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The Studebaker Collection of Quaker Hill
For over half a century, Richard and Sue Studebaker have stood as pillars of the Ohio antiques community. Thousands of collectors, scholars, and students have been welcomed to Quaker Hill, the couple’s eighteenth century home in Dayton, to enjoy the Studebaker’s hospitality and their passion for Americana.
Richard and Sue purchased their first antique on their honeymoon in New England in 1952, and within a few years, the [...] Click here to continue reading.
River Bend Chair Company
River Bend Chair Company was founded in 1986 by Mike Benner, a trained cabinetmaker of high-quality furniture reproducing designs of the 18th and 19th centuries. Produced using traditional construction techniques, River Bend chairs are made of hand-selected hardwoods with pine seats. River Bend Chair Company falls under the umbrella of Benner’s Woodworking in Lebanon, Ohio.
Dorothy Thorpe Glass
Dorothy Thorpe was independent artist and interior designer with a glass decorating studio in Los Angeles from the 1930′s into the 1960′s. She purchased glass from various companies, including Fostoria, Heisey and Cambridge glass, decorated with hand-painted enamels, sand-blasting, etching or gold and/or silver overlay. She also designed glassware and ceramics.
Most Dorothy Thorpe pieces are signed with a trademark of a large printed T in the center with a smaller [...] Click here to continue reading.
The Creations Company
The Creations Company (Lancaster, Pennsylvania, circa 1930), maker of cast iron doorstops and other decorative cast iron objects before falling victim to the Stock Market crash and Great Depression.
Dominick Labino-Glassmaker (1910 – 1987)
“In 1963, after working for thirty-five years in the glass industry, Dominick Labino began blowing glass for the first time. He brought to his work in art glass the skills and experience he had gained in glass research and technology. His free-form designs, swirled colors, and carefully planned air sculptures constituted a unique and inventive approach to paperweight making.
Born in Pennsylvania, Labino studied at the Carnegie Institute of [...] Click here to continue reading.
Property from Astor’s “Beechwood” Estate, Newport, Rhode Island
Beechwood Mansion at 580 Bellevue Avenue (famously known as “Millionaire’s Row”) in Newport, Rhode Island, was the summer “cottage” of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Astor, Jr. Mr. Astor purchased the thirty-nine room ocean-front mansion as an anniversary present for his wife in 1880 for $190,941.50.
From 1881 to 1906, Mrs. Astor (nee Caroline Webster Schermerhorn, 1831-1908), summered at Beechwood, where, as the creator of [...] Click here to continue reading.
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the most important document in American History, some would say in World History. Passed by the Continental Congress on July 2, 1776 sitting in Philadelphia it officially severed the ties of allegiance between the thirteen colonies and King George III and his realm of Great Britain, and setting forth the case for the colonies right to be independent.
In the years since its approval, copies of [...] Click here to continue reading.
.style1 { margin: 9px; } Property from the Collection of Pebble Hill Foundation, Thomasville, Georgia
Elizabeth Ireland Poe, known as Pansy, was the granddaughter of the Cleveland industrialist Howard Melville Hanna, brother of Marc A. Hanna, the Ohio senator who guided William McKinley to the United States Presidency in 1897. Mr. Hanna purchased Pebble Hill Plantation in 1896. Located just south of Thomasville, Georgia, Mr. Hanna and the following two generations of Hannas [...] Click here to continue reading.
Maxfield Parrish’s “Daybreak”
This iconic Arcadian image was commissioned by the art publisher House of Art in 1922 specifically to be reproduced as an art print. It was the most popular of all of Parrish’s art prints and is one of the most reproduced paintings in American history. It has been estimated that in the 1920s and 1930s one in four American homes had a copy of this print on their walls.
Although [...] Click here to continue reading.
Frank Redlinger
The life dates for the artist Frank Redlinger are sometimes confused with those of his father (for whom he was named). The artist’s dates are 1909 to 1936; the father’s dates are 1888 to 1951.
Reference note by p4A editorial staff: 2010.
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