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Collection of the Roma W. Leland Trust, Washington Court House, Ohio - Lots 1-118 and 418-424 For nearly 70 years Roma Woodmansee Leland of Washington Court House, Ohio, who died in 2009, and her late husband, John Arthur Leland, were enthusiastic, knowledgeable, and persistent collectors of early American furniture and decorative arts including, but not limited to, 18th century Chinese porcelain, pewter, paintings, and Oriental rugs. In the 1960s they acquired many Oriental rugs from the preeminent Oriental rug dealer of the time, Richard Markarian, which will be selling at Skinner in October. During the same period, the Lelands expanded their collection with numerous acquisitions from well-known antique dealers and from the sales of Dick Withington, the respected New England auctioneer. Their spacious, cheerful home of Federal design was built in 1960 to create an appropriate venue for their collection and for them to derive maximum enjoyment from it. For four decades, John and Roma Leland were popular, familiar figures at the Colonial Williamsburg antique forums. They also regularlv attended antique svmposia at Old Deerfield, Massachusetts, Landis Vallev, Pennsylvania, and Natchez, Mississippi.