[Rarebooks] FS: Haskell Collection of American Furniture & Antiques -6 volumes

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

“The Americana Collection of the Late Mrs. J. Amory Haskell. Volumes 
1-6”

The catalogs to a series of auctions held in New York by Parke-Bernet 
Galleries on April 26th, 1944 through February 16th, 1945 (six 
sessions).

One of the largest collections of American antiques and furniture ever 
assembled by one person. Mrs. J. Amory Haskell, Margaret Riker (of the 
New York Riker's, of island fame) spent 60 years putting it together, 
and it took six sales to disperse it. The American furniture falls into 
what Leslie Hyam, in his introduction to the catalogs, terms the 
"decisive hundred years"- 1730-1830. It includes the largest and most 
complete collection of Philadelphia seating furniture ever assembled 
privately, and examples of the best pieces of many other types, largely 
of Pennsylvania and New Jersey origin. The "country" furniture included 
a magnificent selection of Pennsylvania and New England windsors. There 
were also 50 cabinetmakers' models. And much, much, much more.

Wesley Towner, in The Elegant Auctioneers, says that Mrs. Haskell "was 
said to have shown alarming symptoms of collectomania by the age of 
twelve. Later she developed a virulent case of ancestor worship 
involving a life preoccupation with the legend of the Riker family and a 
compulsion to acquire artifacts inspired by the American heritage. Her 
home in New York and the farm near Red Bank, New Jersey, to which she 
moved her birthplace, lock, stock, and barrel, reputedly harbored the 
most extensive collection of Americana ever brought together by one 
person. Her collection overflowed into museums. Eager to share her 
obsession with the world at large, she would loan a barnful of tea 
services, lowboys, flip glasses, and fox-hunting punch bowls, with no 
appreciable dent in the total".

Softcover. 6 volumes. 7.5"x10.5", 1,413 pages, 5,875 lots, hundreds of 
black & white illustrations. An assembled set, with some general wear 
and soil, some rips to the covers, some pencil notes and prices realised 
penciled in.  $60

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