Antique

Antique Log Cabin Quilt Mid 1800’s Provenance 75″x74″ Outstanding Quality – Video Below

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quiltWe are honored to be presenting an outstanding nearly Museum Quality antique quilt that we found at a local estate in Connecticut.

Antique Log Cabin quilt sewn in mid-1800’s with provenance on typed papers that were found pinned to the quilt and remain pinned to it. Former owner Kathryn Downer Mangam  displayed it in Quilt Shows  and described it as made by her great-grandmother Walker, foster mother of Kathryn’s grandfather Burke.quilt 2

Measures 75″ x 74″, fabrics include richly colored wool plaids and cottons.

There are basically two square styles that are placed around the quilt in different directions, creating a striking and dramatic full pattern as seen in photos.

The condition is exceptional with only a few small holes and a few mild areas of discoloration on the red print backing. The binding trim is tight and very dramatic.

Overall this is nearly a Museum Quality piece that we are honored to present. Please see video to hear more details:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdRWrSzWk0Q

Antique Chalkware 7 Figural Head Hanging Pipe Rack, Devil, Blackface,Jester,Monk

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What a wonderfully decorative piece this is! Antique chalkware 7 figural head hanging pipe rack has hand painted series of 7 different character heads, each more expressive than the other.pipe rack 2

  • 18″ x 4″
  • Includes the Devil, hard to find Black Face, Monk, Jester and others.
  • Significant surface paint wear and flakes as shown but in my mind this only adds to the vintage character and vibe of the piece.
  • Hang as it is, or add your own pipes as shown. Our pipes are NOT included, just demonstrating the use.
  • You are purchasing only the rather remarkable rack.
  • Chalkware is fragile and chips easily as you can see; will take great care in proper packing and shipping.

This and many other Pipes and smoking accessories are available in our eBay Store Connectibles.

 

Japan Antique Meiji Dollhouse Miniature Room Box & 50p Set Handcraft Accessories

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Japan MiniWe’re delighted to be featuring one of the most beautifully made dollhouse sets that we’ve ever offered. 

Japan antique Meiji dollhouse Miniature sets handcrafted with utmost detail and professional artistry, circa 1870-1910 Meiji Emperor Era. One miniature room and one group of approx 50 accessories are each inside custom designed handcrafted storage boxes too; each storage box is marked with characters that roughly translate into “Premium or Specially Made Toy Set”, with the name of the merchant Dai-maru.  

It’s been suggested by a Japan scholar I consulted with that the quality is so Japan Mini 2unusually high that it is likely these were custom made only for a daughter of a noble family. 

Condition is excellent and outstanding; it’s hard to show the detail that went into each and every section. Includes:

  • Room Box for a tatami or Japanese tea room perhaps. All wood, sliding shoji screen doors open to reveal the room itself. 3″ x 5″ x 2″. Hanging accessories attached to the back wall. This room is actually also in a custom box for storage and safety. One small piece of label residue on side of the outer box is shown in last photo; we did not try to remove it. 
  • Set of 50 assorted loose accessories, ranging from most miniscule 1/8″ baskets and utensils (check out the whisk for tea and strainer) to the largest 2″ across piece that we believe is a charcoal stove. Includes bowls, cups, shovels, teapot, tiniest boxes with perfectly fitted little lids. Mixture of wood, metal, ceramic.  All are in a custom designed compartmentalized storage box lined in lambs wool, with a custom cover on top. I show some with a penny coin next to them for scale. 
  • A few of the pieces likely fit into the charcoal stove. 

These and many other dollhouse items available at our eBay Store Connectibles.

 

Jennings Brothers Vintage 1930’s Norwich Terrier Art Deco Copper Dog Figure JB

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We’re selling a wonderful group of Jennings Brothers antique and vintage metalwork, fresh to market from a local collector. Please look at photos for details. Dog

Featuring here a very handsome Norwich Terrier dog, 1930’s Art Deco, richly colored copper plating on cast metal.

  • Size:  2-1/2″ x 1-1/2″
  • Condition: Excellent  
  • Mark: Unsigned
  • Metal Plating: Copper

 

Also shown is a 3 piece Altar Set including a table top Crucifix (unmarked) and 2 candleJB holders or small vases, marked JB 2414. Pot metal with beautiful copper plating applied. 

  • Size: Crucifix is 10″
  • Condition: Very good with only light wear to the copper plating. Inside of candle holders have darkened and the finish has some wear.  
  • Mark: JB 2414 on the candle holders.
  • Metal Plating: Copper

Please find these and many other Jennings Brothers other Metalwork items in our eBay store Connectibles.

 

Jennings Brothers Manufacturing Company

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1903   JENNINGS BROTHERS MANUFACTURING CO, BRIDGEPORT  The Jennings Brothers Manufacturing Company located at Bridgeport, Conn. USA, is one of the leading and most enterprising manufacturing concerns in Connecticut; it began business in the year 1890, occupying to begin with, less space for its entire business, than it now utilizes for office room alone. The hard work, aggressive and sagacious management, combined with liberality and fidelity in dealing with customers, has won for The Jennings Brothers Manufacturing Company a clientage and reputation equaled by few and excelled by none.

Its business is the manufacture of clocks, in metal cases, candelabra, art metal and silver plated flatware. Among the numerous finishes applied to its many designs and large variety of goods made, is its Ormolu gold plate which is manufactured exclusively by this company, and marketed under the trademark J. B. “Ormolu gold.” This finish is the most beautiful and durable of any similar gold finish made, and is the result of years of investigation and experiments, and is now acknowledged to excel anything produced here or abroad.

Bronze finishes are also produced, and are most popular, as applied to art goods: their many dainty colorings perfect and bring out the artistic features and detail of the designs, to which it is most appropriately applied. These goods are in competition with imported goods of French manufacture, and are sold under the name of “Nouveau Bronze” or “Art Nouveau,” which is at present so much in vogue. French grey silver, and old brass finishes are also applied to novelties in candelabra, inks, trays, etc., and make most pleasing objects of art and utility. Silver plated flatware is sold under the company’s exclusive trade mark, “1890 Jennings Bros.,” and in each package is furnished a certificate of guarantee that the goods are as represented, or purchase money refunded. Such a guarantee gives some idea of the integrity of the company’s dealings with its customers. On such products as are not sold under one of the regular trade-marks when practicable, the initials “J. B.” appear on the article, for the purpose of identifying the company’s product.

Reference:  You can read more about the Jennings Brothers at –  http://www.jewelboxbook.com/newsletter/?page_id=684

 

 

Fashion Dolls a Definition and Short History – From Wikipedia

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Fashion DollFashion dolls are dolls primarily designed to be dressed to reflect fashion trends. They are manufactured both as toys for children to play with and as collectibles for adult collectors. The dolls are usually modeled after teen girls or adult women, though child, male, and even some non-human variants exist. Contemporary fashion dolls are typically made of vinyl or another plastic.

The earliest fashion dolls were French bisque dolls from the mid-19th Jumeau07acentury. Barbie was released by the American toy-company Mattel in 1959, and was followed by many similar vinyl fashion dolls intended as children’s toys. The size of the Barbie, 11.5 inches (290 mm) set the standard often used by other manufacturers. But fashion dolls have been made in many different sizes varying from 10.5 inches (270 mm) to 36 inches (900 mm).

Costumers and seamstresses use fashion dolls as a canvas for their work. Customizers repaint faces, reroot hair, or do other alterations to the dolls themselves. Many of these works are one-of-a-kind. These artists are usually not connected to the original manufacturers and sell their work to collectors.

History and Types

The earliest bisque dolls from French companies were fashion dolls. These dominated the market between approximately 1860 and 1890.[1] They were made to represent grown up women and intended for children of affluent families to play with and dress in contemporary fashions.[1] These dolls came from companies like Jumeau, Bru, Gaultier, Rohmer, Simone and Huret, though their heads were often manufactured in Germany.[1] In the Passage Choiseul area of Paris an industry grew around making clothing and accessories for the dolls.[1] Child like bisque dolls appeared in the mid-19th century and overtook the market towards the end of the century.[1]

Barbie was launched by the American toy-company Mattel in 1959, inspired by the German Bild Lilli doll. Barbie has been an important part of the toy fashion doll market for fifty years.

Many fashion doll lines have been inspired by Barbie, or launched as alternatives to Barbie. Tammy was created by the Ideal Toy Company in 1962.[2] Advertised as “The Doll You Love to Dress”, Tammy was portrayed as a young American teenager, more “girl next door” than the cosmopolitan image of Barbie.[2] Sindy was created by the British Pedigree Dolls & Toys company in 1963 as a rival to Barbie with a wholesome look. In the late 1960s and early 1970s Ideal Toy Company released several larger fashion dolls with hair with adjustable length. The Crissy Doll and friends are 16″ and Velvet Doll and friends are 18″. British designer Mary Quant‘s Daisy doll from 1973 had a large selection of contemporary 70s fashion designed by Quant.

Fulla is marketed to children of Islamic and Middle-Eastern countries as an alternative to Barbie. The concept of her evolved around 1999, and she hit stores in late 2003.[3] Bratz were released in 2001, designed by Carter Bryant and manufactured by California toy company MGA Entertainment.[4] They are distinguished by large heads with skinny bodies and lush, glossy lips.[4] Mattel introduced the My Scene line in 2002 and the Flavas line in 2003 to rival Bratz.[5][6][7] In 2010 Mattel launched the Monster High doll line, based from fantasy and horror monsters. In 2014, artist Nickolai Lamm unveiled Lammily,[8] a fashion doll based on Lamm’s study comparing Barbie’s figure with measurements matching those of an average 19-year old woman.[9]

Asian fashion dolls are made by Asian manufacturers and primarily targeted to an Asian market. Blythe dolls with oversized heads and color changing eyes were originally made by American company Kenner but are now produced by Japanese company Takara. Another doll with an oversized head, Pullip, was created in 2003 in Korea. Japanese fashion dolls marketed to children include Licca (introduced in 1967) and Jenny (introduced in 1982) by Takara Tomy.

In the mid-1990s dolls like Gene Marshall from Ashton-Drake, Tyler Wentworth from Tonner and Alexandra Fairchild Ford from Madame Alexander appeared. They are between 15.5 and 16 inches (395 and 410 mm,) larger than other common fashion dolls. These dolls are mostly marketed to adult collectors.

Since we sell a lot of Fashion Dolls in our eBay Store Connectibles, we thought this article would be of interest to some of our customers.

This Post was taken from a Wikipedia Page and can be found with references HERE.

 

Vintage Collection Lot 5 Czech Paper Mache Puppets by Munzbergo Vy Loutky

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puppetsCharming lot of 5 antique Czech puppets, paper mache uniquely sculpted faces, hand painted  loosely jointed wooden and mache body and original fabric costumes.

 Attached to metal rod with wooden handle and strings; many strings are disconnected but can  be replaced if you wish. Generally very good to excellent condition otherwise.

 Logo on wood handle AMP, Munzbergo Vy Loutky.

 7-8″ tall each for the puppet without the rod.

HISTORY: During the early 20th century, the tradition of puppet theater in Eastern Europe was  thriving, and small theater groups were formed in many villages. These were from such a  theater group originally.  CHARMING for display, can be seated or hung. 

 Puppets are numbered on the back of the wood. All have at least one limb still attached with the string, some have more. VERY expressive faces.   These and other puppets are available in our eBay store connectibles.

Antique Skookum Apple Head Doll Prototype, Convex Glass Signed Mary McAboy RARE

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apple headRemarkable rare Skookum doll head by the original founder of the company herself, only one of it’s kind we have ever seen or heard of! 

From a museum that closed it’s doors years ago in Washington State comes a sealed apple head hand-made by Mary Dwyer McAboy , the designer of the original Skookum doll. Has original tag from the Museum AND McAboy’s own handwritten note on the back, along with Skookum intact label.  Note itself is collectible without the doll head!apple head 2

Circa 1915, later sealed under heavy convex glass & mounted and then given by McAboy with hand-written note to a friend in 1935. All documented on the back!

Quite extraordinary, she says this head was the “prototype head that started the entire Skookum industry” and history.  Preserved beautifully because of being protectively sealed, black pin glass eyes, fine hair that looks through the glass like human hair, pieces of original woven Native American style cloth in perfect color and condition. Has original Skookum label on back.

A true piece of doll history, unlikely to ever be anything at all similar found again. 

The glass itself is amazing, thick and raised bubble glass style with a swirled twist border that is very elegant. Copper metal border with screws on oak base.Condition is excellent for everything.  Glass is VERY reflective; please excuse the white spots which are only caused by camera, not on the actual item. 

We are very confident that the provenance is accurate and that this particular head was one of the earliest apple heads that McAboy made herself, then sealed to protect it, then later gave it to her friend as a gift. There certainly may be others that she also framed and preserved, but we’ve never come across one like it. 

History: 

Mary Dwyer McAboy (1876-1961), of Missoula, Montana learned to carve apple head dolls as a child from her mother.[1] According to an account by McAboy, her mother had sold apple dolls at church socials and sewing circles.[2]

Mary Dwyer had worked as a schoolteacher before marrying Frank E. McAboy in 1909. Her husband died of tuberculosis four years later, in 1913.[3]

Later that year, Mary McAboy began to market apple head dolls dressed in Indian costumes, and achieved rapid commercial success.[4]According to McAboy, her career as a doll maker began when she made an Indian village which she displayed in the window of a grocery store. Vaudeville actress Fritzi Scheff was performing in Missoula at the time, saw the display, and purchased it for “actual money”.[ McAboy duplicated the display, which also sold quickly, and she then began selling increasing numbers of the dolls. She publicized her growing business through western newspapers, and arranged a display at a women’s suffrage office in NY, gaining press coverage there.

She had difficulty processing large numbers of apples, as excessive moisture led to rotting. She consulted with chemists at Montana State Univ in an attempt to control the problem. But demand grew so rapidly that she moved to mass production techniques within a year, and soon almost all of the doll heads were made out of  composition.”  More pictures are available in our eBay Store Connectibles.

 

Edison Diamond Disc Records 50843 Old Home Songs Christmas Carols Bells of Old Trinity

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EdisonWe recently acquired a very large collection of Antique (1912 – 1929) Edison Diamond Disc records.  Featured here is Record Number 50843. 

These records appears to be in very good condition, although we are unable to play them since we do not have the special phonograph that is required.  This record must be played on a Diamond Disc player or it will destroy the record. This records has the following two songs:

– Old Home Songs – very The Bells of Old Trinity New York – Chimes Played by William B. Murray.

– Christmas Carols – The Bells of Old Trinity New York – Chimes Played by William B. Murray.

Many other title available in our eBay Store Connectibles.

 

Ernst Bohne Antique Gnome Figural Candle Holder Set 2 Candlestick Black Forest

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We are delighted to offer one of the most interesting antique sets of candle holders that we have ever found. 7″ tall each, marked on bases with Ernst Bohne Sogne (sons) blue anchor stamp dating from approx 1856-1900’s Germany.  In addition each has “EBS” stamp and number 312 inside the base.

Fantastically detailed Gnome woodsmen are climbing onto “faux” stag horn trees on the lookout for something wonderful!  The details on the figures are outstanding; so much so that it took several looks to determine these weren’t actually carved wood but fine porcelain. Lots of photos to see details.

  • German black forest type motif, these are “statement” pieces that will be the standout of your display or collection.
  • Condition overall is excellent, only imperfections are on the top candle holder part of the Gnome with the lantern – there is a tiny chip on rim, and the top has been expertly repaired with a few visible cracks. These do not detract from how well these display. 
  • Unique opportunity to add these to your collection; unlikely to surface again.

This and many other unique collectibles can be found in our ebay store connectibles.