Antiques & Auction News 091616

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Historic Harmony Museum Antique Show Slated

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Annual Show Will Be Held Sept. 17 And 18 In Harmony, Pa. FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 16, 2016 • VOL. 47, NO. 38

“An Ohio Childhood: 200 Years Of Growing Up” On View At Decorative Arts Center New Exhibition Features More Than 100 Objects Depicting Or Used By Ohio Children Between 1816 And Today The Decorative Arts Center of Ohio in Lancaster, Ohio, has launched an innovative family-friendly exhibition with hands-on activities inspired by and designed for Ohio children. “An Ohio Childhood: 200 Years of Growing Up,” presented by PNC Arts Alive, illustrates the evolution of Ohio childhood from the frontier period to today through fascinating photographs, paintings, textiles, books and other objects and interactive experiences that make for an ideal first museum experience for children and their families. “It’s a great way to integrate whole families into an arts event,” said exhibition cocurator Andrew Richmond. “It’s an exhibition about kids, and it’s in part designed for kids. It’s a great way to get kids thinking about and interacting with arts and decorative arts in a way that they haven’t before.” Richmond and co-curator Hollie Davis have selected more than 100 paintings, photographs, toys, articles of clothing, pieces of furniture and other extraordinary and everyday items provided by individual lenders and institutions around the state and depicting or used by Ohio children between 1816 and 2016. Gallery labels – one set written specifically for elementary schoolage children, the other for adults – interpret a range of images of childhood, including those formed by the harsh and uncertain conditions of frontier life, those documenting experiences of children of more affluent families, and those of today’s culture of greater childhood leisure. “We all tend to look back with rose-colored glasses on our own childhoods,” said Richmond. “We’re

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The Harmony museum’s annual antique show and sale fundraiser will be presented on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 17 and 18, at the historic barn museum annex located at 303 Mercer Road in Harmony, Pa. Show hours will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Admission will be $5 per person. Admissions and sales of antiques donated to the museum for the purpose of the show support museum operations. A light lunch and refreshments will be available. Exhibiting dealers from Pennsylvania, Michigan, and

Indiana will offer quality antiques, including advertising, country and period furniture, ephemera, folk art, glass, jewelry, lighting, ceramics, paintings, primitives, textiles, tools, toys and smalls. Show chair is Tammy Gallagher of Sanford’s Antiques. The show is held in the region’s oldest barn, built in 1805, to shelter sheep belonging to the communal Harmony Society of German Lutheran Separatists that founded Harmony. Today, the heart of their community is a National Historic Landmark. Within walking distance

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Locati LLC To Hold Special Online Auction Locati LLC, of Maple Glen, Pa., will offer for sale the contents of 1910 Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia in a special online auction that will take place from Thursday, Sept. 15, to Monday, Sept. 26. The four-story luxury residence boasts four floors of living space, each full of fine furniture and decorative art. “This sale will be different for us in several ways,” said co-owner Michael Locati. “First, all lots will

remain at the house for the duration of the sale. Secondly, all lots will be sold without a reserve, and lastly we will hold the preview at the house with items in the room settings.” The preview for the special sale will take place at 1910 Rittenhouse Square on Saturday, Sept. 24, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and is open to the public. For further information, call Michael Locati at 215-619-2873 or email michael@locatillc.com.

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Quinn’s To Auction Merton D. Simpson Collection going to parse that out and show what a typical childhood in Ohio was in 1820, in 1920. Being a child in Ohio in the 21st century is a very different thing from being a child in Ohio in the 19th century.” Hands-on activities include drawing and coloring with Crayola crayons and Etch-a-Sketch – both invented in Ohio – and interacting with exhibition objects in special online activities offered on iPads in the galleries. Visitors are encouraged to bring cameras for a selfie contest and to pose for photos in life-size reproductions of exhibition photographs and paintings. Those photos could be posted on the Decorative Arts Center’s website and Facebook page. An app specially designed for the exhibition offers visitors additional enrichment and chances to win prizes. Children also can write their own gallery labels on blackboards in one of the exhibition galleries, or email them to DACO. The Decorative Arts Center recognizes studies linking early Continued on page 7

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C. Bechstein Grand Piano Sells For $173,000 At Leslie Hindman Auctioneers on page 18

In This Issue SHOPS, SHOWS & MARKETS . . . . . . . . . . starting on page 3 SHOPS DIRECTORY . . . . . . . . . on page 4 EVENT & AUCTION CALENDAR

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AUCTION SALE BILLS . . starting on page 10

FEATURED AUCTION: Bunch Auctions - Tuesday, September 20 in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania - Page 3

AUCTIONEER DIRECTORY . . . . on page 12 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . on page 23


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