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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 1890-1920: This superbly constructed antique flower gathering basket features a graceful flared form and retains its incredible original dry patinated soldier blue and oyster white paint decorated surface.
For Sale: $2,950
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 1880: At only 4.75 in height, this little firkin in marbelized black and white paint is a rare find.
For Sale: $1,650
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 Mid 19th Century: Measuring 10.5" x 12" and presented under wavy glass in a nice old 12.5" x 14" lemon gold frame, this 19th century watercolor on paper features a girl with long braided pigtails and a bright red dress feeding her goats in the hilly, green countryside.
For Sale: $1,625
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 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 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 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 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 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 1810-1830: This captivating silk embroidered picture depicts a seated woman flanked by a donkey and a lion.
For Sale: $1,495
Circa 1840-1860: This mochaware footed bowl features gorgeous slip decoration, and its whopping 11" diameter makes it a very rare find.
For Sale: $1,495
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 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 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 1870-1890: This handsome three gallon stoneware churn with freehand cobalt decoration is attributed to S.A. Colvin and Son.
For Sale: $1,375
Circa Early 20th Century: Probablty manufactured in Maine, this whimsical painted child's sled measures a mere 27.5" L x 10.5" W.
For Sale: $1,350
Circa 1750-1825: This petite early American ash burl bowl retains a wonderful dry surface, features a footed bottom, pronounced rim, and has an attractive grain pattern.
For Sale: $1,295
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 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 1850-1880: We love 19th century redware script plates, and it's a real treat for us to offer this small 8.25" yellow slip decorated plate adorned with a moniker we have not previously encountered: Walter.
For Sale: $1,050
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 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 1890s: This delightful cast iron piggy bank sports an unusual striated copper flashed japanning. Ingeniously, the maufacturer has used the flashed surface to give the bank the appearance of the Gloucestershire Old Spots pig, a breed that has been around for centuries but was not given pedigree until 1913.
For Sale: $925
Circa First Half 19th Century: Early American pinted 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 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 1890s: Dark and crisp cobalt freehand and stencil decoration adorns this 15" R.T Williams four gallon storage jar.
For Sale: $850
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 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 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 Mid 19th Century: This striking 8.5"L oval wallpaper box covered in its original period blue, orange green, and brown block printed paper has the names John G. Brechbill, Elizabeth Brechbill, and Fanny Brechbill written inside.
For Sale: $795
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 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 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 1900: This turn of the last century gameboard boasts two highly contrasting reds separated with well executed black outlined in gold.
For Sale: $695
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 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 1870-1880: Measuring 10 1/2"W x 5 1/2"H, this pantry box retains its original hand cut square wooden pegs around the lid.
For Sale: $550
Circa 19th Century: Here's a unique divided wooden box with a slide lid decorated with wallpaper. Wonderful salmon and green seaweed pattern and excellent condition.
For Sale: $550
Circa 19th Century: Unique rectangular shaped wallpaper box in lovely early block printed green wallpaper with fantastic oxidation under the lid. Measures 7.25" long.
For Sale: $525
Circa 1820s-1830s: . This example from the Beauties of America series features Ridgway's floral border and is in excellent condition.
For Sale: $495
Circa 19th Century: Unusual wallpaper box in a horseshoe shape with a pincushion top and inside sewing pouches.
For Sale: $495
Circa 1880s: This delightfully petite square nailed poplar wall box features scalloped cut outs, milk glass tacks, and a fine original red paint decorated surface with an abstract naturalistic design (possibly the tree of life) made by quickly removing the paint when freshly wet.
For Sale: $475
Circa 19th Century: The charming two tone paint scheme on this early New Hampshire signed pantry box has excellent contrast.
For Sale: $450
Circa 2nd Half 18th Century: This exuberantly turned English mortar and pestle is signed J. Salsbury on both pieces.
Sale Pending
Circa 1760-1780: This superb 18th century ash burl bowl boasts an honest untouched condition with period make do lead and staple repairs, a rich and complex dark original surface, and beautifully turned rim and pronounced foot.
Sale Pending
Bob Zordani and Heidi Kellner: (217) 714-5016, Lexington, Virginia: zandk@zandkantiques.com
