 | | Seven 19th century copper stencils for grain painting furniture; image credit on full record. |
 | | Mishler Auction Service has been conducting auctions in western PA for over sixty years. Merle started auctioneering at the age of fourteen. The initial intrigue was sparked by attending local auctions with his father. Those auctions were conducted by two auctioneers, both eighty-year veterans, Leslie Holsopple and Dave Marteeny. What began as a whole lot of practicing around the hundred and twenty-five acre dairy farm, turned into a community-wide "pretend auction." Merle sold all of the family possessions, livestock, equipment, and grain. After hearing the buzz of the mock event, Marteeny took the opportunity to put Merle on the stand at the next auction. He was quoted as saying, "That's the loosest tongue I've ever heard." So it became a popular site in Cambria and Somerset County to see the eighty-year old and this fourteen-year old in action; image credit on full record. |
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Stencils (7); Copper, Pennsylvania Country Furniture, 19th Century.
Seven rectangular copper furniture stencils and wooden case, reportedly from an Amish farmstead in Meyersdale, Somerset County.
p4A Item C248240
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tools & measuring devices |
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Pennsylvania |
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stencils & artists materials |
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1801 - 1900 |
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