One man's junk ...
OXFORD – The good news is Peter Charak has a lot of junk. The bad news is he’s got a lot of it. But in this case, the Oxford resident is quite positive that one man’s junk – his term for antiques – could definitely be another man’s treasure.
Not short on antiques or conversations – topics range on just about anything – Charak and his companion Nanette Anderson have lived life in many places and in many ways, and they have a barn full of artifacts for sale to prove it.
“Truthfully, I don’t even know what I have anymore,” Charak laughed, admitting that 20 years worth of local and worldly finds have outgrown the antique shop he’s had open off and on – but always on his mind – since 1989. “But each piece is definitely an antique to somebody.”
Charak’s shop is disjointed and in no particular order; very much like jazz music and world travel – the two passions Charak speaks of most when he’s not carrying on a funny, and honest, dialogue about art, history, politics and life.
“It just great,” Charak said of his barn and the collection it holds. “It’s an eclectic bunch of stuff I’ve just picked up along the way.”
By along the way he means the 40 years trekking across every continent but Antarctica. His most recent and seemingly final destination has been Oxford, where he and Anderson have been for the last 18 years.
Charak’s collection includes a large quantity of McCoy pottery, assorted pieces of glassware, jewelry quality stones, stone slabs, atlas jars, 19th and early 20th century tools and implements, paintings, art deco collectibles, old banners and signs, tin beer displays, non-genre specific records, books, luggage, turn-of-the-century sleds and skis, and dozens of framed nature portraits taken by the late Zerah Cone (who previously owned Charak and Anderson’s home).
Cone, a onetime bank president in Oxford, was an avid world traveler Charak and Anderson say, and the “grandiose” cultural styles he incorporated into the circa 1850’s home remain evident throughout the house today. Local and European artwork, notably a lithograph by Joan Miro that Charak picked up in Paris, top of the collection.
Charak is located on county Route 32 in Oxford just past Kilroy Road. For further directions, prices or questions call 843-9805.
Not short on antiques or conversations – topics range on just about anything – Charak and his companion Nanette Anderson have lived life in many places and in many ways, and they have a barn full of artifacts for sale to prove it.
“Truthfully, I don’t even know what I have anymore,” Charak laughed, admitting that 20 years worth of local and worldly finds have outgrown the antique shop he’s had open off and on – but always on his mind – since 1989. “But each piece is definitely an antique to somebody.”
Charak’s shop is disjointed and in no particular order; very much like jazz music and world travel – the two passions Charak speaks of most when he’s not carrying on a funny, and honest, dialogue about art, history, politics and life.
“It just great,” Charak said of his barn and the collection it holds. “It’s an eclectic bunch of stuff I’ve just picked up along the way.”
By along the way he means the 40 years trekking across every continent but Antarctica. His most recent and seemingly final destination has been Oxford, where he and Anderson have been for the last 18 years.
Charak’s collection includes a large quantity of McCoy pottery, assorted pieces of glassware, jewelry quality stones, stone slabs, atlas jars, 19th and early 20th century tools and implements, paintings, art deco collectibles, old banners and signs, tin beer displays, non-genre specific records, books, luggage, turn-of-the-century sleds and skis, and dozens of framed nature portraits taken by the late Zerah Cone (who previously owned Charak and Anderson’s home).
Cone, a onetime bank president in Oxford, was an avid world traveler Charak and Anderson say, and the “grandiose” cultural styles he incorporated into the circa 1850’s home remain evident throughout the house today. Local and European artwork, notably a lithograph by Joan Miro that Charak picked up in Paris, top of the collection.
Charak is located on county Route 32 in Oxford just past Kilroy Road. For further directions, prices or questions call 843-9805.
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