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Maine Antique Digest, April 2015 11-B
- AUCTION -
- SHOW -
Among the flow blue ceramics
in the booth of Ed and Bonnie
Jordan of Victorian Antiques,
Onsted, Michigan, was this
jardinière and a garden seat,
priced at $1195 the pair.
of our wheels goes to someone who
spins,” she noted.
Tom and Rose Cheap of Period
Antiques, Scottsburg, Indiana, had
people lining up for a one-drawer
cherry stand from Indiana. Priced at
$575, it had turned legs and was let-
tered “CD Columbus IA” under the
drawer (“IA” was an early abbrevia-
tion for Indiana). A deal with the first
potential buyer, who wanted to barter
a game board as part of the sale, fell
through. It didn’t work out any better
with the second guy in line, but the
third person took the stand home.
Other furniture seen leaving the
building ranged from painted benches
to a refinished Victorian secretary in
quartersawn oak.
It wasn’t just large pieces attracting
attention. Judson and Karen Fults of
Lakeview, Ohio, sold a hand-painted
Pennsylvania box with laid fraktur
paper on the top and front and with
painted designs on the ends. David
Brandeburg of Loveland, Ohio, sold
an 1838 Ohio sampler lettered for
“Mrs. R. Parshalls. Sem.,” a school
in Lebanon, according to informa-
tion found in Sue Studebaker’s
Ohio
Is My Dwelling Place: Schoolgirl
Embroideries 1800-1850
(2002).
The changing face of the Lebanon
Antique Show could be seen in the
inclusion of some booths, most nota-
bly that of Pamela Apkarian-Russell
of Castle Halloween Museum, Ben-
wood, West Virginia. Author of 11
books and an expert on Halloween
memorabilia, she brought a variety
of holiday collectibles to the show,
plus her black cat Anush, who got a
fair share of attention. Her booth also
reflected the range of prices seen at
Lebanon, where a $1 contemporary
Santa could be found displayed near a
$325 Occupied Japan example. Better
yet, a hard-to-find three-piece minia-
ture ceramic tea set from Germany,
circa 1900, decorated in a jack-o’-
lantern motif, was tagged $1800.
Dealers gave mixed reviews of the
January show. One said several buy-
ers were disappointed that the show
“has gone downhill,” but Ray Mon-
genas of Loveland, Ohio, refuted that
claim. “What I’m hearing,” Mon-
genas said, “is ‘It feels like the old
Crutcher days.’ If that isn’t a compli-
ment, I don’t know what is.”
For information on the Lebanon
Antique Show, contact the Warren
County Historical Society at (513)
932-1817 or visit
(www.wchsmuseum.org).
Other dealers teased John and Linda Hood of Spring-
house Farm Antiques, Lewis Center, Ohio, about their
success with spinning wheels. The couple sold six in
2014 and started 2015 off with the sale of the yarn reel
at left, signed “DC 1841 / WB” and priced at $195, and
a flax wheel priced at $345.
Country antiques and Americana have
defined the Lebanon Antique Show for
years. Judson and Karen Fults of Lake-
view, Ohio, offered a whirligig from New
England in old red paint for $425, a hand-
painted Pennsylvania box with laid fraktur
paper on the top and front and painted
designs on the ends (it sold), and a six-tin
pie safe in robin’s-egg-blue paint for $985.
Victorian wares included this circa
1860 Meridian porcelain-lined
pitcher, tilting on a stand, and two
goblets, priced at $5995 from Rick
and Rita Robben of Harrison,
Ohio.
Deborah Fisher of Lebanon, Ohio,
asked $675 for this set of six heart-
shaped tinware cake pans from the
fourth quarter of the 19th century.
“It’s a fantastic show,” she noted.
“Good crowd.”
“The interest is really in diverse goods,”
said Ray Mongenas of Mongenas
Antiques, Loveland, Ohio. He and his
wife, Kathy, offered an 18th-century tea
table priced at $850; an 18th-century
New England mule chest that sold; a
New England painted dome-top trunk
from the first half of the 19th century for
$950; and a ship diorama at $550.
Markings suggested an Indiana ori-
gin for this 1820-30 one-drawer cherry
stand. Offered at $575 by Tom and Rose
Cheap of Period Antiques, Scottsburg,
Indiana, it sold.
Dale and Lois Dietrich of Happy Hilda's Antiques, Cin-
cinnati, Ohio, asked $375 for this pitcher and six mugs
by Brush-McCoy.
Priced at $600, this T.C. Lindsay
watercolor still life of fruit in a bas-
ket, 10½" x 13½", sold shortly after
it was photographed. It had been
offered by Edythe and Don Auker-
man of Old Stone House, Center-
ville, Ohio.
In maple with walnut-banded drawers, this circa
1770 Queen Anne highboy from southeastern
New England, 71" high x 35" wide, was $5400
from Denise Scott Antiques, East Greenwich,
Rhode Island.
Ceramics included this Parisian ware cigar
holder with match striker from the 1870s, $250
from John Wanat of Indianapolis, Indiana.
In good paint, this Canada goose decoy by
Paul Gibson of Chesapeake Bay was $475 from
Butch and Judy Leever of Hebron, Kentucky.