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UPCOMING AUCTIONS
The Collection of
Mark & Marjorie Allen
June 30 & July 1, 2022
Collections from Mid-Atlantic Educational Institutions
July 19, 2022
ONLINE ONLY
DECORATIVE ARTS
July 20 & 21, 2022
Photography,
Prints & Ephemera
August 17, 2022
Online Only
Decorative Arts
August 28, 2022
Americana & International
October 6 & 7, 2022
Coins & Jewelry
October 26, 2022
Native American Indian & Ethnographic
November 16, 2022
Collections of Mid-Atlantic Educational Institutions
July 19, 2022 at 6PM
July 19, 2022 at 6PM
This sale will feature over 150 lots from two Mid-Atlantic Educational Institutions. Live salesroom, phone, absentee, and internet bidding will be available for this auction. All online bidding for this auction is on PookLive, Bidsquare, and Invaluable. Click Here for more information.
PRESS RELEASES
Upcycling 1800’s Style
Among his favorite items in the sale, owner Ron Pook selects an important John Palm Boyer (1833-1901), Brickerville, Lancaster County, painted pine seed chest, ca. 1860, retaining its original faux grain decoration, the case with a fall front lid over…
Press Release – April 2022 Americana & International Auction
Press Release – Americana & International Auction at Pook & Pook, April 21st & 22nd, 2022 By: Cynthia Beech Lawrence The Americana & International sale on April 21st and 22nd at Pook & Pook will feature the estates of three…
Coin & Jewelry Auction
On March 23rd, Pook & Pook will auction over 600 lots of coins and fine jewelry. Luxury designer watches, antique and fine jewelry, collectible coins and bullion hail from a variety of sources, including hundreds of items from the Pennsylvania…
Jamie Shearer, President of the PAA
Pook & Pook would like to congratulate auctioneer and appraiser Jamie Shearer on his appointment as President of the Pennsylvania Auctioneer’s Association for 2022. Made up of nearly 500 auctioneers, the PAA supports a political action committee, professional development, and…
PICK OF THE WEEK
Northern Lights
Admiral Jacob van Heemskerk (1567-1607) was an explorer. Before he captured the treasure ship Santa Caterina in the Straits of Malacca, and died defeating the Spanish fleet off Gibraltar, he was already a hero of an epic book, Nova Zembla.…
Why do we all love blue and white china?
Why do we all love blue and white china? Perhaps because it is hard-wired into our system. Across history and continents, the love of blue and white Chinese porcelain has launched ships and industries. For a thousand years, China…
A Delft Touch in Colonial America
Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, Delftware was the most common type of ceramic export to the American colonies, the wide range of products doing everything from adorning elegant tables and displaying flowers to serving utilitarian purposes in apothecary shops…
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The Art of Ornamental Embroidery
Auctioneer and appraiser Jamie Shearer highlights a Philadelphia silk on silk pictorial embroidery by Ann Marsh, ca. 1730, with a vibrant urn of flowers with insect and bird, all resting on a rolling lawn with sheep and a running dog,…
You too can have a horse in this race!
When the Spartan army took home the horses of Xerxes as spoils of war in 479 BCE, after the battle of Plataea, it began a movement of eastern horses to Europe that was to last throughout the period of classical…
Three Men and a Book
Charles Peale Polk, Portrait of David Brickell Kerr, 1791 THREE MEN AND A BOOK David Kerr (1749-1814) was a patriot in the Revolutionary War, commissioned as 1st Lieutenant in Captain George Watts’ company of Militia in Anne Arundel County. Kerr…
Auction Gallery Exhibitions: Behind the Scenes with Elizabeth Pook
With the resumption of live sales at Pook & Pook comes the return of a favorite pastime, the auction preview. People gather to wander through the exhibition, admiring and engaging with the antiques on display. Old friends, multigenerational families, young…
