DAZZLER SALE-WILLIAMSTON. ANTIQUES, FOLK ART & THE UNUSUAL! VAL BERRYMAN ESTATE. CURATOR MSU MUSEUM.

EYE DAZZLER ESTATE SALE.  Williamston. Estate of Val Berryman, Curator of History at M.S.U. Museum.  Please note: This is a 3 day sale. Hours: Thursday, 9 to 5, Friday & Saturday 9 to 2.  May 30th, 31st and June 1st.  Delightful, unusual sale with a great mix of antique, folk art, oriental & travel adventure goodies.The pictures tell it best but here is a partial listing. Two stacking oak barrister bookcases, one with leaded glass, both with drawers, very large stained glass window, other stained glass windows, William & Mary caned chair, ornate early carved lift seat bench, two door wardrobe, two drawer night stand, super cherry Victorian acorn finial four poster bed, ornate stretcher base oak pieced top dining table with fancy matching chairs, oak table/desk with two drawers, oak hanging corner cupboard, etagere, fancy nouveau & brass plant stands, Empire dressers & fancy 20's walnut buffet, carved oriental marble top table, chip carved hat rack, antique clock, oil paintings, watercolors, wall scenics, prints, posters including Christmas, Atlantic Oil Co. Christmas & fairy tale posters, Napco santa flask, reindeer store display candle holders, reindeer parade mask, wise men wooden mold, many other nice vintage Christmas items, many full sheets of Christmas seals, light up santa hang up, RCA Victor store angel, Department 56 original seven Dickens Village Christmas set plus eight others sold all together, quilts, fur stole, larger than life size plaque mounted deer head with lighted antlers from the Lazarus Department store, Columbus, Ohio, Hershell & Spillman carousel chariot side panel. Copper relief wall sculpture, nouveau dresser mirror, many figural carved, sculpted & molded pieces including nudes, statues, faces & busts, casts, Bali masks & ceremonial pieces, African items, opium scale, Tibetan prayer wheels, bronze Hindu goddess figures, thigh bone trumpet, Buddhist bell & dorje & other religious objects, Gandhi figure, unusual travel treasures, primitives, Utica N.Y. two gallon churn, studio pottery, nice fancy carved soapstone, mud men, phrenology head, ornate oriental brass jardinière, fancy iron framed mirror & shelf, old trunks, hanging stained glass lamps, other lamps including signed Ant. Nelson nouveau statue lamp, some nice glass, Doulton lambeth puzzle mug, lambeth pitcher, crockery, red ware bowls, Indian rugs including Navajo, beadwork, sand pictures, arrowheads, many local to the Dansville area, moose call, musket, duck decoy, spears, horn pieces, pre Columbian pieces, baskets, yellow ware banded bowls, enamel kitchen pans, old bottles, wooden putz figures, Burma marionette, Marx plastic 60's personality figures, oak crank phone, books, old magazines, vintage advertising & paper ephemera, mint condition flour sacks, oak & teak bookcases & cabinets, shelving, wall mount wood racks, compact stereo & radio. Contemporary sleeper sofa & chair, marble top end table & coffee tables, small entertainment center, computer desk, near new HP photosmart 6510 printer, four drawer file cabinet, three flat drawer files, one with wooden drawers. Older ShopSmith, Fisher drill press, floor stand grinder, small power tools, many hand tools, anvil, antique leg vise, traps, taxidermy boar head, bannister turned spindles, newel posts, columns, corbels & other architectural pieces, thirteen sections of heavy early Victorian cast iron fence, metal grates, bike & plenty more.   Next sale: June 6, 7 & 8, a fine three day antique & superb furnishings sale in East Lansing.

Val Roy Berryman 1940 - 2013. While a graduate student Val began working at the Michigan State University Museum; there he found his life's work, becoming the curator of history and 2013 would have been his 50th year at the museum. He loved his curatorial work, overseeing the development and care of historical collections, doing object-based research, sharing his deep knowledge of objects with the public, and mentoring scores of students, many of whom went on to museum-based careers. He especially loved to research and design exhibitions. Over his career he curated scores of exhibitions, large and small at venues that included the MSU Museum, a number of sites on the MSU campus, other museums and community sites in the Greater Lansing area, and annually for several years at the Michigan State Fair in Detroit. The range of exhibition topics reflected his wide interest in historical research and included ones on MSU football, MSU sesquicentennial, packaging, death and funeral traditions, agricultural life, Chinese material culture, and the recreation of a small town general store.