{"id":33947,"date":"2022-03-01T17:33:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T22:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/?post_type=product&#038;p=33947"},"modified":"2022-03-01T17:33:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T22:33:42","slug":"2000-shopping-feature-town-country-magazine-posh-presents-2","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/product\/2000-shopping-feature-town-country-magazine-posh-presents-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2000, Shopping Feature, Country Living Magazine, Vintage Gavels"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Because of the formal nature of the gift, many gavels bear an inscription \u2014 often on a silver band or carved directly into the wood. &#8220;Very few antiques come with a written provenance,&#8221; Glazer points out. &#8220;These inscriptions tell you who, what, where, why, and when.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When gavels are displayed in his Upper East Side gallery or in his booth at New York City&#8217;s annual Fall Antiques Show &#8230; Glazer observes, &#8220;People can&#8217;t seem to resist picking them up and turning them over. These pieces were made to be held, and I guess collectors respond to that.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Country Living<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;Vintage Gavels \u2014 Maintaining Order for More than a Century&#8221;<br \/>\nby Marie Proeller<br \/>\nOctober 2000, page 34<\/p>\n<p><strong>Country Living Magazine<\/strong> featured vintage gavels from the George Glazer Gallery in a one-page article in its Collecting section. The main text reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Order is heaven&#8217;s first law,&#8221; proclaims an inscription on a wood-and-ivory gavel presented to the National Women&#8217;s Suffrage Assn. on March 25, 1888. And what more fitting symbol of keeping order than a gavel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Most people who see these pieces in shops or at flea markets wrongly assume that they all belonged to judges or auctioneers,&#8221; says New York City antiques dealer George Glazer, whose private gavel collection numbers more than 100. While some did hail from a courtroom or an auction block, Glazer plains, most gavels you find on the market today were presentation pieces at fraternal lodges and social clubs. &#8220;They were commonly given to a member upon his or her ascension to chairperson or perhaps upon retirement.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Continued below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33950,"template":"","meta":{"wds_primary_product_brand":0,"wds_primary_product_cat":0,"footnotes":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[7360],"product_tag":[521,1265,6802,37,5991,2835,7358,8740],"class_list":{"0":"post-33947","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-press-clippings-exhibitions","7":"product_tag-antique","8":"product_tag-christmas","9":"product_tag-gift","10":"product_tag-globe","11":"product_tag-holiday","12":"product_tag-magazine","13":"product_tag-shopping","14":"product_tag-town-country","15":"post","16":"post-with-thumbnail","17":"post-with-thumbnail-large","19":"first","20":"instock","21":"shipping-taxable","22":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/33947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/33947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33951,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/33947\/revisions\/33951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=33947"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=33947"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=33947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}