Date: Fri 24-Apr-1998

Publication: Ant

Author: CAROLL

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Heritage

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Heritage Center Museum Show

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By J.M.W. Fletcher

LANCASTER, PENN. -- The First Annual Lancaster Heritage Antiques Show was held

March 28 and 29 in the new Alumni Sports and Fitness Center at the Franklin &

Marshall College. Show proceeds benefited children's education programs at The

Heritage Center Museum of Lancaster County.

More than 400 patrons of the museum attended a catered preview on Friday

evening. Managed by Jim Burk Antique Shows, the event which followed brought

together a diverse group of 74 quality exhibitors, most hailing from 16

Eastern Seaboard states as well as Ada, Mich.

Regarding his new "first annual" antiques show, Jim Burk commented, "we have

the same type of dealers that we have at York."

The large (very large) sports center floor permitted wide aisles, overhead

lighting and large, room-setting booths that enabled the exhibitors to display

their wares to full advantage. The variety of antiques on view included

frakturs, embroidery, antique and semi-antique furniture, folk art, iron work,

pewter, toys, silver, paintings and decorative items.

The show was a prelude for the sponsoring museum's forthcoming exhibition,

"Amish Arts of Lancaster County," which opened April 24 and will continue

through January 2. The exhibit, accompanied by a catalogue written by dealer

Patricia T. Herr, features an array of Amish (made by the Amish for the Amish)

items.

"We are very excited about making this a wonderful [annual] Lancaster show

that will continue and get better and better," said "Trish" Herr, who also

acted as museum committee chair.

Featured in the booth of Steven and Marcia Hench of Lancaster, Pa., was a

large selection of fine Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century furniture that

included a Queen Anne Pennsylvania desk, a Delaware Valley candlestand, a

Queen Anne tea table, a Pennsylvania ladder back rocker, as well as a large

blanket chest in cherry. A tall case clock by Peter Gaillard was another

handsome item.

Furniture was also the highlight of the booth of Newsom & Berdan, Hallowell,

Me. Offered was a Connecticut circa 1790 cherry slant front desk, featuring a

bracket base with French feet and original brasses, and a New England ship

diorama. A circa mid-Nineteenth Century pine two-piece corner cupboard

featured 12 panes.

A good group of wood shown by Brenda and Terry Daniel of Newville, Pa.,

included an early cherry and walnut two-drawer, red and black paint-decorated

jelly cupboard; an early New England mule chest; a Pennsylvania Dutch

two-drawer cupboard; a dry sink with dovetail case in a red wash; and a good

jelly cupboard with yellow grain painted surface and two drawers.

Carolyn Pocher of Darwin Antiques, Philadelphia, Pa., was happy to discuss a

unique Nineteenth Century ship chandler turned-wood sign found in Maryland.

Pocher also bought a Mennonite Bible stand, circa 1860. Unique, to say the

least, was her set of 15 circa 1930 hand-carved painted and numbered horses,

originally from a gambling house in Hackensack, N.J., each measuring eight

inches wide. Bets were placed and the horses (via a clock-work wheel

mechanism) circled an oversized wooden race track.

Towne Apprentice, Woodbury, Conn., had an unusual and large wood trade sign

circa 1820, in the form of a navigational quadrant. Also featured was a fine

cherry Chippendale tall case clock by Edward Duffield of Philadelphia.

Colonial Antiques, of Aracanum, Ohio, brought a rare North Shore cupboard,

late Eighteenth Century, in pine, with rose head nail construction. Other

pieces of interest include a Queen Anne eight drawer highboy of maple and pine

and a large Chippendale stand-up walnut desk fitted with eight drawers and two

candle lid support drawers.