Our May 4 auction features three sessions: The Maryland Sale (Unique Auction of Maryland-related Antiques); Fine Textiles; Americana. Order your copy today and have it shipped to you as soon as it's back from the printer, late April. (You can also give us a call at 410-472-2016 or send a check for $35.60 to: Crocker Farm, 15900 York Rd, Sparks, MD 21152.)

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Our March stoneware & redware auction will feature an exceptional offering of American utilitarian pottery. With hundreds of lots, each lot is, as always, illustrated in full color and described in detail with condition reports. Ships mid-to-late February.

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Our Fall 2012 stoneware auction featured some significant examples of northeastern U.S. stoneware, Anna Pottery, slip-decorated redware, Southern pottery, and many other highlights.

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Our September 15 semi-annual MARYLAND SALE was be part of a special auction comprised of three sessions: The MD Sale, Textiles, and General Antiques. This sale featured many highlights, particularly amongst the quilts and other textiles.

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On the heels of our landmark March auction, our July sale was yet successful sale--featuring an exceptional Anthony Baecher redware sugar bowl, one of the finest pieces of Thomas Commeraw's work, and an elaborate Anna Pottery temperance jug.

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Our June 2012 antiques auction saw two five-figure prices for American quilts, amongst other highlights.

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One of the best auctions we've ever held, this sale several significant examples of antique American stoneware, including a unique Bell (Strasburg, VA) face pitcher ($63,250), an important heart-shaped inkstand ($31,050), an incised Remmey bird bank ($28,750), a mid-eighteenth century stoneware jar ($28,750), a Cowden & Wilcox batter pail with four birds ($31,050), and more!

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Features one of the largest collections of George Ohr (Mad Potter of Biloxi, Mississippi) pottery ever sold at auction.

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Our Fall 2011 stoneware & redware auction featured the monumental stoneware cabin group (probably Anna Pottery), an exceptional Thomas Commeraw jug, a profusely decorated Cowden & Wilcox cornucopia jug, and other exciting lots.

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Our inaugural "MARYLAND SALE" was a unique auction specializing in antiques and decorative arts from this richly-historic state! This landmark sale included the important John Hanson Family Collection, as well as other significant pieces related to the State of Maryland.

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Our Summer 2011 stoneware & redware auction was lead by an outstanding Midwestern stoneware crock with an incised peacock, as well as an exceptionally rare Rockbridge County, Virginia, stoneware pitcher.

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With our new gallery, a well-established, world record-setting auction company, and a long history of selling general antiques and decorative arts, in June 2011 we held our very successful inaugural antiques sale. A set of signed Picasso prints realized $23,000, a copy of Ulysses signed by James Joyce and Matisse brought $14,950; and a rustic hall tree brought $13,800.

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A truly landmark auction, our March 2011 sale saw two lots break the $100,000 mark: a Poughkeepsie, NY jug that sold for $103,500, and an 1823 memorial jug for a potter who drowned, which realized $138,000--the highest price ever paid at a stoneware specialty auction!

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After acquiring the 1841 Gorsuch Barn in Sparks, Maryland, in August, 2010, we spent the next three months removing layers of drywall and all manner of twentieth century renovations to restore it to its former glory. On November 6, we held our first auction at this, our new gallery, where we sold, among other interesting lots, a fantastic stoneware bank in the form of a man in period dress.

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Three examples of early NY / NJ stoneware (a J. Remmey, Manhattan stoneware jar; a T. Warne, South Amboy, NJ jug; and a South Amboy, NJ Liberty Forever jug) lead our Summer 2010 stoneware sale.

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A piece of northeastern U.S. stoneware (an N. Clark, Mount Morris, New York jug with incised ship, $32,200) and a piece of southern redware (a C.A. Haun, Greene County, Tennessee jar, $29,900), were the stars of our April 2010 stoneware and redware sale.

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Prominent collector Kelly Young of Fort Worth, Texas, assembled an extraordinary collection of American redware and stoneware. Kelly passed away in 2009, and we sold his collection in two groups: a smaller portion as part of our October 2009 auction, and the majority in a single-owner auction in January 2010. Highlights included a John L. Stone Texas stoneware snake jug and a Moravian (North Carolina) redware squirrel bottle.

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Three great examples of Americana headlined our Fall 2009 auction: A stoneware pitcher with applied eagles made at the pottery of William Porter in Pleasantville, PA ($27,600); an Albany, NY water cooler related to the $103,500 Boynton cooler, made for a Fairfield, NY doctor ($26,450); and a stoneware "gemel" (or double jug) with incised birds ($24,725).

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A heavily incised stoneware flask ($40,250) and the world auction record-setting example of Thomas Commeraw's stoneware ($28,750) headlined a sale with interesting highlights from many different areas of American stoneware & redware collecting.

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At the time a world auction record for a stoneware specialty auction--and the first piece to break the six figure mark at a stoneware auction--the Albany, New York, water cooler in this sale realized $103,500.

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Our November 2008 featured an Anna Pottery snake jug that realized $21,275, yet another remarkable price for a well-known form by the Kirkpatrick Brothers of Anna, Illinois--along with other interesting highlights from many different areas of American stoneware collecting.

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An amazing example of stoneware Americana, the southwestern Pennsylvania baseball player jar in our July 2008 sale realized $65,550--a world auction record for stoneware from that prolific production center. A Thurmont, Maryland, redware memorial urn brought $34,500, one of the highest prices ever paid for a piece of Maryland redware.

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In this sale, we auctioned a significant, long-time collection of John Bell (Waynesboro, Pennsylvania) pottery and related works.

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Our March 2008 auction saw many exceptional hammer prices, including $63,250 for an early New York City jar; $35,650 for an Anthony Bacher (Winchester, VA) redware wallpocket; $34,500 for a Taunton, Massachusetts, figural water cooler; two other Shenandoah Valley lots that realized over $25,000; and $15,525 for a B.C. Milburn water cooler--a world auction record for a piece of Alexandria stoneware.

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One of the finest examples of Manhattan stoneware in existence, a $60,375 incised bird jug made by Clarkson Crolius, Sr. lead our November 2007 auction. A particularly fine example of a Strasburg, Virginia, redware pitcher and washbowl set realized $29,900.

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An excavated pitcher--a masterpiece of Baltimore stoneware, attributed to Henry Remmey, Sr.--that brought $69,000; an early Julius Norton, Bennington, VT water cooler that realized $36,800; and harvest jug probably made in Western Pennsylvania that brought $23,000 were highlights from this auction.

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At the time, a world auction record for a stoneware specialty auction, the $88,000 Fenton & Hancock (St. Johnsbury, VT) water cooler lead our November 2006 auction. Another world auction record (for central PA stoneware) was not very far behind, at $71,500.

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An outstanding stoneware bank by the Remmey family of Philadelphia--which was almost sold for under $100 at a yard sale--brought $39,600, as did a great example of stoneware from the imaginative potters of Fenton & Hancock in St. Johnsbury, VT. This was also the first auction we held at the York Expo Center in York, PA, after moving the auction location from Boonsboro, MD.

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A $22,550 Rockingham County, Virginia, stoneware sugar bowl, an exceptional example of Cowden & Wilcox (Harrisburg, PA) stoneware ($22,000), and an Ohio stoneware churn with applied eagle design ($18,150) were all highlights from this, our fourth auction of American stoneware and redware.

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One of the best auctions we've ever held, our May 2005 auction featured the $41,800 John W. Bell redware whippet figure, a collection of exceptional redware and stoneware banks (including the $33,000 Santa Claus bank), and two remarkable John Burger, Jr. (Rochester, NY) churns, amongst other highlights.

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Our second stoneware & redware auction featured the Thomas Chollar incised fish cooler ($27,500), the Anthony Bacher redware bird figure (19,800), the largest piece of Baltimore stoneware we have ever seen ($16,500), and an outstanding northeastern U.S. stoneware crock with elaborate house decoration ($16,500).

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The catalog for our very first auction includes the $72,600 H. Myers stoneware water cooler (a World Auction Record for Baltimore stoneware), the $35,200 attributed Henry Remmey (Baltimore) stoneware pitcher, and the $23,100 Anna Pottery pig bottle (a World Auction Record for this beloved form). A truly landmark auction!

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