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The quality of items offered by Chuck White Antiques, Warwick, New York, never
disappoints. The 18th-century Pennsylvania Chippendale walnut four-drawer chest
with fluted quarter columns has a restored base and was priced at $4900. Attributed
to Harris, the horse, driver, and sulky weathervane on top of the chest was $4800, as
was the two-piece red-painted corner cupboard from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The
carved wood owl and bird group (left of the cupboard), attributed to Albert Zahn
(1864-1953) of Door County, Wisconsin, was tagged $1800.
Taking up one side of Graybill’s Antiques & Folk Art’s booth were a
15-drawer apothecary chest ($1850); an early Pennsylvania hooked rug
signed “EL” ($2850); and an interesting whirligig ($1650) that features
robbers that peek out of windows, the door, and chimney when the wind
blows. Thankfully there is a police officer at the ready to arrest them.
Dan Freeburg Antiques, Wilcox, Pennsylvania, used color and texture to bring buyers
into his booth. The 19th-century wooden barber pole wearing old paint was priced
at $575. The Amish Tumbling Blocks crib quilt (32" x 56") was tagged $250. The
19th-century weathered plank barn door was found in Pennsylvania and was priced
to sell at $135. Items on top of the dry sink in electric blue paint ($2400) included
a circa 1775 white flint flip glass, hand-blown and decorated, from the Manheim,
Pennsylvania, glass house of Henry William Stiegel ($595) and two 1870-80 New York
state two-gallon jugs. The one with a chip was $195; the other chip-free example was
priced at $210.
There was much to see in the booth of Ponzi’s Antiques, Trumansburg, New York. At front
was a great New England country paint-decorated dressing table featuring black striping and
a scroll-cut backsplash. The 1800 to 1840s piece was priced at $695. At left was a two-piece
stepback cupboard with a molded cornice, a pie shelf, and 12 panes of glass in its upper doors
with three drawers and two doors below. It was tagged $3850. The red and black paint-
decorated apothecary boasts 30 drawers and was $2495. Over the apothecary hung an oil on
canvas Hudson River scene that seems to glow with color. Depicting two deer drinking at a
river’s edge with mountains as the backdrop, this work was priced at $1195. Two wrought-
iron pendant candleholder trammels hang to the right of the apothecary. The larger one
is 1740-80 and was tagged $985. A Federal tiger maple two-drawer worktable with great-
looking legs and a wonderful shelf underneath was priced at $1695.
This mid-19th-century pin-top Pennsylvania farm table
with two drawers and great legs is beautifully balanced.
It was priced at $995 by Dan Freeburg Antiques. The set
of four paint-decorated Pennsylvania country Sheraton
chairs with half-spindle backs was tagged $595.