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Curtis Jere (Circa 1960s to 1980s) Curtis Jere is actually a name created by two designers, Jerry Fels and Curtis Freiler in the 1960′s, for their designer group, Artisan House based in Los Angeles, California. They created metal and mixed media wall art, sculptures and lighting from the mid 1960s to the 1980s. reference: Centuryfinds.com & Curtisjereart.com, March 2009. Thomas Ball (American, 1819 to 1911) Thomas Ball, born in Massachusetts the son of a house and sign painter, worked at Moses Kimball’s Boston Museum and Fine Arts Gallery, where he also cut silhouettes. Beginning in 1837, he progressed to miniature, and then life-sized, portraits. His work was exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum, the American Art Union, and the Apollo Art Association. Beginning about 1851, however, Ball focused on sculpture, his most famous being [...] Click here to continue reading. Crazy for Tea We’ve all seen the movies depicting English life in the 19th and early 20th centuries where a charming hostess calls on Flora, the parlor maid, to lay the tea for company. Flora soon reappears with a gleaming tea service and a plate of crumbly biscuits and sandwiches, and then retreats leaving the guests sipping and chatting. This English, and later the American, infatuation with tea may be easier to understand with [...] Click here to continue reading. Penny Rugs During the last quarter of the 19th century, thrifty homemakers found an economical way to use left over pieces of fabric that were too small to use in braided or hooked rugs. The scraps of left over fabric, usually from men’s suits or blankets, were sewn around circular pieces of thick wool. These were then attached to form small rugs and were used in a variety of ways – decorative table mats [...] Click here to continue reading. The Ephrata Cloister or Ephrata Community The Ephrata Cloister or Community was a religious community established in 1732 by Johann Conrad Beissel at Ephrata, in what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The community was descended from the pietistic Schwarzenau Brethren movement of Alexander Mack of Schwarzenau in Germany. The first schism from the general body occurred in 1728 – the Seventh Day Dunkers, whose distinctive principle was that the seventh day was the [...] Click here to continue reading. John Edward Borein, (1872 to 1945) Edward Borein was the oldest of five children of the deputy sheriff of San Leandro, a town along one of the California cattle trails.In 1893 Borein started working up and down the California coast as a ranch hand. He became proficient at roping and riding and seemed to have no regrets about this harsh lifestyle. His first admirers were his cowhand acquaintances that in 1896 strongly encouraged [...] Click here to continue reading. Dieppe, France – Ivory Carving During the 1600′s, Dieppe, France was a flourishing seaport and a major commerce center, one of the first in France. The Merchant Prince, D’Ango or the Medici of Dieppe (as he became to be known), brought great supplies of elephant tusks from India to the port of Dieppe. The abundance of this material helped to establish Dieppe as a center known for its fine ivory carvings. Even though Dieppe [...] Click here to continue reading. Joseph Falk and Jean Schoenner Steam Power Engines & Toys German toymaker Jean Schoenner made steam power engines and accessory toys in Nuremburg from 1875 to 1910. Fellow German toymaker Joseph Falk, also in Nuremburg, produced steam powered toys beginning in 1895 and would take over the operations of Jean Schoenner circa 1910. The Falk trademark is an oval plaque with the initials JF flanking a tower over a “Made in Germany” banner. [...] Click here to continue reading. The Lear-Storer-Decatur Family and their role in American History Courtesy of James D Julia, Inc. (Winter Antiques & Fine Art Auction, February 4 & 5, 2010). The Lear-Storer-Decatur family is one encompassing a number of important historical figures in the 19th, 18th and 17th centuries. Their roots begin with Sir William Pepperrell Baronet, born June 27, 1696 and died July 6, 1759. He was born in Kittery Point, Maine (where all of this material [...] Click here to continue reading. The Civil War Union Shell Jacket of Henry H. Stone Courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions, Inc. In the fall of 1861 following Bull Run, the 11th Mass. or Boston Regiment changed from state gray fatigue clothing to regulation Federal blue. It is documented that Stone later wore this very same jacket at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Locust Grove before sending it home to his mother in April 1864. After nearly three years of foot-slogging [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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