- May 18, 2024
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Local art lovers gathered at the Anderson-Price Memorial Building June 14 for the Ormond Beach Historical Society’s Art and Collectibles Sale.
Ceramic tigers, historical paintings and valuable jewelry filled the Anderson-Price Memorial Building June 14 for the Ormond Beach Historical Society’s Art and Collectibles Sale.
“The stuff is amazing, you have no idea,” Historical Society Board Member Joan Skride said. “The jewelry, the art, good crystal, it’s just assorted in there.”
The items were donated by residents of Ormond Beach and even a few people from the historical society.
“We’re trying to raise money to pay for this building,” Skride said, pointing to the Anderson-Price building. “Everything we do is to support and keep up history. The stuff here is from people supporting that.”
Skride estimated that the total value of the items at the sale was around $50,000. She helped out with the sale by donating her time, some fine jewelry and crystal.
“A lot of this was donated,” Skride said. “People liquidated their homes and they wanted to sell it. They didn’t want to just give it away.”
Last year, the society held a mini-art sale that turned out to be wildly successful and exposed the need for a larger event.
“We decided to go big time this year,” Historical Society Volunteer Carole Valcik said. “We’re not going to have it every year because it’s hard on our volunteers. We plan to do it every two years.”
Valcik hoped to raise $5,000 at the event to help fundraise some upkeep to the MacDonald House.
“We have some 14 karat gold jewelry,” Valcik said. “We have some art that is valued in-between $1,000 and $2,000 dollars. And believe it or not, something that is extremely popular are the ceramic animals. We really have an eclectic mix.”
Ormond Beach residents Joe and Corrinne Stock enjoyed searching through the mix to find something they like.
“We like a lot of oriental type stuff,” Corrinne Stock, who a collector of German Stieff Bears, said. “I have about 200 of the Steiff Bears. The thing is when you donate something, other people don’t know what it’s worth or what you paid for it. We just buy what we like.”
