Philadelphia Antiques Show 2016_

✷ 119 ✷ FROM THE COLLECTION OF… FROM THE COLLECTION OF… JOHN CHASKI JOHN CHASKI ANTIQUES, CAMDEN, DE When I was twenty-one years old my friend and fellow dealer Jack Jacobs o ered me Eliza Marriner’s mourning sampler, worked in my home town of Lewes, Delaware, in 1817. I had exactly zero Delaware samplers at that time and about as much business spending a personal high on an object I had no intention of ever selling. Like any collector when they’re faced with something they have to own, I forced these minor details to the back of my mind and bought it. I sold o 30 pieces of stoneware I had collected from the time I was 15 to raise the funds. Since then I’ve added about a dozen Delaware samplers to my collection but this remains my favorite, and a purchase I have never second guessed. SKIP CHALFANT H.L. CHALFANT AMERICAN FINE ART & ANTIQUES, WEST CHESTER, PA William and Mary/Queen Anne Spice Box Chester County, Pennsylvania, circa 1740 Height: 19", Width: 16", Depth: 10½" I have owned this spice box since the 1980s. I have always loved line-and-berry inlay and always loved spice boxes—a two-for-one so to speak. Even our logo is based on line-and-berry inlay, making it another reason to keep this treasure. I traded a Queen Anne Spanish-foot highboy that I had in my gallery for this spice box with no regrets. It is a transitional piece made of walnut with holly, red cedar, and locust wood inlay. is box was exhibited in a spice box exhibit at Chester County Historical Society in the 1980s and illustrated in the catalog e Pennsylvania Spice Box by Lee Ellen Gri th.