o THE ANTIQUE DETECTIVE Anne Gilbert Orientalism Decor Once Victorian Fashion It may look like something out of the Arabian Nights, but be Victorian. Whoever said Victorian furn ishings were a series of revival styles apparently had forgotten the exotic trend that began in America around 1870. Its influ ence lasted into 1930. Known as t PORTERFIELD <a AUCTIONS FURNITURE ~ ANTIQUES ~ GLASSWARE ~ COLLECTIBLES OLD TOYS ~ HURLEY & TONKA ~ OLD RADIO TUBES & EQUIPMENT SAT. MARCH 31, 2001 @ 9;ooam LOCATED AT OUR SALE FACILITY IN DRUMORE, LANCASTER COUNTY, PA. Along Rt. 272 South approx. 1 miles south of Buck. (From Lancaster follow Rt. 272 S to sale, from south follow Rt.l to 272 N to sale) ■* <* - SiTSkimSk w letter & number blocks GLASSWARE: Pink depression bowls, wine glasses, etched parfaits Homer Laughlin Georgian. Limoges China Co USA gravy, creamer and bowls. Ironstone platter. Blue Willow saucers and bowls. Pattern glass: cream & sugars, salt & pepper, candle holders, bud vases, refrigerator dishes, cake plates and bowls. Clear glass- iron, boat ash tray and small animals. Milk glass: bowls, planters, bud vases, creamer and butter. Japan bowls and vases. Iridescence glass bowls and leaf dishes. 1909 Calendar plate. Old bottles. Baby bottles: Glasbake, Phenix, Tuffy and Hygeia. Green glass juicer and pouring bowl. Hall’s bowl and pitch er. Lots of ceramic planters. Pyrex color mixing bowls, casseroles and pie plate. Oven Serve cover bowl. Coming casserole, clear bowl and double boiler. Lemonade sets. Lots of miniature animals. RADIO TUBES, CAMERAS AND EQUIPMENT: Sears & Roebucks Silvertone speaker. RCA radio tubes in several different sizes. Jefferson Tube charger. Thompson voltmeter. DeVRY “G" Silent 16mm projector. Mansfield film splicer. Many assorted optical lenses, prisms and spectroscope parts. Lots of electronic parts. Swift Series 3200 Microscope and others. Airguide #225 Fishing Barometer. Signal Corps AN/PRS-1 mine detector. Army Engineers sighting level. MIAI-1-1 non-combatant gas mask. Oxygen tank w/regulator. Sherrill Star-Way compass. Slide rules. Flight calculator and more. Chemistry equipment: assorted beakers, test tubes, slides, bell flasks and more. TOOLS: Gibson 3hp roto-tiller. Lawn & garden tools. Carpenter tools. Sockets, wrenches, pliers and more. Craftsman shop vacu um. Octagon picnic table w/ benches PHOTO’S AT: www.porterfieldauctions.com Food Served. Not responsible for accidents. Auctioneers Note: Many items have been stored in boxes since the 50’s. There are some very unique items on this sale. Plan to stay all day. Sale starts with furniture at 9:ooam PORTERFIELD AUCTIONS 29 Indian Hill Road, Conestoga PA 17516 (717) 871-9004 info@porterfieldauctions.com Terms: Cash, Certified funds, Visa/MC & Mac Bob Poterfield AU-3741-L “Moorish,” “Turkish,” “Saracen ic” or “Arab,” it can be recog nized by furniture ebonized, in laid with mother-of-pearl. Chairs and sofas were often covered with carpet, upholstered with rich embroidered covers and al ways topped with thick cushions. Even John D. Rockefeller had Furniture selling promptly at 9:ooam URNITURE: 9’ Architectural Comer cupboard. Early painted Jelly ;upboard retaining it’s original paint. 1800’s Country style tall case %■ Jock, 30hr movement, grain painted soft wood case, bracket feet, |fe ; seeding restoration. Chippendale style Mahogany slant top desk w/carved ball and claw feet. Pine paint decorated PA blanket chest Cf w/bracket feet. Oak: five drawer dresser, Mission style desk, Mission style desk chair, Mission style upholstered arm chair, painted 6 draw ;r dresser, painted wash stand, Eastlake style bed. Maple: glass front Eg look case, high chair. Mahogany veneer china cabinet, server, buffet, |S lesk. Cedar chest. Child’s small hutch. Iron beds. (2) Singer treadle * > iewing machines. Yarn measure. Old porch swing, high chair. Spindle ‘ tack chairs and rockers. M. Haberbush (Lancaster, PA) Ladies iaratoga trunk. Wrought iron plant stands. Wall mirror. Gun rack. ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES: (2) Gingerbread Mantel clocks. (2) Cuckoo clocks. Perfection #650 Kerosene heater. L.C. Smith type writer. Todd Protectograph check writer. Old telephones - Western ’lectric, New Standard, Sampson. Ford batteries. Old tins and tinware, match holder. Grey agate square wash pan, pot. Enamelware pots, pans md pie plates. Advertising calendars Spanmths Auto Repair 1917- i 920. Cast iron frying pan, pot, miniatures, figures and souvenirs, Gettysburg canon. Hand wrought spatulas. Old baskets. Wooden ’.pools. Early Westinghouse fan. Red Comet fire extinguisher. Old sooks, magazines & coloring books: Boys Life 1954-55, Wee Wisdom 47-56, Jack & Jill 50’s, Child Life 50’s, Little Golden Books, Chevrolet manuals 1923 & 1930. Old quilts, Linens, blankets, doilies and more. Perkins & House brass oil lamp Pat. 1871.01 d record 45’s - Peter Pan, MGM, Cameo & Buch, 78’s - Columbia, RCA Victor from 1904. Early electric Singer portable. Old decanters Beam & others. Northland Ski Co wooden skis. Wooden iron boards. Old pictures & picture frames. (2) Cuckoo clocks one with inlaid. War ration book. Wooden handled kitchen utensils. Flatware and more. Costume jewel ry. Canvas clown, old stuffed animals Gund Rabbits and more. Sewing items, pinking shears. Folding wooden playpen. Maple crib. Many old women’s hats. Beaded purses. TOYS: Wooden pull toys - Fisher Price Snoopy #lBO, Chicken, Dogs. Aladdin plastic pull cow w/moving head & taif. Tonka dump trucks, road grader, tractor trailer & crane. Ritz Toys child’s rocking elephant. Hubley rodeo toy pistol, road roller. Old plastic models. Old wooden a “moorish” sitting room in his New York house in the 1880 s. Good examples of Orientalism are to be found in the pieces made by Tiffany & Company in the 1880 s. For instance, in 1882 the Company decorated a room in the Moorish style for the fifth avenue mansion of Cornelius Vanderbilt 11. It included Moor ish arch forms and highly pat terned walls with the look of Per sian tiles. The World’s Columbian Expo sition held in Chicago in 1893 in troduced the general public to Orientalism. As a result. Sears Roebuck sold Turkish screens, Moorish rugs and pointed yellow slippers to decorate the popular smoking rooms of the average American. An early influence was English architect and designer M. Owen Jones. He designed many build- ings and decorative ideas in the 1840 s. However, actual furniture in the Moorish style didn’t be come popular till the 1870 s. Orientalism found its way into the art world by the early 20th century as a symbol of quality, pleasure and even romance. A good example is the ad made for General Electric’s Edison Lamp Works in a palette of lumines cent colors, created by famed il lustrator, muralist Maxfield Par rish. Lamps and jewelry were designed reflecting the orientalist mode. The Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, N.C. has put it all to gether in the exhibi tion “Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures; Orientalism in Amer- ica,” 1870-1930, Feb. 3 through April 22. The exhibition in- * ¥ I, , V' r , *» \ ? - ~» ? 1 * Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 10,2001-829 eludes approximately 100 paint ings, decorative arts, sheet music, advertisements, photographs, fashion, film clips and Shriner memorabilia. The Shriners, founded in 1870, by the 1920 s had become a popu lar national mens club whose members dressed in fezzes and carried scimitars. These days they are known for their charit able works. “People constructed an imagi- Rosewood secretary, c. 1880. Collection of Margaret Caldwell and Carlo Florentino. Photo by Mint Mu seum of Art, exhibition, “Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures Orientalism in Ameri ca, 1870-1930" Charlotte, N.C. PUBLIC SALE | Antiques - Household Goods - Farm Tractor & Equipment - Tools - Lumber - Motorcycle - Guns Sat., Mar., 24 th 2001 Time: 8:00 a,m. Sale to be held at 3690 Tower Dr. Dover, Pa. From Dover square go S. on Rt 74 pass Bill Macks Ice Cream & Gettys Gas station, turn right onto Tower Dr. go to 1 st farm on right hand side. Signs posted. Antiques-Furniture etc.: Ong. dark grained painted 2 door, 2 drawer jelly cupboard w/splash back; oak washstand w/towel bar; record- Victrola & sewing cabinets; 3-treadle sewing machines; maple dresser; Kelvinator refrigerator: cedar blanket chest; 9x 12 Oriental rug; flat trunk; wooden adv. boxes; early milk shake mixer; 3- wood stoves; egg baskets & scale; Kero, lights; canning jars; butcher kettle; cast iron bath tub; Massey-Ferguson 35 farm tractor w/side mount cycle bar mower; Hough payloader w/Chevy V 8 engine; track walk behind motorize garden cult.; IH manure spreader; Ford 105 A 3 pt. rototiller; 3 pt. 7 ft. rear blade; JD flail chop per; 3 pt. disc; 3 pt. seeder, early Hench & Dramgold wooden wheel lime spreader, 2-3 pt. post hole digger; 32 ft. elevator; 100 Lb. dry mixer; sprayer on wheels; Pa. 2 hole corn sheller; 4 sections of scaffolding; platform scale; hand tools; come-A-longs; fence wire; 12-12’ wide pine barn board piles of sandstones; pile of bricks; 1975 Honda 125 w/3,500 mi.; Winchester mod. 61 22 pump; Remington Wingmaster mod. 870 20 ga. & Gamemaster mod. 760 30-06; 3 pr. binoculars, plus numerous of items not mentioned. Auctioneer Note: Starting w/trailer load-tools & misc. Then lines around the bam & out building, finishing w/furniture. Terms of sale: Cash or good personal Pa. checks w/proper ID. No out of state checks. Refreshments by Debbie’s Lunch Wagon. Not responsible for accidents. OWNER: J. RUTTER GROSS & LISA A. HALLETT Jane Alexander Att. Little IKE Eichelberger Auctioneer Pa. Lie. #AU.1954-L Now booking all types of public sales. Ph, Dillsburg 717-432-0006 (Turn to Page B 30)
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