Meander Auctions - formerly Ohio Company Antiques

We are busy gathering nifty stuff for our early 2024 auction.

Have antiques and art to sell? Call, text, email, or DM!

Need a last-minute holiday gift for someone in your life who loves antiques and/or Ohio history? We have extra copies of the exhibition catalog for Equal in Goodness: Ohio Decorative Arts, 1788-1860 for sale!

On view in early 2011 at the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio (Lancaster), Equal in Goodness was the first major exhibition of early decorative arts from all media and all corners of Ohio. The 130-page catalog has introductory and contextual essays as well as catalog entries for over 200 objects on loan from public and private collections throughout Ohio (and beyond).

This exhibition was curated by Meander co-founder and auctioneer Andrew Richmond, who also curated the follow-up show, A Tradition of Progress: Ohio Decorative Arts, 1860-1945. He also co-curated An Ohio Childhood: 200 Years of Growing Up and Hindsight: The Art of Looking Back with Hollie Davis (the other Meander co-founder).

Holiday special! $15, including shipping! And Andrew will even scrawl his name in it if you like. Email [email protected] with your address and we'll send you an invoice. Thanks!

It's small business Saturday, and we want to say thank you for supporting our small business. Although we aren't having an auction this weekend, you support us and our families with every consignment, bid, and paid invoice throughout the year. We also truly appreciate your referrals and reviews. You can also help us by sharing our Facebook posts, inviting your antique loving friends to follow this page, and signing up for our newsletter at www.meanderauctions.com

From our family to yours, Happy Thanksgiving! We are so grateful for our consignors and customers--thanks to you our business is really taking off!

Our fall auctions got great coverage!

Antique Week: see below

Antiques And The Arts Weekly:
https://www.antiquesandthearts.com/auerbach-folk-art-collection-headlines-for-meander/

On this Veteran's Day, we want to honor Meander Auctions team member Kristin Crump. Kristin served in the U.S. Navy from 1993-1997 at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island (Washington) as an Aviation Electronics Technician for P-3C Orions, and was also deployed throughout the Middle East and the Far East. Kristin reflected on her service: "It was an honor and a privilege to serve my country and they were four of the best years of my life." Thanks to Kristin, and all who have served, for their service!

Our Fall Antiques and Art Auction was yesterday, so we wanted to share some of the highlights in various categories (see the captions for prices realized). Thank you to all of our bidders and consignors for a great sale! We're already thinking ahead to our next auction in early February, so please reach out if you have consignments for that sale.

Have a little sugar in your coffee this morning!

We are less than 90 minutes from the start of our Fall Antiques and Arts Auction! Head on over to meanderauctions.com and from there, click on the bidding platform of your choice.

IF YOU WANT TO REGISTER, PLEASE DO SO ASAP. We really don't want you to miss out on bidding because you registered too late!

No in-person bidding tomorrow, but you can bid from the comfort of your own retro living room. If you don't have one, check out our 20th century offerings!

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Coming up in Wednesday's Antiques and Art Auction: a wonderful portrait by Ammi Phillips (NY/CT, 1788-1865).

Oil on canvas. Depicting a half-length portrait of a gentleman in a plaid waistcoat, black tie and dark brown coat seated in a red chair. 31" high, 26" wide (sight); in a period frame, 39" high, 34" wide.

This painting was purchased from Raymond Murphy of Florence, MA in the early 1950s. At the time, the sitter was identified as Henry Sedgwick (1830-1916), an early banker in Lenox, Massachusetts. The painting was exhibited as such at the Lenox Library Association for the Lenox bicentennial celebration in 1967, and was catalogued as such when offered at Richard Opfer Auctineering (Maryland) in 2004 (it was bought back by the family).

Lacking solid evidence of the identification, another candidate is Julius Rockwell (1805-1888). Rockwell was commissioner of the Bank of Massachusetts from 1838-40, served in the US House of Representatives from 1843-1851, worked as a judge in the MA court system until 1886, and was buried in Lenox. Based on a later photograph of him (available on Wikipedia), the similar shaping to the forehead and nose, as well as a nearly identical hairline.

Based on the clothing, the portrait dates to the 1850s, so the sitter could be an older-looking Sedgwick or a younger-looking Rockwell.

This portrait is illustrated in Allaway, My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips, v. 1, p. 166, and v. 2, p. 95.

Simple Goods is open! Come buy some Ohio stuff!

We're all set up at the Simple Goods Show! Tomorrow, 9-3 at the Heritage Community Center on Ohio 62, only ONE MILE from Heini's Cheese!

For 20 years, Andrew has researched, lectured, published, and curated exhibitions about the furniture and decorative arts of the Ohio Valley and Midwest. It's no surprise that selling our regional "stuff" is a high priority as well.

Our November 8 auction includes a wonderful array of objects made in Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Indiana. Check them all out at meanderauctions.com!

THIS SATURDAY! The Simple Goods Show, Berlin, Ohio, 9-3. Just down the road from cheese and hammered aluminum.

Need a last minute costume? Happy Halloween!

Fall Antiques and Art Auction
Wednesday, November 8 @ 10am
Bidding: online, absentee, phone
Preview: Monday-Tuesday, 11/6-7, 10am-4pm

Items from collections around Ohio and beyond, including:
Ohio blanket chest by Jacob Werrey, sampler from OH, PA, and NY, portraits by Ammi Philips and John Brewster Jr., Kentucky sugar chest, Chippendale curly maple desk, painted gameboards, Native American weavings, folk art including a collection of recently discovered paintings by a SE OH artist, Gustav Stickley labeled chest, Chinese porcelain, rare Chinese coral carvings, gold and costume jewelry, sterling silver flatware, gold coins, and so much more!

A most unusual chest, and it's signed by the Indiana maker!

Signed "GW Holloway Crawfordsville Ind Oct 2[?] 1858." George Washington Holloway (1834-1896) grew up in Crawfordsville, and there, according to the 1850 census, apprenticed as a cabinetmaker. He continued in the trade through his family's move to Terre Haute in the late 1860s. He married Susanna Graham (1835-1897) and had three children.

It's part of our November 8 Antiques and Art auction.

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Our November 8 auction catalog is online!

Loads of great stuff.

http://www.meanderauctions.com/auction3.html

LAST CALL!! We are less than 24 hours away from THE AUERBACH AUCTION!! Folk, outsider, and found art, and a wonderful array of textiles from the personal collections of:
Chuck Auerbach: our good friend and a long-time picker/dealer from Akron, Ohio.
and
Dan Auerbach: Chuck's son and Grammy-winning musician (as a solo artist and as a member of the The Black Keys).

More info and you can find the auction catalogs at:
www.auerbachauction.com

Here's another video tour of the Auerbach Auction. While you're on YouTube, be sure to hit subscribe!

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https://youtu.be/2M_Md8LljZY?feature=shared

Auerbach 2 Another short video showing off some of the items being sold by Chuck and Dan Auerbach on Saturday, October 28 at Meander Auctions in Whipple, Ohio.

Andrew isn't crazy about being on camera, but that didn't stop him from creating a YouTube channel for videos about our auctions. Our first video is, of course, about the Auerbach Auction!

Auerbach Auction 1 The Auerbach Auction, October 28, 2023! Items from the collections of Chuck Auerbach, noted folk art dealer/picker of Akron, and his son, Dan, singer and gui...

Preview today through Friday, 10-4. Come take a gander at Auerbach stuff while listening to Auerbach tunes (Dan *and* Chuck).

Thanks Antique Week for the great article that, very appropriately, celebrates the near-half century of dealer/picker Chuck Auerbach!

It's auction week. Preview daily from 10-4.

It's auction week!! Preview all week, 10-4. Look here for more posts about the cool stuff we're selling from Chuck and Dan Auerbach...and maybe a video or 2.

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At the Ohio Country Antique Show... one of the most commented-on objects in the booth.

She's still available!

Portrait of Mrs. Matthias W. Day (Maria Colie), 1804-1875
Oliver Tarbell Eddy (1799-1868)
Oil on poplar panel
1838

Maria wears a gray silk dress with puffed sleeves, and is seated in front of an open window with a river landscape in the distance. In a vintage frame. 36” high, 23” wide.

Maria Colie was born in Springfield, Essex County, New Jersey to Samuel (1780-1850) and Elizabeth Woodruff Colie (1782-1848). She became the second wife of Matthias W. Day (1802-1863) on May 24, 1838. She would have no children, but was the stepmother of Day’s two children from his first marriage. The couple lived in Newark for the remainder of their lives.

Day commissioned noted New Jersey artist Oliver Tarbell Eddy to paint portraits of he and his new wife the same year they married. Upon Maria’s death in 1875, the portraits passed to Day’s eldest daughter, Henrietta, who gifted it to Edward M. Colie, Maria’s nephew. Edward Colie passed the portrait on to his son, Frederic R. Colie, who was a judge in Milburn, NJ and who owned it when it was documented by the Newark Museum in 1950.

Henrietta Day gifted the portrait of her father to the New Jersey Historical Society.

Condition: Lightly cleaned original surface (needs proper conservation), no losses or inpainting, panel surprisingly flat and stable given its size, frame is early-mid-20th century and retains a New Jersey framer’s label.

Tomorrow, 9-3, at the Roberts Centre in Wilmington, Ohio... the fall edition of the Ohio Country Antique Show!

Yes, we have candy. Stop on by.

The Auerbach Auction
Featuring items from the personal collections of noted folk art dealer Chuck Auerbach and his son, Dan Auerbach, part of the Grammy-winning blues/rock duo The Black Keys.

When: Saturday, October 28 at 10:00 am
Where: Meander Auctions, Whipple, Ohio
Bid: in person, absentee, or online (visit auerbachauction.com for links to the online catalogs)

More info at www.auerbachauction.com

Loads a great stuff in next Saturday's Auerbach Auction!!

Come preview all week next week, 10-4!!

Textile Tuesday!! Here are some of the great textiles that are part of the Auerbach Auction.

The auction is Saturday 10/28, live and online. Preview next Monday thru Friday.

If you know Andrew, then you'll laugh at him having anything do to with penmanship. Just ask Hollie about his handwriting.

Nevertheless...they'll have this wonderful penmanship sample drawing on Saturday at the Ohio Country Antique Show. Stop by and say hey!

A nice afternoon drive through the south-central Ohio hills to pick up the curly maple that we bought at auction yesterday. It'll be available next Saturday at the Ohio Country Antique Show!

We are 14 days away from the Auerbach Auction! The catalog is now live on both platforms, and you can get links at

www.meanderauctions.com.

Also there you'll find bios of Chuck Auerbach and Dan Auerbach, and the sale info (time, location, terms, bidding help).

We are VERY excited about this auction, and hope to see some of you at our new gallery in Whipple, Ohio on October 28!

That catalog is live!
Go here for links to the Live Auctioneers and HiBid catalogs:

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I hope y'all don't mind if I (Andrew) take a wee break from getting the Auerbach Auction online so I can watch The Hobbit (v. 2) with the family on this glorious autumn evening. You will be able to peruse the catalog over your morning coffee (or earlier if you're a nightowl).

As you can see, the gallery is getting set up for previewing both the 10/28 Auerbach Auction *and* the the 11/8 antiques and art auction.

Plan a visit during either or both preview weeks! We'd love to see you!

Look for the Auerbach Auction catalog tomorrow night. But also!!!! Next Saturday, come say hi at the fall edition of the Ohio Country Antique Show! October 21, 9-3, at the Roberts Centre in Wilmington, Ohio.

It's textile day as we near the finish line of the Auerbach Auction catalog. Kristin, our intrepid catalog assistant AND proud Navy vet, helped ID this highly unusual coverlet. 336 wool rectangles, each with a hand-embroidered insignia for a chief petty officer boatswains mate. We're thinking WWI, possibly made by the wife or mother of the sailor and using his old suit fabric.

The Auerbach catalog will go live at the end of the week!

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One of Andrew favs from the October 28 Auerbach Auction is this mid-19th-century window screen painted with a Hudson River School-style landscape.

Painting window screens was not only a good way to decorate but also increase privacy as it reduced visibility through the screen into the home.

Look for the online catalog to drop Friday evening! meanderauctions.com

The Auerbach Auction has some great rustic furniture, including this dressing table. Can you find the initials and the date?

Now THIS is starting to look like an auction saleroom. The Auerbach Auction... October 28. In person and online. Preview the week of the auction.