DELAWARE, OH.- The firing of objects made from earthenware, porcelain, and stoneware comprise the larger category known as ceramics and during Garth’s March 11-12, 2011 Americana auction, the ceramics definitely provided continual fireworks as bidders, both in-house and in absentia, took home a variety of vessels, some typical and some more unusual, at very strong prices. With over 800 lots offered in two sessions, the top lot of the sale was a monumental Cochiti effigy figure dating to the late 19th – early 20th century, which sold for $17,625 against an estimate of $4/8,000. With outstretched arms and polychromed surface, the figure practically beseeched the audience to embrace the chance to be the new owner. Of the approximately twenty-five lots of effigy figures and vessels from the collection of Charles Shanafelt (b. 1855), most were collected around 1900 and 1915 as figurative pottery from New Mexico