Philadelphia Antiques Show 2016_

✷ 125 ✷ FROM THE COLLECTION OF… FROM THE COLLECTION OF… DON & TRISH HERR THE HERRS, LANCASTER, PA HOOKED RUG We purchased this wonderful smiling sheep rug early in our collecting years sometime before 1975. It came out of a household sale at Hat and Gavel Auctions held by the Wilbur Hossler Auction Company in Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. is rug, dated 1897, came with another similar fringed piece depicting a cat with a kitten on its back, dated 1901, done by the same unknown maker. is rug consists of woven wool, rag, and wool yarn hooked on a burlap foundation. It has an applied machine-woven wool fringe on the side edges and a plain weave cotton backing. e central smiling sheep is surrounded by oral and bird gures with an additional border containing triangular shapes lled with colorful circles. It hangs on the wall of our library-TV-family room, along with its friend, the cat rug. My husband, Don, and I see and enjoy these pieces every day. Even if you aren’t in a good mood as you walk by, you really must smile as you pass this smiling face. I think I particularly enjoy this piece because I grew up on a farm in upstate New York where we raised sheep. HOWARD GODEL GODEL & CO. FINE ART, NEWYORK, NY American Tin Clockwork Toy George W. Brown & Co., circa 1880 I have had a fascination with trains since age 16. I rode freight trains all over America and fell in love with trains and railroads, big and small. I began buying and selling Lionel trains and soon learned about Ives, American Flyer and later Marklin and Bing trains as well. My book on the subject, Antique Toy Trains, was published in 1976 when I was 22 years old. I continue to collect trains and old toys, most of which are from the 1900 to 1940 period. It has been a life-long hobby, and I now own many extremely rare toys and trains. Collecting is a disease, but it has brought me immense pleasure, and I have many old friends from the toy world!