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Harahan Estate Sale with Primitives & Vintage Fun
Listing ID#: 104962
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Harahan, LA 70123 |
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Saturday Nov 19, 2016 Completed Sunday Nov 20, 2016 Completed |
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 Estate Sale
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Big Easy Estate Sales LLC Contact: Jonathan Wells Phone: 504-470-8438 Email: jonathan@bigeasyestatesales.com Website: www.bigeasyestatesales.com EstateSale.com ID#: 3774 View company information and listings |
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Please, no phone calls requesting info about specific items.
Cash, credit cards, and checks accepted with proper I.D. Local checks preferred. No checks less than $25.00. We reserve the right to refuse certain checks. As usual, Saturday is priced as marked. Sunday is discount day. Furniture MUST be removed the end of the sale on Sunday. You MUST also provide your own moving assistance for large and heavy items, especially furniture. We will not be able to assist in moving large heavy items. We are not responsible for accidents. |
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HARAHAN ESTATE SALE This weekend's sale includes items from two families, one with deep roots in New Orleans and the other from the mountains in North Carolina. There's a large mixture of 19th and 20th c. furniture, primitives, art, vintage items, and so much more! Full details below. Shirley Rucker Storey (1930-2004) was born in New Orleans and had a long career as an artist, first as a graphic artist, then as a commercial/fashion artist and then as a watercolorist and teacher of watercolors. Shirley’s first cousin was the renowned Louisiana impressionistic artist, Robert Malcolm Rucker. The two were close childhood friends, growing up together learning to sketch and paint. Shirley graduated from Sacred Heart then studied commercial art at L.E. Rabouin School and fine arts at Newcomb Art School. Later in life, after retiring from commercial art, she studied art at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts. As a fashion artist, Shirley worked at Maison Blanche, Godchaux’s, Kreeger’s and D.H. Holmes, to name a few. Later, when she became a watercolorist, she exhibited her work at shows of the art associations of which she was a member, including the New Orleans Art Association, Metairie Art Guild and the Jefferson Art Guild. Shirley taught commercial art at Audubon College and worked as a volunteer teacher of watercolor art at the Harahan Senior Center for eight years, directing the annual summer art shows and she also taught private art students. Included in this sale are many wonderful watercolors and other sketches and paintings by Shirley Rucker Storey. Also included are a large number of vintage advertising boards from D.H. Holmes and Maison Blanche.
Clare and Finley Grissett were close friends of Ruth and Billy Graham in the 1950’s and early 1960’s. Ruth and Clare shared a love of early American primitive furniture and would go antiquing together from 50’s and 60’s in western North Carolina. They called their adventures “junquing” and shared many summers collecting in the mountains riding around in Ruth Graham’s convertible. Clare also collected primitives in Piedmont North Carolina, and annual buying trips through western Virginia, western Maryland and western Pennsylvania up until her death in 1982. Included in this sale are quite a bit of primitives from Clare Grissett’s travels and years of collecting. The solid walnut reproduction press bed was handmade by Finley Grissett, a prior engineer, as an exact replica of the antique one owned by Ruth and Billy Graham.
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