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Pennsylvania Dutch Stuff
Author: Earl F. Robacker

PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH STUFF PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH STUFF 1 ennsyl vama Stuff A GUIDE TO COUNTRY ANTIQUES By Earl F. JRobacker UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Philadelphia 1944 For Contents page INTRODUCTION 1 PEOPLE AND PATTERNS 4 CHAIRS AND BENCHES 11 CUPBOARDS 18 DESKS 27 TABLES 33 BEDS AND COVERLETS 38 CHESTS 44 FLOOR COVERINGS 49 WALLS AND HANGING... more »S 53 LAMPS 61 CLOCKS 66 BOXES AND BASKETS 71 SPATTERWARE 77 GAUDY DUTCH AND OTHER CHINA 83 GLASS 89 POTTERY AND CROCKERY 95 PAINTED TIN 101 UNPAINTED TIN 107 CARVED WOOD 114 KITCHEN STUFF 121 MINIATURES AND TOYS 126 ORNAMENTAL OBJECTS 134 BOOKS . 139 CONTEMPORARY DUTCH 149 MUSEUM COLLECTIONS 155 INDEX 159 Illustrations PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH STUFF frontispiece CHARACTERISTIC DUTCH BENCH facing page 14 BURL MAHOGANY CHEST 15 CHERRY AND TIGER MAPLE BUREAU DESK 30 PINE STOREKEEPER DESK 31 CHERRY BED BLUE AND WHITE COVERLET 46 DUTCH FLORAL MOTIFS 47 WALNUT CLOCK WITH PAINTED DIAL 68 PIERCED TIN PIE CUPBOARD 69 SPATTERWARE PATTERNS 80 PINE CHEST 81 CHIPPENDALE TOLE TRAYS 102 PUNCHED TIN PIE CUPBOARD 103 BURL CHERRY CHEST 128 WALNUT CHEST BRIDES BOX 129 All photographs by Herman Kartiuke Introduction PERHAPS you have inherited a solid stone dwelling somewhere down in Pennsylvania perhaps you have bought a farmhouse in which to spend your summers. Or, perhaps, you are not fortunate enough to be able to live in the leisurely spaciousness of the Dutchland counties, but must build yourself a house in some suburb. You may even have a year-by-year lease on a four-room apartment but whatever your home you may equip it, if you will, in the manner and with the actual household paraphernalia of the Pennsyl vania Dutch of bygone days. It is not the intention of this book to tell you how to choose your house, or where to build it, or what to pay for it. You will already have decided that, probably about the time you began to think back over those Sunday afternoon drives through the tobacco fields of Lancaster County, past the old Cloisters at Ephrata, or up and down the rolling hills of Bucks or Berks. Perhaps when you stopped your car on the summit of some quiet hill and looked across the misty distances to the Blue Mountain you realized that never again could you be quite content until you, too, owned one of those sturdy farmhouses set in its framework of willow trees, flowing brook, and green meadow. That may even have been the time when, by some act of mental prestidigitation, you transported your house to some real estate development in Connecticut, Wisconsin, or California at any rate, now you have it, and you want to furnish it in a fitting manner. You will not need to be told that Sheraton, Hepplewhite, and Savery are out of the question the salons of Fifty-seventh Street and Madison Avenue will no longer be your hunting grounds. The Pennsylvania Dutch of yesterday were a simple folk and came of peasant ancestry long ago. Their tastes were simple, and such treasures as Philadelphia low-boys and cameo glass, had they had them, would have been no more cherished than their own simple dower chests and their spatterware. When you begin to furnish your Pennsylvania Dutch house you will want to go to Penns southeastern counties to do it to the country sales advertised in the newspapers of a dozen small towns or cities Nazareth or Annville or Allentown to the antiques auctions at Reading or Lebanon to the shows at Bethlehem, Lancaster, or York, as listed in your antiques magazines. 2 PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH STUFF What you buy may not have a pedigree, and you may not be able to run it down in a standard authority. But you will buy it in competition with others who want it badly enough to dispel any doubt in your mind, if such a doubt exists, that it is desirable...

ISBN-13: 9781406744248
ISBN-10: 1406744247
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 188
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Publisher: Barton Press
Book Type: Paperback
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