Horst Auctioneers in Ephrata, Pa., held a two-day 813-lot catalog sale on April 14 and 15. The total gross for the multi-consignor sale was $215,340. Horst does not charge a buyers premium for in-house bidding. There is a 10-percent premium for absentee and online bidding. The majority of the iron in the sale came from the John Tyler collection and John Tannehill collection. Tyler was a curator at the William Penn State Museum (PHMC) and a blacksmith. He and his wife, Darlene, wrote a book, Early American Cast-Iron Holloware, in 2014. The late Tannehill was a professor at Millersville and collected tools and utensils among other American metalware. Horst will be selling more Tannehill items in an upcoming speciality tool sale. Regional folk art often does well at Horst, in particular, Hattie Brunner paintings. Brunner (1889-1982) was a well-known antiques dealer in Reinholds, Pa. Late in her career she began painting in watercolor, ca. 1958. Her primitive farm and auction scenes have always been collectible and have a large audience in todays market. An 18-by-13-inch framed winter scene (1971) with a brick farmhouse and man on horseback in foreground sold for $5,400. A similar winter scene depicting a covered bridge and horse-drawn sleigh realized $7,000. The star painting, however, was a large 30-by-21.75-inch framed autumn auction scene, ca. 1975, which sold to a local collector for $26,500. The original receipt from Brunner to the late dealer Walter Himmelreich to Robert Wiker in 1976 ($1,000) was included. Autumn auction scenes tend to be among the most popular of her works, and few of her paintings were of this size. The current marketplace does not seem to be slowing down for Brunners Pennsylvania German Grandma Moses style work. The photos and captions show a small sampling of of the diverse country sale. The next catalog sale will be in the summer (date to-be-determined). To contact Horst Auction Center, call 717-738-3080.