Jan Mann's Estate

Jan Mann was an incredible miniaturist who was a member of M.E.E. and N.A.M.E. for many years. Although I wasn't a member of M.E.E. during her time with the club, I was fortunate enough to meet her over the years.

Her family donated a wonderful collection of her miniatures to the club and we sold them at a silent auction on Tuesday night.

Three shelve display cabinet.

Beautiful display table with....

a built-in house in 1:24 scale.

The Reading Room - from the front

and the inside

Beautiful display dome with a cabinet full of teapots. (about 12 - 15" tall)

Hanging Christmas display

A Christmas Shop

A Miniature Shop

A child's room

Inside the quilt shop

The outside of the Quilt Shop

A framed vignette

Another framed vignette

A 1:48 house

Inside the 1:48 house

An antique shop vignette

What a great experience it was for all of us to see her work with all its incredible detail!

We all had a chance to bid on these displays in a silent auction. Marg and Inger had arranged that we would have bidding numbers so we did not know who we were bidding against.

As more a do-er than a collector, I don't often bid on other people's work but there were a few things I was interested in.

I didn't bid on the quilt shop, Christmas shop and child's room as I have done those myself.

But I did bid on the Christmas wreath, the glass dome, the sideboard vignette and the RL display table even though the rooms were in 1:24 scale.

The display table was SO beautiful! And if it had been large enough to display a 1:12 room, I would have gone higher with my bid but although the furniture in it was absolutely fantastic, I just didn't need another scale.

The glass dome was also beautiful and even though it wasn't quite tall enough for my purpose (I wanted it for a Care Bear for my daughter), I did start bidding on it - but gave up.

However, I did win two pieces:

This framed vignette called out to me.

 Both the sideboard and the painting are just so beautiful! Unfortunately it is so beautifully framed that there is no way of identifying the maker of the sideboard. And the only indication of the painter of the picture are the initials.

For a couple years now, I've had a wonderful scene by Joyce Buchanan hanging on my door. Tonight I replaced it with this great Christmas door by Jan. It's a bit too early for Christmas but have to show it off!

I took this piece over to show my Mom Wednesday afternoon and she just loved it!

Thursday I'll take the framed vignette over to show her.