collection of Richard and Joane Smith
Richard Flanders Smith and his wife Joane both grew up in New England, Richard in Massachusetts and Joane in Connecticut. They both had a keen interest in art and design and attended the Yale University School of Fine Arts where they met as 3rd year art students. The couple sent each other one handmade drawn or painted card after card as their romance blossomed. After eloping in [...] Click here to continue reading.
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Jay Moyer, Lederach, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Jay R. Moyer, a public servant and former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, is a proud descendant of Mennonite and Schwenkfelder immigrants, who arrived on ships such as the “Good Ship Friendship,” which docked in the City of Philadelphia in 1729. Jay’s ancestor, Hans Christian Meyer, along with other early settlers from Switzerland and Germany, finally settled and helped to form [...] Click here to continue reading.
Evan Griffith Ricketts (1785 to 1874)
Evan Griffith Ricketts (1785-1874) was born in Cecil County, Maryland, and married Hannah Travers in that state on May 28, 1812. The couple immediately moved west, settling in Maysville, Kentucky, by February 8, 1813, when their first child was born. Evan G. Ricketts is listed as a potter in the 1850 census (the first census to list occupations) and clearly began manufacturing stoneware before making this pitcher in [...] Click here to continue reading.
Ballard Family Potteries
In 1854 the three Ballard brothers of Burlington, Vermont, Orrin L, Alfred K, and Hiram N. took over the old Thompson & Co. pottery in Gardiner, Maine. They operated the Gardiner facility for about a year and produced wares with the incised mark BALLARD & BROTHERS/GARDINER ME.
Following this experience, Orrin and Alfred moved to Portland, Maine, where in 1855 they established a pottery at 100 Green Street. The 1856 [...] Click here to continue reading.
Daniel Seagle and Seagle School of Pottery
Daniel Seagle (1805 to 1867), a resident of Vale, North Carolina in the Catawba River Valley area, founded what has become known as the Seagle school of potters. About a half dozen potters are known to have apprenticed to Daniel, making their pots at his kiln. These apprentices include Daniel’s son, James Franklin “Frank” Seagle (1829 to 1892); Daniel Holly (1811 to 1899); John Goodman, Daniel’s son-in-law [...] Click here to continue reading.
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The Golden Years of the Qing Dynasty: The Ming Dynasty Crumbles
By the middle of the 16th century, the once brilliant Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) was in decline. Beset by external threats in the form of piracy on the coast and the aggressive Mongol nomads to the north, conditions were made worse by inept [...] Click here to continue reading.
Thomas Commeraw, African-American Potter
For years, historians assumed that Thomas Commeraw, a prolific potter in Manhattan in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, was just another of the talented craftsmen with European roots who prospered in the New World, just like his contemporaries at the Crolius and Remmey potteries, but based on the research of Brandt Zipp, auctioneer at Crocker Farm and a respected stoneware historian, Commeraw was actually a free African-American. From [...] Click here to continue reading.
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