» $ THE DALLAS POST — THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1962 Much Enlarged Untigue Committer Plone Several Innovations This Your - Library Auction Committee on Antiques plans a departure this year. Realizing that there is never time enough to send everything on the antiques table across the block, and that many potential buyers are dis- appointed at not being able to take home with them a valuable piece from the auction, the committee plans to set up a table for direct sales in addition to offering items over the auction block. Heretofore, says Mrs. Charles Frantz, antiques chairman, small pieces of no great value have been "offered at a special table. This year some very nice things will be marked for sale. Mrs. Harold Tit- man and Mrs. A. G. Rutherford, cochairmen of the sales table, ex- plained the idea Wednesday after- noon at a tea given by Mrs. Frantz at her home in Chase for members of the committee. The project is in direct opposition to that of former years, When the attitude was that things were given for auction, and table sales defeated the purpose. Table sales were therefore con- fined to small pieces which could be expected to bring very little over the block. With this new plan, the sales table will be upgraded until it stands by itself as an important feature of the antiques department, and visitors who simply cannot arrange to wait until a favored piece comesup over the block, will go away from the auction satisfied. As in years past, antiques will not be offered over the block until demand is such that reasonably brisk bidding may be expected. And on items of obvious value, a minimum bid will be placed. Also, as in years past, the An- tiques Committee has arranged for a beautiful piece of furniture to be chanced off. Helen Gross, past mas- ter of Early American Decorating, with many honors to her credit, is decorating a Pennsylvania Dutch bench with beautiful arms and back. Chances are already in circu- lation, with more to be had at the Auction. The bench itself, procured near Philadelphia and in perfect condition, is the gift of Motor Twins. These benches, without redecora- tion, usually bring well over $100. They are becoming moreand more scarce, with antique collectors con- stantly on the lookout. Decorated by a master craftsman, a bench becomes much more valu- able, moving into the heirloom class along with Pennsylvania Dutch dower chests. The bench for the auction will be featured at the end of the antiques table, in a special booth. It is ex- pected to attract much attention. It is not necessary to be on hand when the drawing takes place the last night of the Auction. Each ticket is numbered, and the winner will be in- formed. The Antiques Committee hasbeen augmented this year. Membership is now 75, with each member re- sponsible for donation of two nice antiques, one of them preferably furniture. Each year the long table devoted to the display of antiquesis a color- ful feature of the Library Auction, with cranberry glass and blue and amber glass, polished copper, china lamps, and odd bits of early American ironware, arranged to the best advantage. At a meeting June 13 atthehome of chairman Mary Frantz, a few samples of what might be expected at the Auction were shown. A yel- low painted high chair decorated in Early American by Mrs. George Carey, attracted delighted com- ment. A small walnut side chair from Mrs. Russell Frantz; a black walnut oval picture from Mrs. Robert M. Scott; a pair of dressing table bottles from Mrs. Harold Tit- man; a small child’s rocker from Mrs. Floyd Sanders. Members of the Antiques Com- mittee are: Misses Frances Dor- rance and Margaret Wood; Mes- dames Raymond Hedden, Louis Maslow, Fritz Sallada, Bradford Alden, Frank Parkhurst III, Frank Townend, Mae Townend, R. S. gs Take A Chance On PAGE 17-T a Pennsylvania Dutch Bench Helen Gross is decorating this lovely antiquebench in authentic design for a drawing card for the Antiques section of the Library Auction. Suitable forinsidethe house or outside on the porch, it will be a conversation piece for the lucky winner. Mrs. Gross is a past master of Early American decoration. Each year she deco- rates one perfect piece for the auction. The 'nch itself, found near Philadelphia, is the gift of Motor Twins. Ferguson Sr., James Lacy, A. D. Hutchison, Fred Howell, Norwood Brader, Mitchell Jenkins, J. P. De- Witt, Charles Gates, John Wilson, Oswald Griffiths, W. B. Jeter, Am- brose West, Robert Scott, Arthur Strayer, George Carey, Peter Prinz- ing, Harold Titman, Bruce Car- don, A. G. Rutherford, Homer Moyer, William Pierce-J., Edward Eyerman III, Dwight Fisher, Thomas B. Heffernan, Thomas F. Heffernan, Robert Fleming, Fletcher Booker Jr., Charles Flack, Harold Flack, Benjamin R. Jones, Clint Ide, Lloyd Kear, Vern Groff, Joseph Bedner, Dan Crump, J. S. Warkomski, Bowden Northrup, Charles Lemmond, George Schal- lenberger, Ray Turner Sr., Ray Shiber, Stanley -Rinehimer, H. W. Smith, Thomas E. Lewis, Marion Harter. Paul Goddard, George Gregson, Wilbur Manning, Ornan Lamb, William Lamb, H. R. Weaver, Howard Risley, T. M. B. Hicks, Bart Collett, T. Newell Wood, Robert Evans, Rulison Evans, Charles DeWees Sr., Harden Coon, Asa Day, Paul Hastings. A gold-digger had died and all her worldly possession, including a parrot, were being ‘auctioned off. “ What am I of- fered for this beautiful bird?” said the auctioneer. One. bean,” bid a. by- stander. “Two bucks,” roared an- other. “Make it five, Daddy,” croaked the parrot, ‘an’ I'll give you a kiss.” Auction _ My wish is that my draw- ings, my prints, my curiosi- ties, my book—in a word, those things of art which have been the joy of my life— shall not be consigned to the cold tomb of a museum, and sub- jected to the stupid glance of the careless passer-by; but I require that they shall all be dispersed under the hammer of the auctioneer, so that the pleasure which the acquiring of each one of them has given me shall be given again, in each case, to someinheritor of my own tastes. Z WILL OF EDMOND DE GONCOURT, 1896, J ALFRED D. WHEN CONFIDENCE IS A SOURCE. OF COMFORT- BRONSON FUNERAL SERVICE SWEET VALLEY GR 71-2244 MILDRED A.
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