Pook & Pook – Americana Auction
Thursday, May 1st & Friday, May 2nd, 2025 at 9am
463 East Lancaster Avenue Downingtown, PA 19335
www.pookandpook.com

DOWNINGTOWN, PENN. — Pook & Pook presents the annual spring Americana sale, May 1-2. The sale will be conducted live, with bidding in-person or online at PookLive and also by telephone or absentee bid. All items are illustrated in the firm’s full-color catalog, available for purchase on Pook & Pook’s website. Works of art, folk art, furniture and silver are accompanied by particularly strong militaria and Native American categories.

Fine art highlights include four works by Sir Alfred Munnings, an equine portrait, “Leader, A Bay Horse,” 1905 ($20/30,000); a landscape, “Winter at Flatford Mill,” portrait of red setter “Lark III”; and a cloud study landscape. American artists include Charles Willson Peale, William Aiken Walker, Willem de Kooning, Frank Earle Schoonover, Eric Sloane, Hattie Klapp Brunner and Violet Oakley.

A Chester County, Penn., Chippendale walnut secretary ($5/8,000) is attributed to the shop of Jacob Brown (Nottingham Township, b 1724). Similar clock cases are known with works by Benjamin Chandlee, Jr, one with a record of descent in the family of the cabinetmaker. Other Pennsylvania furniture highlights are a Lancaster walnut schrank, a narrow walnut corner cupboard and a vibrant painted blanket chest. New England highlights are a Connecticut Queen Anne cherry high chest and a Boston Queen Anne walnut dressing table.

Clocks and instruments by the Chandlee family include a rare brass surveyor’s compass by Goldsmith Chandlee (Winchester, Va., 1751-1821) ($5/8,000), and a walnut tall case clock by Ellis and Isaac Chandlee (Chester County, Penn., 1792-1804).

A rare tall case clock by New Jersey’s earliest clockmaker Isaac Pearson (Burlington, 1685-1749) is related to an example in the Winterthur collection ($3/5,000).

Decorative arts highlights include two scarce Warne & Letts (South Amboy, N.J.) stoneware crocks, and 13 lots of D.P. Shenfelder (Reading, Penn.) stoneware, with a rare marked piece. A Tiffany Studios bronze picture frame features abalone shell inlay. Another standout is an elaborate Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania wrought iron spatula. Silver includes four lots of trays and tableware by Georg Jensen, and several S. Kirk & Son Baltimore repousse ewers. A collection of quilts features a Pennsylvania “Whigs Defeat” patchwork quilt.

The militaria and firearms offerings are extensive, incorporating not only the history of America, but countries afar. Civil War era items include two Robert E. Lee signed letters, paintings by William Frye and Alonzo Chappel and a 32-star American linen flag which, by family tradition, was taken to Gettysburg during Abraham Lincoln’s visit in 1863 by Alice Dome’s grandfather. The flag then passed down in the Dome family of Arendtsville, Adams County, Penn. Firearms include a Sharps model 1874 Business rifle, and a US Navy Colt model 1911 semi-automatic pistol. A collection from Piedmont, Charles Town, W. Va., features many highlights, the most important of which symbolizes Poland’s contribution to the American Revolutionary War. A rare Polish silver-mounted Hussar’s sabre and scabbard, circa 1770, possibly belonged to Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski or Colonel Tadeusz Koscuiszko. Other Polish Sixteenth–Nineteenth Century weaponry includes a Rochus Daiczer Polish flintlock pistol, highly engraved and gold-damascened; a Polish Hussar Nadziak war hammer, circa late Sixteenth to early Seventeenth Century; and a silver inlaid Polish karabela sabre and scabbard, circa 1700. American highlights from the Piedmont collection are a Nashville Plow Works Confederate Civil War sword and scabbard, and a Jacob Hurd (Boston, 1703-1758) silver mounted small sword.

Native American antiques include works from two collections. Of the many weavings, highlights include a Navajo Third Phase woman’s blanket, circa 1880; two Navajo Third Phase Germantown chief’s wearing blankets, circa 1880; and a Navajo Second Phase variation wearing blanket, late Nineteenth Century. Antique pottery includes an Acoma Pueblo Indian pottery olla, circa 1900. Basket works include an Apache coiled basketry tray and an Apache coiled basketry bowl, both circa 1900. Another highlight is a Micmac Indian porcupine quill, birch bark and walnut chair, Nineteenth Century.

Pook & Pook Auctioneers and Appraisers is at 463 East Lancaster Avenue. For information, www.pookandpook.com or 610-269-4040.

Goldsmith Chandlee
Gene Sherer chest
Albert Van Nesse Greene
Hattie Klapp Brunner
Eric Sloane
Charles Wysocki
Sir Alfred J. Mannings
Sharps model 1874 rifle
Collection of Navajo weavings
Civil War era American flag
Collection of Native American objects
Karabela sabre
Rochus Daiczer flintlock pistol
Warne & Letts
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