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1 Pittsburgh Press, July 30, 1978 Know Your Antiques Collectors Uncovering Graveyard Folk Art By RALPH and TERRY KOVEL Gravestones and gravemarkers are a folk art form that is often neglected by the scholar. A collector should never remove the stones, but photographs of different types can illustrate the history. MOST EARLY tombstones were carved from slate, sandstone or a harder stone such as granite, if available. Substitutes were found in areas where stone was scarce. Wood was not satisfactory because it rotted and soon disappeared.

In some areas, local potters made tomb "stones" and Ohio had graveyards marked with elaborate sculptures of sewer clay. The South special type of marker that resembled? an upside-down crock. Other styles were open planters, or just post markers. Some were made with the name and dates of the deceased as part of the decoration, others were made plain. These markers now show the irregularities of the glaze from a wood-burning kiln that is typical of southern ceramics.

are lucky enough to find a graveyard with unusual ceramic headstones, send the information to Dr. John Burrison, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Ga. TIN plate is marked "Vienna Art Plates, Patent applied for." Is it worth saving? own the first of the Vienna Art tin plates. These were made in 1904 by H.D. Beach's Standard Advertising Co.

of Coshocton, Ohio. Its first plate showed a girl leaning on a pillar and was marked "patent applied for." Later plates were marked "patented" on The main designs for the plates featured beautiful women. Several firms made similar plates including the J. F. its successor the Works.

Meeks Tuscarora Advertising, Co. Most of the tin plates were made as advertising giveaways and company names often appear. CAN I be sure if my lamp is a "Pairpoint puffy?" lamps were made in New Bedford, Mass. from the 1890s to the 1920s. The company almost always marked the lamp base with the words "The Pairpoint Corp," and many of the Barkus BAKERY BUTTER MAKES 11 BETTER MONDAY SPECIAL CHOCOLATE GLAZED) CRUELLERS 6 FOR REG.

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SPECIAL: CHOCOLATE Full $279 Pound REG. "Made in Our Candy Kitchen" HAPPY ADS make great greetings! Birthdays 0 Call 263-1201 to place your ad! Jill Leukhardt Becomes Bride -Press Photo by Lynn Johnson "Market Watchers" by Frank Webb shows Market Square. Exhibit Stresses City Scenes By MAUREEN MEISTER "Patterson's Ridge." City scenes rather than the usual seascapes are what prevail in the show sponsored by the Pittsburgh Watercolor Society at the Arts and Crafts Center. "Summer Show," which includes 50 paintings by 40 artists, runs through Aug. 13.

Robert Hild, a Westminster College art professor, was juror. Flowers and waterside scenes, old favorites with watercolorists, certainly are in evidence. But Pittsburgh's industry has become just as popular a subject. On the whole, the grime is far more interesting. Interpretations vary.

Fine, naturalistic detail goes into Charles Pitcher's "Clairton Coke Works" and "Chimneys." Cynthia Cooley's "Blast Furnace" is a collage that incorporates newsprint. And through washes of color, Frank Webb suggests smokestacks in "Mauve Citadel." It won a juror's award. Webb turned to another Pittsburgh a sight for "Market Watchers." Less abstracted than "Mauve Citadel," it depicts people seated on benches in Market Square. Of the water-related scenes, Deborah Quinn-Munson's "Durham" stands out. All that's in it is an empty rowboat adrift in water.

Isolation emanates from the boat and echoes through the ripples. Watery blue, turquoise, green and yellow spread serenely across Margaret Croker Matthews' abstract In contrast is another abstract work, "Glacier Point" by Eleanor Samples. The execution is bold and the colors are deep red and black against white and off-white. It also won a juror's award. Perhaps most unusual, though, is Robert Bowden's "Interior." Virtually all the other watercolors were inspired by the outdoors whereas Bowden looks at an ordinary living room.

He didn't even have to go as far as his own backyard: for in an ordinary living room, he found what is special. UPSTAIRS in the Lois I. Clifford Gallery of the Arts and Crafts Center are drawings and paintings by Keith Haring. The works scream out as paint spatters across black-on-white patterns. Haring's most adventurous effort is a cell-like room lined in red.

In it are suspended sheets of painted paper. The exhibit runs through Aug. 13. Down the hall in the Associated Artists' Gallery Upstairs are works by 1978-79 board members. Their works will be on view through August.

Most noteworthy is Thaddeus Mosley's untitled wood sculpture in four parts. He has been experimenting with paint in his recent work, and in this piece he coats the top part with red. It arrests the viewer; this experiment succeeds. Helene Kalson Becomes Bride Helene May Kalson and Tim R. Cohen were wed the couple left for a honeymoon in Bermuda.

They recently at the Westmoreland Country Club with Rabbi Eliyahu Safran officiating. Parents of the couple are Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Kalson of Oakland and Mr.

and Mrs. Jesse Cohen of Squirrel Hill. Caroline Patterson was matron of honor and Lee Pollock best man. After a honeymoon in the Greek Islands and Israel, the couple will live in Edgewood. Downie-Hartz Scottish pipes were played as the former Norma Ellison Downie and Gary L.

Hartz departed from Willamsville, N.Y. United Methodist Church after their recent wedding there with the Rev. James M. Pollard officiating. The Bride is the daughter of Mr.

amd Mrs. Robert H. Downie of Willamsville. Her the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Nelson A. Hartz of Mrs. Bruce P. Bateman was her sister's matron of honor and Thomas R. Miller was best man.

will live in Philadelphia. Ebner-Brunner Barbara J. Ebner and Edward E. Brunner were united in marriage in a recent ceremony at St. Luke Evangelical Lutheran Church, West View, with the Rev.

John D. Tollner officiating. Karen Linder and William A. Ebner were attendants. The couple will live in Steelton, Pa.

The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Ebner of Franklin Park. Zeiler-Dilla Mr.

and Mrs. Raymond J. Dilla Jr. are at home in Baldwin following their recent wedding in St. Elizabeth Church there and honeymoon in the Poconos.

A daughter The of bride, Mr. the and Mrs. former Arthur Diane W. Leslie Zeiler of Zeiler, is Baldwin. the Her husband's parents are Mr.

and Mrs. Raymond J. Dilla of Whitehall. The Rev. Kenneth White officiated.

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and Mrs. Howard A. Leukhardt of North Huntingdon. Her husband is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Lars E. Molander of Homewood, Ill. Honor attendants were Diane M. DelSignore and John C. Molander.

Buchheit-Mather Central Christian Church, Oakland, was the setting for the recent wedding of Jane G. Buchheit and William C. Mather. Parents of the couple are Mr. and Mrs.

Howard F. Buchheit of North Hills and Mrs. Jane Mather Sherman of Ligonier and the late Dr. Homer R. Mather.

Judith Moser was maid of honor and Chris Fleming best man. Following a wedding trip to Nantucket Island, the couple are residing in Shadyside. Southern grave marker. shades were not signed. Puffy or blownout shades were sometimes marked "Patented July 9, 1907." The old catalogs from the factory have been reprinted and you may be able to identify your lamp by comparing patterns.

IS a "Mickey Mouse" insulator? insulators are found high on phone or electric poles and were used to hold the wires. They are made of glass, ceramic and sometimes other materials. Collectors have nicknamed one type the "Mickey Mouse" insulator. It has two large top "ears" that make the insulator look a bit like a Mousequeteer hat. It was made during the 1890s and later.

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