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1Old StuOld StuffANTIQUES, COLLECTIBLES, HISTORY AND NOSTALGIA FOR THE PACIFIC NORTHWESTBarbie Through the YearsPage 5 Sunshine of the Night Page 8 Collectors CornerTerry & Kim KovellPage 10 Have a HeartDr. Lori VerderamePage 12 Feb|Mar|Apr|2024
2Old StuOld StuOld StuOld Stu Custer’s 49th Annual Spring Anque & Col-lector’s Sale is a vintage sale like no other! Join them as they bring to-gether Anque Dealers from across the north-west selling everything from Rare to Retro. The FUN is in the FIND! Shop among thousands of unique items includ-ing: Kitchenware, Indus-trial, Estate and Costume Jewelry, Furniture, Primives, Mid-Century Modern, Rusc Garden, Elegant Glass, Prints, and so much more!CUSTER’S 49TH ANNUAL SPRING ANTIQUE & COLLECTOR’S SALE Country Chicks Mar-ket is kicking o spring with a Junkin Adventure at the Enumclaw Expo Center. Come shop for upcycled furniture, vin-tage & anques, farm-house decor, garden art, jewelry, candle & soap products, rusty junk, industrial, galvanized & more! 80+ Vendors in two buildings, food trucks, wine bar & lots of fun! No online Presale. $5 at the DoorUnder 16 free.Free Parking Have a press release, an idea for a story or maybe just a few thoughts to share?Contact Christy at cnielsen@newsregister.comApril 20 & 21, 2024Spokane Fair & Expo Center, WashingtonAdmission: One Day $8.00, Two Day $10.00Kids 12 and under are free. Parking is Free!COUNTRY CHICKS SPRING MARKETMarch 15 & 16, 2024Enumclaw Expo Center, Washington Don’t miss Lincoln City’s Anque & Collect-ibles Week in 2024! To celebrate the quality of “anquing,” every Feb-ruary Lincoln City hosts Anque & Collecbles Week, a ten-day-long event featuring citywide sales from local anque stores. Discover your next treasure as you experience the history of Lincoln City. Plus, keep your eyes peeled during Anque & Collecbles Week for anque-style Japanese glass oats hidden on the beach in Lincoln City. They’ll be dropping 100 special oats as part of their Finders Keepers program. Parcipang shops include: The Lile Anque Mall is the largest anque mall on the Oregon Coast with over 80 dealers all under one roof, you will nd primives, furniture, poery and gourmet coee to taste. Their friendly sta can help you nd exactly what you’re looking for. The Oceanlake District is a small anque district by itself, with malls like the Rocking Horse Anque Mall, Carrousel by the Beach, and Granny’s Ac providing many local dealers with a corner and a shelf to display their nds. Explore these quaint shops for a wealth of hidden gems. Nelsco House An-ques & Collecbles is a family-run business in the Nelsco District. They oer one-of-a-kind collecbles, desir-able anques, quality furniture, and gis unique to the Oregon Coast. The south end of Lincoln City is anoth-er hotbed of anque acvity, you’ll nd North By Northwest Books & Anques just begging to be browsed with row upon row of books, bargains, and quirky collecbles.LINCOLN CITY ANTIQUE AND COLLECTIBLES WEEKFEBRUARY 17 – 24, 2024Lincoln City, Oregon The 46th Annual Green River Glass Show and Sale is being held on Saturday, Feb-ruary 24, 2024, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Kent Commons, 525 4th Avenue N., Kent, Washington. Admission is $3.00, with the door proceeds beneng local charies. Exhibitors will be displaying and selling from tables featuring glass, jewelry and collecbles from early to mid-20th century, including depression, elegant and 50’s, 60’s & 70’s glassware, poery, china and kitchenware. Special Guests this year will be Randy and Debbie Coe, authors of many books on Amer-ican Glassware. Randy will be providing free glassware idencaon (limit 2 items) for show aendees. Eunique’s Jewelry Restoraon & Repair will also be join-ing them this year.GREEN RIVER GLASS SHOW & SALEFebruary 24, 2024Kent Commons, WashingtonRead All About itPress Releases and Leers from Readers
3Old StuAURORAAurora Anques .................................... 4Aurora Lampworks & Anques ............. 4Aurora Mills Architectural ..................... 4Back Porch Vintage ............................... 4 Home Again Anques ........................... 4HWY 99E Anque Mall .......................... 4Main Street Mercanle ......................... 4McLaren Aucon Services .................... 4South End Anques ............................ 13Three Daisies Vintage ........................... 4Timeless Anques ................................. 4Lile Black Dog Vintage ........................ 4BROOKINGS HARBOR Wild Rivers Anques ........................... 18CANNON BEACH The Butler Did It Anques ................... 17COOS BAY Past to Present Emporium .................. 19GLADSTONEGladstone Mercanle ......................... 18KLAMATH FALLSKeeper’s Corner .................................... 6LINCOLN CITYThe Rocking Horse Mall ...................... 18MCMINNVILLE Homeward Bound Pets and Humane Society ................................................ 16 Mac Flea ............................................. 14 McMinnville Anques Mall ................. 14MEDFORDMedford Anques & Vintage Show.......5MOLALLARussellville Anques .............................6 NEWBERGWine Country Anque Mall ................ 16NEWPORTPirate’s Plunder ................................... 12OAKLANDOakland Flour Mill Anques & Gis ...... 5PENDLETONAirport Anques & The Furniture Lady .... 6PORTLANDAnque Alley ...................................... 13Multnomah Anques.......................... 18REDMONDFarmer’s Co-Op Anques ...................... 9RICKREALLWagon Wheel Dollers..........................1 2 SCIOJ.J.’s Ranch Shop .................................... 7SEASIDE Coage & Castle Anques .................. 15SPRINGFIELDThe Anque Peddlers............................ 9ST. HELENS 2 C’s Vendor Mall ................................ 13SWEET HOMEDebbie’s Oldies But Goodies ............... 16VERNONIAFox Hollow Anques ............................. 5 Penney Lane Anques ........................ 12OREGONWho’s Inside? Shops, Services & ProductsABERDEEN Past & Present Mercanle .................... 7AUBURNAnque Marketplace. ......................... 18CASHMERE Apple Annie Anque Gallery................. 8EDMONDSAurora Anque Pavilion ...................... 13ENUMCLAWCountry Chicks Market..........................7 KENTGreen River Glass Show & Sale..............9 PORT ORCHARDOlde Central Anque Mall .................... 6SEATTLEFairlook Anques ................................ 13SPANAWAYEnd of the Line Vintage ......................... 8 Old Main Street Anques Mall .............. 6SPOKANECuster’s Anque & Collectors Show ...... 7 VANCOUVER Main St Vintage .................................... 7 Old Glory Anques ............................. 1 8 WESTPOINT Junk Queens ....................................... 19OUT OF AREAFANA ................................................... 13 Heart-O-The-Mart .............................. 19PUBLISHERJeb BladineASSOCIATE PUBLISHEROssie BladineEDITOR/PUBLICATION MANAGERChristy Nielsen ASSOCIATE EDITORRusty Rae SALES REPRESENTATIVES Bonnie George and Kathie StamperEmail us at cnielsen@newsregister.comcall 503.687.1258P.O. Box 727 • McMinnville • OR • 97128Printed byOregon Lithroprint, Inc.oregonlitho.comPublished by The News-Register Publishing CompanyOld StuffOregonWashingtonPLEASE NOTE: Times and dates are subject to change. Please call before making any long-distance travel plans based on lisngs.Calendar of Shows and Special EventsFebruary 17 - 24Anque & Collecble Week, Lincoln City March 23Wagon Wheel Dollers Spring Doll ShowRickreall, Polk County Fairgrounds Mar 29 - Jun 2Moncello Anque Marketplace Home and Garden Show, PortlandJuly 13 & 14Rose City Vintage Market, PortlandFebruary 18The Seale Anque & Collecble Doll & Toy Market, Lynwood February 24Green River Glass Show, Kent March 15 & 16Country Chicks Market, Enumclaw April 20 & 21Custer Anque & Collectors Sale, SpokaneHave an anque or collecble event or show coming up? Old Stu would love to let our readers know about it!Send us your informaon at cnielsen@newsregister.com and we’ll add it to our calendar - FREE!2024 OLD STUFFPUBLICATION SCHEDULE ISSUE ADVERTISING PUBLICATION DEADLINE DATE May/Jun/Jul Apr 1, 2024 May 1, 2024 Aug/Sep/Oct Jul 1, 2024 Aug 1, 2024 Nov/Dec/Jan Oct 1, 2024 Nov 1, 2024 RESERVE YOUR SPACE TODAY!Press Releases and Leers from ReadersWASHINGTON
4Old StuBLACK AND WHITEPortlandI-5Exit 2783 miles eastSalem99EAuroraCanbyOregon’s First National Historic DistrictAntiques Capital of OregonAurora has made the TOP TEN of Best Antiquing Towns in the US by four online sources, MSN.com, the TravelChannel.com, HouseBeautiful.com and CountryLiving.com. Our wide variety of antique and vintage shops, boutiques, art galleries, restaurants and wineries make this a fun destination for all.Come spend the day and see what we’re all about!• 20 Shops nestled in historic homes and buildings• Public Restroom and RV parking• 20 minutes from Portland or Salem• Easy freeway access from I-5, Exit 278AurorA,oregonWWW.AURORACOLONY.COMOld Stu News Brief By Rusty Rae - Associate Editor It shouldn’t come as any surprise weather has dominated the New Year in the Pacic Northwest. The unusu-ally cold January weather has created havoc for anque, vintage, and col-lecble shops throughout the area.Perhaps one the heaviest hit stores this past January was Apple Annie’s in Cashmere, Washington. That is not unusual for Apple Annie’s as it is lo-cated in the geographic center of the state on the eastern side of the Cas-cade Mountains between Wenatchee and Leavenworth. Store manager Michelle Whiord said they were closed for several days with more than a foot of snow plus below zero temperatures that made for dicult driving. But the team at Apple Annie’s is already looking forward to its Memo-rial Day parking lot ea market. It’s basically a parking lot sale with 50 spaces that are open on a rst-come rst-served basis. But Whiord noted, “Spaces go fast and it’s never too early to reserve a spot.” If you want a space It’s never too early to reserve your space. In anything you can do we can do beer category, the folks in Vernonia, Oregon had their own snowmoged-don — not that in this case that’s a good thing. Our friends at Penny Lane, Joe and Nina Versaw, said they closed down for a couple of weeks. “We simply didn’t want folks even thinking about coming with the roads so bad,” said Nina. However, Penny Lane has connued to bring in new merchandise and if you remember driving bumper cars at the fair, they have one in their store-front window. If the price is right, you can take it home and relive some of those fair memories. Meanwhile on the southern Oregon coast the weather has been typically raining but Dylan XX at Old World An-ques in Coos Bay said they’ve been open and the area has dodged the severed weather of up North.Over in Aurora, Oregon,Bill Noten-boom at South End Anques and Collecbles said, “We were closed for three or four days, but we sur-vived and it’s been busy since we reopened.” Aurora, with its many anque and vintage stores, known as the Anque Capital of Oregon, has had a busy start of the year despite the weather playing freeze-out with businesses in January. Noteboom said South End and its 30 vendors are preparing for its Valen-ne’s Day Sweetheart Sale.“With 30 vendors there are a large variety of anque and vintage items from which to choose — and the sale will mean great pricing,” he said.Over in McMinnville, Aimee Hall with McMinnville Anque Mall (MAM) said they were shut down for three days but happily have reopened and are seeing a renaissance of business as it seems as if people are happy just to be out of the house. Those vising her shop will nd one new vendor and she noted she’s look-ing to ll another spot which recently opened. She hopes to have the new vendor in place by March 1.Hall and the team MAM are readying for their Valennes Day Gi Basket Giveaway and Gi Cercate Rae which will runs February 1-13. For the Gi Basket Giveaway, nom-inate your favorite vintage/anque enthusiast. Winner will be announced via social media or direct contact on Valennes Day. For the rae, get one rae cked for every $10 spent at the MAM. Winner will also be announced February 14 in a similar manner.Addionally Hall said MAM has an Easter Egg Hunt event scheduled for March 17-31. Stop in to get complete details. MAM is located on third street in the heart of downtown McMinn-ville. If you’re looking for prime anque or vintage items in Port Orchard, Washington stop in the Olde Central Anque Mall where Bobbie Stewart says, “You can stop in to warm up anyme — our heater works great!” Olde Central Anque Mall features 34 dealers on two stories and on 10,000 square feet of vendor booths. One of the cool items you’ll nd at the Olde Central Anque Mall is a me clock that is around 100 years old. Made the Internaonal Time Re-cording Company of New York, it was professionally electried and today is a funconing me keeper. Interna-onal Time Recording is beer known these days as Internaonal Business Machine or IBM.Welcome to 2024!From the EditorSo happy to be back Hello fellow anque lovers. My name is Christy Nielsen and I am back at the helm of Old Stu and as the subheader above notes - I am so happy to be back. I bring to Old Stu 25+ years of adversing experience managing the producon and adversing departments at the News-Register in McMinnville, Oregon. Outside of work, I come from a fam-ily of anque enthusiasts. My parents owned an anque shop in Multa-nomah Village a few years back that I helped with. We loved scouring the newspaper for estate sales and local anque events every weekend. Although mes have changed, my love for anques and collecitbles has persisted and when the opportunity arose to come back to Old Stu I jumped at it. I welcome your comments, sug-gesons and story ideas. Please feel free to contact me directly at 503.687.1258 or cnielsen@newsreg-ister.com. I look forward to hearing from you!A winter wonderland in Vernonia, OregonChristy
5Old StuA winter wonderland in Vernonia, Oregon One of the most iconic names in the modern toy industry, Barbie has been a xture in the lives of young children since the very rst Barbie was put on shelves. Developed during an era of history where girls really only had baby dolls to play with, Barbie introduced a whole new world of opportu-nies. Barbie’s Beginnings With the intenon of creang a doll that young girls could feel empowered and inspired by, Ruth Handler developed the very rst Barbie doll in 1959. Donning a black and white striped bathing suit and red sunglasses, Barbie debuted at the New York Toy Fair and was originally met with skep-cal feedback. She was unlike any other toy that had been created up unl that me, giving young girls the opportunity to play with toys that sported careers, themes, and ideals that had really only been le to boys’ toys prior. Despite the apprehension of crics, this was only the beginning of what would become the Barbie empire. She remains one of the most valuable and popular Barbie dolls of all me.When this doll hit shelves, she only cost about $3, accesso-ries not included. Today, this original Barbie doll is valued at $27,450.Barbie of the ‘60s With the launch of the very rst Barbie, the ‘60s were look-ing promising in terms of the outlook for Mael’s newest doll. In 1965, Mael released a brand new Barbie only to Europe and Japan, under the name of The Gala Abend Bar-bie. The feature that really set this doll apart from previous Barbies was her bendable legs, something that everyday Barbies had never done up unl this point. In addion to this, she is dressed in an intricate ball gown t for a queen, carrying a silver clutch and the niest dance program you’ll ever see. The Gala Abend Barbie goes down in history as one of the most expensive Barbie dolls in the brand’s history. Today, she can cost you a prey penny at the price of up-wards of $9,000. The ‘60s also brought the very rst celebrity collaboraon with Barbie in 1967 alongside Twiggy, a Brish model. This doll had short blonde hair and long eyelashes, and was only ever available for purchase in 1967 and 1968. She wore a green, blue, and yellow dress, along with a fashionable pair of yellow boots. While she isn’t as expensive today as the Gala Abend Barbie, she sll is a very historic and popular xture of the Barbie brand. 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QQuuiilltt DDiissppllaayy by Mountain Stars and Jacksonville Museum Quilters GuildFormerly Dogs for the DeafMay 11 & 12, 2024 9a–5p DailyAdmission is $6, $1 off w/this ad!415-637-2585 for more info or to inquire about exhibitingMedford Antiques & Vintage ShowMedford Armory | 1701 S. Pacific HwyArt • Tools • Furniture • New & Vintage ClothesJewelry • Cast Iron & Unique Kitchen GadgetsToys • Records 132 NE First Street, Oakland, OR541-802-6815 | Open 7 days, 10am–5pm••By Abby Meador - ContributorBarbie of the ‘70s The 1970s were yet another era of innovaon for the Barbie company. In 1971, the very rst Malibu Barbie was released, which ulmately has become one of the most iconic and recognizable dolls of the brand as a whole. She debuted with a brand new face mold and long blonde hair, and quickly became a recognizable symbol of Californian culture. Her eyes were also painted to face forward, rather than the o-to-the-side glance original dolls used to have. Alongside the ulmate surfer girl came Malibu Ken, donning the same tan skin and blonde hair as Barbie. Due to the commercial success of these dolls, Mael quickly added more Malibu-themed friends of Barbie to their roster in the following years.
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8Old Stu100 Apple Annie Avenue, Cashmere, WA 9am–6pm 7 days a week 509-782-400470,000 Square Feet of FUN under one roof!End Of The Line Vintage• Advertising• Mid-Century Furniture• Clothing• Toys• Tools and Mechanicals16126 Park Avenue S, Spanaway WAwww.endofthelinevintage.comBy Rusty Rae - Associate EditorYou may be surprised at the varied items that people collect. For ex-ample Yamhill, Oregon’s Jerry Van-dewalle received a small Coleman Lantern for Christmas when he was 12 or 13- years-old. Today his col-lecon numbers more than 1,200 of the lamps, called “The Sunshine of the night”, and in a variety of ages, sizes,and shapes.Born near Moline, Illinois, his family move to Oregon when he was eight years old. Today the octogenarian, though rered from his regular job for 20-years, sll farms his 33-acre farm in the middle of wine country in the northern poron of the Willamee Valley.“That Christmas present kinda got me started. I always liked them and when I rered I could go to sales more oen — garage sales, estate sales and aucons,” he said.“It’s a bit hard to tell when I actually started collecng — someme in the early 1980s, I guess. My wife opened an anque shop and we’d go and buy stu (for the shop),” he recalled.Vandewalle said he was on a feed-ing frenzy when he and his wife rst started. “I was buying all kinds of dif-ferent things I liked. I decided I should specialize in something. I thought I oughta have something special I could focus on and I started buying lanterns,” he said.Vandewalle’s collecng fever turned to lanterns. “I started buying lan-terns — I bought every lantern I could nd,” he recalled with chortle.Vandewalle keeps track of his collec-on in a notebook, though he notes some of the collecon from the early days of his collecng eorts, before he rered, are not listed.Today the barn he hand-built some 50-years ago houses a poron of his more than 1,200 lanterns, along with a passel of other items he’s collected over the years.“I’ve got a huge amount of stu in the barn — you name it, I probably have some — old tools, ashlights, old toys,” he said.While his collecon today focuses on Coleman Lanterns, it contains a variety of lanterns. He doesn’t light them very oen — some perhaps never — because the mantles are delicate and are dicult to come by. His rst task when he takes a lantern home is to drain it of oil and clean it up, It’s simply safer when you have that many lanterns to not have the risk of re.When he rst started collecng lanterns seriously, Vandewalle didn’t mess around. “I’d go to all sorts of sales — if a guy had ve or six of them, I’d just ask how much for all of them,” he said.Asked if he has the world’s greatest lantern collecon, Vandewalle shook his head and smiled, nong, “No I don’t think so. I think there are peo-ple who have far more then I have.” Vandewalle says he has some favor-ites in his collecon, but adds, “I can’t say I’ve got one favorite though.”Among those from his collecon that make his eyes light up, like one of the lamps, are two in cardboard boxes that have never been opened.Another in his collecon has been thoroughly restored and he says, “There are no aws — it’s like it’s brand new. I’ve got some in my collec-on that have never been lit.”Though his collecon today focuses on the Coleman brand, his collecon includes some classic lanterns that reect the history of the area. If you visit Jerry in his barn you’ll see a couple massive lanterns. One was formerly a street lantern from before the dawn of electric lights. Another massive lantern, around three feet tall, is suspected to be from a railroad staon.“It’s not marked, so you can’t really prove it’s from a railroad staon — so to me its not really a railroad lantern if you can’t prove it,” he said.However, a number of lanterns hang-ing in the barn are railroad lanterns and they are marked with the name of the various railroad companies — Great Northern, Southern Pacic and such.Vandewalle notes collecng Coleman lanterns is not for the faint of heart. “There is a lot of compeon out there and there are many collectors who aend aucons and sales who are more aggressive than I am,” he said.Sunshine of the NightJerry Vandewalle’s Collecon of LanternsJust a small secon of the lanterns hanging in the barn
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10Old StuThe Collectors CornerFlora Steel, Lightning Strikes ThriceBy Terry and Kim KovelSubscribe to the Kovels’ free weekly email newsleer, Kovels Komments, at www.Kovels.com. In 1988, jewelry enthusiast Flora Steel found an interesng-looking silver brooch at an anque market in England. Not recognizing a maker, but drawn to what she described as “its strong design, strange leering, and unusual stones” –a lapis lazuli in the center, coral and malachite alternang around the circular frame—she bought it for under £20 (or $25). Thirty-ve years later, Steel was watching a clip of “Most Wanted Finds” from Anques Roadshow and saw something familiar. Jewelry specialist Georey Munn displayed a sketch of designs for brooches by 19th-cen-tury architect and designer William Burges. Munn explained that the brooches themselves have been lost to history; nding one would be a “holy grail” worth about £10,000 ($12,500). Steel realized that the inexpen-sive brooch she had bought years ago matched one of the designs. She contacted the show and appeared on its 2023 “At Christmas” episode, where Munn conrmed that her brooch was Burges’s design. This is already a fantasc story, but it’s even more amazing for being the third me this has happened! The “Most Wanted Finds” clip originally aired in 2011, when Jill Cousins of Leicestershire watched it and recognized a brooch that had been languishing in her jewelry box for 20 years. This one had a garnet heart in the center and a frame resembling interlaced twigs with four forget-me-nots with turquoise centers. She had been planning to sell it for £10 at a local market; instead, she contacted the Gildings aucon house, where it sold in August of that year for £31,000 ($40,000), more than tripling Munn’s esmate. Lightning struck twice in 2011: another Anques Roadshow viewer saw the same episode and owned a brooch with the same design. This one was also sold through Gildings but in a private sale to the Victoria and Albert Museum. Burges, one of the greatest architects of the Gothic Revival period, was commissioned to design the brooches as gis for bridesmaids at clients’ weddings. In Victorian England, it was a custom for the groom to give small gis to the bridesmaids, usually a small piece of jewelry like a brooch or pendant. They oen incorporated the bride’s and groom’s family arms or featured symbolic designs. Smelling salts have been used to revive some-one who is feeling faint or has lost conscious-ness since the days of the Romans. But it was not unl the 18th century that smelling-salt holders became fashionable. Smelling salts (ammonium carbonate and water) release an ammonia gas that irritates the inside of the nose and causes rapid breathing. This means more oxygen is inhaled. Ammonia was made from shaved deer horns in ancient mes and oen was called “spirit of hartshorn.” Victorians Wake Up and Smell the Saltsoen used perfume with the smelling salts. The smelling-salt holder was opened and waved near the nose of the troubled paent. Many of the boles were curved. Some were made of decorated metal and worn as part of a necklace. Some just looked like small salt-shakers. A 2 5/8-inch marbleized glass “shaker” made of light blue and milk glass with a thread-ed cap sold for $293 at a Norman Heckler sale in Conneccut. It probably was made in Boston about 1850. Comic collecbles remain popular as long as the comic characters are sll seen or heard in comic books, cartoons, radio, TV, movies, plays or reruns. And B.O. Plenty, who was an early g-ure in the Dick Tracy comic strip that started in 1931, has been dropped and reintroduced many mes. He married Gravel Gere, and these two ugly people had a beauful daughter, Sparkle Plenty, in 1947. Later, they had a very ugly son whose face was never shown in the strip. The n windup toy by Marx picturing B.O. holding his daughter Sparkle just sold at a Bertoia auc-Just a Dirty Thiefon for $118. The 8-1/2-inch toy shues across the oor while his hat ps. The Dick Tracy characters and invenons sll are familiar. The original arst, Chester Gould, drew the strip from 1931 to 1977. Other arsts have connued it. His characters, their strange names and the invenons used by policeman Dick Tracy sll are popular today. The two-way wrist radio rst menoned in 1946, two-way wrist TV (1964) and Spacecar (1960s) all have become realies.
11Old StuThe Collectors CornerThe Collectors Q&AThe Collectors Q&AQ: I grew up with this desk and chair in my bedroom. I know by the label that it’s by Heywood-Wakeeld. Can you tell me anything about it and its value?A: You grew up with a charming piece of Mid-Century furniture craed by a furniture maker that is very much in demand by fans of the genre. In 1897, two prominent furniture companies, Heywood Brothers (est. 1826) and Wakeeld Company (est. 1855), merged to create Heywood Brothers & Wakeeld Company; the name would be shortened to Heywood-Wakeeld in 1921. The new compa-ny rose to popularity in the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s with its solid wood, Art Deco-inspired Mid-Century furniture. Furniture manufactur-ing in the U.S. changed greatly in the 1970s, with compeon from cheaper overseas manufacturing praccally killing business here. Heywood-Wakeeld fell vicm to the increased compeon, closing its plant in Gardner, Mass., in 1979. The South Beach Furniture Co. acquired the rights to the name in 1992 and today reproduces its wooden furniture.Mid-Century furniture fans clamor for the look and quality of the vintage Heywood-Wakeeld line. Your desk and chair are made of maple and look to be in great shape even aer all these years. At aucon, we have seen a desk and chair like yours sell for between $250-$1,000+.Q: I have a tall vase or urn. It is poery, as best I can tell, and the stamp on the boom says “Choisy I Roi” … H B CHOISY. The numbers 333 and 320 are stamped on the boom. It stands 24 1/2 inches tall and is 39 inches around, and the opening on the top is 8 1/2 inches. It’s very beauful, as you can tell from the photo. It was purchased at an aucon many years ago for approximately $25. I’ve tried to research the piece and have found the company but not the vase. Any help you can give me would be appreciated. And, of course, we would love to know its value.A: Several types of ceramics were made in Choisy-le-Roi, France, including porcelain, semiporcelain, and majolica. Your vase looks like majolica, a type of poery with a thick, usually brightly colored n glaze that conceals the clay. It is also called faience. It has been made since the 14th century and was especially popular in the late 19th century. The leers in your mark, “H B & Cie,” stand for “Hippolyte Boulenger & Sons.” Hippolyte Boulanger inherited the factory from his father in 1863. Buying it for $25 is a bargain—at recent aucons, Choisy-le-Roi majolica has sold from about $100 to thousands of dollars! The highest prices go to arst-signed pieces with elaborate, lifelike mold-ed gures of birds and animals. Smaller, simpler pieces, like a bowl with painted owers and no three-dimensional decoraons, sell for about $100. Majolica vases like yours by other makers have sold for about $100 to $500.Q: I bought this bole at a thri shop, “ll up a bag for $3.00.” It’s embossed “Romoc Co., Sole Props., Boston, U.S.A.” on one side and just “Romoc” on the other. I can’t seem to nd anything online about the company. The bole is about 7 1/2 inches tall. What can you tell me about it?A: Romoc was a patent medicine made about the turn of the tweneth century, before the Pure Food and Drug Act was passed in 1906. A 1902 newspaper ad for Romoc called it “the grandest medicine ever put in boles” and claimed it will “correct the faulty digesve acon,” “brighten the dullest life” and “posively overcome stomach weaknesses and defects.” Price per bole was $1.00. The manufacturer and city are listed as “Romoc Remedy Co., Providence, R.I.,” so the company might have moved or had two factories. A bole embossed “Romoc, R.G. Cross Co.” sold for $8. The seller did not list the city and there is no informaon about “R.G. Cross Co.” A bole like yours, but with a label on the front that said “Pure as Nature, Romoc, For Brain, Brawn, Blood, Romoc Remedy Company, Sole Owners, Boston, U.S.A.,” was oered for sale recently for $70. Your bole without labels would be worth very lile.Do you have a queson for Collector’s Gallery? Send your queson and aached photos via e-mail to ATNews@aimmedia.com. Photographs must be 300 dpi. Please include as much informaon about your item as possible: size, condion, where it came from, or anything else helpful. The values given are es-mates and are not intended for legal or personal dealings.
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16Old StuWine Country Antique MallTwo Full Floors of Fabulous Finds415 E. Hancock St.Newberg, OR 97132503.538.7875 • Open Daily37 Years in BusinessFind us on Facebook Early glass crasmen were not able to make mirrors in very big pieces, so large looking glasses were made by joining to-gether several smaller bones. The resulng joined mirror was hung horizontally, usually above a replace. This proved to be so eecve a design that joined mirrors connued to be used long aer mirrors could be made in one long piece. One can usually nd these mirrors in many styles, including Chipendale, Georgian and Queen Anne among others.This and ThatA lile bit of informaon on a variety of things Although no one knows who made the rst Staordshire dog, the starng point was certainly a dog celebrity: Dash, Queen Victoria’s closest childhood com-panion, a Cavalier King Charles spaniel. By the 1840s, dozens of small poeries in Staordshire were making spaniels in a variety of sizes. The earliest were simply fashioned from earthenware, press moulded and painted by women or children in lots of dierent colors - black, russet brown or lustre. The collar and chain are mould-ed in the gure and usually gilded, and some dogs have glass eyes.It wasn’t unl the 18th century that we rst saw stylish porcelain wall pocket vases with the arrival of poeries in UK and abroad. You have probably seen poery vases hanging on kitchen walls. They some-mes look like brightly colored plates or plaques with a built-in opening for hanging. Vintage pockets are intended to hold water for owers or perhaps ivy. Ceramic Wall Pockets come in a wide range of styles and are perfect for adding both decorave and funconal art to your walls. Max-Louis Goebel, a manufacturer of German porcelain, had a moo: “The world is my market.” And he spent a lot of me studying the American market, in parcular. When his son took over the compa-ny in 1929, his challenge was to connue to develop new products and expand the over-seas market. He came to the realizaon that gurines of children had never been portrayed to any great extent in porcelain. The ulmate outcome of this realizaon was the producon of those charming gurines every-one today simply calls “Hummels.” Shaving mugs became popular in the middle of the 19th century are divided into three disnct groups - generic, fraternal and occupaonal. Mugs oen were undecorated, hand painted, or had a oral transfer design. In addion to o-ral stock designs, stock hunng and sporng images also were available. Occasionally, a shaving mug would incorporate a photographic image of the owner into the design. Occupaonal shaving mugs existed for almost every business, profession, or trade. Both in-door and outdoor trades were pictured. Some mugs displayed the emblem or working tools of the crasman. The shaving mug owner’s name in gold appeared above the occupaon scene. Leering typically was done in an old English style. Mugs featuring obsolete occupaons are very desirable.
17Old StuA Doll’s Eye ViewMiniature dolls made for doll houses took many forms Dolls to be used as in habitants of doll houses have been made for as long as the houses themselves have been built. Since the rst doll houses were elaborate handcraed miniatures designed for adults, the dolls were elegant miniatures, also. The commercial producon of doll houses began in the early 19th cen-tury. Mass producon of doll house dolls began at that same me. The earliest commercially pro-duced dolls for doll houses were peg woodens. These were some of the niest jointed dolls ever made. Their heads were round and their hair and eyes were painted black. The women dolls oen had a carved comb, almost always yellow, painted in their hair. Small china head dolls became popular by the late 1850s. They appeared with a variety of bodies; most common was the china head aached by thread or glue to a cloth body. These oen had legs of china, too. The majority were wom-en dolls, although a few were men. The Frozen Charloe doll was also used in doll houses, usually serving as the baby. The most common ones had molded and painted hair and features. Somemes they also had molded clothes or baby bonnets. Bisque head doll house dolls be-came popular in the 1860s. Bisque was frequently used with china and one will nd a bisque head with china limbs, or the reverse. Somemes both bisque and china nishes were combined on the head itself. By late in the century, blondes were preferred to brunees and most bisque or china dolls had painted blond hair. The number of male dolls also increased. In the 1880s, dolls with mustaches and beards were rst introduced to serve as the father of the doll house family. Dolls of all bisque made their rst appearance in the 1860s. By the 1880s, they could be found in all sizes, beginning as small as 3/4 inches. Most were sold dressed. They were sold dressed. They were produced into World War I, where they came dressed as nurses and soldiers, and in to the 1930s, where they wore the fashions of the period. Bisque shoulder-head doll house dolls were also produced, begin-ning in the 1890s. In addion to the boys, girls, men and women, grandparent dolls were introduced. In fact, some dolls were even made to represent servants. (They were idened by their hair styles.) These all had painted hair and fea-tures, and bodies of so cloth. Rubber, celluloid and composion came into use aer World War I in the making of doll house dolls. However, bisque, china and wood were also connued up to the start of World War II. Aer that me, the new plascs were used for com-mercial producon of these ny inhabitants of doll houses.
18Old Stu415 Portland Ave, Gladstone, OR 97027 Just off I-205, Gladstone Exit | 503 344 6874Authentic Vintage@gladstonemercantilellc@jhoytoldstuff@vintagegeoffThe Rocking Horse MallOver 4700 sq. . of Antiques, Collectibles,Vintage Finds, Doll House Miniatures & New Gi Items1542 NE Hwy 101Lincoln City, OR 97367541-994-4647rockinghorse@lincolncity.bizOpen 10–5, 5 days a week Closed Wednesdays & ursdays • Parking in back of storeScos Mills Earthquake jolts Lafayee SchoolhouseMajolica from all over the MapA Blast from the PastThe Earth Moved Northwest anques received quite a jolt the morning of March 25, 1993. An earthquake mea-suring just under 6 on the Richter Scale struck just east of Lafayee, literally rolling the town”s 100-dealer anque mall and a collecon of small-er anque shops in it’s shockwave. Fears of widespread damage were high, espe-cially in Lafayee Schoolhouse Anque Mall. The 100-dealer mall houses one of Oregon’s largest anque displays in a two-story schoolhouse dang from 1910; the age of the building and the heavy emphasis on glassware and poery among it’s dealers gfave great cause for concern. Assistant manager Joanne Legge was rst on the scene, having watched the building sway from her home 1 1/2 blocks away. Quickly joined by owner Bonnie Regan and manager Debbie Gill, the trio entered a mall in which every picture ung askew and many smalls were tossed about indiscriminately. Yet remarkably, a closer inspecon revealed sur-prisingly lile damage. “It was absolutely amaz-ing,” manager Debbie Gill relayed to anxious mall sta, dealers and customers. “The building just took the shock. It was built to last.” Apparrently, so were the vast majority of anques and col-lecbles inside; total losses were less than $1200 retail, according to Mrs. Regan. Similar stories were reported at the neighboring Rick’s Anque Auditorium and Pack Rat Anques, whose displays of restored anque furniture were rearranged by the temblor with suprisingly lile damage. The quake was the strongest reported in Oregon in years, resulng in bridge collapses and major structural damage to many buildings.Originally printed in Old Stu Summer of 1993@oldgloryantiquesandvintage @oldgloryantiquemallOpen 7 days a week at 10am Call or Google for hours.Extended hours starting Nov 1–Dec 31ANTIQUES, VINTAGE,COLLECTIBLES, UNIQUE GIFTS360-906-88232000 Main St, Vancouver, WA 98660Longest Running Antique Storein Clark County, WA - 26 years & counting!!Art PotteryCostume JewelryVintage ClothingToolsTextilesGlassFurnitureChina‘50s DecorPostcardsAirline Memorabilia7764 SW Capital HwyIn Multnomah Village • Portland, OR503-245-8283 • Mon-Sat, 11-5:30 • Sun, 12-5MULTNOMAH ANTIQUES
19Old StuGo Antiquing & Vintage Shopping in Coos Bay, Oregon’s Bay Area! Leaf’s Treehouse 311 S Broadway 541-266-7348 Past to Present Emporium 281 S Broadway 541-808-9553 Brimfield’s—Antiques and the Arts Weekly—Wall Street JournalHeart -O-the Mart gets high marks for the quality of the merchandise thereConnoisseurs of the previously-owned share their hunting ground in Paris, Berlin and Brimfield, MA. Insider’s tip: The best shows include Heart-O-The Mart.Starts at 9am Wednesday, May 15 2024 OPENING DATES20242024www.brimeld-hotm.cominfo@brimeld-hotm.com | PO Box 26, Brimeld, MA 01010 | 413.245.9556May 15July 10September 4HEART-O-THE-MARTBRIMFIELDMASS.Green is Gorgeous What was originally called green glazeware evolved into the majolica of the mid-to-late 1800s. It had been in use in England for many centuries but it took that master poer, Josiah Wedgewood, in 1760, to devise a dependable, smooth, even glaze that could be relied upon to look pleasing when it came out of the kilns. From this development came the ceramic pieces in naturalisc forms, most notably the cauliower and pineapple, although apples, pears, cucumbers and quince also appeared on teapots, jugs and other serving pieces. By the mid-1800s, improved formulaons had made green glazeware thicker, with crystallize glaze. Shades of green where numerous - grass green, sea green, bronze green, meadow green and so on. These green glazes formed the decorave basis of most of the earthenware majolica pieces made in England, beginning about 1860. Majolica from all over the Map Collectors of majolica should be aware that, in addion to what was produced in England and America, there were also numer-ous manufacturers of the ware in several European countries. One of the most important Euro-pean manufacturers was Sarreg-uemines, which started out as a French company. This company tended to follow English designs, especially in its early years, and produced a high quality majolica well into the 20th century. It had a large plant, at one me employing more than 2,000 workers. Other French majolica makers were Avis-seau, Barbizet, Pull, Choisy-le-Roi, Onnaing and Gien. Some excellent majolica was produced in Portugal. Factories there included those of Jose A. Clunha; Mafra and Son; and Rafael Pinheiro, all of Caldas da Rainha. This town has a long history as a poery center and is sll produc-ing majolica ware today. In Italy, Ulisse Cantagalli pro-duced majolica from 1878 unl 1901. Italian-ware took most of its design inspiraon from the Italian Renaissance. The dominant majolica manufac-turer in Germany was Villeroy and Boch. It produced huge quan-es between 1860 and the early 1900s. In Czechoslovakia, Wilhelm Schil-ler and Sons, which was founded in 1829, began making majolica when it became popular, unl its closure in 1895. The Arabia poery in Finland produced large funconal pieces of majolica from 1874 to 1930. Arabia was a subsidiary of the Rorstrand Poer in Sweden. Many of the European rms used established English designs. Oth-ers referred to their own heritage for inspiraon. In France, espe-cially, the work of Palissy (who stressed naturalism in his ceramic designs) in the 1500s served as a model. However since he had also served as the model for many of the early English designs, this didn’t create a big variaon in style. Majolica producon began to fade in England in the 1870s when the European poeries started exporng a great quanty of inex-pensive novelty items in majolica to England and America.
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