Mr. Shearer’s New Year’s Resolution
So I had this great idea of making a pick of the week for our upcoming auctions. Truth be told I had that idea over a year ago! I am making it my New Year’s resolution to implement my grand…
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Market Shows Strength At Pook & Pook
Check out this great article in Antiques & Auction News about Pook & Pook’s fantastic October 7th Americana & International Auction. Click here for more information.
A horse is a horse! Of course! Of course!
Our pick this week is Lot 360, an oil on canvas portrait of the race horse Elis to celebrate the 181st anniversary of his win at the classic St Leger Stakes in September 1836. Elis belonged to Lord George Bentinck,…
Angry Birds!
This week we would like to highlight Lot 272, a charming example of the work of Wilhelm Schimmel, a German immigrant who came to the Cumberland Valley of Pennsylvania in the 1860s. As he travelled around the valley, Schimmel repaid…
Who was George Fix?
Featured in our Americana & International auction is Lot 236, an important Chippendale walnut tall case clock from Reading, Pennsylvania. Dating from 1795 and signed George Fix, this is one of the finest Reading clocks known and is in remarkable…
A Golden Anniversary!
Don’t miss this festive town-in-a-box, decked out for the celebration of the 50th wedding anniversary of Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden to Princess Louise of Prussia! The entire German town is carefully and skillfully constructed of lithographed card stock,…
Who was Bil Baird?
Our pick this week is one of a number of Bil Baird stick puppets offered in our September 15th Antique Toy Auction. William Britton “Bil” Baird was a renowned puppeteer of the 20th century, and is well-remembered for the Sound…
Downingtown Auction House Sells Rare British plate from 1738
Downingtown Auction House Sells Rare British Plate from 1738
Southern Landscape Painted by Clifford Warren Ashley
Our pick this week comes out of the collection of George “Frolic” Weymouth. Lot 87 is a Southern landscape painted by Clifford Warren Ashley and is in untouched original condition, retaining its original frame. Ashley studied alongside N.C. Wyeth and…
Frolic Weymouth’s Winsor & Newton Easel
We are excited to offer pieces from Big Bend, the period home and farm of George “Frolic” Weymouth in our upcoming July 14th special auction. Frolic was passionate about art, both as the founder of the Brandywine River Museum and…
Results From Pook & Pook’s Firearms And Native American Material Sales
DOWNINGTOWN, Pa. — Pook & Pook Inc. maintained its stellar sales record with its May 20 Firearms and May 22 Native American material auctions. The sales, which generated sales percentages of 97.7 percent and 99 percent, respectively, came in solidly…
Pook & Pook Teaming Up with Noel Barrett
DOWNINGTOWN, Pa. — Pook & Pook, Inc. Auctioneers and Appraisers announces a new collaboration with the jovial, mustachioed king of toy auctions, Noel Barrett. Barrett, along with Pook & Pook, Inc.’s founder, Ron Pook, expressed excitement about joining forces, a…
Melchoir Fordney: The story of a Pennsylvania master gunsmith and one of America’s first insanity pleas.
If you met Pook & Pook, Inc.’s Vice President Jamie Shearer at a gun show or exposition recently, he has probably shown you a long rifle coming up for auction and offered to tell you the story of its maker,…
What do these things have in common: A house our first president wouldn’t live in, the oldest piece of land continuously owned by African Americans, and a war ship run aground by pirates?
On October 8th, 2016, we are excited to feature a copy of Birch’s Views of Philadelphia, formally titled The City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania North America; as it appeared in the Year 1800. This historically important piece…