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THE ESTATE OF JOYCE BOWES COLLIS
June 24th & 25th, 2021 at 9am
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UPCOMING AUCTIONS
The Estate of
Joyce Bowes Collis
SESSION ONE
June 24, 2021
The Estate of
Joyce Bowes Collis
SESSION TWO
June 25, 2021
Online Only
Decorative Arts
July 28th & 29th 2021
Photography, Prints & Ephemera
August 18, 2021
Coins & Jewelry
Fall 2021
Americana & International
October 1 & 2, 2021
Native American Indian
October 27, 2021
Antique Toys
and Board Games
December 3, 2021
Photography, Prints, & Ephemera
August 18th, 2021 at 9am
Thursday, August 18th at 9AM
This sale will feature hundreds of lots of books, works on paper, prints, antique photographs, letters, documents, and other ephemera. If you wish to attend the auction and/or in-house exhibition, please call (610) 269-4040 to schedule an appointment. Click Here for more information.
PRESS RELEASES
Post-auction Press Release
Post-auction press release, Americana & International Auction at Pook & Pook, May 21, 2021 by: Cynthia Beech Lawrence The May 21st Americana and International auction continued a season of very strong results for Pook & Pook Inc. It was a…
Updated COVID-19 Protocol for Pook & Pook – 5/17/21
COVID-19 Protocol for Pook & Pook, Inc. Auctioneers and Appraisers (updated 5/17/20) We have had a number of questions from bidders and consignors about upcoming auctions, pick-up/drop-off procedures, consignment transport, and shipping during the pandemic. Please reach out to us…
Close to Home
During the past year, people have spent a lot of time at home. Homes have been our refuge from the pandemic. In them we have cooked, rearranged, revisited old memories, telecommuted from basements, and also yearned to escape. We’ve considered…
The Collection of Bud & Judy Newman
There are two types of collectors. Many come to the hobby later in life, often by happenstance: meeting another collector and acquiring the contagion or seeing an object that speaks to them somehow. Others are born, perhaps with some sort…
PICK OF THE WEEK
Bringing Home the Bacon
I have an announcement to make. I have managed to find the time to make a pick of the week two weeks in a row! Please be prepared for heavy snowfall this week! The auction for June 24th and 25th…
The Perfect Spot
Finding something I love in any given auction is usually a very easy task. The hard part is narrowing it down to just one item to write about. There are so many categories that make my heart skip. The upcoming…
Going Stag
A pick of the week two weeks in a row? It very well might start snowing here in May. Pook and Pook Auction has a problem in that we are filled to the brim with great Americana. The shelves are…
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Pay Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
Not every minor artist toils in obscurity. Relegated down the ranks of 19th century American painters by history, William Russell Smith was an eminent artist in his day. He is important because his paintings preserve images of a young nation,…
Trailblazers
Art lots to keep your eye on in our May 21, 2021 sale include several paintings by members of The Philadelphia Ten artist group. The Philadelphia Ten was the brainchild of ten women painters who had all trained in Philadelphia…
The Verdure Tapestry of Daniel Garber
The Verdure Tapestry of Daniel Garber: The Mary Maxwell House Daniel Garber’s painting is an idyllic moment of country life, a milk wagon on a rustic lane. The view across the road from his house, in fact. Peaceful, but this…
A Sense of Proportion
Lot 87 in our January 28th sale is by Samuel Colman (1832-1920), a painter of the second generation Hudson River School. A student of Asher Brown Durand and member of the National Academy of Design, Colman sought to paint the…
