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SportsAntiques.com's
written
coverage of the
2009
National
Sports
Collectors
Convention
Cleveland
Ohio
July
29th - August 2nd
David
had a remarkable set of four 17" tall by 11" wide posters,
each featuring a dapper caricature of a c1910 college student
wearing the latest fashion. The set was issued by H.M. Lindenthal and
Sons clothing stores. They weren't signed but I suspect Hibberd VB Kline
illustrated them. I have a hurdlers
print he did which is more staid, but I've seen other work
he's done closer to these in style. Actually I saw an example
earlier this trip back in a Farmington area antiques store. But back to
these Lindenthal clothing posters, as I recall they were about $275.00
each without the arm wrestling. They were so clever and so close to
being sports related, but I reluctantly passed. Based on the silly
reasoning I can't just buy everything I like. Plus I needed to
reserve fire power for the National I would be at in few days.
BOOTH
OF
POST
ROAD GALLERY LARCHMONT N.Y.
c1859
19 1/2" tall terra cotta New York fireman
statue attributed to Karl Muller, $5,000.00
The
best piece I saw at the show was a c1859 19 1/2" tall terra cotta
statue of a fireman, attributed to Karl Muller. This statue was a big part
of why I said Rhinebeck was the best antiques show for it's size I'd ever
been to. You just don't walk into shows and see this kind of quality. So
American, so rare, so great! To begin with Karl Muller and his brother
Nicholas produced the first baseball
sculpture of merit. That would be the matching set of a striker
(batter) and pitcher they produced in 1868. They also produced the Muller
baseball clock I wrote a story on years ago.
And now I've stumbled onto this. Americana really gets no better, and it
was in the forget about ever seeing another category. Post Road Gallery
owner David Bahssin discussed
the statue with me. David explained although it wasn't signed by Muller, he
had documentation confirming Karl Muller had exhibited a work titled
"New York Fireman" in 1859. Muller was a designer for the Union
porcelain works in Greenpoint New York in the same 1859 period as this
statue. Moreover the art
style it's rendered in, contemporary realism, is consistent with Muller's
usual style. Which was unusual for American sculpture of that period since Roman Greco antiquity was the
norm then.
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