Pook & Pook Inc., of Downingtown, Pa., held a two-day, 806-lot sale on April 21 and 22. The gross total was $2,167,001 (including a 24-percent buyers premium). The first 131 lots were from the Peter Tillou estate, the late Connecticut dealer and collector. Opening the sale was a Pennsylvania Chippendale walnut tall case clock with inlay initaled DH selling for $21,420. Several sewer tile dog figures, still life paintings, fraktur, china, German stoneware, signs, furniture, bronzes, land ong rifles, among other things, were from this consignment and sold well. A Pennsylvania Chippendale mahogany marble slab top table realized $14,880. A Charles Peale Polk portrait of David Brickell Kerr (1749-1814), dated 1791, sold for $29,760. Kerr was a Justice of the Peace and delegate to the General Assembly from Talbot County, Md. A large group of antique firearms sold following the Tillou items. Day two featured numerous quality offerings. The Pete Lengel estate (Robesonia, Pa.) included a collection of Shenfelder stoneware. Daniel Shenfelder worked in Reading, Pa., ca. 1870-90, and his pottery has a large base of active collectors today. A large five-gallon crock with elaborate floral decoration brought $3,720, and a Shenfelder spittoon, a rare form for the maker, sold for $4,284. A painted early hard pine tavern table, possibly Southern, sold for $9,450. It was cataloged with a Linda and Dennis Moyer provenance. It sold at their sale at Pook & Pook on July 11, 2020, for $21,960 to dealer Kelly Kinzle. The next lot was a rare Johann Adam Eyer fraktur with upper heart, lower text, winged angels, flanked by tulips, selling for $37,200 to Lisa Minardi in the room. It brought $23,100 at Conestoga Auction Co. on March 19, 2005. Jeff DeHart evaluated the piece at an appraisal event in Lancaster County, where the person who brought it in stated it was salvaged from the trash. Sadly, many such family documents/heirloom fraktur were relegated to the trash over generations. This is a rare survivor/rescue story. Some very good redware was in this sale. A Pennsylvania redware inkstand with sgraffito decoration and incised Jonas Haring 1853 realized $10,540. A redware figure of a cat (one paw restored) sold for $7,440. It sold for $5,750 at the Deyerle sale in 1995 through Sothebys. A redware parrot perched on a stump, inscribed on base Bell 1876, attributed to the John Bell Pottery in Waynesboro, Pa., illustrated in John Ramseys 1939 American Potters and Pottery, sold for $9,920 to a collector in Virginia. It went for $950 in 1982 at the Pauline Heilman sale held through Sotheby Parke-Bernet on the York Fairgrounds. A blue compass artist box sold for $34,720 to a Virginia collector. Dealer David Good bought it at the Dick and Rosemarie Machmer sale at Pook & Pook in 2008 for $37,780. At the Machmer sale it did not have a tin hasp. A collection of spatterware china consigned from a collector in Canada did well. A star of the Pennsylvania German lots was an 11.75-inch-long paint-decorated slide-lid Weber box selling for $80,600. The buyer was a major collector in Florida, according to Jamie Shearer of Pook & Pook. There were 32 lots from the late Chris Rebollo, who was a Pennsylvania dealer in high style antiques. A portrait attributed to Jacob Eichholtz sold for $4,284; a set of eight Philadelphia Federal dining chairs, $3,968; and a giltwood girandole mirror, ca. 1800, $8,060. A fraktur drawing inscribed H.H. 1800 Henry Hohf (Heinrich Hough) with a potted flower sold for $3,780. It brought $1,180 at Harry Hartmans estate sale in 2015 at Conestoga Auction Co. A large grouping of Stiegel type glassware, Chinese Export porcelain, fine jewelry, enamel boxes, Staffordshire ceramics, and, not to be left out, Lot #488, a leaf of the Gutenberg Bible (1450-55), rounded out day two, and sold for $68,200. Printed by Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust, the Gutenberg Bible is the first substantial book printed using movable type. Printed around 1455, the Noble Fragment leaves originate from an incomplete Gutenberg Bible, the Mannheim copy, sold at Sothebys in 1920, to Joseph Sabin. The Bible was missing 50 of its original 643 leaves. Sabin sold the Bible to Gabriel Wells, a New York book dealer, who decided to split the incomplete book up into individual leaves, as well as a few sections, ultimately nearly completing several other copies of the Gutenberg Bible. Individual leaves were sold off. The leaf sold here contained parts of the 2nd Book of Esdras, Chapters 14 and 15, with 42 lines of black ink, double columned, with red and blue Lombardic Capitals. The leaf is hinged into a dark blue Morocco leather portfolio and slip-case. For the online catalog with prices realized, visit www.pookandpook.com. The auction house has several big sales coming up. On Thursday and Friday, June 9 and 10, will be the collection of Don and Trish Herr, and Thursday and Friday, June 30 and July, will be the collection of Mark and Marjorie Allen. The Herrs were longtime dealers and collectors from Lancaster, Pa. Don passed away Dec. 12, 2021. He was 83. Trish is living in a retirement home. The Herrs amassed one of the most important collections of regional Lancaster County decorative arts ever assembled. He was known as an authority on pewter, and she is known for Pennsylvania textiles. Upon Dons request, the pewter collection will be sold over the course of three sales, stated Shearer. The two-day sale will be around 530 lots, about 100 lots will be pewter. More pewter will be sold in January 2023 and in the fall of 2023 at Pook & Pook. Trish took a number of special things with her when she moved. Mark and Marjorie Allen were dealers in New Hampshire. He passed away on Jan. 25, 2022. She died in 2014. The couple dealt in period high style furniture, metalwares, and Delftware. Stay tuned to Antiques & Auction News for more on these auctions. For further information, call Pook & Pook at 610-269-4040.