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34-B Maine Antique Digest, May 2015
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Gene Rappaport of Strasburg, Pennsylvania, asked $16,000
for this wool Center Diamond Amish quilt with an orange
border and center diamond, blue borders, and purple trian-
gles and binding. He sold it, as well as a dozen other quilts
in his booth.
Richard Axtell of Axtell Antiques, Deposit, New York,
asked $11,500 for this broderie perse textile found in
Kennebunkport, Maine. Designed to hang above a
four-poster headboard, it is linen scrim with applied
handstitched block-printed patterns; the outside bor-
der has tobacco leaves and yarrow.
Daniel and Karen Olson of Newburgh, New York, asked
$5600 for this small slant-lid maple desk, 36" wide and 30"
writing height, missing a right-hand drawer inside and with
replaced brasses.
James Grievo of Stockton, New Jersey, asked
$11,500 for the 1890s Harris & Co. eagle
weathervane with directionals.
From left: a New England redware flask ($3300), a red-
ware charger ($2200), and a New England stoneware
pitcher dated 1884 ($2650)—all from Samuel Forsythe
of Columbus, Ohio, who said he made 26 sales, all small
items.
Christopher and Bernadette Evans of Waynesboro, Virginia,
asked $5800 for this painted chest from Manheim, Pennsylvania.
It is decorated with a pattern of stars and sunbursts made with a
linoleum stamp.
Hannah Davis wallpapered box, the inside with her
label and a piece of newspaper dated 1833, $2450
from The Norwoods’ Spirit of America, Timonium,
Maryland.
Philip Bradley of Downingtown, Pennsylvania, asked
$50,000 for this Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, schrank
with bold architectural details, 92" x 72" x 24"; the door
escutcheon, the left side lock, two backboards, and some
shelving were replaced. It is the Herr family schrank, which
descended in the Herr, Rohrer, and Rush (Resch) families
and was on the Rush farm in New Danville.
Johannes Bachman of Strasburg, Pennsylvania, made it
circa 1796, possibly for Christian Herr of West Lampeter
Township. Bachman’s account book lists a schrank made
for Christian Herr on January 15, 1796. The Bachmans of
Lancaster were a multigenerational family of cabinetmak-
ers working in Strasburg.
Found in New England, this wool and cotton 13-star
flag from the 1840s was $11,500 from Scott Brasseur
of Prospect, Pennsylvania.
Feather-edge English plate decorated with a
turkey, $650 from Jewett-Berdan Antiques,
Newcastle, Maine. No one had seen another
like it.
B. Hannah Daniel
of Athens, Alabama,
asked $3750 for this
rag doll from Lan-
caster, Pennsylva-
nia, in its original
clothes.