Vintage art & furnishings · Wayne, Pennsylvania
The Address
No. 1 — September MMXXVI
- Off the Pike: the woman who has painted more than twenty rabbits sitting in china
- The den and the good chair. Why every one of those rooms had ducks
- Under Fifty: the shelf most of the shop actually lives on
- Everything on these pages is one of one
The Address · No. 1
Contents
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04From the House
Why there is a magazine at all -
06Off the Pike · Adamstown
The woman who painted rabbits in bowls -
14The Room
The den and the good chair -
22One Object
A lamp that was somebody's splurge -
26The Table Comes Back
September, and dinner moves indoors -
34Under Fifty
The shelf most of the shop lives on -
42Found a Home
Gone since we started counting
On the cover
Mediterranean Harbor. Oil on canvas, 30 × 40, unframed. Painted by somebody who stopped caring about the edges.
$350Take it home
From the House
There is only ever
one of each thing
here
The shop was never really the point. Objects come through, they leave, and what stays is the address: the rooms, the route we drive to fill them, the habit of looking at a thing closely enough to bring it home.
So once a month, this. What came in, where it came from, what it was for.
Some of it you can take home from the page. Some of it is already gone, which is its own kind of information.
Nothing here is being recommended. It is being shown.
1Off the Pike · No. 1 · Adamstown
The woman
who painted
rabbits in
bowls
Route 272, north of the turnpike. A mile of buildings selling other people's lives, and one hand that keeps turning up in them.
Most of what is inside those buildings is the same thing repeated. Then every few months a stack of small paintings turns up. All signed the same way. All doing the same odd thing.
A rabbit, sitting up, inside a piece of good china. Blue willow. Sèvres. A green majolica heart. The rabbit is always calm, always slightly too large for the vessel, always painted with more care than the format asks for.
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Nobody commissioned
any of these.
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8Somebody painted a rabbit in a bowl, then did it again, and again, for years, and framed each one in gilt as though it mattered.
It did, to her. That is the only provenance any of this ever really has.
Off the Pike · Adamstown · ten pieces
- 1Bunny in Sèvres Blue Cachepot, Pat McCarthy. Original oil, oval gilt frame.$325Take it homeFound a home
- 2Bunny in Blue Willow Bowl, Pat McCarthy. Oil on Florentine gilt plaque.$239Take it homeFound a home
- 3Reclining White Rabbit, Pat McCarthy. Oil, gold leaf.$239Take it homeFound a home
- 4Resting Bunny, Green Majolica Heart, Pat McCarthy. Ornate gold frame.$179Take it homeFound a home
- 5The Cabbage Patch Hare, P. McCarthy. Watercolor, silver beaded frame.$175Take it homeFound a home
- 6Rabbit Topiary, Pat McCarthy. A rabbit clipped out of a hedge.$175Take it homeFound a home
- 7Bunny in Red Chinoiserie Beaker, Pat McCarthy. Watercolor, gold beaded frame.$150Take it homeFound a home
- 8Bunny in Ribbon & Rose Cachepot, Pat McCarthy. Pink bows, Dresden manner.$150Take it homeFound a home
- 9Fox in Meadow, Pat McCarthy. Oval Florentine board.$250Take it homeFound a home
- 10Bumblebee, Pat McCarthy. One bee, gilt frame.$125Take it homeFound a home
The Room
The den and
the good chair
Every one of these rooms had ducks on the shelf. Nobody has ever explained why.
The Room · nine pieces
- 11Fox on Oval Florentine Board, Unsigned. The one that goes over the chair.$250Take it homeFound a home
- 12Mallards, Pair, Shafford, Japan. Mid-takeoff, going nowhere.$90Take it homeFound a home
- 13Pair of Paint-by-Number Horses, American, 1960s. Somebody's winter, twice.$145Take it homeFound a home
- 14Safari Highballs, Six, Mid-century. Six animals, six glasses.$65Take it homeFound a home
- 15Sportsman Pilsners, Six, Hand-painted. Game birds, gold rims.$67.50Take it homeFound a home
- 16Signed Tobacco Jar, Mid-century. Deep hand-applied glaze.$88Take it homeFound a home
- 17Hunt Scenes Ashtray, Sigma. Now a catchall by the door.$68Take it homeFound a home
- 18Men's Doubles Trophy Goblet, Webber-Guest. Somebody won something.$65Take it homeFound a home
- 19Hunt Scene Mug, English. The riding-crop handle is the joke.$38Take it homeFound a home
One Object
A lamp that was somebody's splurge
Hexagonal, hand-painted, cranes on blue panels, coral and brass at the base. You can tell what it cost by the panels: six of them, each painted separately, which is six chances to get it wrong. Nobody takes that risk for a lamp meant to disappear into a corner.
$250
Take it homeThe Table
September, and
dinner moves
indoors
Summer eating is casual by design: plates carried outside, nothing that matters if it chips. Then the light goes at seven and the table starts asking for candles again.
Transferware, ironstone, a pair of brass ducks holding tapers that are by any reasonable standard ridiculous. They are also the best thing on the table.
None of it needs to match. The tables worth remembering never did.
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26The Table · eight pieces
- 20Hunt Scene Tea Set, c. 1929, English. Teapot and creamer.$145Take it homeFound a home
- 21Brass Duck Candlesticks, Pair, Unmarked. Frankly ridiculous. Take them.$85Take it homeFound a home
- 22Vitrified Ironstone Pitcher, John Maddock & Sons. Hotel ware, FLT monogram.$95Take it homeFound a home
- 23Horse & Snaffle-Bit Platter, English. Serving, or a wall.$65Take it homeFound a home
- 24Cobalt & Songbird Plates, Five, Rosenthal. For the end of the meal.$75Take it homeFound a home
- 25Red Transferware Sugar Bowl, Copeland Spode. English ironstone.$58Take it homeFound a home
- 26Porcelain Koi Candlesticks, Pair, Unmarked. Two fish, standing up.$58Take it homeFound a home
- 27Woodcock Porcelain Box, Limoges, Aratoria. Opened just to admire the hinge.$75Take it homeFound a home
Under Fifty
The shelf most of
the shop actually
lives on
Most of what comes through here costs less than a decent dinner out. That is not a compromise. It is what these objects are, and were: the shell somebody carried back from an ocean, the box the ring lived in, the mug with a face on it.
A Toby mug is fifteen dollars and two hundred years of the same joke, still working.
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Under Fifty · eleven pieces
- 28Three Spotted Dogs Trinket Box, Japan, c. 1950s. Terriers instead of a handle.$47.50Take it homeFound a home
- 29Fox Terrier Bookends, Cast iron, 1920s. Original gilt.$45Take it homeFound a home
- 30Brass Horse Head Shoehorn, Unmarked. A small civility.$45Take it homeFound a home
- 31Brass Rocking Horse, Solid brass. Six and a half inches of it.$45Take it homeFound a home
- 32Silverplate Chalice, Gorham. Doesn't need a church.$38Take it homeFound a home
- 33Horses Tray, Arthur Armor. Carried the drinks, then hung.$38Take it homeFound a home
- 34Jadeite Bunny Covered Dish, Milk glass. Green glass, one rabbit.$37.50Take it homeFound a home
- 35Ceramic Spaniel, English manner. Guarding a mantel since.$34Take it homeFound a home
- 36Spotted Triton Shell, Charonia nodifera. The oldest souvenir there is.$28Take it homeFound a home
- 37Toby Mug, Japan. Two hundred years of the joke.$15Take it homeFound a home
- 38Toby Mug, Japan. Its slightly drunker cousin.$15Take it homeFound a home
Found a Home
Gone since we
started counting
These are not coming back, and no version of them is coming back either. We print them because a shop that shows only what is still available is telling you half of what it is.
Patti McCarthy
Pat McCarthy
Cyanotype
Pat McCarthy
Serigraph
English, c. 1900
Oil, gold frame
Advertising print
The
Address
Published monthly by Tallmadge Ave, Wayne, Pennsylvania.
Vintage art and furnishings, found along the Lancaster and Chester County pikes.
Every piece in this issue is one of one.
No. 1 · September 2026. Photographs made at the house. Objects found on Route 272 (Adamstown), Route 30 (Gap, Coatesville, Downingtown), and Route 340 (Intercourse, Leacock).
Next issue: The Wall, and a pike we have never written about.
