Welcome to Z & K Antiques Here, you'll find original paint decorated country primitives, mechanical banks and other early toys, antique advertising, antique decorated stoneware, folk art, unusual patriotic Americana, and much more. Please peruse our offerings, feel free to contact us with further questions, and follow us on Facebook. We stand behind everything we sell and guarantee complete satisfaction.
Circa 1868-1882: This copper and zinc running horse weathervane was manufactured by the storied Boston, Massachusetts firm Harris and Company, which was purchased in 1868 by the father/son team Josephus and Ansel Harris and run by Ansel alone until 1882 after his father's demise in 1870.
For Sale: $3,995
Circa 1870s-1890s: Decorated top to bottom with five freehand stripes, a capacity mark, and rarely encountered stencil decorations for both potter and merchant, this beautiful 16" tall four gallon churn has a great gray coloration and contrasting dark blue cobalt.
For Sale: $3,950
Circa 1890-1925: This petite oak gathering basket in original windsor black paint was most likely made for a child as it was a common for children to harvest fruits and vegetables from the family garden and gather eggs from the barnyard hens.
For Sale: $1,450
Circa 1870s: This handsome two gallon cobalt decorated cake crock attributed to Ralph Grier's Mount Jordan Pottery in Oxford, Pennsylvania measures 11.75" in diameter and 13" from handle to handle.
For Sale: $1,250
Circa 1920-1940: This beautiful pair of paint decorated carvings of a smiling couple with articulated arms (similar to the period's whirligigs) is a fantastic example of early 20th century naive folk art.
For Sale: $2,875
Circa 1850-1875: Fulton, New York potter Samuel Hart is most remembered for the graphic and instantly recognizable lovebirds decoration: a pair of prancing songbirds with their chests out and beaks pointing toward the sky.
For Sale: $1,625
Circa 1890-1910: This early, colorful whirligig stands 19" tall including propellers.
For Sale: $2,450
Circa 1920s: Measuring 13.5" wide by 9.5" tall and 17" to the top of the extended handle, this striking early 20th century factory made woooden splint basket is constructed with rivets and round nails (all long oxidized) and painted inside and out.
For Sale: $1,750
Circa 1896: William McKinley was roundly criticized for his imperialist philosophy, and this pitcher lampooning our controversial 25th president as the fallen French Emporer is a vivid American political critique made by Philadelphia's Alfred B. Evans.
For Sale: $850
Circa 1st Quarter 20th Century: This original green and white painted farm basket measuring 14" wide x 9" tall to the rim and 13 1/2" to top of the handle has three supports on the bottom, a tightly wrapped thick double rim, and two rivets on each handle.
For Sale: $875
Circa 1870: This profusely decorated stoneware jar bears the least often found "James Hamilton & Co./Greensboro, Pa." stencil in bold block letters amongst a bevy of freehand decoration.
For Sale: $3,495
Circa 1840-1860: This graphic pair of watercolors represents the scarce large sized miniatures painted by Connecticut born itinerant artist James Sanford Ellsworth.
For Sale: $2,695
Circa 1915: Measuring 11.5" in length, this unusual black, green, and silver figural pencil case with a neat screw off nickle silver top was made by the American Pencil Company, which was founded in 1861 by Edward Weissenborn and sold to the Reckford family in 1885.
For Sale: $425
Circa 1870-1890: This fantastic 8.75" tall half gallon wax sealer advertises the Maysville Kentucky merchant Bierbower and Company, who sold "stoves, tinware &c." at 39 Market Street in the thriving business district a stone's throw from the banks of the Ohio River.
For Sale: $1,875
Circa 1899: Designed by Charles A. Bailey for Cromwell, Connecticut's J. & E. Stevens Company the popular Chief Big Moon mechanical bank features the surprising scene of a frog leaping from a pond and trying to grab the woman's fish.
For Sale: $4,850
Circa 1880s: This is the first example of stoneware made by George W. Johnston in Clarksburg, West Virginia that we have handled in our two decades in the antiques trade. This is a scarce jar from a little known West Virginia pottery.
For Sale: $1,485
Circa 1800-1810: This Liverpool jug features the important mourning transfer of "Washington in Glory, America in Tears" on one side and "The Mower" on the reverse with Herculaneum Pottery's classic take on America's Great Seal under the jug's spout.
For Sale: $1,950
Circa 1860s: Before legendary West Virginia potter A.P. Donaghho established his long running stoneware manufactory in Parkersburg, he owned the pottery in Fredericktown, Pennsylvania. While crocks from Parkersburg are plentiful, examples from Fredericktown are scarce commodities indeed.
For Sale: $750
Circa 1905-1910: This exquisite carving of a woman wearing only a pair of two-tone lace up boots retains its original surface with especially detailed calf length boots that are even painted on the bottoms of the soles.
For Sale: $2,495
Circa 1870-1890: This wonderful one gallon stoneware pitcher with freehand cobalt wavy stripe decoration stands nearly 11" tall and is attributed to Palatine, West Virginia.
For Sale: $2,195
Circa 1883: The J. & E. Stevens Company's scarce Monkey Riding Velocipede bell toy is usually found decorated with a japanned surface, but this deluxe 8 color painted variation is especially rare.
For Sale: $4,975
Circa 1890s: Whites Utica pieces in four color glaze treatments are scarce and desirable like this molded cooler with its two highly detailed and profusely decorated scenes.
For Sale: $3,795
Circa 1880s: This handmade folk art Fox and Geese gameboard is turned from a single slab of 1.25" thick tulip poplar and still retains its three simple turned wooden feet that are applied with tiny square hand cut nails.
For Sale: $1,350
Circa 1880-1920: This petite blacksmith made sheet iron occupational pipe maker's trade sign has a fantastic untouched weathered surface with remnants of its original white paint and would have hung above the shop's entryway.
For Sale: $1,650
Circa 1888: Marketed as the Base Ball Bank, the iconic Darktown Battery mechanical bank features three African American baseball players engaged in America's favorite pastime and is one of the earliest commercial references to black baseball teams.
For Sale: $6,850
Circa 1870s-1880s: This highly decorated batter jug potted by the Pittson, Pennsylvania's Evan R. Jones retains its original lid, spout cap, and bail handle and is in excellent condition.
For Sale: $2,150
Circa Mid 19th Century: The Pennsylvania Quakers began using the true lover's knot drawing as a love token or marriage proposal in the mid 1700s and carried this practice for the next century.
For Sale: $1,475
Circa 1750-1825: Early burl items are difficult to date, but judging by the form, the wonderful honest lip and bottom wear, and the many expected knife marks on the bowl's inside, this outstanding large burl bowl dates from the mid 18th century to the first quarter of the 19th century.
For Sale: $3,950
Circa 1895: Produced by the Judd Manufacturing Company, the Dog on Turntable mechanical bank is rarely found in multicolor paint schemes like this wonderful example.
For Sale: $3,950
Circa 1880-1895: James Benjamin was a successful Cincinnati stoneware merchant in the final quarter of the 19th century, and he contracted stoneware from Ohio stoneware potteries to sell at his Wholesale Stoneware Depot at No. 14 Water Street, close to the Ohio River in the state's Queen City.
For Sale: $1,695
Circa 1891: Designed by Philadelphia's James H. Bowen and manufactured by The J. & E. Stevens Company in Cromwell, Connecticut, the charming and relatively scarce Monkey and Coconut mechanical bank is noted for the monkey's unusually realistic portrayal in an era when most banks presented stereotypical or cartoonish visions of their subjects.
For Sale: $2,695
Circa 1840-1880: Measuring 8.5"D x 6"H, this fine one gallon salt glazed bowl is impressed "John Bell / Waynesboro" and has eight classic Bell cobalt leaves encircling it.
For Sale: $1,295
Circa Mid 19th Century: This rare folk art painted trade sign was found in Petersburg, Virginia, in the Tidewater region and is repurposed from a raised panel shutter including its cast iron catch and retaining its original painted surface with black lettering on a white ground.
For Sale: $4,750
Circa 1886: Manufactured by Shepard Hardware Company in Buffalo, New York, the Uncle Sam bank was patented June 8, 1886.
For Sale: $5,950
Circa 1890-1920: This graphically pleasing black, red and gold painted work box was likely made by a professional sign painter who used it to store paint, brushes, or other small supplies related to his trade.
For Sale: $575
Circa 1863: Dated pieces by iconic Waynesboro, Pennsylvania potter John Bell are extremely rare, and this one gallon cake crock includes a Civil War era 1863 inscription under one handle.
For Sale: $4,650
Circa 1880s-1890s: This four-color single sided 19th century Dress Making trade sign with acornesque cut out ends in original dry, untouched painted surface is fashioned from a single poplar board. The sign has a white ground and is bordered in black.
For Sale: $3,150
Circa 1920-1940: This graphic antique hooked rug is visually pleasing because the roosters are presented on a cream background and framed in six borders.
For Sale: $1,595
Circa 1870: Southwest Pennsylvania stoneware covered in freehand cobalt decoration is always in demand among discerning collectors, and this three gallon jar has all the bells and whistles: stripes, squiggles, flowers, vines, and a beautifully done three gallon capacity mark.
For Sale: $2,495
Circa 2nd Quarter 19th Century: Measuring a petite 19.25"H and constructed entirely of poplar, this dynamically flame mahogany grain painted child's chest bears a strong resemblance to the furniture of storied Hanover, Pennsylvania, cabinet maker John Rupp.
For Sale: $1,750
Circa 1870s: Likely made by James Hamilton and Company in Greensboro PA, this rare one gallon stencil decorated jug advertises Michael Moore's General Store in Proctor, West Virginia, a small unincorporated town on the Ohio River in Wetzel County.
For Sale: $1,475
Circa 1926-1928: Manufactured by Freeport, Illinois toy giant Arcade, this four color blue and black sedan includes silver radiator accent, gold headlights, a nickel plated spare tire, and rubber wheels marked "The Republic Rubber Co. Youngstown O."
For Sale: $3,450
Circa 1867-1894: Very few stoneware mugs produced by George William Newman Fulton (1834-1894) are known to exist, and this beautifully thrown salt glazed mug with exuberant Albany slip freehand decoration is a very fine example of this quirky and creative Shenandoah Valley of Virginia potter's output.
For Sale: $4,695
Circa 1880s: Notoriously difficult to find in excellent original paint, the scarce Tabby Bank portrays a cat sitting atop an egg with an emerging chick. Most likely produced by Kyser & Rex in Philadelphia.
For Sale: $1,495
Circa 1840-1870: This exuberantly painted apple box features a unique and striking rosewood grain painted ground with yellow pinstriping, dog, butterfly and vining flower theorem-like decorations.
For Sale: $1,795
Circa 1891: Manufactured by J. & E. Stevens Co., the scarce cat and mouse mechanical bank was marketed in many different paint schemes, and this example with beautiful light blue leaf decoration is one of the rarest and most visually pleasing color variations.
For Sale: $8,950
Circa Mid 19th Century: Measuring 15" tall, this sleek slightly ovoid 4 gallon Ohio churn sports a big folksy freehand flower with leaves and cobalt decorated handles.
For Sale: $795
Circa 1889: Buffalo, New York's Shepard Hardware Company manufactured a bevy of classic mechanical banks, and the iconic Santa Claus standing at the chimney remains one of its most popular and endearing creations.
For Sale: $2,850
Circa 1880s: This wonderfully dynamic 6 color paint decorated walnut Parcheesi board with a rare robin's egg blue ground features a very unusual inset home square and a mitred walnut frame.
For Sale: $2,950
Circa 1820s: When Revolutionary War hero General Marquis de Lafayette landed on American shores in 1824 for his two year victory tour of the United States, he became wildy popular with our nation's citizens, and even the English potteries produced wares bearing the French genaral's image for the American market.
For Sale: $1,295
Circa 1890-1920: We have seen a lot of pull toys over the years, but this is the first time we have come across this example consisting of three complexly painted composition roosters on spring legs atop a wooden base with its original mustard ground and black painted feet.
For Sale: $1,675
Circa 1825-1850: This second quarter 19th century New England document box in its vibrant original five color (red, yellow, brown, black, and green) paint scheme retains its original delicate cotter pin hinges and is constructed with tiny hand cut brads.
For Sale: $1,895
Circa 1930s: Founded in 1898, Lancaster, Pennsylvania's Hubley Company manufactured a bevy of cast iron toys, such as still and mechanical banks and animal drawn toys (among many other things), but the historic firm has garnered its most lasting fame from their line of realistic toy Harley-Davidson and Indian motorcycles.
For Sale: $1,795
Circa 1894: This very rare freehand decorated stoneware jardiniere measures a whopping 11" in height and 12" in diameter at its widest point and is dated 1894 on the bottom. By the 1890s, art pottery was coming into fashion, and jardinieres (often with pedestals) were being manufactured in mass quanitites by many potteries in the Ohio River Valley.
For Sale: $3,895
Circa 1840: When looking at this "Certificate of Birth and Baptism" for Robert Middleswarth (1839-1920), it is obvious to see why the fraktur's creator, Henry Young (1792-1861), was known as The Ladies with Anchor Artist before scholars identified him and rescued his work from the great tome of anonymity. Young's most recognized works include a pair of women, one holding an anchor and the other a mirror.
For Sale: $2,650
Circa 1882: Manufactured by J and E Stevens Company, the Shell Out bank carries a humorous message by asking its keeper to "shell out" some change, thus serving as a teaching tool for children to set back a few pennies for a rainy day.
For Sale: $750
Circa First Quarter 20th Century: Lucius A. Briggs (1852-1931) was active in Boston in the late 19th and early 20th century and is most noted for his marine watercolors. This painting captures the Red jacket, one of the fastest 19th clippers, while it was famously delayed for four days in an ice field off Cape Horn in 1854 while attempting to set a speed record.
For Sale: $1,295
Circa First Half 19th Century: Early American painted tinware with a bright red ground is far more difficult to find and thus more highly prized than its black asphaltum counterpart, and most of the red tinware (also called redware) was manufactured by the Filley family shops in Pennsylvania.
For Sale: $895
Circa 1850-1875: This important mixed media (oil, watercolor, and graphite) portrait of a family in mourning is one of eight known "memorial pictures" by the same as of yet unidentified mid 19th century American folk art painter.
For Sale: $6,250
Circa 1870-1890: Pantry boxes in original plum paint are extremely scarce, and this 9 3/8"D x 5"H thick-walled New England pantry box in original plum paint decoration has been part of our personal collection for years.
For Sale: $925
Circa 1890-1920: This German squeak toy with working bellows depicts a colorful rooster perched atop a tree stump. The legs are springs, and when one presses the squeaky bellows and lets go, the rooster moves back and forth.
For Sale: $725
Circa Early 19th Century: Housed in a beautiful carved gilt frame, this exquisite early 19th century British silk and needlework portrait of two children (most probably siblings) navigating their way across a wooded stream is of the foremost quality. The needlework is extremely well done with a myriad of different stitches, colors, and thicknesses of expensive thread, including metallic varieties, all giving the scene a realistic three dimensional feel.
For Sale: $1,795
Circa 1870-1890: Pantry boxes in original yellow paint are hard to find, and this 9.75"D x 5"H thick walled New England pantry box in original yellow and black paint decoration has been stashed away in our personal collection for some time now.
For Sale: $725
Circa 1886-1903: Strasburg, Virginia master potters Jacob and Daniel Letcher Eberly developed the multi-color lead, copper, and manganese glaze combination that was splashed over a slip wash which, once fired, produced an attractive polychromatic coloration so popular that even the city''s famous Bell family would imitate it on their own firm's wares.
For Sale: $945
Circa 1905: Lehmann's Paddy's Dancing Pig is one of the most whimsical and fantastic German tin windup toys of the early 20th century, featuring an Irishman saddled atop a pig and ready for the ride of his life.
For Sale: $3,750
Circa 1840s: These charming and well done folk art miniatures portray sisters in stylish blue dresses, both of them posed in a fancy chair against a red curtain.
For Sale: $1,595
Circa 1920s: Made from 1904-1948, the Lehmann sailor walking toys came with several different ribbons on the hat, each representing a different naval vessel.
For Sale: $1,550
Circa 1925-1950: Measuring 8" in height, this rare salt glazed sewer tile football on tee bank is most probably the work of legendary Tuscarawas County, Ohio, potter Edward J. Ellwood.
For Sale: $1,150
Circa 1880s: Attributed to James Fallows and Sons, this 12" long early American tin City Passenger horse drawn railroad trolley features an original five color paint scheme with no touch ups, repairs, or restoration.
For Sale: $1,425
Circa 1780-1820: Standing a mere 4.25" tall, this handsome engine turned cream jug was manufactured by one of England's Staffordshire potteries for the American market. Bedecked from top to bottom with stripes in four colors of slip, this small creamer is a visual jewel.
For Sale: $985
Circa 1930s: Chad Valley brings exceptional detail with the black and gold mohair, velveteen face with glass eyes, felt hands and large leatherette shoes assembled into this fantastic bumble bee character.
For Sale: $975
Circa Early 20th Century: Probablty manufactured in Maine, this whimsical painted child's sled measures a mere 27.5" long by10.5" wide and was obviously designed to fit a child.
For Sale: $1,350
Circa 1880s: With its central star motif, folky borders, and the period's popular name of Lester, this 10"L antique wooden doll sled is a delightful find.
For Sale: $995
Circa Mid 19th Century: While the English potters were making mocha and other related dipped and engine turned wares, their French contemporaries were also churning out decorated tableware for the American market, and this spectacular French covered onion soup bowl with pink and brown marbelized slip decoration is a terrific example of this output.
For Sale: $925
Circa 1902-1917: Under the pen name Bunny, Carl Schultz created the good humored, clever and witty character of Foxy Grandpa that quickly captured the hearts of the American public.
For Sale: $950
Circa 1831-1835: Job and John Jackson produced a series of light colored historical Staffordshire American views at the Church Yard Works in England's Burslem, Staffordshire, including this 7.25"H (to tip of handle) purple cream jug depicting Schenectady on the Mohawk River.
For Sale: $895
Circa 1880s: This fantastic paint decorated Checkers board is equally graphic on both sides. One side features a four color scheme of black green, red, and orange, and the opposing side sorts a black, red and green palette.
For Sale: $2,895
Circa 1860: Illustrated on page 253 of Alexandria, Virginia Pottery: 1792-1876 (Wadsworth Publishing Company 2007), author Eddie Wilder calls this one gallon handled storage jar "an outstanding example bearing the mark of Milburn." B.C. Milburn's imprint on this jar was in use circa 1833-1866.
For Sale: $1,595
Circa 1900: This 19" square pine Parcheesi gameboard features a six color paint scheme on a bright white ground and an anonymous old granny note on the back side: "Parcheesi Board Hand made by Arthur's grandpa, Joel Peck."
For Sale: $3,150
Circa 1870: Stoneware manufactured at Morgantown, West Virginia's Thompson Pottery is tough to find and always coveted by the region's collectors. This two gallon storage jar stands 11.5" tall and is adorned with the Thompson family's signature freehand ferns.
For Sale: $825
Circa 1944: Signed "WB 1-28-44," this WWII era six color original paint decorated Chinese checkers gameboard is decorated with waxing and waning crescent moons and representations of full or new moons and features an extremely unusual cool color palette that accentuates the board's lunar theme.
For Sale: $1,195
Circa 1860-1880: Measuring a hair over 14" tall and most probably thrown by Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, master potter Richard C. Remmey, this eye catching three gallon water cooler is decorated on all sides and includes an old wooden spigot that was found with the cooler when we purchased it.
For Sale: $2,295
Circa 1920s-1940s: This attractive blue and yellow ring toss game was most probably manufactured by New York City's J. Pressman and Company. Pressman rose to fame by manufacturing Chinese checkers games, and they also had a line of other wooden boards, including graphically dynamic ring toss boards.
For Sale: $450
Circa 1830-1860: This one gallon pitcher from the Mid-Atlantic region features a large and unusual vertically positioned flower along with other motifs linked to both the Baltimore MD and Richmond VA general locales.
For Sale: $975
Circa 1870-1882: This 8" tall half gallon storage jar turned by storied New Geneva, Pennsylvania, potter Alexander Conrad has the rich dark blue decoration and excellent contrast that advanced collectors of Southwestern Pennsylvania stoneware prefer.
For Sale: $875
Circa Early 20th Century: The gameboards published in Selby Shaver and Tim Chambers' seminal 2001 volume The Art of the Game have become iconic examples, and these boards rarely surface on the open market. This skillfully executed 22" x 31" eight color Parcheesi board is plate 124 in the book and was obviously made by a professional sign painter or carriage decorator as so many of the finest gameboards tend to be.
For Sale: $3,495
Circa 1840s: This petite 7.75" tall impressed half gallon storage crock features four dark blue horizontally flowers circling the jar's entirety.
For Sale: $925
Circa 1918-1933: The hand painted expression on this poodle is delightful and the original condition makes this a wonderful example of Schoenhut's expressive animals.
For Sale: $425
Circa 1825-1835: The oak leaf and acorn border transferware series contains over twenty-five American views. There were two views of Harvard produced in this series, including this view with two figures in the foreground.
For Sale: $625
Circa Late 19th Century: Measuring approximately 15"H (including 4"W modern museum stand) x 24.5", this factory made copper quill weathervane retains a handsome early historic working surface with verdigris patina beneath the old regilding.
For Sale: $4,795
Circa 1901: Designed by Charles A. Bailey for the J. & E. Stevens Company in Cromwell, Connecticut, the hard to find Hen and Chick mechanical bank is one of the firm's most endearing creations, featuring a protective mother hen and her precious yellow nestling, who pops out from under his mother's feathers to push the coin into the bank for safekeeping.
For Sale: $5,195
Circa 1822-1835: Manufactured for the American market by English ceramicist Jospeh Stubbs, this dark blue serving platter depicts an urban yet pastoral landscape of the Boston State House and neighboring buildings with cattle lounging in the foreground and a few people, including one on horseback and one with a dog, strolling the avenue.
For Sale: $1,850
Circa 1903-1918: With it's ceremonial head cover and fringed blanket this early example of Schoenhut's first large animals is in excellent, all original condition with it's leather-tipped wooden trunk, tusks, leather flap ears, swivel neck, jointed legs and rope tail. Measures 8".
For Sale: $945
Circa 1st Quarter 20th Century: This fantastic Forsyth County NC buttocks basket attributed to the Shelton Sisters is in pristine condition with no breaks or repairs.
For Sale: $3,450
Circa 1903-1918: This regular sized wooden jointed Schoenhut tiger with glass eyes measure 8" long not including its original tail. This figure was part of the popular early 20th century Schoenhut Circus and is in completely original condition with no paint touch-ups or restoration.
For Sale: $645
Circa 1912-1917: Designed by Charles A. Bailey for the J. & E. Stevens Company in Cromwell, Connecticut, the Boy Scout Camp mechanical bank features three boy scouts at their campsite with a cauldron, coffee pot, flag, owl, and teepee.
For Sale: $6,950
Circa 1814-1830: Brothers John and William Ridgway manufactured over 20 architectural views in their Beauties of America Series. This view of New York's City Hall depicts a family of three gazing at the elegant building. City Hall was completed in 1814 at the cost of half a million dollars and was for many years...undoubtedly the handsomest public building of the country
For Sale: $485
Circa 1927-1933: Albert Schoenhut's wooden circus sets remain one of his most well known creations. Evoking the feelings of anticipation and magic at the arrival of the circus, Schoenhut's early wooden toys capture the imagination.
For Sale: $475
Circa 1825-1850: This 11"L x 8.5"W x 7.5"H wooden band box covered in its original period block printed wallpaper has a bold floral pattern in gold, yellow, and brown on the base and a vibrantly decorated lid.
For Sale: $625
Circa 1918-1933: This regular sized wooden Schoenhut two hump camel with painted eyes measure 8" long not including its original tail.
For Sale: $325
Circa 1822-1835: English potter Joseph Stubbs, certainly chose well when he decided to enclose Philadelphia's Bank of the United States within his patriotic eagle border and make it part of his series to market on American shores.
For Sale: $435
Circa 1870: This superb early marbles game is decorated in Old Glory's red, white, and blue color palette in dry and unvarnished original paint.
For Sale: $3,250
Circa 1827-1834: Among brothers James and Ralph Clews' most beloved transferware patterns made for the American market is Winter View in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In Part 1 of Sam Laidacker's two volume Anglo-American China published in 1954, Laidacker catalogues a whopping 21 different shapes decorated with the Winter View of Pittsfield pattern, including the 10" dark blue dinner plate offered here.
For Sale: $310
Circa 1st Quarter 20th Century: This unusual weathervane in originial naturally weathered green paint measures an ample 32.5" long by 14.25" tall including its custom made museum stand.
For Sale: $3,500
Circa Early 20th Century: Richard Felton Outcault's groundbreaking 1890s comic strip Hogan's Alley features a character named Mickey Dugan, who became widely known as The Yellow Kid and is generally regarded as America's first comic character.
For Sale: $1,450
Circa 1920-1940: Boston Terrier hooked rug, professionally mounted, dark multi-color border with terrier inside center medallion, excellent condition, 30”H x 40”W.
For Sale: $1,800
Circa 1825: Historical Staffordshire and cup plate collectors will delight in having the opportunity to add this rare dark blue historical Staffordshire Staughton's Church, Philadelphia 4 1/8"D cup plate from the short lived partnership of Ralph Stevenson and Aldborough Loyd Williams.
For Sale: $875
Circa 1875: Philadelphia's Enterprise Manufacturing Company was awarded the contract to produce architecturcal still banks for the 1876 Centennial celebration in the City of Brotherly Love, and this scarce 6 3/8"H x 11"L x 3"D "small" version of the cast iron 3 in 1 Independence Hall still bank is a fine example of the banks made for our nation's 100th anniversary.
For Sale: $2,950
Circa 1820s: According to Sam Laidacker's iconic tome The Standard Catalogue of Anglo-American China from 1810 to 1850, the scarce Lake George, State of New York pattern was produced only on the 16.5" platter manufactured by the English firm Enoch Wood & Sons as part of their classic Shell Border with Circular Center series made for the American market.
For Sale: $2,950
Circa 1876: This canteen belonged to Charles H. Davis, who served in Co. G. of the 12th Massachusetts Volunteers.
For Sale: $7,250
Circa 1820s: Produced by iconic English pottery firm for the American market, this big and beefy 18.5" dark blue historical Staffordshire platter depicts Castle Garden, Battery, New York, a scene most commonly found on the tiny cup plate. This is an extremely picturesque and romanticized view of the battery and its promenade because, as Jeffrey B. Snyder explains on page 19 of his Historical Staffordshire: American Patriots & Views: "historical Staffordshire scenes and landscapes were pristine when compared to the dirtiness and difficulties of everyday life.
For Sale: $2,450
Circa 1907: Designed by Charles A. Bailey for the J. & E. Stevens Company in Cromwell, Connecticut the same year as the ever popular Teddy and The Bear bank, the Indian Shooting Bear mechanical bank is an American Classic.
For Sale: $4,950
Circa 1823-1835: Manufactured for the American market by English ceramicist Jospeh Stubbs, this 18 1/2" x 15 3/8" medium blue serving platter of the Upper Bridge Over the River Schuylkill is from the potter's popular spread eagle border series, which depicts various American views surrounded by a border of patriotic bald eagles interspersed between lush floral sprays.
For Sale: $1,750
Circa 1880: Designed by James H. Bowen and manufactured by The J. & E. Stevens Company in Cromwell, Connecticut, the highly popular Owl Turns Head mechanical bank was produced in many color schemes, this one being the brown variation.
For Sale: $995
Circa 1870s: This hefty 14" tall three gallon Midwestern presentation jug most likely from Ohio features a rare whimsical slip decorated pointing hand and two sets of initials, JS and GS, probably celebrating the marriage or anniversary of a couple.
For Sale: $1,550
Circa 1820s: Scarce view only produced on the 6.5" plate— Because the decorators at the English potteries in the early 19th century were largely illiterate, sometimes pieces were mismarked as the decorators could not read the marks. Such is the case with this Enoch Wood & Sons plate.
For Sale: $1,175
Circa 1911: Designed by Charles A. Bailey for the J. & E. Stevens Company in Cromwell, Connecticut, the scarce Lion Hunter mechanical bank depicts outdoorsman and hunter President Theodore Roosevelt shooting a lion and commemorates his big game safari in Africa.
For Sale: $13,500
Circa 1822-1835: Manufactured for the American market by English ceramicist Joseph Stubbs, this seldom found bacon platter of the Woodlands Near Philadelphia is from the potter's popular spread eagle border series, which depicts various American views surrounded by a border of patriotic bald eagles interspersed between lush floral sprays.
For Sale: $1,695
Circa 1873: Portraying corrupt 19th century Democractic New York politician William "Boss" Tweed, the Tammany Bank is one of the most popular mechanical banks produced by Cromwell, Connecticut's J & E Stevens Company and designed by John Hall.
For Sale: $3,695
Circa 1820s: One of the scarcer American views (produced on only two forms) from Enoch Wood & Sons' seminal Shell Border, Circular Center historical Staffordshire series is Tappan Bay from Greensburg (also known as Tappan Zee from Greensburg), and this petite dish is a hard one to find.
For Sale: $975
Circa 1850: This beautiful man's high hat wallpaper box with three color leaf and vine pattern printed wallpaper includes the early 7" tall period beaver skin stovepipe hat found with the box.
For Sale: $1,150
Circa 1820s: One of the tougher dinner plate scenes to find from Enoch Wood & Sons is the City of Albany, State of New York view. This interesting scene of New York's state capitol portrays cattle in the foreground with a myriad of boats in the Hudson River behind them and an urban cityscape of Albany's vast skyline in the background.
For Sale: $475
Circa 1870: Fresh from our personal collection (Ex Abby Schroeder) is this extremely scarce 14.5" tall early Ives clockwork circus rider with rare clown dancing figure.
For Sale: $5,950
Circa 1822-1835: Manufactured for the American market by English ceramicist Joseph Stubbs, this handsome platter of Hoboken in New Jersey is from the potter's popular spread eagle border series, which depicts various American views surrounded by a border of patriotic bald eagles interspersed between lush floral sprays.
For Sale: $1,675
Circa 1872: Made in many color combinations and designed by Russell Frisbie, the Frog on Round Base mechanical bank was patented on August 20, 1872 and manufactured by Cromwell, Connecticut's storied J. & E. Stevens Company.
For Sale: $1,395
Circa 1820s: Table Rock, Niagara is one of the few historical Staffordshire Canadian views manufactured in England for the American market and is highly desirable for that reason. This is the view of Niagara Falls from the Canadian side of the infamous honeymoon tourist attraction.
For Sale: $595
Circa 1915: Created by New York City's John W. Schmitt and manufactured by The J. & E. Stevens Company in Cromwell, Connecticut, the elusive Bill E. Grin mechanical bank has a simple action (sliding a coin into the top of Bill's head) and a surprising result (Bill's long tongue sliding out of his upturned mouth) that surely meant to both delight and frighten children in the same manner as early 20th century Halloween and Christmas decorations.
For Sale: $1,895
Circa 1826-1838: Standing 11" tall, this dark blue historical Staffordshire pitcher with embossed white rim was produced by English potter Thomas Mayer for the American market. Mayer's Arms of the American States series is highly sought after, and this beautiful Arms of Maryland pitcher is scarce, visually pleasing and extremely desirable among collectors.
For Sale: $1,650
Circa 1st Quarter 20th Century: Staunton, Virginia, native Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) served as America's 28th President from 1913 to 1921 and guided our nation through the difficulties of WWI and into the roaring twenties.
For Sale: $1,350
Circa 1822-1834: This graphic dark blue Shells pattern historical Staffordshire platter was produced in England by both Joseph Stubbs (1822-1834) and the partnership of Stubbs and Kent (1822-1830) for the American market.
For Sale: $975
Circa 1873: Manufactured by Cromwell, Connecticut's J and E Stevens Company and dated "Oct. 1st 1873" on the back, the 5 1/2"H x 4 1/4"W x 3 3/8"D cast iron City Bank with Crown features an extremely scarce green building with white trim, the rarest of its six color variations.
For Sale: $1,650
Circa 1820s: English pottery firm Enoch Wood and Sons manufactured a highly popular dark blue shell border series with American views produced expressly for the American market to resuscitate trade between Great Britain and the United States after the tumultuous War of 1812.
For Sale: $695
Circa 1930: Exhibited at the Washington County Museum of Fine arts in 1988, this outstanding pair of wooden folk art dolls are attributed to Polly Page at the Pleasant Hill Academy in Pleasant Hill, Tennessee.
For Sale: $1,350
Circa 1822-1835: Manufactured for the American market by English ceramicist Jospeh Stubbs, this 21" x 17" medium blue serving platter of Fair Mount Near Philadelphia is the largest platter from the potter's popular spread eagle border series, which depicts various American views surrounded by a border of patriotic bald eagles interspersed between lush floral sprays.
For Sale: $1,895
Circa 1917-1935: This German hand painted and lithographed tin windup EPL 725 Echo motorcycle from the storied firm Lehmann is one of the company's most recognized toys with its two tone blue lithographed frame and its lithographed rider with factory hand painted details.
For Sale: $2,350
Circa 1840s: Housed in a period (and possibly original) lemon gold frame, this early silhouette of a youth with hoop toy portrays the young man, whose figure is fully embellished with subtle black watercolor details, standing atop a blue foreground.
For Sale: $695
Circa 1880-1900: The flowerpot with attached saucer is a desirable tanware form, and this example, fully decorated all around, does not disappoint.
For Sale: $1,650
Circa 1820: This hard to find 6 7/8" dark blue transferware bread plate from English potter Ralph Stevenson's attractive Vine Border series that features nearly twenty American views is marked "New York Battery" on the reverse and is also known as "Battery, New York, Flagstaff Pavillion," "The Battery Flagstaff," and "Battery, New York (Flagstaff Pavillion)" in various texts on historical Staffordshire.
For Sale: $595
Circa 1891: Designed by Charles G. Shepard and Peter Adams and manufactured by Buffalo, New York's legendary Shepard Hardware Comany, this colorful and amusing cast iron bank depicts two young men playing the classic child's game of leap frog, whose origins stretch back to the late 16th century.
For Sale: $3,250
Circa 1857-1872: One of the more difficult 19th century Southwestern Pennyslvania stoneware pieces to find is work from the East Birmingham firm of Foell and Alt, and this 14" tall two gallon jug with both freehand and stencil decoration is a fantastic example of their output.
For Sale: $1,850
Circa 1892: Designed by Charles A. Bailey and manufactured by The J. & E. Stevens Company in Cromwell, Connecticut, Professor Pug Frog's Great Bicycle Feat is one of the most ingenious cast iron mechanical banks ever produced.
For Sale: $9,450
Circa 1826-1838: One of the most sought after dark blue historical Staffordshire transferware series is English potter Thomas Mayer's Arms of the American States. This luncheon plate depicts Arms of the State of Rhode Island with its great anchor under the festoon of Hope and is adorned on the back with Mayer's impressed mark.
For Sale: $395
Circa 2nd Quarter 20th Century: This snazzy double sided wooden trade sign has fantastic visual appeal with its figural cut out, black lettering on a white ground, and thin green pinstriped border that mimics the popular neon signs of the era.
For Sale: $1,995
Circa 1800-1850: This handsome and unusual presentation 10" script decorated redware plate made for C.G. Payne was more than likely manufactured in Norwalk, Connecticut, by Absalom Day or the firm Smith and Day.
For Sale: $3,250
Circa 1890-1920: Virginians love their painted baskets, and this stunning lidded sewing basket in original apple green paint most likely originates from Page County in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
For Sale: $1,495
Circa 1820s: This plate has two marks on the back: the standard impressed "Clews Warranted Staffordshire" with crown circular mark and the scarce blue merchant stamp for "J. Greenfield's China Store No. 77 Pearl Street New York." John Greenfield was a china importer and is found listed at this address in the New York City Directories from 1825 to 1835. Because of the dates of Lafayette's 1824-1826 American tour, Greenfield would have most probably ordered this plate during the general's visit.
For Sale: $295
Circa 1850-1880: Expensive imported woods like rosewood and mahogany were all the rage in mid nineteenth century America, and it was popular for furniture makers to paint less expensive woods such as pine and tulip poplar to mimic their pricey counterparts.
For Sale: $795
Circa 1820s: The names of fifteen American states are separated by patriotic stars and are festooned around the piece's border. The central medallion which included the figures George Washington, Justice, and Liberty and an assortment of fruits and flowers completes the scene Two Story Building with Curved Drive.
For Sale: $285
Circa 1875: West Virginia stoneware collectors love their local merchant jugs, and this two gallon stencil decorated jug made for "Louis P Frobe / Wines and Liquors / 1041 Market St / Wheeling W VA" is a terriffic example of the wares produced for over 100 different merchants in Wheeling in the last quarter of the 19th century.
For Sale: $1,795
Circa 1850-1880: Measuring 13" tall and 7.5" square, these large wooden newel post finials retain their original weathered gray paint decorated surface and are rare survivors from a bygone era.
For Sale: $1,295
Circa 1827-1834: One of brothers James and Ralph Clews' most popular transferware patterns made for the American market is Winter View in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In Part 1 of Sam Laidacker's two volume Anglo-American China published in 1954, Laidacker catalogues a whopping 21 different shapes decorated with the Winter View of Pittsfield pattern, including the 8" salad plate offered here.
For Sale: $275
Circa 1890-1920: This tin windup toy from the German firm Gunthermann portrays famed nursery rhyme couple Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sprat: "Jack Sprat could eat no fat, / His wife could eat no lean. / And so between them both, you see, / They licked the platter clean."
For Sale: $3,950
Circa 1895-1925: The Arts and Crafts movement was extremely popular in America from the mid 1890s through the first quarter of the 20th century, and the nation was ablaze with a myriad of businesses selling craftsman furniture, lamps, pottery, metalwork, and other products.
For Sale: $3,250
Circa Early 20th Century: Manufactured in Ravenna, Ohio, by still bank giant A.C. Williams, this 5" tall cast iron Buster Brown and Tige penny bank has original four color paint scheme.
For Sale: $325
Circa 1870s: It's always nice to find something a little different to pique one's interest. We have never come across a striper in this form, and this four striped half gallon storage jar with a widely flared lip is in superb as made condition.
For Sale: $950
Circa 1963: Silvio Peter Zoratti (1896-1992) was an Italian immigrant who came to America after being released from a WWI German prisoner of war camp. He had been trained as a stone carver in Europe and settled in Ohio, where, in 1923, he took a stonemason position on the Nickel Plate Railroad and worked there until his retirement in 1961.
For Sale: $1,395
Circa 1870-1890: Stoneware collectors love decorated one quart wax sealers, and this petite barrel form canner with five stripes and a blue dot for good measure is an interesting and attractively decorated example of the 19th century stoneware manufactured in Southwestern Pennsylvania.
For Sale: $1,395
Circa 1872: Manufactured by Cromwell, Connecticut's J and E Stevens Company, this cast iron Home Bank features a patriotic red, white, and blue paint scheme and is the very scarce still bank variation of its widely distributed mechanical cousin.
For Sale: $2,850
Circa 1880s: Ohio stoneware collectors are always looking for something different to scratch their itch, and this bottle form half gallon tanware jug made in Southwest Pennsylvania for Pomeroy, Ohio merchant J. A. Franz is a rare find, indeed.
For Sale: $1,750
Circa 1865-1890: This fantastic framed Parcheesi board features an exceptionally bright original paint decorated surface.
For Sale: $5,250
Circa 1895: James Stuart Blackton (1875-1941) emigrated to the United States with his family in 1885. A true renaissance man, Blackton was a skilled painter, illustrator, cartoonist, and reporter who also did stage work and made his fame as a movie producer in the silent film era.
For Sale: $2,850
Circa 1850-1870: This incredibly rare and important Ohio harvest jug inscribed "Elisabeth Harpster / Flat Rock / Seneca Co / O" stands a mere 7" high to the top of its handle and has a capacity of only 24 ounces. On top if its small size, it is the only known harvest jug of this type that has a woman's name on it, making it extremely scarce.
For Sale: $3,150
Circa 1910-1913: Sporting near mint black paint and what appears to be an unturned orginial screw, this high grade seal on rock still bank manufactured by Freeport, Illinois, cast iron toy giant Arcade measures 3.5" tall and 4.25" long.
For Sale: $695
Circa 1870: Petite one quart Southwestern Pennsylvania canning jars are extremely popular among collectors, and this 6.75" tall wax sealer has nice contast and dark clearly legible cobalt block lettering.
For Sale: $895
Circa 1878: John Girard’s highly detailed Pelican mechanical bank was manufactured by Cromwell, Connecticut bank giant J. and E. Stevens Company and depicts a realistic pelican who has captured a comical Middle Eastern gentleman in its mouth.
For Sale: $2,795
Circa 1880s: West Virginia stoneware collectors love their local merchant jars, and this 15" tall four gallon storage jar made for "A.W. Kidd and Sons, dealers in stoves, grates and general hard ware" in Jackson C.H. (now Ripley), West Virginia, is desirable because jars from towns that no longer exist or have been renamed are scarce and fewer large pieces were manufactured.
For Sale: $3,850
Circa 1870: Petite one quart Southwestern Pennsylvania canning jars are extremely popular among collectors, and this 6.75" tall wax sealer has nice contast and dark clearly legible cobalt block lettering.
For Sale: $7,450
Circa 1835-1838: Here is a very rare example of a beautiful 9.25" tall Clarkson Crolius Sr. one gallon jar with tabbed, rather than open, handles.
For Sale: $2,995
Circa 1924: This 7" long antique German tin litho windup Maggie and Jiggs platform toy was manufactured by Einfalt for comic character toy giant Nifty.
For Sale: $1,450
Circa 1900-1925: Smoking was much more prevalent and socially acceptable 100 years ago than it is today, and this NO SMOKING / ALLOWED IN HERE sign (in different fonts no less) , which most probably was nailed over a shop's doorway and certainly cast its stern proclamation to all who entered, seems dryly humorous when viewing it from a 21st century perspective.
For Sale: $995
Circa 1820s: When Revolutionary War hero General Marquis de Lafayette landed on American shores in 1824 for his two year victory tour of the United States, he became wildy popular with our nation's citizens, and even the English potteries produced wares bearing the French genaral's image for the American market.
For Sale: $1,250
Circa 1850-1875:This fine rosewood lap desk with poplar secondary wood and patriotic shield shaped mother of pearl escutcheon features an oil painting of Hudson, New York and is based on an 1830s William Henry Bartlett engraving entitled "View of Hudson City and the Catskill Mountains."
For Sale: $1,495
Circa 1870-1890: Although every 19th century American household needed at least one chamber pot by necessity, very few stoneware chamber pots have survived, and this is the only specimen of the form we have owned in our nearly twenty years in the business.
For Sale: $2,250
Circa 1837: Housed in period (and possibly original) frames with square nail construction, these highly detailed and skillfully rendered signed "J.M. Crowley Delineator, Rome" and dated March 16 and 17, 1837, graphite on paper miniature portraits feature identified sitters Eliza A. (Jefferson) Bradt and husband blacksmith John B. Bradt, both buried the Rome Cemetery in Rome, New York.
For Sale: $3,750
Circa 1900: East Hampton, Connecticut's N.N. Hill Brass Company innovated the manufacture of small bells and produced a superb line of cast iron pull toys that incorporated their bells.
For Sale: $1,650
Circa 19th Century: This lovely and unusual four-compartment poplar slide lid spice box covered in early wallpaper measures 6.75"L x 4.25"W x 2.25"H, a great small size that will display well in any setting of country antiques.
For Sale: $550
Circa 1870s: This massive Northeast Ohio water cooler attributed to Akron potter Freierick Weeks stands just over 15" tall and is nearly 12" in diameter.
For Sale: $2,850
Circa 1880s: This graphic 14 7/8"H x 15 1/4" gamboard features an unusual gold center medallion over a red and green playing surface that is bordered by pinstriping and floral cartouches in each corner.
For Sale: $795
Circa 1920s: Large and small cast iron Hubley footmen doorstops designed by Anne Fish, excellent original paint, large footmen 12 1/8"H x 8 3/8"W, small footmen 9"H x 5 7/8"W. Selling as a set.
For Sale: $1,900
Circa 1920s-1930s: Measuring 11.5"H x 20"W, this eye catching real estate sign in original black and white paint advertises an entire fruit orchard for sale for "only $9750.00." Such a deal!
For Sale: $650
Circa 1820s: The States pattern, also called America and Independence, is perhaps the most popular series of dark blue historical Stafforshire created for the Ameircan market by English brothers James and Ralph Clews. The names of fifteen American states are sparated by patrioc stars and are festooned around a piece's border.
For Sale: $1,875
Circa 1879-1897: This fine three gallon J.M. Hickerson Strasburg, Virginia storage jar boasts dark blue freehand decoration on both sides is in excellent condition.
For Sale: $1,195
Circa Late 19th Century: Measuring 10" tall (17" tall including its folksy modern mount) and having an 11.75" wingspan, this small eagle weathervane is attributed to New York City's J.W. Fiske and Company.
For Sale: $1,950
Circa 1870: Morgantown, West Virginia's pottery is hard to come by and this four gallon storage jar is decorated top to bottom with the Thompson family's signature ferns.
For Sale: $1,350
Circa 1880s: John Brown Walker (1815-1908) was an itinerant artist who cut fancy paper designs in the rural areas of Pennsylvania, northeastern Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan between 1880 and 1907.
For Sale: $2,450
Circa 1820s: This petite historical Staffordshire transferware platter with the desirable shell border depicts the scarce American view of High Lands Hudson River, a scene featuring an early sidewheeler and several other vessels on the Hudson River.
For Sale: $2,350
Circa 1880s: This handsome five gallon churn from the Greensboro, Pennsylvania firm Williams and Reppert stands 17.5" tall, is covered top to bottom with exuberant freehand and stenciled cobalt decoration.
For Sale: $995
Circa 1850-1880: Pantry boxes with labeled contents are always desirable in advanced collecting circles and this handsome original polychromatic paint decorated oval pantry box is stenciled "Cloves" on the base and has decorative stencils on its lid.
For Sale: $975
Circa 1820s: Niagara Falls has long been a spot of romance, and this dark blue transferware platter with shell border was manufactured for the American market by English firm Enoch Wood and Sons and depicts Niagara from the American Side.
For Sale: $1,795
Circa 1909: This large and exceedingly scarce full bodied weathervane in its untouched orginal weathered surface depicts the Morgan horse by which all other Morgans are measured, Hale's Green Mountain Morgan, 42 A.M.H., who was sired somewhere between 1832 and 1834 in Vermont, right about the time the famous Morgan racehorse Blackhawk was born.
For Sale: $17,500
Circa 1820s: Superb set of four matching original paint decorated early American fire leather buckets most probably from a bucket brigade or school, two handles professionally restored, each bucket 20.5"H (including handle) x 9.5"D. Ex. Stephen-Douglas Antiques.
For Sale: $4,500
Circa 1850-1880: This petite signed "John Bell / Waynesboro" ladies cuspidor, the smallest produced by the Pennsylvania potter, was decorated with manganese and then glazed with lead as was common practice with 19th century redware.
For Sale: $1,895
Circa 1840: While it can be difficult differentiating the work of individual Da Lee family members, scholarly evidence points us to the identification of Justus Dalee as having painted this pair of fine miniature portraits.
For Sale: $3,650
Circa 1922-1946: This 17.75" square blue and white ring toss game is signed " J. Pressman & Co. Inc., New York, N.Y." Pressman came to fame in the gameboard world by manufacturing Chinese checkers games, and they also had a line of other wooden boards, including graphically dynamic ring toss boards.
For Sale: $975
Circa 1852-1864: This 12" tall two gallon salt glazed storage crock is easily attributable to brothers Alexander and William Boughner, sons of Daniel Boughner, Greensboro, Pennsylvania's first potter.
For Sale: $2,795
Circa 1892: Incredible carved maple folk art cane inscribed “1892 Prominent Pugilists,” including portraits of historic boxing legends John L. Sullivan, Charlie Mitchell, Peter Jackson, and Bob Fitzsimmons, as well as other boxing related images, 35"L, excellent condition. See canes 221, 222, and 250 of George H. Meyer's American Folk Art Canes: Personal Sculpture (Sandringham Press, 1992) for examples attributed to the same maker.
For Sale: $1,500
Circa 1837: Silhouette aficionado Peggy McClard notes that Augustus Day's hollow cut silhouettes "are some of the most rare of signed American silhouettes," and both of these painted hollow cuts are signed "Day Fecit" as they should be.
For Sale: $2,950
Circa Late 19th Century: We have handled a lot of gameboards, but we have never come upon another hand painted checkers games with pink and white squares. Made by a a professional carriage maker, this large highly graphic eight-color checkerboard was most probably commissioned as a gift to a lady.
For Sale: $3,450
Circa 1880s: This 18" tall (including modern museum stand) 19th century eagle weathervane has an 18.5" wingspan and a 17.5" arrow sports an old historic weathered in use regilding with verdigis patina.
For Sale: $2,850
Circa Late 19th Century: This four color Chinese checkers gameboard in original red, white, blue, and orange paint decoration was cut out in the form of a six sided star from a single board of tulip poplar.
For Sale: $1,750
Circa 1890s: This handsome two gallon stoneware jug is an advertisement for Louis P. Frobe's liquor store at 1041 Market Street in Wheeling, West Virginia.
For Sale: $1,295
Circa 1907: Designed by Charles A. Bailey for the J. & E. Stevens Company in Cromwell, Connecticut, the Teddy and the Bear celebrates President Theodore Roosevelt's penchant for bear hunting. This is the scarce gray tree variation, which is only found on perhaps one out of every 50 examples.
For Sale: $3,795
Circa 1880: This historically significant and possibly unique 9 5/8" slip script redware plate reads "Hancock for Ever!" and was produced on the occasion of the beloved Union Civil War General Winfield Scott Hancock's 1880 bid for the presidency against James A. Garfield, who would be assassinated in 1881.
For Sale: $3,750
Circa 1900: This unusual 22.5" x 15" checkers game was painted on an old lap board, a testament to the utilitarian nature of folk art gameboards themselves. This style of board with keepers on either end was popular right around the turn of the twentieth century and, when combined with the paint colors used and the finely crazed surface we love to see, we can date the board to that general time period.
For Sale: $950
Circa 1870s: With the expanded interest in the striped stoneware of West Virginia and Southwest Pennsylvania, finding unusual examples of this type of stoneware has become increasingly difficult because of its high demand and relatively low supply.
For Sale: $3,695
Circa 1820s: The Landing of General Lafayette At Castle Garden, New York, 16 August, 1824 celebrates the starting point of the heroic French general's first visit to the United States since his historic leadership in the American Revolutionary War nearly fifty years earlier.
For Sale: $1,975
Circa 1905: Manufactured in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, by the little known firm Ober Manufacturing Company is this rare 5" tall The Capitalist sociopolitical themed still bank.
For Sale: $1,595
Circa 1879-1897: This large 14.5" tall four gallon signed J.M. Hickerson Strasburg VA storage jar features fantastic dark blue freehand floral decoration on both sides.
For Sale: $1,495
Circa Mid 19th Century: This incredibly striking New England bentwood bandbox wood peg construction is covered in early blue wallpaper, its lid featuring an outstanding compote of flowers flanked by hovering dragonflies and encircled by a lovely grapevine.
For Sale: $1,650
Circa 1730: Silk on linen sampler, English, signed “Elizabeth Norris July the 15 1730,” excellent condition, 16.75”H x 8.5”W housed in modern 21.5”H x 13.5”W frame.
For Sale: $1,450
Circa 1820s: This incredible one pint snuff of tobacco jar attributed to early American potter Branch Green's Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, production stands a mere hair over 5" tall and 4" in diameter at the widest point.
For Sale: $4,500
Circa 1820s: General Marquise de Lafayette's 1824-1825 tour of the United States was wildly popular among the American people, and the last surviving French general to fight in America's Revolutionary War was greeted enthusiastically along his route.
For Sale: $550
Circa 2nd Half 18th Century: This exuberantly turned English mortar and pestle is signed J. Salsbury on both pieces.
For Sale: $3,750
Circa 1882: Originally marketed as the Bullfrog Bank and the Frog Bank, James H. Bowen’s strikingly visual Two Frogs mechanical bank was manufactured by Cromwell, Connecticut bank giant J. & E. Stevens Company and imitates, in comic fashion, a frog catching its prey, in this case a child’s coin, by having the small frog punt the coin into the bigger frog's open mouth.
For Sale: $2,750
Circa 1840-1860: This handsome one gallon stoneware pitcher with floral decoration was most probably potted by Baltimore, Maryland's Mauldin Perine or William Linton.
For Sale: $1,450
Circa 1905: What a pleasure it is to offer this all original Kenton Sight-Seeing Auto!
For Sale: $5,500
Circa 1820s: In order to promote commerce between England and America after the War of 1812, potters in Britain began to manufacture transferware with American views and patriotic American slogans to export to the United States.
For Sale: $650
Circa 1890: This version of the Clown on Globe has the brown base and the round Stevens coin trap. This is a fine example of one of the most unusual, graphically pleasing, and kinetic of all the great American cast iron mechanical banks.
For Sale: $1,850
Circa 2nd Half 19th Century: This attractive 6 1/2"D x 2 5/8"H sailor made folk art ditty box features original green, red, and black paint and a large carved eight-point star on its lid.
For Sale: $1,250
Circa 1900: There really is no more classic weathervane than the rooster. Europe's oldest surviving weathervane, a rooster known as Ramperto's Cock, dates to circa 820-840 AD and is photographed and discussed on page 17 of Robert Shaw's American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds (Rizzoli Electra 2021).
For Sale: $7,250
Circa 1840: This early felt needlework picture of a slender whippet is charming.
For Sale: $2,450
Circa 1880s: This sculptural 12.25" long early American tin pull toy manufactored by James Fallow and Sons of Philadelphia depicts the immensely popular racehorse Dexter (1858-1888) being ridden by a gentleman wearing a tophat.
For Sale: $2,950
Circa 1908: Signed "Copyright by J. M. Harper 1907," this scarce cast iron still bank depicts a stork delivering a baby. Figural safe banks are rare and desirable in the bank collecting community, and finding the only one designed by the elusive Mr. Harper is a difficult feat indeed.
For Sale: $1,495
Circa 1867-1886: The most famous cobalt decoration from Utica, New York's N. A. White and Son pottery firm is that of the paddletail bird on branch.
For Sale: $895
Circa Late 1920s: The era of large pressed steel vehicles is highlighted by rare examples like this 27.5" long American National Giant series U.S. Army truck.
For Sale: $3,500
Circa 1890: Ingeniously designed by Charles A. Bailey for J. & E. Stevens Company, the Bad Accident mechanical bank features a mule drawn wagon whose driver who is too busy munching a slice of watermelon to notice a careless child run out in front of the wagon from behind a bush and cause a calamitous accident that spooks the mules, upends the wagon, and throws the poor driver backward.
For Sale: $2,650
Circa 2nd Half 19th Century: This handsome sailor made folk art ditty box features an original five color polychromatic paint scheme and a complex sgraffito encircled star within a star within a star pattern on its lid.
For Sale: $1,450
Circa 1840-1860: This mochaware footed bowl's whopping 11' diameter makes it a rare find.
For Sale: $1,495
Circa 1880s: This whimsical 7.75"H x 8.75"L x 4.5"D early American tin atriculated bell toy with an eye catching pair of yellow horses atop a green base was manufactured by Philadelphia's James Fallows and Sons.
For Sale: $3,250
Circa 1830-1850: This early and beautifully decorated one gallon stoneware pitcher is attributed to David Parr's production in Baltimore because of the color of the clay and the skillful thin potting not found on his Richmond output.
For Sale: $1,450
Circa 1835 | Ridgway Historic Scene: This large historical Staffordshire pottery platter depicts Wadham College.
For Sale: $795
Circa 1880s: Considering this 16 7/8" square paint decorated gameboard is filled with decoupaged warriors, it is likely that this highly stylized board was designed with the game of chess in mind.
For Sale: $2,450
Circa 1820s: Measuring 2 9/16" tall, this canary yellow coffee can pictures two farmers sowing a field with an ox drawn plow.
For Sale: $375
Circa 1882: Designed by Charles Shepard and Peter Adams Jr. and made by Shepard Hardware Company, the Humpty Dumpty Clown bank was never primed before it was decorated.
For Sale: $1,950
Circa 1810-1830: This captivating silk embroidery depicts a woman flanked by a donkey and a lion.
For Sale: $1,495
Circa 1963: Stamped on front "Adam and Eve About to Fall" and showing remnants of bright red and green paint, this sculpture hails from Ohio carver Silvio Zoratti's backyard Garden of Eden.
For Sale: $1,250
Circa 1870s: Standing 9" tall, this petite half gallon stoneware pitcher with classic double flower decoration was most probably potted by Baltimore, Maryland's Peter Herrmann.
For Sale: $1,450
Circa 1920s: Marked "made in Germany," this nearly 5" long antique tin litho windup Lehmann Naughty Boy depicts a father and his ill-behaved son in an early automobile.
For Sale: $1,950
Circa 1880s: Measuring 17 3/8" x 17 5/8", this charming three color double sided Parcheesi and Checkers gameboard with square nail construction has fantastic folk art allure.
For Sale: $1,450
Circa 1870s: This patriotic ballot box is extremely well constructed with fine details: tiny square brads, canted base molding, handmade tin funnels to make it easy to drop in marbles, inset pieces of wood on top to ensure a tight closure, and beautifully turned wooden handle.
For Sale: $1,450
Circa 1850s: Beaver County stoneware was made to last, and this three gallon semi-ovoid storage jar with double flower decoration is a testament to that statement. This handsome jar stands 10" high and is 11" in diameter, not including its handles.
For Sale: $895
Circa 1880: Created by East Hampton, Connecticut's famed Gong Bell Manufacturing Company, this beefy 9.25" long Ding Dong Bell / Pussy's Not in the Well cast iron bell toy depicts a cheerful couple and their beloved white cat, who, thankfully, is not trapped in the well.
For Sale: $2,950
Circa 1890s: The Neff Brothers' little known pottery was located in Taylorsville, an unincorporated community in Higghland County in the Southwest Ohio.
For Sale: $795
Circa 1920s: Measuring a petite 13.5 "H x 9.5"W, this gorgeous 4 color paint decorated pine tabletop dartboard features a graceful cut-out shape and an uncommon paint scheme of teal green, orange, red, and black.
For Sale: $2,900
Circa 1830: Blue decorated stoneware marked "T O Goodwin W Hartford" and potted by West Hartford, Connecticut's Thomas O'Hara Goodwin (1796-1880) is diffficult to come by, and this beautiful ovoid jug is a fine example of this elusive potter's output.
For Sale: $895
Circa 1870s: The Stevens and Brown velocipede, forerunner of the modern tricycle, is one of the earliest and most cherished American clockwork toys, and this example is the scarce version with a young African American male driver.
For Sale: $2,450
Circa 1975: This 18" tall rendition of Uncle Sam impressed " Made by S.P. Zoratti 1975" around the top of Sam's famous hat is a museum quality example of the whimsical patriotic carvings Zoratti completed around the time of our country's bicentennial.
For Sale: $1,850
Circa 1975: Silvio Peter Zoratti (1896-1992) was an Italian immigrant who came to America after being released from a WWI German prisoner of war camp.
For Sale: $1,150
Circa 1870s: This unusual 7.5" tall by 12" diameter (13" including the handles) two gallon handled milk pan was made to accommodate heavy farm labor with its thick rim and wide spout.
For Sale: $1,450
Circa 1880: Produced by East Hampton, Connecticut's storied Gong Bell Manufacturing Company, this Poodle Dog Bell Ringer No. 45 features a colorfully adorned clown and his trick dog.
For Sale: $3,500
Circa 1883-1885: Because Strasburg VA stoneware merchant William H. Crisman had a mere two-year run in the pottery business, it is always a treat to come across an interesting example of his work.
For Sale: $695
Circa Late 20th Century: Brother of world famous Georgia folk art potter Lanier Meaders, Reggie Meaders (1919-2009) lived to be 90 years old and is considered a master potter in his own right.
For Sale: $1,450
Circa Early 20th Century: Manufactured in Ravenna, Ohio, by still bank giant A.C. Williams, this 5.75" cast iron baseball player penny bank is modeled after Hall of Fame baseball palyer Ty Cobb, The Georgia Peach, the most storied athelete of his era.
For Sale: $795
Circa Early 20th Century: This classic bank retains its original paint, has its original screw, and serves as a fantastic tribute to America's favorite pastime.
For Sale: $595
Circa 1890s: The Speaking Dog, like the Girl Skipping Rope, is one of a handful of mechanical banks marketed specifically for girls and the blue dress variation is the most difficult to find.
For Sale: $1,950
Circa 1911-1932: Manufactured in Kenton, Ohio this 9 5/8" tall Statue of Liberty penny bank in its original silver paint with gold highlights is the largest and most difficult to find version of this patriotic still bank.
For Sale: $950
Circa 1900: This small 6.75" x 5.5" paint decorated Grand Army of the Republic canteen is a souvenir from the 34th Annual National Encampment, which took place August 26-30, 1900, on State Street in downtown Chicago, Illinois.
For Sale: $495
Circa 1895-1938: From the great German manufacturer Lehmann comes this charming all original tin windup in working condition.
For Sale: $1,450
Circa 1880: This 37" x 8" 19th century double sided Steamship Agent & Foreign Money Orders trade sign in original red, black, and gray weathered paint decoration has breadboard ends attached with hand cut nails.
For Sale: $1,250
Circa 1890-1910: Measuring 32.5" square when displayed diagonally and 23.5" x 23" when hung traditionally, this visually graphic five color paint decorated Parcheesi board highlighting anchor with twining rope corner blocks was most probably sailor made on America's northeastern shoreline.
For Sale: $1,950
Circa 1890: This version of the Clown on Globe has the scarce yellow base and the round Stevens coin trap. The bank retains an unusually high percentage of its colorful original paint, and is in superb working order.
For Sale: $3,750
Circa 1850s: Beaver County stoneware was made to last, and this five gallon semi-ovoid cream jar with floral decoration is a testament to the longevity of the county's pottery production. Weighing in at a stout 21 pounds, this jar stands 14" tall and is just over 12" wide from ear to ear.
For Sale: $850
Circa 1921-1928: The cast iron Yellow Cab is Freeport, Illinois, toy giant Arcade Manufacturing Company's most famous creation. This is the largest version of the iconic Yellow Cab.
For Sale: $1,695
Circa 1890-1910: Measuring approximately 24"L x 18"H, this handsome black and gold single sided tin sign was manufactured by New York's Sentenne & Green.
For Sale: $795
Circa Early 20th Century: This 5.25" tall cast iron Mutt and Jeff penny bank depicts Bud Fisher's famous comic strip characters posing on a box.
For Sale: $295
Circa late 19th century: Complete set of seven nested chromolithographed paper on wood boxes, McLoughlin Bros. New York, with nursery rhyme scenes, losses to paper as photographed and a few late small unobtrusive nails added for stability, largest box 6"H x 7 1/8"L x 7 1/8"W, 39.5"H when stacked.
For Sale: $895
Circa 1950s: In near mint condition with only very minor scratching, this large battery operated racer features a dynamic six color paint scheme and the sleek 1950s aerodynamic design modeled after the Indy race cars of the period.
For Sale: $1,950
Circa 1884: The Shepard Hardware Company in Buffalo, New York, manufactured cast iron mechanical banks for a scant ten year period and is known for the high quality and beautiful paint schemes of their ingenious mechanical banks, most of which, like the ever popular Punch and Judy bank, were designed by Peter Adams, Jr.
For Sale: $4,250
Circa 1814-1836: This classic dark blue Historical Staffordshire American scene features a courtship on the river bank.
For Sale: $450
Circa 1910: Highly graphic Southwestern Native American basket, probably Apache, minor losses on rim as photographed, 4.5”H x 16.5”D.
For Sale: $1,150
Circa 1930s: This outstanding 12" folk art carousel in 7 color original polychromatic paint decoration contains 11 indivudually carved and painted human figures with articulated arms, facial features (notice the tiny ears!), and clothing.
For Sale: $2,500
Circa 1888: Cast iron Boy on Trapeze mechanical bank, J. Barton Smith Co., Philadelphia PA, excellent original paint, no chips, cracks, or repairs, 9.5”H x 5”L x 5”D.
For Sale: $2,450
Circa 4th quarter 19th century : Best folk art patriotic painted cane with carved eagles, stars, shields, Civil War medal, pocket knife, violin, rifle, arrow, and more, 34”L, lacking, ferrule, wear commensurate with age and use. See cane #252 on page 146 of George H. Meyer’s American Folk Art Canes: Personal Sculpture (Sandringham Press, 1992) for another example of a cane by the same maker. See page 204 of the book for a detailed discussion and probable attribution to “Charles W. Teale (1817-1895), who lived in the New York State Soldiers Home and is buried in the Veterans Administration National Cemetery in Bath, New York.”
For Sale: $3,250
Circa Mid 20th Century: Because of its chunky curved back, this large 16" long canvasback hen decoy in original paint most probably hails from Wisconsin.
For Sale: $375
Circa mid 19th century: Highly graphic petite original smoke decorated chest on yellow ground with red and green borders, original hardware, dovetail and square nail construction, typical pieced and nailed repairs to lid, lacking key, 9.25"H x 24"L x 11.5"D.
For Sale: $1,600
Circa 1890: Original Jonah and The Whale cast iron mechanical bank, Shepard Hardware Company, superb original paint, works great, wonderful example, 5.5"H x 10.25"L x 3.75"D.
For Sale: $4,750
Circa mid 19th century: Smoke decorated box on white ground with blue sponged border on green ground, typical age splits, dovetail and square nail construction, 9"H x 21"L x 13"D.
For Sale: $1,600
Circa 19th Century: Check out this unusual wallpaper box in a horseshoe shape with a pincushion top and interior pouches.
For Sale: $495
Circa 1882: This is a classic all original mechanical bank from Cromwell, Connecticut's J. and E. Stevens Company.
For Sale: $2,450
Circa Late 19th Century: Bold red paint decoration and a fabulous surface make this a standout board.
For Sale: $1,250
Circa 1820s: The States pattern, also called America and Independence, is perhaps the most popular series of dark blue historical Staffordshire created for the American market by English brothers James and Ralph Clews. The names of fifteen American states are separated by patriotic stars and are festooned around a piece's border.
For Sale: $195
Circa 1873: The J. & E. Stevens Co. manufactured Charles H. Johnson’s Novelty Bank in many color patterns, and this handsome red, yellow, and blue variation is a real stunner.
For Sale: $1,750
Circa Late 19th Century: Over ten inches high and eighteen inches wide, this box works on the bottom of the stack and is in nice sturdy condition.
For Sale: $1,250
Circa 1820s: This maxim mug features a scene of three busy farmers piling hay onto an ox drawn wagon on a beautiful summer day.
For Sale: $425
Circa 19th Century: Square nail eys, wonderful old surface, and a turned head make this antique carved wooden decoy a very nice example.
For Sale: $650
Circa 1890s: Dark and crisp cobalt freehand and stencil decoration covers the length of this 15" New Geneva, Pennsylvania, R.T Williams four gallon storage jar.
For Sale: $850
Circa 1930s-1940s: At 16" square, this folk art Wahoo board has a white ground that accentuates is other colors.
For Sale: $895
Circa 1825-1835: The handsome oak leaf and acorn border dark blue historical Staffordshire transferware series contains over twenty-five American views, most of them architectural in nature, was manufactured by Ralph Stevenson, Ralph Stevenson & Williams, and Ralph Stevenson & Son, depending on the date produced.
For Sale: $550
Circa 1875: Manufactured by J. & E. Stevens just in time for the 1876 Centennial, the Liliput bank measures a petite 4.5' H x 3" W and takes its name from Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
For Sale: $1,450
Circa 1870-1880: Measuring 10 1/2"W x 5 1/2"H, this hefty thick-walled pantry box is in excellent condition.
For Sale: $550
Circa 1900: This checkerboard boasts two highly contrastingl reds separated with black stripes outlined in gold. Two green lines keep opponents at bay.
For Sale: $695
Circa 1850s: This pen and ink drawing of General George Washington on horseback is surely modeled after the 1850 Currier and Ives print.
For Sale: $650
Circa 1818-1846: This 12 7/8" x 10" dark blue platter depicts one of the early 19th century English tourist attrractions.
For Sale: $950
Circa 19th Century: The charming two tone paint scheme on this early New Hampshire signed pantry box has excellent contrast.
For Sale: $450
Circa 1880: Measuring 4 3/4" high, this highly stylized paint decorated antique firkin is a delightful beauty.
For Sale: $1,650
Circa 1907-1935: This 7" German tin litho Lehmann EHE & Co 570 open bed truck is in working condition.
For Sale: $650
Circa 1820s:This hefty canary yellow tankard, a giant in its day, stands nearly 5" tall and is the size of a modern coffee mug.
For Sale: $550
Circa 1825-1828: The B & O Railroad is one of the most collected American views.
For Sale: $950
Circa 19th Century: This unique rectangular wallpaper box in lovely early block printed green wallpaper with fantastic oxidation under the lid measures 7.25" long.
For Sale: $525
Circa 1820s: This unusal transfer scene shows a pair of gentlemen relaxing in the pastoral countryside.
For Sale: $350
Circa Mid 20th Century: This folksy glass-eyed 13" long bluebill drake decoy was definitley hunted over because the the beak has some shotgun pellet holes typical of decoys used on the water.
For Sale: $275
Circa 1814-1830: Ridgway manufactured over 20 American architectural views in their Beauties of America Series, and this view of the Philadelphia Library is an excellent example of their transferware produced for the American market.
For Sale: $495
Circa Late 19th Century: Robert Bishop and Patricia Coblentz have documented another example of this whirligig form by the same maker.
Sale Pending
Circa 1910-1930: For us, a big part of what makes a whirligig great is the imagination and ingenuity of its creator. This incredible railroad signalman whirligig sports a very unusual and whimsical pyramid shaped hat, a wonderful original four color paint scheme, carefully carved and painted facial features with shoe button eyes, and sleekly carved trousers, but the ingredient that elevates this whirligig to an astounding piece of folk art is the maker's use of an old leather shoe to fashion the signalman's traditional double breasted tailcoat.
Sale Pending
Circa Mid 19th Century: This 5 1/2"L x 4 1/8"W x 2"H oval pantry box in hard to find original oyster paint features opposing finger joints and square nail construction.
Sale Pending
Circa Late 19th Century: The superb original three-color blue, white, and black paint scheme on this early rotating policeman whirligig is breathtakingly beautiful, and the policeman's carved form with its rounded edges, painted facial features, and wide arms is absolutely charming.
Sale Pending
Circa 1st Quarter 20th Century: With its arms extended, this incredible folk art boxer whirligig stands close to 15" tall including its original base. The black, white and gray paint scheme is also completely original.
Sale Pending
Circa 2nd Quarter 19th Century: This small oil on sigle thick chamfered tulip poplar board folk art portrait of a gentleman is housed in a period (and possibly original) lemon gold frame. This is a fine example of American folk art portraiture depicting a well-dressed man, his small out of proportion hand draped comfortably over the sofa's arm.
Sale Pending
Circa 1890-1920: This pair of eye catching mustard, red, and green 24"L x 3"W hand carved and paint decorated miniature canoe paddles feature the ancient star and crescent motif, the major symbol of the Shriners fraternal organization formed in New York City in 1876 as an offshoot of the Freemasons.
Sale Pending
Circa 1876-1880: After the last pottery in Alexandria, Virginia, shut its doors in 1876, long time local merchant E.J. Miller & Son began to commission their salt glazed stoneware from the storied Greensboro, Pennsylvania pottery firm James Hamilton & Company.
Sale Pending
Bob Zordani and Heidi Kellner: (217) 714-5016, Lexington, Virginia: zandk@zandkantiques.com
