The Weitsman Stoneware Collection at the New York State Museum.
From: The Magazine Antiques
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Date: 2/1/2002
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Author: Scherer, John L.
In 1996 the New York State Museum in Albany received an extraordinary gift of 105 pieces of decorated New York State stoneware from Adam Joel Weitsman, who is one of the premier collectors of New York stoneware, having begun in 1980 at the age of eleven. He and his father, Harold F Weitsman, the owner of a scrap metal and steel business in Owego and Endicott, dug up two stoneware beer bottles on their property, which they took to an Owego stoneware collector for identification. When ...
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