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The Wiener Werkstatte
The Austrian equivalent of the English Arts and Crafts Movement, the Wiener Werkstatte [VEEN-er VEHRK-shtet-teh] (German for “Vienna Workshop”) was a direct offshoot from the fin-de-siacle Vienna Secession. Together, Josef Hoffmann (1870 to 1956) and Koloman Moser founded the Wiener Werkstatte Produktiv-Gemeinschaft von Kunsthandwerken, Wien (the Viennese Workshop and Production Cooperative of Art Works in Vienna) in 1903 as an association of artists and craftspeople working together to manufacture fashionable household [...] 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.
The Grenfell Mission Mat, by Robert Meltzer
In 1892, Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, physician, missionary and ardent mariner, arrived on the coast of Labrador to investigate conditions among the fishermen there. He found no resident doctor anywhere along the 1,000 plus miles of coastline. Many of the fishermen, primarily of English descent, lived there year-round, “liveyeres” as they were called, in remote villages, without roads, far from shops and/or markets, in poorly constructed huts [...] Click here to continue reading.
Penny Rugs
During the last quarter of the 19th century, thrifty homemakers found an economical way to use left over pieces of fabric that were too small to use in braided or hooked rugs. The scraps of left over fabric, usually from men’s suits or blankets, were sewn around circular pieces of thick wool. These were then attached to form small rugs and were used in a variety of ways – decorative table mats [...] Click here to continue reading.
The Ephrata Cloister or Ephrata Community
The Ephrata Cloister or Community was a religious community established in 1732 by Johann Conrad Beissel at Ephrata, in what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
The community was descended from the pietistic Schwarzenau Brethren movement of Alexander Mack of Schwarzenau in Germany. The first schism from the general body occurred in 1728 – the Seventh Day Dunkers, whose distinctive principle was that the seventh day was the [...] Click here to continue reading.
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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.
The Studebaker Collection of Quaker Hill
For over half a century, Richard and Sue Studebaker have stood as pillars of the Ohio antiques community. Thousands of collectors, scholars, and students have been welcomed to Quaker Hill, the couple’s eighteenth century home in Dayton, to enjoy the Studebaker’s hospitality and their passion for Americana.
Richard and Sue purchased their first antique on their honeymoon in New England in 1952, and within a few years, the [...] Click here to continue reading.
Property from Astor’s “Beechwood” Estate, Newport, Rhode Island
Beechwood Mansion at 580 Bellevue Avenue (famously known as “Millionaire’s Row”) in Newport, Rhode Island, was the summer “cottage” of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Astor, Jr. Mr. Astor purchased the thirty-nine room ocean-front mansion as an anniversary present for his wife in 1880 for $190,941.50.
From 1881 to 1906, Mrs. Astor (nee Caroline Webster Schermerhorn, 1831-1908), summered at Beechwood, where, as the creator of [...] Click here to continue reading.
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the most important document in American History, some would say in World History. Passed by the Continental Congress on July 2, 1776 sitting in Philadelphia it officially severed the ties of allegiance between the thirteen colonies and King George III and his realm of Great Britain, and setting forth the case for the colonies right to be independent.
In the years since its approval, copies of [...] Click here to continue reading.
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