Cycling Treasure
3/19/18 – This week’s pick comes to us from our March 26th online only auction. Every Pook and Pook online sale always seems to be filled with treasure just waiting to be uncovered. The lot that I picked is lot…
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Indoor Bowling with Brownies!
3/15/18 – This week will be my last pick of the week from the March 24th Antique Toy Auction. With so many different options, it has been difficult to narrow it down to just a few picks. I covered cast iron with…
Wind was blowing right for sale of weather vanes
DOWINGTOWN, Pa. — The highly publicized auction of the Roland and Marilyn Kemble collection, hosted by Pook & Pook, was held on Jan. 12-13 and met with impressive results that were reflected in a 93 percent sale rate for 431…
Mechanical Wonders of Antique Toys
3/12/18 – As the toy sale gets closer, I am reminded that soon all of these treasures will find new homes where someone else will get to enjoy them. With my last remaining time with these pieces, I am still…
Pook & Pook with Noel Barrett to Auction Fine Clockwork Toys and Trains
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Sandbox Summers
3/5/18 – This week I am gearing up for the March 24th toy sale in collaboration with Noel Barrett. The sale covers a wide array of different toy fields including a large volume of Elastolin and Lineol painted composition soldiers…
Happy Love Your Pet Day!
2/20/18 – Back to the calendar for more pick of the week inspiration. February 20th is love your pet day. I searched for my favorite pet which is a black Labrador retriever. My sometimes well behaved black lab Stella, who…
One Fiske Two Fiske…
2/16/18 – My pick this week is inspired by National Tartar Sauce day (February 16th)! Oh, you didn’t know? Well join the club, I totally forgot this year too, so I am left luring around the Hallmark store looking for…
Fly Eagles Fly!!!
February 5th 2018 – We’re feeling proud around the office this week, thanks to our local team the Philadelphia Eagles achieving their first ever Super Bowl victory against the New England Patriots. In anticipation of the team’s victory parade scheduled…
A little bird told me
1/22/2018 – My pick for this week lot #308. Shockingly, it is not a piece of Americana, not a piece of stoneware, and not even a great folk art treasure. Lot 308 is very far away from any of my…
Weathervanes, Folk Art Headlining Americana Auction
Roland and Marilyn Kemble spent six decades selecting and acquiring pieces for their collection from the most prominent of Americana. They have now decided, in their words “amid both tears and great delight”, to present this private collection at auction.…
Going back to my roots
1/8/2018 – For me, growing up in a family that loved antiques I was quick to find myself attached to the idea of collecting. As a young boy, the obvious choice was baseball cards. Fortunately for me, this was just…
Art Deco Folk Art?
My pick this week comes from day two of the Roland and Marilyn Kemble collection. This was a hard choice for me to make, as I had quite a few things that I felt were very deserving of the spotlight.…
Christmas shopping after Christmas?
Many of you have received our catalog featuring the collection of Roland and Marilyn Kemble (and if you didn’t, you can order it here), which went out just ahead of Santa’s sleigh. For some of you the post office will…
He’s making a list…
I have no upcoming auctions to choose from this week so how about a Christmas flashback! This little gem came to us from the collection of Richard and Joan Smith, legendary Lancaster County, Pennsylvania collectors – dealers who had a…