The Winterthur Library

The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum

5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur, DE 19735

302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

Creator: Norman-Wilcox, Gregor L., 1905-1969

Title: Papers

Dates: ca.1930-1980s

Call No.: Col. 115

Acc. No.: 70x29, 78x309, 80x245, 91x101, 94x71, 99x64, 99x83, 12x29

Quantity: 39 boxes

Location: 18 J 1-2 and K 1-5

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

Gregor Norman-Wilcox was a curator of decorative arts at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from 1931 until his retirement, shortly before his death in 1969. Norman-Wilcox was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 9, 1905, the son of Carl Humphreys and Eunice Wilcox. (The name on his birth certificate was Gregor Norman Humphreys; he later changed his name to Gregor Norman-Wilcox.) After graduating from the Cleveland School of Art, he worked for interior decorators in his hometown before making his way to Los Angeles. There, he joined the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1931, quickly becoming Curator of Decorative Arts.

In 1934, he married Grace A. Steen, a specialist in Oriental art. She wrote articles and taught classes on that subject. After becoming interested in Oriental, particularly Chinese art, she learned enough to become a buying agent for a New York importing firm, and worked in Shanghai in 1925. For a short time, she ran a shop in Cleveland where she sold Oriental imports, but the Great Depression ended her business. After becoming engaged to Gregor, she moved with him to Los Angeles.

Throughout his career, Norman-Wilcox wrote extensively on various aspects of the decorative arts, making many contributions to The Magazine Antiques (they first published one of his articles in 1927 and his last they published in August 1969, several months after his death), as well as other journals, encyclopedias, and books. He wrote a column on antiques for the Los Angeles Times from 1949 to 1959; the column was then nationally syndicated from 1958 to 1969. Norman-Wilcox was also a creative writer and cartoonist in his spare time, as evidenced by the keepsake books which he made for his wife.

In 1957, Norman-Wilcox took a year’s leave of absence from his job in Los Angeles to be in charge of furnishing Tryon Palace in New Bern, North Carolina. He was also responsible for restoring and refurnishing the Hugo Reid Adobe in Los Angeles. He was a member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, numerous historical societies, collectors clubs, and preservation groups in the United States and England, as well as being an honorary member of the American Institute of Interior Designers.

Gregor Norman-Wilcox died on April 26, 1969, at the age of 63, after having retired the previous September. He and his wife had no children. After his death, his wife established a memorial scholarship fund in his name at Winterthur Museum, which is used to support fellows in the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture. Grace Norman-Wilcox died around 1995.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The collection contains professional correspondence and papers created while Norman-Wilcox was a curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The bulk of the material consists of research notes, correspondence, typed drafts, photographs, and some tear copies of magazine articles on decorative arts topics. The correspondence is arranged by the article, speech, etc., to which it relates. Also included are copies of all of Norman-Wilcox's columns about antiques for the Los Angeles Times. Additional material includes catalogs of private collections, particularly of silver, with appraisals; correspondence, clippings, and photos of an honorary nature; surveys and reports he made as an advisor on silverwork acquisitions for the museum; and finally, installation drawings featuring gallery displays and room settings.

There are files on Oriental art, which were assembled by Grace Steen Norman-Wilcox, and some personal correspondence.

These papers also contain 145 keep-sake books that Norman-Wilcox created for his wife, dating from 1935 to 1944. They were presented to her on birthdays, anniversaries, and other special occasions. The books were typed, illustrated, bound, and numbered by him. As well, there are fifty illustrated poems, written in the 1930s. Some are thank-you notes, one was written to ask his wife out to dinner, and others celebrate events in their lives. Also, there is a box of keepsake items made by Norman-Wilcox for this wife. Mostly, these are carved from wood, some are dated. Included are a plate, a spoon, and heart-shaped objects.

ORGANIZATION

The papers have been divided into four series. Series I includes correspondence, catalogs, and materials for miscellaneous articles, in Boxes 1-8 and 22-23, and copies of Norman-Wilcox’s newspaper articles in Boxes 9-21. Materials removed from a scrapbook are in Box 23. Some of Grace’s papers are mixed into Series I, but mostly these are Gregor’s papers. Series II consists of the keepsake books, in Boxes 24-32, the keepsake poems in Box 33, and keepsake objects in Box 34. Series III are Grace Norman-Wilcox’s papers on Oriental (mostly Chinese) art. Series IV is one box of files related to Mr. Norman-Wilcox’s work for Tryon Palace.

PROVENANCE

Gifts of Mrs. Gregor Norman-Wilcox and Dwight P. Lanmon.

Acc. 94x71: scrapbook (now disassembled): gift of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Tripp.

Acc. 99x83: keepsake poems, gift of Dwight P. Lanmon.

Acc. 12x29: keepsake objects, gift of Dwight P. Lanmon.

ACCESS POINTS

People:

Page, James R., Mrs.

Marble, John Emerson, Mrs.

Crawford, Jeanette.

Winchester, Alice.

Comstock, Helen.

Norman-Wilcox, Grace S.

Topics:

Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Hugo Reid Adobe (Arcadia, Calif.)

Tryon Palace (New Bern, N.C.)

Decorative arts.

Antiques.

Museums - Acquisitions.

Art museums.

Museum curators - California - Los Angeles.

Silverware - Collectors and collecting.

Porcelain - Collectors and collecting.

Pottery - Collectors and collecting.

Antiques - Periodicals.

Gift books.

Souvenirs (Keepsakes).

Drawings.

Black-and-white photographs.

Photoprints.

Notes.

Correspondence.

Drafts (preliminary versions).

Appraisals.

Curators.

Cloth bindings (Bookbinding)

Book covers.

Book ornamentation.

Hand-printed books.

Book design.

Illustrated books.

Textile fabrics.

Illustrations.

Authors.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

Location: 18 J 1-2 and K 1-5

SERIES I: Correspondence, articles, and miscellaneous materials, mostly of Gregor Norman-Wilcox

Box 1:

Folders 1-3: Catalog of Marble Collection

Listing and appraisal of early American silver comprising the Mrs. John Emerson Marble collection, South Pasadena, ca. October 1946. Listing and appraisal of the Old English silver in the Marble collection, September 1948.

Folders 4-6: Evaluation of James R. Page silver collection, 1947.

Folders 7-9: Catalog of Quinn collection

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Ca., 1950. Part I and II of the Chinese and European material.

Folders 10-11: Catalog of James R. Page silver collection

Itemized appraisal, 1947 and 1953 supplement to the 1947 catalog, and catalog and appraisal of old silverwork, English, Scottish and Irish silver. Photographs and negatives are included.

Folders 12-13: Catalog of C. Pardee Erdman

Catalog and appraisal of the C. Pardee Erdman collection of silverwork, San Marino, Ca., 1947, with additions to the catalog, 1956.

Folders 14-15: Listing and appraisal of old silverwork

From the collection of Dr. and Mrs. William B. Munro, Pasadena, Ca., September 1954, along with a listing and appraisal of English silver cups, September, 1954 and a collection of caddy-scoops.

Folder 16: The Antiques Journal, correspondence, 1951-1964

(Note: Folders 17-30 contain research notes, drafts, and photographs for short articles Norman-Wilcox submitted to Antiques and American Antiques Journal between 1949 and 1955.)

Folder 17: "Not Old, but Plate-Rail Blue"

Folder 18: "The Lore of Snuff"

Folder 19: "Venetian or 'Persian’ Blinds"

Folder 20: "Baltimore, but Why?"

Folder 21: “There Used to be Cows"

Folder 22: "A Basket for Everything"

Folder 23: "Lowbrow and Lovely"

Folder 24: "What Can You Use it For?"

Folder 25: "Copper Called 'OLD'"

Folder 26: "Worm'd Sticks"

Folder 27: "The Shaggy Dog"

Folder 28: "Made of Money"

Folder 29: "The Breathtaking Stay-Busk"

Folder 30: "For a Glad Pudding"

Box 2:

(Note: Folders 1-35 contain research notes, drafts, and photographs for short articles Norman-Wilcox submitted to Antiques and American Antiques Journal between 1949 and 1955.)

Folder 1: "Das Kuche Model"

Folder 2: "The Gainsborough"

Folder 3: "Sevres, and Almost"

Folder 4: "The Canterbury"

Folder 5: "What Not?"

Folder 6: "Older than Vermont"

Folder 7: "The Months in Delft"

Folder 8: "The Mystery of Coopers"

Folder 9: "Paul et Virginie"

Folder 10: "Old-Tin--but Not Very"

Folder 11: "Perhaps Bennington"

Folder 12: "An Art for the Thrifty"

Folder 13: "Mary was a Dull Child"

Folder 14: "Wedgwood's 'Jasper'"

Folder 15: "Caddies and Caddy-Boxes"

Folder 16: "Just Britannia"

Folder 17: "Not Sterling, but 'Dollar' or Coin Silver"

Folder 18: "Victorian: The Second Rococo"

Folder 19: "Connecticut Dutch"

Folder 20: "Fine, or Just Good"

Folder 21: "Mr. Wedgwood's Majolica"

Folder 22: "Bottled Memories"

Folder 23: "The Paisley Shawl"

Folder 24: "Mandarin Porcelain"

Folder 25: "Belter's Modern Chair"

Folder 26: "Stool Pigeons"

Folder 27: "Two Good Chairs"

Folder 28: "Fireside Discomfort"

Folder 29: "American Stone Worker"

Folder 30: "A Borrowed Spoon"

Folder 31: "A Pratie Litelle Cage"

Folder 32: "Gilt Eagle"

Folder 33: "Gilt Edge"

Article published in Window Beautiful, October, 1949, with correspondence

Folder 34: "ABC, English Silver"

Published in Antiques, 1951.

Folder 35: "Ephraim Cobb : An Only Known in American Silver"

For Antiques, 1951 (2 copies).

Folders 36-37: "Carpets and Rugs"

Published in Book of Knowledge, 1951, with illustrations, notes, correspondence, etc.

Folder 38: "Samuel Casey in a Surprise"

Article with correspondence, 1951-1952

Folder 39: “Austro-German ‘Pokale” as Source Material”

Page 290 of printed article (rest of article missing), Antiques, November 1931

Folder 40: “Knife Cases,” parts 1 and 2

Printed articles, from Antiques, October and December 1934

Box 3:

Folder 1: Nicholas Geffroy

"Nicholas Geffroy of Newport," for Antiques, 1946 and "Nicholas Geffroy: Lost and Found," in Bulletin, Vol 6, No. 1, January 1954.

Folder 2: China Trade, 1955

Notes and clippings

Folders 3-4: Marble Collection

"American Silver at Los Angeles County Museum," published in The Connoisseur Year Book, 1956, with correspondence and photographs.

Folder 5: The English Silver Cream Jug, 1951

First writing/original draft.

Folder 6: The English Silver Cream Jug, January 1951

First typed draft.

Folder 7: The English Silver Cream Jug, December 1951

Final draft copy.

Folders 8-9: Cream Jug, December 1951

Re-write and letters re: catalog, June 1950.

Folder 10: Cream Jug photographs and negatives

Folders 11-18: "The American Silversmith in the Eighteenth Century"

Published in The Connoisseur, February 1955; includes correspondence, notes, and photographs. (continues into the next box)

Box 4:

Folders 1-4: "American Silversmiths of the 18th Century" (cont.)

Folders 5-7: "A Notable Private Collection"

English silver in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Francis E. Fowler, Jr., Los Angeles, Ca., for The Connoisseur, October-November 1953 issue, with notes, letters, and photographs.

Folders 8-10: Fowler Collection

For Antiques Annual.

Folder 11: Correspondence with Comstock about article on pottery and porcelain prepared for Concise Encyclopedia of American Antiques

Folder 12-13: Correspondence with others about article on pottery and porcelain prepared for Concise Encyclopedia of American Antiques

Box 5:

Folder 1: Outline and general notes for article on pottery and porcelain prepared for Concise Encyclopedia of American Antiques

Folder 2: Wares, for article on pottery and porcelain prepared for Concise Encyclopedia of American Antiques

Folder 3: Makers, for article on pottery and porcelain prepared for Concise Encyclopedia of American Antiques

Folder 4-5: American Pottery and Porcelain

Article sent to Comstock, February 19, 1957.

Folder 6: Galley proof for article on pottery and porcelain prepared for Concise Encyclopedia of American Antiques

Folder 7: Anglo American Pottery

Article sent to Comstock, March 9, 1957.

Folder 8: Bills for article on pottery and porcelain prepared for Concise Encyclopedia of American Antiques

Folders 9-10: Photographs for Pottery and Porcelain

Folder 11: "American Silver in California Collections"

Published in Antiques, January 1954.

Box 6:

Folders 1-2: "American Silver in California Collections" (cont.)

Folders 3-4: Munro

Article for The Connoisseur, 1962, with correspondence and "From Elizabeth to Queen Anne - English Silver," in the California collection of Mrs. William Bennett Munro.

Folders 5-6: Munro photographs

Folders 7-8: Hugo Reid Adobe: General;

Includes personal information and history, furnishing plan, financial notes, and correspondence with the state of California, 1960-1965.

Folder 9: Hugo Reid Adobe: Inventory lists

Folder 10: "Hugo Reid Adobe"

Article for Antiques, August, 1963, with correspondence.

Folder 11: Hugo Reid Adobe, Spring 1961

Box 7:

Folders 1-2: Williamsburg

Correspondence, expenses, etc. relating to speech given at the second session of the 1951 Antiques Forum held at Williamsburg, Va.

Folder 3: Huntington Gallery

Survey and report, 1953-54, made as advisor on acquisitions of silver work for the museum.

Folder 4: Ewings Party for Gregor Norman- Wilcox's 25th anniversary at LACMA:

Telegrams, notes, November 1956, held in a sample of Italian wallpaper.

Folder 5: 25th Anniversary at LACMA, January 1957

Photographs, newspaper clippings, etc. of Gregor Norman- Wilcox's 25th anniversary party.

Folder 6: Elsie de Wolfe Foundation

Material from Norman-Wilcox's time as a juror for an art scholarship.

Folder 7: Photos of Gregor and Grace Norman-Wilcox. (acc. 12x29)

His: 1934 and 1945;

Hers: slide, 1972

Box 8:

Installation drawings: Drawings done in pencil and pen and ink featuring gallery displays and room settings.

Oversized certificates of merit from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Plaque honoring Grace Norman-Wilcox presented by the Antiquarian Society of California

Box 9: Newspaper column:

Folder 1: Bennington, Perhaps

Folder 2: A High-Perched Eagle

Folder 3: "Old Tin--but Not Very"

Folder 4: "This Way to the 'Gold Rush'"

Folder 5: "An Easy Standish"

Folder 6: Yankee Chippendale

Folder 7 Almost Presidential China

Folder 8 Early Silver Toys

Folder 9 Grandmother's Majolica

Folder l0 Little Glassware

Folder 11 An Unhappy Marriage

Folder 12 A Present for a Dull Child

Folder 13 But Not Chelsea

Folder 14 An Early Improvement

Folder 15 Shaker Work

Folder 16 Caddies and Caddy-Boxes

Folder 17 A Borrowed Spoonful

Folder 18 Fine, or Just Good

Folder 19 The Famous "Jasper"

Folder 20 Those Small but United States

Folder 21 A Difference in Taste

Folder 22 Britannia Ware

Folder 23 The Unforgivable Lamp

Folder 24 Spoons in American Pewter

Folder 25 "Rustic" with a Flair

Folder 26 The Parson's Chair

Folder 27 "Kuche Model" for Thanksgiving

Folder 28 The Taste of l820

Folder 29 Coin, or "Dollar" Silver

Folder 30 English Lustre

Folder 31 An Exotic Cat

Folder 32 The True Chelsea

Folder 33 The "Second Rococo"

Folder 34 The Courting Mirror

Folder 35 What is a "Story" Worth?

Folder 36 New Names for Old Inlays

Folder 37 Connecticut Dutch

Folder 38 Pennsylvania "Fractur-Schriften"

Folder 39 Why Baltimore?

Folder 40 Vanished Vessels in American Silver

Folder 41 What is a "Good" Chair?

Folder 42 A "Bottled" Record

Folder 43 Whose Butterprint?

Folder 44 The Silly "Optique"

Folder 45 For Candlemakers

Box 10: Newspaper column:

Folder 46 The Paisley Shawl

Folder 47 Sevres, and Almost

Folder 48 The Lure of Snuff

Folder 49 New York "Jersey" Glass

Folder 50 "Stool Pigeons"

Folder 5l Some "Good" Dolls

Folder 52 Everybody's "Willow"

Folder 53 Scarcely Chippendale

Folder 54 Fakes--A Review

Folder 55 The Neglected "C.C."

Folder 56 Hitchcocks and Others

Folder 57 Stiegel's Lost Glass

Folder 58 Late and Laughable

Folder 59 Athens, U.S.A.

Folder 60 Acceptably Antique

Folder 6l The Spoon

Folder 62 A Clock that Tells When

Folder 63 The Months in Delft

Folder 64 An Antiques Anthology

Folder 65 A Documented Set

Folder 66 "Macaroni" in l775

Folder 67 Pianos and Earlier

Folder 68 Hester Bateman, Again

Folder 69 Not Yet Queen Anne

Folder 70 We Knew Better

Folder 71 Something Remembered - Including a note on the l950 Antiques & Decorators Show

Folder 72 How to Ruin Antiques

Folder 73 Pudding for the Festival

Folder 74 The Plastic Metal

Folder 75 "Persian" Blinds

Folder 76 Mr. Rogers' Art

Folder 77 The Antiques Forum

Folder 78 For "Husband"

Folder 79 Pewter in l830

Folder 80 A Shade of Edouart

Folder 8l A Famous Failure

Folder 82 The Marking of Letters

Folder 83 A Painless Picture

Folder 84 Somewhat Chinese

Folder 85 A Swedish Tulip

Folder 86 Belter's "Modern" Chair

Box 11: Newspaper column:

Folder 87 The Fairly Recent Fork

Folder 88 Who Said Battersea?

Folder 89 A Captain's Chair

Folder 90 "Copper, Tin and Brass"

Folder 9l The "Good" Red

Folder 92 Some Cups for Easter

Folder 93 Englishness in Virginia (Part I)

Folder 94 Englishness in Virginia (Part II)

Folder 95 On Being Plain

Folder 96 The Tools at Ayscough's

Folder 97 A "Prudential" Desk

Folder 98 A Colonial Printer

Folder 99 "Christall" Made of Glass

Folder l00 Old Children

Folder l0l Fireside Discomfort

Folder 102 Heaven and Earth in 1740

Folder l03 A Misplaced Windsor

Folder l04 Dyed in the Wool

Folder 105 The Floor Cloth

Folder 106 Going in Comfort

Folder 107 Not Old, but Plate-Rail Blue

Folder 108 "Work'd Cloth"

Folder 109 A Basket for Everything

Folder ll0 Birmingham Plate

Folder 111 The Look of the Indies

Folder 112 Those Hungry Years

Folder 113 Quality

Folder 114 A Good Glass with a Poor Name

Folder 115 "Japanned" Country Tin

Folder 116 Varying a Design

Folder 117 Outrageous Gadget

Folder 118 So-called "Chalk"

Folder 119 What Can You Use It For?

Folder 120 Collecting Silver Without Pain

Folder 121 Lowbrow and Lovely

Folder 122 Skimped in l8l6

Folder 123 A Big Enough Clock

Folder 124 Worcester's 200th

Folder 125 Made of Money

Folder 126 "All About a Wat"

Folder 127 Seymour's "Only Known"

Folder 128 What Not

Folder 129 Little Marvels

Folder 130 The First Teacup

Folder 131 A Lady in Wax

Box 12: Newspaper column:

Folder 132 A Pretty Artifice

Folder 133 Tribute to the Cow

Folder 134 A Lapel Ornament

Folder 135 The Ox-bow Chest

Folder 136 A Table Too Tall

Folder 137 A Garnyshed Nutte

Folder 138 The Flowing Blue

Folder 139 Pewter Church Tokens

Folder 140 Copper Called "Old"

Folder 141 Hoops and the Tournure

Folder 142 Toddy, Punch & Flip

Folder 143 Washington and Mr. Stokes

Folder 144 The Cutler's Fork

Folder 145 The Shaggy Dog

Folder 146 One of the "Bluebirds"

Folder 147 When Gravy "Was News"

Folder 148 What Was that Name?

Folder 149 The Tactful Screen

Folder 150 Molineux's Hand-irons

Folder 151 The "Whodunit" Mirror

Folder 152 The Perfectly Dumb-Waiter

Folder 153 Made-to-Order Antiques

Folder 154 What a Collection Led To

Folder 155 Slightly Not American

Folder 156 That Fur-bearing Rose

Folder 157 Pattern-Glass Is for those Who Love it

Folder 158 Turn of the Century

Folder 159 Rare, Maple, and Curly

Folder 160 The Poor but Honest

Folder 161 The Ingenious Windsor

Folder 162 Strayners for Orrenges

Folder 163 For the Fair Face

Folder 164 Just to Sit On

Folder 165 Pleasantly Confused

Folder 166 Vieux Paris More or Less

Folder 167 Old, Neglected Blue

Folder 168 Worm'd Sticks

Folder 169 Stoneware, Old and Grey

Folder 170 The Good Queen

Folder 171 Too Young for an Antique

Folder 172 Patched-up Pictures

Folder 173 The Hunt Jug

Folder 174 Wedgwood's "Liverpool"

Folder 175 Really Liverpool

Folder 176 All-White

Box 13: Newspaper column:

Folder 177 The Dutch Show-Towel

Folder 178 The Breathtaking Stay-Busk

Folder 179 The Noble Cincinnati

Folder 180 And So to Bed

Folder 181 A Very Busy Table

Folder 182 The Canton "Summer" Chair

Folder 183 The "Japanned" Tray

Folder 184 A Highchair that Would Last

Folder 185 The Canterbury

Folder 186 For to Breakfast On

Folder 187 The Coral-and-Bells

Folder 188 The Bootmakers Black-Jack

Folder 189 A Golden Honey Hive

Folder 190 The Fancywork Arts

Folder 191 Marble in the Parlor

Folder 192 One "Case & Draws"

Folder 193 Bought from Mr. Stiegel

Folder 194 "The Real" Sandwich

Folder 195 A Two-faced Chair

Folder 196 Stuck-up Vases

Folder 197 A Famous Compliment

Folder 198 A Dreamed-up World

Folder 199 Six "Carrofts Enamel'd"

Folder 200 The Silver Pipkin

Folder 201 Utility came First

Folder 202 The First Lamp and Shade

Folder 203 Memento Mori

Folder 204 Not Born, but Fetched There

Folder 205 No Work for a Lady

Folder 206 Second-best Regency

Folder 207 Just a Gift

Folder 208 Quaiches

Folder 209 "By a Lady"

Folder 210 The Croft: from A-Z

Folder 211 Don Ignacio's Chair

Folder 212 The Gainsborough

Folder 213 The Martha Washington

Folder 214 A Pan "to Heat Bedds"

Folder 215 Three "Beare Canns"

Folder 216 The Sofa Table

Folder 217 An "Ornamental" Front

Folder 218 Easy Beyond Expression

Folder 219 Not Too Many Cellars

Folder 220 The Bason Stand

Folder 221 The Convex Glass

Box 14: Newspaper column:

Folder 222 The Dutch Show-Towel

Folder 223 Shades "so Nearly Resembling the Life"

Folder 224 A Doodled Document

Folder 225 The Semainier

Folder 226 Lustres

Folder 227 "For a Good Child"

Folder 228 The Turner's Table

Folder 229 Chamberlain's for H.R.H.

Folder 230 The Long-Chair

Folder 231 The Chaste Look of Parian

Folder 232 Tartan Ware

Folder 233 Egyptomania

Folder 234 California in the News

Folder 235 The "Strawberry" Dish

Folder 236 A Pair of Gloves

Folder 237 Chased, or Engraved

Folder 238 Lutz and His "Striped" Glass

Folder 239 The Nef, a Safe Ship

Folder 240 Half-Spanish Colonial

Folder 241 The Indigo Tub

Folder 242 Trinket Boxes

Folder 243 The Egg-Boiler

Folder 244 Eli, Seth & Silas

Folder 245 Many "Bird-Boxes"

Folder 246 American Stoneworkers

Folder 247 Bareley Benjamin's Clock

Folder 248 The Window Seat

Folder 249 "To Raise a Person"

Folder 250 Later Victorian

Folder 25l Phyfe's Lyre-backs

Folder 252 What They Would Settle For

Folder 253 The Gentleman's Fan

Folder 254 The Silver Shell

Folder 255 Le Parapluie

Box 15: Newspaper column:

Folder 256 With "Bended Back"

Folder 257 The "Court" Cupboard

Folder 258 The "Rent" Table

Folder 259 Rococo and Neo-Classic

Folder 260 Sudden Improvement

Folder 26l Sand Glasses

Folder 262 Hre. Lannuier "Kips is Whare house"

Folder 263 A Flight of Eagles

Folder 264 On Its Way Out

Folder 265 Nobody's Hand

Folder 266 Older Than Vermont

Folder 267 Everybody's Back Stool

Folder 268 Baccarat "Mousseline"

Folder 269 "Paul et Virginie"

Folder 270 "A Teakettle Stand"

Folder 271 More than One Needs to Know

Folder 272 From the Herds and Flocks

Folder 273 Dwight's and Other Stoneware

Folder 274 The "Pair Stands"

Folder 275 Delft but Not Dutch

Folder 276 The "Seven Wonders"

Folder 277 Newport Re-discovered

Folder 278 Those "Poissons dores"

Folder 279 Pencil-Posted

Folder 280 No Place for the Place Plate

Folder 281 The Mystery of Coopers

Folder 282 Some Other Barrels

Folder 283 For the Game of Chess

Folder 284 Quite a Pastime

Folder 285 The Nicest Clock

Folder 286 "Sir, Your Quarter is Up"

Folder 287 "... for dinner with the American Eagle"

Folder 288 American Ships in the China Trade

Folder 289 A Leathern Bottel for Usquebaugh

Folder 290 The Worshipful Companies

Folder 291 Wizards and Tinkerers

Folder 292 Another "Forum"

Folder 293 The Consul's Lounge

Folder 294 Two Jugs for Gentlemen

Box 16: Newspaper column:

Folder 295 Porcelains in a Pig Sty

Folder 296 A Painted "Skirt"

Folder 297 The Quaker Cow

Folder 298 Such Sweet Sorrow

Folder 299 Papiers Peints de la Chine

Folder 300 Too Late for Goodwill

Folder 301 Gaudyware

Folder 302 A Proper Eagle

Folder 303 Paris and the Provinces

Folder 304 "The Gentlemen's Social Table"

Folder 305 "Silver Plated"

Folder 306 Hester and the Girls

Folder 307 The "Bamboo" Chair

Folder 308 The Genuine Reproduction

Folder 309 The Manx Table

Folder 310 The Silver Spout-Cup

Folder 311 The Cornerwise Cubbort

Folder 312 Lockwood's "Tuckaway and a Dog"

Folder 313 For Blottis and Blurris

Folder 314 The Swinger & Draws

Folder 315 The Beau Brummel

Folder 316 The Cobbler's Candlestick

Folder 317 The Southern "Hunt" Board

Folder 318 A Signer's Chair

Folder 319 A Pratie Litelle Cage

Folder 320 The False Tree

Folder 321 The Tablet Windsor

Folder 322 Faked "Facon de Venise"

Folder 323 Glasses with Built-in Money

Folder 324 Silvered Glass

Folder 325 Living it Up with Paul Storr

Folder 326 Brackets "For Bustoes"

Folder 327 The Plate-Case Maker

Folder 328 Gerdi's "Fancy" Chair

Folder 329 The l0-Plate Stove

Folder 330 "Little Known and Less Regarded"

Folder 331 The Muscovy Company

Folder 332 The Senses

Folder 333 Falling Tables to Joyn

Folder 334 The Wrong-named SBF

Folder 335 A Sample of Circa Trouble

Folder 336 A Standing Nest of Drawers

Folder 337 In the French, or "Modern" Taste

Folder 338 Chinese Snuff Bottles

Folder 338 A quite American Desk

Folder 339 The Encyclopedia, II

Folder 340 The General, the Marquis, and Poor Richard

Folder 341 A Lightly Employed Dummy-Board

Folder 342 Les Filles Egyptiennes

Folder 343 The Backwards Escape

Folder 344 The Best Chairs

Folder 345 A Second Time Around

Folder 346 Fit for a Queen

Folder 347 The Philadelphia Sugar

Folder 348 "The Leading Articles of Employ"

Folder 349 For Ordinary Fathers

Folder 350 "Liverpool" Jugs but of Silver

Box 17: Newspaper column:

Folder 351 The Royal Governor's Cabriole Chairs

Folder 352 The "Molly Pitcher" Table

Folder 353 Scrimshandered Whimseys

Folder 354 Trios and Quartettos

Folder 355 The Globe Inkstand

Folder 356 Winter Flowers

Folder 357 Closet Space

Folder 358 The Pilgrim Bottle

Folder 359 Alms Boxes

Folder 360 The Signing of the Declaration

Folder 361 Cloisonne Enamels

Folder 362 Enamels - Part II

Folder 363 Garbled Pilgrims

Folder 364 "For an Essay on the pruning of Forrest Trees"

Folder 365 Sidewalk Indians and their Friends

Folder 366 The Stuf't Stole

Folder 367 "All Sorts of Chairs and joiners Work

Folder 368 "Beautiful but Expensive"

Folder 369 Tumbling Bolles

Folder 370 The Idiotic Dandy-Horse

Folder 371 Papier Mache

Folder 372 The Lap Desk

Folder 373 Conversation and Library Chairs

Folder 374 The Poor Man's "Chief Wearing"

Folder 375 The Charm of Making Mistakes

Folder 376 The Lobby Chest

Folder 377 The Wine Cistern

Folder 378 The Cellaret

Folder 379 The Cheek'd or "Wing Chair"

Folder 380 The Norwich Shawl

Folder 381 A Sly Chinese Joke

Folder 382 No art with Potters can compare

Folder 383 The Occupational Shaving-Mug

Folder 384 The Barbiere

Box 18: Newspaper column:

Folder 385 Jacob Petit

Folder 386 The "Chaffendish"

Folder 387 Who were H & M?

Folder 388 A Windsor Born that Way

Folder 389 Your "Everlasting Portrait"

Folder 390 The Biddle Vase

Folder 391 "the most Exactist workemanship

Folder 392 Pen. Hyde and her "ways of sowing"

Folder 393 Feet Hurt?

Folder 394 Leftover Colonial Life

Folder 395 The Cup for Caudle

Folder 396 Made Here in Taunton

Folder 397 The Art of Coquillage

Folder 398 What do you Mean, Rhodian?

Folder 399 For Images and Duodecimos

Folder 400 Whither are We Headed?

Folder 401 A Spice-dredger that Would Do

Folder 402 The Stirrup-Cup

Folder 403 "Sesours to Snoffe Candyls"

Folder 404 Signed: Andrew Headman

Folder 405 ye holowe silver barbore bason

Folder 406 The Redcoats were People

Folder 407 The "Poi-Schissel" and How to Make One

Folder 408 "the Blue Printed"

Folder 409 Spode Again but Better

Folder 410 "Something Different" by Ephraim Cobb

Folder 411 The Hurricane Globe

Folder 412 "The Comedy" in Capo di Monte

Folder 413 "Clobbered"

Folder 414 "...the most Interesting Town in the Provinces”

Folder 415 Drum and "Rent" Tables

Folder 416 Jalousies Persiennes

Folder 417 Yankee Tinsmiths

Folder 418 "a dessert with Dumb-Waiters"

Folder 419 Grandmother's "Chelsea"

Folder 433 Three Men and a Chair

Box 19: Newspaper column:

Folder 1 7-14-57 Earlier than What?

Folder 2 7-21-57 Two Tables that Needed no Nails

Folder 3 7-28-57 Lanthorn-Cases (and hurricane lamps)

(one copy is acc. no. 99x64.4)

Folder 4 8- 4-57 Bird-Boxes Big as the Life

Folder 5 8-11-57 Cottage and Royal Lustre

Folder 6 8-18-57 Break-front Library Cases

Folder 7 8-25-57 A Collector's Cabinet

Folder 8 9- 1-57 The Necessary

Folder 9 9- 8-57 Toys for Grownups

Folder 10 9-15-57 The Dresser

Folder 11 9-22-57 Only a Slight French Accent

Folder 12 9-29-57 A Grandfather Library-Steps

Folder 13 10-6-57 For a Hairy-Chested Baby

Folder 14 10-20-57 Colonel Negus and His Pot

Folder 15 10-27-57 Needlemade Cheer

Folder 16 11-10-57 Back-painting "Very Much to the Life"

Folder 17 11-17-57 Blue Willow

Folder 18 11-24-57 Wicker Lane

Folder 19 12- l-57 A Place of Refuge

Folder 20 1- 5-58 A Book for a Friend

Folder 21 N.d. Antiques Ready-Made

Folder 22 1-19-58 His and Hers

Folder 23 2- 2-58 Pots, Cabooses and Sugar-house Stoves

Folder 24 2- 9-58 The Nation's Guest

Folder 25 2-16-58 A Bashful Bench

Folder 26 2-23-58 The Five Orders

Folder 27 3- 2-58 The Good Roman Manner

Folder 28 3- 9-58 Mocha Ware

Folder 29 3-16-58 Nonesuch

Folder 30 3-23-58 Steele's "Friend & Neighbour Mr. Gumley"

Folder 31 3-30-58 Cleopatra & Friend

Folder 32 4- 6-58 "High Chest, low chest of Draws"

Folder 33 4-13-58 A Double-chest and Chamber-table"

Folder 34 4-20-58 The Cries of New York

Folder 35 4-27-58 "...an airy Look"

Box 20: Newspaper column:

Folder 1 5- 4-58 A Gryte Wyste of Spyce

Folder 2 5-11-58 A Paier of Playeing Tables &c

Folder 3 5-18-58 A Caged-up Breakfast

Folder 4 5-25-58 The Wash-Hand Set

Folder 5 6- 1-58 A Handkerchief Table

Folder 6 6- 8-58 Cows that Gave

Folder 7 6-15-58 The Compleat Bureau Plat

Folder 8 6-22-58 The New Encyclopedia - A Review

Folder 9 6-29-58 A Waiter for Two Needs

Folder 10 7-13-58 The Same Tender Trap

Folder 11 7-20-58 Wonderful but Not Very Good

Folder 12 7-27-58 "Western Porcelains"

Folder 13 8- 3-58 Right Eagle but the Wrong War

Folder 14 8-10-58 The Six-legged Cat

Folder 15 8-17-58 The Least Possible

Folder 16 8-24-58 "The Woman taking Coffee"

Folder 17 8-31-58 The Braid and Fringe Loom

Folder 18 9- 7-58 "Tay, a China Drink"

Folder 19 9-14-58 Old Tin, but Not Very

Folder 20 9-21-58 A Kind of Futile Pictures

Folder 21 9-28-58 Jack and the Candlestick

Folder 22 10-5-58 "Fantastical Byredes"

Folder 23 10-12-58 Unwanted Glory

Folder 24 10-19-58 The Fitzhugh

Folder 25 10-26-58 A Sopha of Three Places

Folder 26 11- 2-58 A Horner's Frame

Folder 27 11- 9-58 Fish Trowels and Slices

Folder 28 11-16-58 Sunderland Pottery

Folder 29 11-23-58 A Neat Mahogany Lief

Folder 30 11-30-58 To Keep the Flowers Clever

Folder 31 12- 7-58 Obelisks

Folder 32 12-14-58 China Cottage

Box 21: Newspaper column:

Folder 1 1- 4-59 The Foulding Skrene

Folder 2 1-11-59 For Little People

Folder 3 1- 8-59 The Argyle

Folder 4 2-11-59 Bacon and Cheese Dishes

Folder 5 2- 8-59 Time for Lolling

Folder 6 2-15-59 A Foresighted Sideboard

Folder 7 3-15-59 Silver Lace

Folder 8 3-22-59 Don Ignacio's Chair

Folder 9 4- 5-59 The New Rich

Folder 10 4-19-59 The Wrong Queen

Folder 11 4-26-59 Brass Hand-Irons

Folder 12 n.d. l00 Most Beautiful

Folder 13 5- 3-59 The Long Stupids

Folder 14 5-10-59 Wedgwood's "New" Vases

Folder 15 5-17-59 "The Welsh Lacquer"

Folder 16 6- 7-59 Windsors "Neat, Elegant and Strong"

Folder 17 6-14-59 "Ex's, with Sliders"

Folder 18 6-21-59 Luck, Glass and Earth

Folder 19 6-28-59 "White-Metal"

Folder 20 7-12-59 The Supper Table

Folder 21 n.d. Wine and Water

Folder 22 8- 9-59 Snuff Napkins

Folder 23 8-23-59 Vases of the Sea

Folder 24 9-13-59 "Leather Dollars"

Folder 25 9-20-59 "A Use for Blew John"

Folder 26 10-18-59 Sharawadgi

Box 22: Miscellaneous

Folder 1: “Our Enduring Flight of Eagles,” article in House and Garden, April 1958

(acc. no. 99x64.5)

Folder 2: “From the Herds and Flocks,” article in The Magazine Antiques, August 1969

Includes research notes, correspondence, and photos; this article was published posthumously

Folder 3: 1950 Antiques East and West - With publicity on the 5th Annual L.A. Antiques Show

Folder 4: Correspondence

Folder 5: 1949-59 "Antiques" Series in Sunday Home Magazine, Los Angeles Times

Folder 6: June 1953 Huntington English Silver

Folder 7: Miscellaneous 1953 Illustrations

Folder 8: Miscellaneous 1953 Catalogue

Folder 9: Miscellaneous 1953 Lists and Insurance dist.

Folder 10: Miscellaneous 3-73 Fowler Snuff Bottles

Folder 11: July 1949 thro' all of 1956 Times payment slips

Folder 12: Financial, Part I

Folder 13: Financial, Part II

Folder 14: Financial, Part III

Folder 15: Notes & Miscellany

Folder 16: Certificates presented to Gregor Norman-Wilcox

Folder 17: Personnel and personal records of Gregor Norman-Wilcox;

passport of Grace Norman-Wilcox

Folder 18: Articles about Gregor Norman-Wilcox (acc. no. 99x64.1-.3)

Box 23: Scrapbook (acc. 94x71)

Folder 1: Death of Gregor Norman-Wilcox: obituaries, funeral service, etc.

Folder 2: Photographs of glassware

Folder 3: Christmas card, 1965

Folder 4: Grace Norman-Wilcox: articles by and about her

Folder 5: Articles by Gregor Norman-Wilcox

Folder 6: Talk: “What to look for in old silverwork,” 1966

Folder 7: Paper: “Old Tin, but not very”

Folder 8: Paper: “Antiques: The Davenport’

Folder 9: Paper and article: “Don’t Just Stand There” (dummy boards)

Folder 10: Paper: “Winter Flowers”

Folder 11: Paper and article: “One that Would Do”

Folder 12: Paper and article: “For to Breakfast On”

Folder 13: Paper and ad: “Maps in the Round”

Folder 14: Paper and article: “His and Hers”

Folder 15: Paper and article: “The Leading Article of Employ”

Folder 16: Paper: “Second-size Windsors”

Folder 17: Paper, article, and photo: “American Ironwork”

Folder 18: Paper: “A Flight of Eagles”

Folder 19: Paper: “American Pewter”

Folder 20: Paper: “Staffordshire – New Feet on Old Paths”

Folder 21: Paper: “Don’t Look Now”

Folder 22: Paper: “A Desk with a Reason”

Folder 23: Antiquarian Society of California membership roster, 1969-1970

SERIES II: Keepsake books, poems, and objects

Boxes 24-32: Keep-sake books, made by Gregor Norman-Wilcox for his wife Grace, and presented to her on anniversaries, birthdays, and other special occasions (145 items; acc. 91x101)

Box 33: Illustrated poems, made by Gregor Norman-Wilcox for his wife Grace, 1930s (acc. no. 99x83.1-.50)

Note: this is a flat box

Boxes 34-A-B: 2 photographic printing plates;

name plate for Gregor Norman-Wilcox (on top of box);

keepsakes, mostly carved wood, made by Gregor Norman-Wilcox for his wife, includes spoon, plate, heart-shaped items, bookmark, stamps, etc. (acc. 12x29)

Norman-Wilcox carved the wooden handles on the two ladles with metal bowls. Two coasters with handles were used by the Norman-Wilcoxes for their drinks; the one with carved ridges in the base was used by Grace Norman-Wilcox. The two stamps were used to stamp a design on their napkins; the two heads on one of them were stylized representations of the couple.

The name plate was carved by the same person who carved names on a donor recognition wall for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in the 1960s. It is believed this person was Father Edward Catich, a noted calligrapher and stone carver.

The printing plates depict the Norman-Wilcoxes with items from their collection. A model for a fire-proof hotel appears in the photo of Gregor; this might be Castle Green in Pasadena.

SERIES III: Papers of Grace Norman-Wilcox

Box 35:

Folder 1: Haberl, B.

Folder 2: Chinese art: books and resources

Folder 3: Chinese ceramics: porcelains

Folder 4: Chinese ceramics: pottery, to Ming

Folder 5: Chinese export art (China trade, etc.)

Folder 6: Chinese furniture

Box 36:

Folder 1: Chinese glass enamels

Folder 2: Chinese lacquers

(includes an article from acc. 12x29)

Folder 3: Chinese pewter

Folder 4: Chinese pewter

Folder 5: Chinese pewter: California Arts and Architecture article by Grace Norman-Wilcox

Folder 6: Chinese porcelain

Folder 7: Chinese porcelain

Folder 8: Chinoiserie

Folder 9: Fire insurance policy

Box 37:

Folder 1: Garner, Sir Harry and Lady: correspondence

Folder 2: Jade

Folder 3: Japanese and Korean art

Folder 4: Jewelry

Folder 5: Lacquer

Folder 6: Lanmon, Dwight: correspondence (part 1)

Box 38:

Folder 1: Lanmon, Dwight: correspondence (part 2)

Folder 2: Miscellaneous and Christmas

Folder 3: Museum publications

Folder 4: Paintings, wall papers

Folder 5: Pewter

Folder 6: Political and geographical news items

Folder 7: Porcelain and pottery: illustrations

Folder 8: Publications: Old China Hands: A Roster (1942 and 1945), and The China Monthly (July-August 1943)

Box 39:

Folder 1: Sculpture: stone, bronze, wood

Folder 2: Silk

Folder 3: Snuff bottles

Folder 4: Symbolism

Folder 5: Tibetan and Persian art

Folders 6-7: Winterthur: Gregor Norman-Wilcox Scholarship Fund

Folder 8: Winterthur: Montgomery, Hummel, etc.

SERIES IV: Tryon Palace files of Gregor Norman-Wilcox

Box 40:

Folder 1: Tryon Palace

Folder 2: Tryon Palace and New Bern

Folder 3: Tryon Palace: Connoisseur Yearbook, 1959

Folder 4: Tryon Palace: contract with Gregor Norman-Wilcox

Folder 5: Tryon Palace: England

Folder 6: Tryon Palace: Goodwill

Folder 7: Tryon Palace: inventories

Folder 8: Tryon Palace: illustrations for 1959 yearbook

Folder 9: Tryon Palace: miscellaneous

Folder 10: Tryon Palace: newspaper issue about the palace, April 4, 1959

Folder 11: Tryon Palace: notebook of contacts

Folder 12: Tryon Palace: publicity