Paul Royka began the sale by selling a few hundred toys, which brought strong prices. It appeared that's what most of the audience was at the sale for. Many of the people left when the toys had all been auctioned off. Some of these toys I have actually seen on the television show, American Pickers before; toys are one of the many specialties of those guys. The toys in this sale appeared to me to mostly date from the 1950's and the 1960's, some of which brought strong results that reached more than a thousand dollars.
Paul Royka Auctions in Leominster, Ma - Sunday December 28, 2014
The Auction is Going on in this Photo
Toys are Being Sold
Paul Royka Auctions in Leominster, Ma
This Photo was Taken Before the Auction Began
Some of the Antiques in the Sale
A Vintage Toy in the Sale
Vintage Toys in the Sale
Vintage Toys in the Sale
19th Century Glass in the Sale
The Box Lot of the Glass Inks Contained a Nice Umbrella Ink with a Pontil
County Antiques in the Sale
Notice the Red Earthenware Jar Placed Inside of the Bowl
The Jar was Likely Made in Norwalk, Ct in the 19th Century
Vintage Toys in the Sale
The reason I went to the sale was for a nineteenth-century red earthenware lidded jar. The auctioneer told me it was consigned from a local home in central Massachusetts. Scratched into the front of the jar is the number seven. The lid also appears like it has a number scratched into it, but I can't make out the number. The more I look at the lid the more I wonder if it's not a number and rather, only an accidental scratch done by the potter when making the lid or glazing the lid or stacking the lid inside of the kiln or some other way. I assume the number seven was added by the potter to match the jar with the correct lid after it was removed from the kiln, but I cannot be a hundred-percent certain of that. I know of a handful of red earthenware jars that have a number scratched into the side like that seen on this jar. I've heard they may be related to a nineteenth-century Massachusetts potter, unfortunately, I have never been able to prove that claim. The glaze on this jar reminds of me a handful of products that are attributed to Peter Clark's family's work in central New Hampshire. I spoke with Massachusetts potter, Rick Hamelin at this sale and he called the glaze a "fluid" glaze. It's almost like an art potter's glaze that would have been seen on such red earthenware products made by William Walley in West Sterling, Massachusetts and Thomas Nickerson in Newburyport, Massachusetts around the turn of the twentieth-century during the Art Potter's Movement. This jar, of course, dates earlier than those products.
Another interesting characteristic about this jar is the collar seen around the neck. I don't believe I have ever seen a characteristic like this applied in New England before; however, I have seen it applied by potters outside of New England. It is my belief that this jar is a rare piece from possibly a rare maker in either Massachusetts or New Hampshire that I just haven't figured out, yet. The glaze is beautiful!
19th Century Red Earthenware Jar with a Number "7" Scratched Into the Front
Ca. 1820-1860
Possibly Made in Either Massachusetts or New Hampshire
Purchased a Few Days Ago at a Paul Royka Auction in Leominster, Ma
Consigned from a Local Home in Central Massachusetts
Stands 7 1/4" Tall
View of the Lid with Possibly an Incised Number
View of the Base with the Fluid Glaze
These Types of Glazes Are Often Associated with the Clark Family of Potters in Central NH
Please Stay Tuned...Much More to Come...
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