Antiques & Auction News 050517

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Gettysburg Outdoor Antique Show Slated For May 20

FRIDAY MAY 5, 2017 • VOL. 48, NO. 18

Mildred Keyser: A Study In Revivalist Arts By Karl Pass Mildred Davis Keyser (18921950) was a revivalist potter in Plymouth Meeting, Montgomery County, Pa. She produced Pennsylvania German-inspired redware from 1938 to 1949. Her daughter, June Adams, worked along with her mother beginning in 1942 and continued the operation until 1976, the year she moved to Florida. Both mother and daughter got their start through taking a WPA adult education course at Amber High School taught by William Gleaves. Keyser started with a workshop in the family’s barn and eventually had an addition put onto their house, which served as a shop and studio. The operation was called Brookcroft Pottery and located on the Butler Pike just east of Plymouth Meeting. Mildred Keyser, who also went by Mrs. C. Naaman Keyser, was involved with the start of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen in the late 1930s. Keyser produced 33 booklets on Pennsylvania German traditional

A close-up of a sgraffito-decorated mug by Keyser. Private collection.

Keyser’s Brookcroft Pottery was located on the Butler Pike east of Plymouth Meeting, which is a town originally settled by the Quakers and today encompasses Plymouth and Whitemarsh Townships in Montgomery County, Pa. arts, titled as a “Home Craft Course” series. The first three volumes were on Pennsylvania German pottery and printed in 1943, reprinted in 1947. The booklets served as basic Continued on page 2

More than 120 exhibiting antique dealers and collectors will converge on Gettysburg, Pa., Saturday, May 20, for the 50th annual Gettysburg Spring and Fall Outdoor Antique Show. The fall edition will take place on Saturday, Sept. 23. Sprawling out from Gettysburg’s historic Lincoln Square, this event is billed as a “buyers and sellers” paradise, with a range of antiques and collectibles. Items from primitive cupboards, sideboards, benches, farm tables, and wooden boxes to lamps, coins, pattern glass, art glass, Depression-era glass, and ironstone will be shown for sale. Shoppers can also find clocks, jewelry, photos, pocket knives, bottles, old toys, crocks, old linens, dolls, pocket watches, holiday collectibles, postcards, and country farm items. Brand-name pieces of Heisey, Cambridge, Fostoria, R.S. Prussia, Limoges, Haviland, Rockwood, Roseville, and carnival glass will also be featured. “This is a great semiannual tradition in Gettysburg,” said John Angstadt, the event’s organizer, “Dealers, collectors and casual

This is a large grouping of Keyser pottery. Private collection.

New Record Established For A Lacy-Period Glass Salt At Jeffrey S. Evans on page 2

buyers all enjoy the Gettysburg Outdoor Antique Show.” The event is held on Carlisle, Chambersburg, Baltimore and York streets, along with Lincoln Square, in downtown Gettysburg. The show is held rain or shine beginning at 7 a.m. and lasts until 4 p.m. The proceeds from this show support community activities of the Gettysburg Area Retail Merchants Association. To learn more, call John Angstadt at 717-253-5750 or email GettysburgAntiqueShow@ comcast.net.

Jersey Cartoonist’s New Book Popular With Collectors John Stinger, a serious collector and a nationally syndicated cartoonist from Stewartsville, N.J., is having a fun time with his 260-page book gently spoofing collectors and treasure hunters. The book, “The Lighter Side of Collecting!” published by Tanner Publishing, is off to a fast start, selling to collectors, dealers, auctioneers, shop owners, appraisers and memorabilia seekers worldwide who wheel-and-deal in vintage nostalgia.

His cartoons appear weekly and monthly in national magazines and newspapers. Stinger’s very funny but nonoffensive cartoons - all 200 of them – are featured full page and illustratively drawn in what he calls “the New Yorker style.” From the positive press and response he’s receiving, the book is resonating with younger collectors as well as seasoned old-timers who deal with rapidly changing pop culture. But, it’s still all about the fun of chasing and finding rarities at yard sales, flea markets, antiques malls, estate

Author Talk And Book Signing Set For Princeton’s Present Day Club On May 11 on page 3

Historical Items To Highlight Americana And Political Auction At Heritage On May 13 on page 6

Hake’s Americana Launches 50th Year With Million-Dollar Auction Of Pop Culture Memorabilia sales, auction houses and dusty attics. “The Lighter Side of Collecting!” is available on Amazon.com at $15.95 per copy plus shipping. It is also available from the author. To learn more, email stingerfineart@yahoo.com.

This is Mildred Keyser at work making pottery circa 1943.

AAN Current News

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Back-To-Back Catalog Sales At Conestoga on page 12

In This Issue SHOPS, SHOWS & MARKETS . . . . . . . . . . starting on page 3 SHOPS DIRECTORY . . . . . . . . . on page 5 EVENT & AUCTION CALENDAR . on page 7 AUCTION SALE BILLS . . . starting on page 7

FEATURED AUCTION: Cordier Auctions - May 6 and 7 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania - Page 4

AUCTIONEER DIRECTORY . . . . on page 10 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . on page 19


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