Your Favorites Acquisitions for 2018!

[jacon4]

Yeah, it's gonna take a lot more than 30 mins to see the Biltmore, trust me! It has an impressive story and the house & grounds are worth a visit, no doubt but, Charleston? They don't call it the Pearl of the south for no reason, something like 7 million people visited Charleston in 2017 which doesn't include the islands around Charleston, if you included them it's probably close to double above figure. It's my fav city to visit north or south by A LOT!

Angel Oak, oldest living thing east of the Mississippi river, Johns Island SC, which i pass on every visit to my fav golf resort in the world, Kiawah

[mart]

Lord,,  Thank heavens I don`t live there !!   

[talesofthesevenseas]

The tour tickets are $70 per person. Although I have heard it is well worth the price and the tour lasts an hour and a half to two hours, so really it's a pretty good bang for your buck, I just hate to cough up $130 for a house tour. Even with Bruce getting a senior discount of $10 that's a chunk o' change I could have spent in the Asheville antique stores!

[talesofthesevenseas]

For comparison, Hearst Castle in San Simeon CA has the house divided up into different types of tours starting at $25 per person. The main tour at the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, CA is $39.

[jacon4]

There is nothing about Asheville that's cheap, trust me! ( someone has to pay for all that PR) Try getting a room at Grove Park Inn, several hundred and UP! per night. Rather go to Charleston though! nuttin cheap there either!

[talesofthesevenseas]

Here is one more 2018 acquisition. Meet Thrifty the Wise Pig iron piggy bank, circa 1930s. There were later reproductions of these, but I believe this one is original. It has all the features they say to look for such as slot placement and nice tight seams, plus wear in the right spots and the paint is correct.

[ghopper1924]

Here is one more 2018 acquisition. Meet Thrifty the Wise Pig iron piggy bank, circa 1930s. There were later reproductions of these, but I believe this one is original. It has all the features they say to look for such as slot placement and nice tight seams, plus wear in the right spots and the paint is correct.

Super cool. Love that pig.

[talesofthesevenseas]

Thanks, I had admired them for a couple of years online, but had never seen one in person, until I stumbled on this one in (once again) Asheville. The connecting screw was missing, but I sent it off to a guy who does iron bank repair who made a new custom length slotted screw for me, complete with matching chippy paint for $25 + shipping

[ghopper1924]

I just noticed this last post again:
 
"The connecting screw was missing, but I sent it off to a guy who does iron bank repair who made a new custom length slotted screw for me, complete with matching chippy paint for $25 + shipping"

Love that attention to detail!

[jacon4]

Not acquired in 2018 but Jan 2019

RARE WILLIAM AND MARY TURNED AND CARVED MAPLE AND WALNUT 'HIGH-LOW STRETCHER' BASE SQUARE TABLE, 1680-1700, probably Boston
The provenance was exceptional

Provenance: Wallace Nutting Collection, Framingham, Massachusetts;
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut;
Sotheby’s, New York, Fine Americana, October 26, 1991, sale 6227, lot 250;
Donald P. White III, Woodstock, Connecticut, July 2007;
Vogel Collection no. 786.

[cogar]

Really, really nice, …… and with a drawer, too.

Those colonial “cabinetmakers” really took pride in their work.

[ghopper1924]

Not acquired in 2018 but Jan 2019

RARE WILLIAM AND MARY TURNED AND CARVED MAPLE AND WALNUT 'HIGH-LOW STRETCHER' BASE SQUARE TABLE, 1680-1700, probably Boston
The provenance was exceptional

Provenance: Wallace Nutting Collection, Framingham, Massachusetts;
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut;
Sotheby’s, New York, Fine Americana, October 26, 1991, sale 6227, lot 250;
Donald P. White III, Woodstock, Connecticut, July 2007;
Vogel Collection no. 786.



Whata Babe!!!

[jacon4]

Yeah, the fact that it started with Nutting & he owned it before moving on is neat.

[cogar]

Supposedly, Mabel Brady Garvan owned the greatest collection of Early American Furniture.

Thus, I have often wondered “what happened” to all of the early American furniture and the truckloads of great antiques that were owned by Mabel Brady Garvan, who also owned Kamp Kill Kare at/near Raquette Lake, NY, …… and I’m not talking about what was donated to Yale University.

[Rauville]

Not acquired in 2018 but Jan 2019

RARE WILLIAM AND MARY TURNED AND CARVED MAPLE AND WALNUT 'HIGH-LOW STRETCHER' BASE SQUARE TABLE, 1680-1700, probably Boston
The provenance was exceptional

Provenance: Wallace Nutting Collection, Framingham, Massachusetts;
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Very nice. Are you thinking that Nutting may have restored it?