Auctions: Sales feature pottery, weapons, carriages, taxidermy

Sales during the next few days will offer pottery, vintage weapons, horse-drawn carriages, and taxidermy, as well as family heirlooms to benefit a Victorian house museum.

The heirlooms are from the estate of Margaret Grant Hawley, a longtime volunteer at the Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion at 200 W. Tulpehocken St. in Germantown and one of its earliest supporters when it was saved from destruction in the 1970s.

The auction will be conducted at Hawley's residence, 40 W. Tulpehocken St., from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Included are antique china porcelain, crystal, paintings, and the contents of a graphic-arts studio including gelatin photographs made by Claire Kofsky.

For more information, call 215-438-1861.

Art pottery sale. The pottery will be offered beginning at 4:30 p.m. Friday at the Sheraton Bucks County Hotel, 400 S. Oxford Valley Rd., Falls Township, in conjunction with the American Art Pottery Association's convention there Saturday and Sunday. The 335 pieces, to be offered by Belhorn Auction Services of Columbus, Ohio, also are being sold online at www.auctionzip.com

Among the top items are a 61/2-inch Weller Glendale vase (presale estimate $275 to $350), a 1913 Rookwood vellum glaze vase ($400 to $500), a Roseville Persian creamware floral wall vase ($325 to $350), and a unique Paul J. Katrich luster vessel titled "Catch a Falling Star" ($1,400 to $1,700). Among the bargains: a 51/2-inch art tile depicting Don Quixote and Sancho Panza ($30 to $50).

For further information, call association president Arnie Small at 609-407-9997 or go to www.aapa.info

Lancaster County carriage sale. In Lancaster County, Martin Auctioneers will conduct its 40th anniversary carriage auction at the Lebanon Fairgrounds, 80 Rocherty Rd.

The first session, beginning at 9 a.m. Friday, is a catalog sale devoted to more than 150 lots of coaches, carriages, and sleighs. Among the more unusual vehicles are a three-seat surrey; a Saylor wagon, known as a coal-box buggy because of its large receptacle for transporting the fuel; a Brewster-made skeleton-boot Victoria; a horse-drawn "limousine" capable of seating at least six passengers; and a two-thirds-scale model of a Concord stagecoach.