BS: Any collectors or dealers (antiques etc)

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 06:57 PM

JiK

I stopped being a beaver collecter....

Gotta run...

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 11:27 AM

As to formal "collections," in a prior lifetime an ex-wife and her parents were determined to have "collections" (frogs, horses and bunny themes) and continually badgered me to "collect something." Based on it being a college "mascot" and being nonexistent¹ among collectibles in Kansas, I finally told them I'd collect "beavers." My recollection is that it took around 7 or 8 years for one of them to find one to present as a gift at some holiday or another. I was quite content with the one specimen on my class ring.

¹ It is well documented that my great grandmother Sarah trapped beavers and other pelt animals quite nearby for cash to improve here homestead - a requirement to obtain the title; but for quite a while they (beavers and most of the other critters she trapped) were nearly extinct in Kansas. There are quite a few beavers in recent years at some managed sites; but they're not exactly something people "go to Kansas to see." G'g'ma also drove a mule team as a "commercial hauler" on occasion, but collecting "mule stuff" would have been too easy.

Although I'll confess to rarely buying a particularly fine beaver during business travel - maybe 8 or 10 in 30 years time, I was quite successful in keeping my "collection" at less than 20 pieces until I made the mistake of accepting a transfer to Seattle. Once friends there found out it was an easy gift for the ungiftable, the collection "bloomed" (and is now formally called "the bloomin' beavers") with around 80+ pieces, most of which are tiny, but a few approaching life-sized - most notably a set of large bookends that friends "up in the no'west" commissioned for me from a local chainsaw artist as a Christmas gift.

LiK had a similar collection experience. During her 30 years in the "great northwest" she collected "Frankoma pottery." From a fairly small factory in Oklahoma, the pieces are mostly "utilitarian" althoug some are quite attractive. The orignal factory burned out some years ago, and the new factory used a different clay, so the old pieces are quite distinctive and easy to identify. They were also rare enough in the Seattle area to make for manageable and selective "collecting," especially when specialized for the old style Frankoma. Prices - even there - were mostly fairly reasonable.

Of course, when she moved back to Kansas with me, we found "Frankoma everywhere" since the new factory is only a half-day drive down the road, so her collection reached "Frankoma glut stage" before (sh)we realized she couldn't buy it all. She has a few "specimen pieces" from other makers, and would love to accumulate "Hull China" but prices on the good ones are out of reason and reach. She does have one or two - Hull and other - pieces that she's gotten at bargain prices because of misidentifying by the dealers, but none are - IMO - really "prime collectibles."

LiK also has a minor accumulation of "gargoyles" - including one 200 LB+ cast iron specimen in her herb garden, but they're more for decoration than collection.

We do both of course have a few "heirloom" pieces. From my mother I have an interesting, but probably not particularly valuable, "Royal Staffordshire: Jenny Lind" plate (a somewhat ambiguous provenence) and an original signed and dated photograph (1907) of a "courting couple by fireside" that's lovely; but I doubt either would make us wealthy.

My inventory of our "books" shows well over 2,000 entries (a little over 200 music). Those are about 2/3 mine, and she hasn't entered most of her last 10 years' acquisitions; but that's an accumulation rather than a collection. She does have perhaps a dozen "signed by author hardback" novels, but little of real note or exceptional value. They were bought to read, and to meet the authors, rather than as an investment.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Bee
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 09:50 AM

Fascinating to see what other people collect.

I don't collect, exactly, but I do acquire 'neat old things' cheaply when I can and they strike my fancy. I particularly like old linens, and have a few nice pieces, as well as some antique clothing. My husband's Dad worked at a local shipyard, and so husband has a collection of tools circa '30s to '50s, including several examples of brass cannister blowtorches, and hand made tools for very specific jobs.

I like old dishes, but have had bad luck keeping then intact - my inherited 200 year old platter was sat upon by a friend.

In the realm of paintings - I have a tiny painting, signed and dated 1941, by a locally well-known woman painter, E E Smith, who was instrumental in getting art education started in the province. It's a lovely little Group of Seven influenced shore scene, might be worth a hundred dollars. Which is not a great amount, but I found it for three dollars at a flea market.

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 09:04 AM

After separation from my ex-spouse.....I moved into a one bedroomed flat which had to become home to all sorts of junk......I do have good stuff but that is held in comparative safety and security elsewhere. I have amassed a huge knowledge of antiques and collectables but spend little time on them these days. Thanks for resurrecting the thread John in Kansas. Nice to see it again.

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Bobert
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 08:49 AM

Hi, my name is Bobert and I am a collectoholic...

However, I have been in recovery for 15 years, 4 months and 3 days and just take it "one day at a time"...

But with that said, yes, during my practicing collectoholic days I amassed quite a collection of eclectic stuff most of which now is boxed up and banished to the ferrowing (don't ask) barn...

Oh, yeah, G-silver, I have cuspidors... I think I have 3 but maybe four... I have one here in the house that I use for nothin' other than keeping my collection of old keys (maybe 500 of them) that I don't have a clue as to what they once unlocked???

I have another box or two with old toasters??? Like what is that all about??? I mean, why would nayone need old toasters...

Okay, I'll plug in the "TRUE CONFESSION" sign here and tell you folk just how bad it got for me during my practicing collectoholic days:

Back in the 70's and early 80's there were several urban renewal projects going on in Richmond and 1000's of old late 1800's homes were taken in eminent domain & boarded up for future demolishment (is that a word???)...

Well, I couldn't wait to get home from my social work job, put on my grubbies, head into these areas in my pickup truck and tools... Yes, night after night I, as well as other collectoholics, would break into these homes, would riffle thru the stuf that had been left behind, pry our archietuctural things of interest, etc...

This is where my toaster collection came from... People left some very intersting stuff behind... Old vaccum cleaners, old women's hats, dolies, drawn-work table clothes, silverware, lamps and shades, large furniture, books by the thousands...

Yep, you name it and folks left it and there I was, a reasonablely well adjusted social worker with 2 degrees on my hands and knees in a boarded up old house rumaging thru postcards, old ash trays, fountain pens, clothes, etc...

Well, that was porbably the height of my disease and, yes, it continues into the 90's until I just had to swaer it off before it consumed me...

Now I am stuck with literally hundreds of boxes of collected stuff out in a 35X100 foot barn and feel responsible for all this stuff...

I can't quite bring myself to auction it all off but I know that *that* day will come and I will have come a full circle...

But as for now, "Lord, just get me thru today, if You will..."

That is my story...

Those who have been in my house can verify every bit of it...

Sniff...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 08:36 AM

Fiesta Ware, but only in a few of the Original colours. It's gone so far out of sight price wise that I can't begin to afford the pieces I want.

I don't really 'collect' anything, but pick up stuff that stike my fancy. Old milk/cream cans, ice cream freezers, ancient pressure canners, cast iron (to use!), lonely unplayable music instruments, just gobbeldy gook stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: JP2
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 08:10 AM

My wife and I own a narrowboat with a traditional Boatman's cabin the sides of which were traditionally decorated with lace edged plates,also called ribbon plates or hanging up plates.
We started buying plates about 20 years ago and used to buy anything and everything provided it was cheap enough but now only collect plates made by Schumann,a Bavarian/German company.
Frequently the plates were brought back from a seaside holiday and very often are of a standard design with the legend "A Present from Blackpool" or some other resort printed on them.
Other common themes are "Gainsborough" style figures and "Worcester" style fruit.
Pre WW1 plates are stamped Bavaria/Germany on the back but post 1918 are stamped Foreign,presumably due to anti German feeling.
We've slowed down a bit now as the cabin's full and so are the "Delft" racks at home.
JP1147

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: mouldy
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 05:33 AM

My mother was an avid collector of 19th century Staffordshire figures, as well as most other (small) things that took her fancy. She started to trade in the late 1960s in antique centres, and graduated to shops. Unfortunately she gave up after about 10 years as she couldn't make a living, because the trade was in a slump, and only other dealers were buying (and they require trade price). She then bought specific items on commission for dealer friends at auction, and also bought and sold for herself.

Well I have to restrain myself when I go to antique shops or the like. I have had to try and narrow my Staffs buying to musicians, although I now possess 3 Mother Goose figures! I also have a couple of specialist dealers on the hunt for one figure I specifically want.

I recently came across some illustrations by a lady called Jean Young, who illustrated a 1947 edition of the "Hound of Heaven". I have 3 originals (not from that, sadly) and a lithograph. I've also got a nice earlyish Cruikshank engraving (1797), courtesy of mum. And a trunk full of other prints (a couple of Baxters and an Alken in there) that I may offload at some point.

My tastes are eclectic, and my late husband used to despair (he had no interest). My latest purchase is a Victorian bidet. I needed a small side table, and it does the job admirably!

Best surprise at auction was a couple of years ago when, after a bit of a pruning of my stuff, I sold a pack (one missing) of early 19th century playing cards: hand painted - with fortune-telling pictures, and single ended court cards - by Napoleonic prisoners of war. We'd had them for 40 years (one of mum's acquisitions) and they made £960! Another of her little finds, which she gave me in 1968, and which had been put out in 1964 for a jumble sale she was running, made £4800 at Sotheby's in 1989. They were late 17th/early 18th century ladies' shoes. Just paid off all our debts at the time!

Biggest extravagance of late was buying 3 Thompson "Mouseman" pieces: a lamp, a candlestick and a tray. These are my investment pieces. I'm going to keep half an eye out for older pieces, I think.

There's only one snag, as mum used to say: "Champagne taste, beer income"!

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 12:55 PM

Sotheby's and Christie's are outside my realm, which is that of a bottom-feeder. A few of my buys have appreciated, mostly Chinese-Japanese porcelain, but most were bought because they appealed and fit my budget. My heirs, if they sell, will probably get back a bit more than I spent, which is good enough.
I bought Canadian paintings by artists whose work I liked and I could afford; a couple or three have gone up markedly, most have kept pace with inflation, and a few no longer elicit anyone's interest and are useful only to cover holes in the wall.

A collection of Navajo silver and turquoise pretty well follows the demand; no expectation of profit, since the very early work and the work of the trendy and expensive artists is absent. I like the handiwork and that is reason enough for me to collect.

Any collectors of 17th-18th c. Dutch blue and white tiles out there?
Canadian history on silk cigarette cards?

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 09:36 AM

Additional comment from Kovels Komments that may be of interest:

In our world of average collectors, business is a bit slower but there are still records set regularly. Since September our list of record prices for antiques and collectibles (no paintings) has added at least 19 records, from a Chippendale tea table to six mechanical banks. Bank collectors who couldn't afford the mechanicals that set records might want the new Japanese Savings Bomb bank. If you don't put coins in regularly, the bank "explodes" and scatters the money on the floor. You must pick up the money and "reflect on your laziness," says the manufacturer, TOMY Ltd.

Sort of in the category of the alarm clock that jumps off the table and hides under the bed (or in the closet) when you hit the "snooze" button.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 09:32 AM

Some here may be familiar with Kovels, a husband/wife team(?) of appraisers and writers on antiques and collections. They might be a resource for some with "things" that "might be worth something." They do sometimes reply to requests for "identification" and occasionally with rough valuations, particularly if it's for something that might be of interest in their regular syndicated columns. Sorry, but I don't know the details of how best to ask them, but their site may give help.

A recent newsletter that LiK gets from them included an item of interest to me, and possibly to others.

Via email, in their newletter Kovels Komments:

A dealer told us the other day that the modern art market may blow up any day. As the old song said, "It's too hot not to cool down." And history has shown this. Realist paintings from the late 19th century were almost unwanted in the 1950s but are once again in favor. Art and antiques, like decorating trends and clothing fashions, change at about 25-year intervals. Prices reflect demand. That said, we still are confused by the painting prices at the top of the art market. Sotheby's stock dropped 28% the day after its November Impressionists art sale because of the number of paintings that did not sell. Christie's did okay and set several auction records, the highest for a Matisse painting at $33.6 million. Are buyers moving on to another "look" or are the auction houses promising sellers fixed prices that are too high? (Yes--if you have a masterpiece worth millions, the auction house will guarantee the price you will get even if the picture doesn't sell.) They want to have "stars" at each auction to attract an audience, but perhaps they are setting unrealistic prices.

A possibly related comment from the Art Renewal (ARC) website:

6 Paintings by William Bouguereau dominated Sotheby's 19th Century Auction on October 23rd. Amazingly, of 276 paintings sold, the 6 Bouguereaus represented fully 35% of the $25,000,000 sale.

The pace at which prices for William Bouguereau's paintings continue to rise affirms his position as the most important of the 19th Century Academic artists. His prices have begun to approach sales of Impressionists and Modern Artworks.

Even more amazing, also from ARC:

Three Great Paintings by (American) Masters All Sold at Sotheby's Mid-Season Event for American Paintings, October 10, 2007

All Three Painting Sold Above the High Estimates
Emerald and Rose by Allan Banks: went for $34,000 (estimate $14,000 - $18,000)
Father's Day by Steve Gjertson sold for $34,000 (estimate $10,000 - $15,000)
Dawn of Hope by Dan Gerhartz sold for $45,000 (estimate $20,000 - $30,000
[prices include buyers premium]


What's amazing?

The three are all LIVING ARTISTS working in classic "realist" styles.

One expert on American painting at the event said:

"This was nothing short of a Watershed event in art history. Not only is this likely to lead the way to a growing dynamic market for these Three artists, but may prove to have ushered in a whole new marketing category in American Painting sales.
Academic and Impressionist Living Master Realist artists. I'm not sure exactly what we'll call it yet, and it may prove to be best to continue combining them with American paintings from the last 200 years as we did today."

John

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 05 Dec 05 - 08:57 AM

Refresh...any more collectors/dealers?

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers (antiques etc)
From: Suffet
Date: 04 Dec 05 - 05:16 PM

Greetings:

In philately people still commonly say "turn of the century" when they mean the transition period from the 19th to the 20th centuries.

--- Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 04 Dec 05 - 04:46 PM

Well thank you for that Nigel but as I had put a reference to the First World War, I assumed that people would understand. Will try a little harder to make it easier for you to understand next time.
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 04 Dec 05 - 03:24 PM

Georgiansilver:
I have a collection of postage stamps dating back to the turn of the century... You mean a whole five year's worth?!

The expression "turn of the century" can now be soooo misleading.

CHEERS
Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Once Famous
Date: 04 Dec 05 - 12:40 PM

We have many active collections. I have a very large electric train collection that I have been working on for 20 years of vintage electric trains from the '30s to the '70s. I also collect Coca-Cola genuine memorabilia from the '30s-'50s. No reporproductions. I have a passion for vintage post cards from a specific resort town in Michigan, and have a small but stable collection of vintage guitars.

My wife collects fine English bone china made by Shelley from the '30s-''60s. One son collects Star Wars stuff and the other, the older one has a ton of vintage military stuff from WWII.

Collecting is a wonderful thing. The "hunt" is everything.

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 04 Dec 05 - 12:32 PM

Enjoyed your rambling Steve....knowledge is always acceptable to me.
Thanks and Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Suffet
Date: 04 Dec 05 - 10:14 AM

Greetings:

For a long time the generally accepted way of collecting postage stamps was "one of each." Collectors preferred unused stamps, mostly in mint condition, meaning just as fresh as when they came from the post office, with all the gum on the reverse side intact and free from marks left by stamp hinges. If the stamps were used, they were soaked off of their envelopes and then carefully dried between two pieces of cardboard so they wouldn't curl.

There were always a few collectors, however, that went beyond this very basic approach. Some collected stamps in multiples, pairs, strips, blocks, even entire panes ("sheets"). Other collectors looked for the various pre-production material such as original artwork by the stamps' designers, trial designs (called "essays"), and proof impressions taken from the original dies or from the printing plates.

Another group of collectors kept their stamps on the original covers (envelopes), post cards, parcel wrappers, or mailing tags that saw actual postal duty. In doing so, they kept the address, return address, and postal markings intact. From this group of collectors grew the hobby of collecting postal history.

Some of these collectors also started looking for stamps postmarked on the first day of issue. If that date were unknown, then they looked for the earliest known usage, or EKU. The world's first postage stamp, for example, the Penny Black, was placed on sale throughout the United Kingdom on May 1, 1840. It was not valid for postage, however, until May 6. Examples used on covers postmarked May 6, 1840, are highly prized, and are worth many hundreds of times what the stamp itself is worth. A few covers are known with the Penny Black used improperly between May 2 and May 5. These "pre-first days" (an oxymoronic term!) are also highly prized.

By the 1930s, the hobby of collecting first day covers or FDCs had become widespread, so most first day covers from then to the present are of only minimal to moderate value. Many FDCs from the 1930s, for example, can be purchased for $1 or less today.

When it comes to post cards, there are literally two sides to the story. The picture side (obverse) is of primary interest to the deltiologist or post card collector, while the stamp side (reverse) is of primary interest to the philatelist or stamp and postal history collector.

The post cards that Mike's grandparents exchanged during World War I may bear censor markings, as countries at war often censor their outgoing and incoming foreign mail during wartime. In any event, they likely bear a 2¢ stamp, or else two 1¢ stamps. The Canadian international post card rate at the time was 2¢.

I've rambled on for too long. Sorry.

--- Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 04 Dec 05 - 09:03 AM

I have a collection of postage stamps dating back to the turn of the century...some on original interesting postcards. The most interesting to me are the ones my grandfather sent to my grandmother during 1st World War...from Canada.
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Suffet
Date: 04 Dec 05 - 01:12 AM

Greetings:

Is there anyone else out there on Mudcat who collects postal history? Please give me a holler.

My collection of United States Third Class Mail: The First 100 Years, 1863-1963 was just accepted as a competitive exhibit at the Washington 2006 World Philatelic Exhibition which will take place next spring. Fewer than half of the exhibits that applied for the open competition were accepted, so this is a very big deal. As they say in baseball, I am honored just to be in the Big Show.

--- Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: GUEST,ivor
Date: 03 Dec 05 - 03:46 AM

BillD,
Thanks for your response.
Around 1900 there was a collected Nietzsche in 20 vols. edited by Oscar Levy. I've got the easier to find half, and I'm looking to get the rest tho' I'm not in a hurry.

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Dec 05 - 03:07 PM

BillD, you been reading Frankenstein or something? ivor/igor?**bg**

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Dec 05 - 02:47 PM

igor...do you want original volumes of Nietzsche? Those might be hard, but there are edited reprints...especially stuff by Walter Kaufmann...that are quite obtainable.

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 02 Dec 05 - 06:34 AM

Anyone know anything about spitoons/cuspidors? I have a very old one and would like info...can send photos.
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: GUEST,ivor
Date: 29 Nov 05 - 06:53 PM

I collect performances conducted by the great Jascha Horenstein (still missing some Bach, Schubert, Ravel, Stravinsky, Simpson (if anyone hears of a recording of him doing Mahler 2 or 5,I'd be grateful). (I'm going to join this interesting community.)
I also collect Dictionaries of Quotations, and I'm compiling mu own according to an 18th century self-indexing system.
I hope to get the obscurer half of the early 20th century edition of the works of Nietzsche, and complete my 3rd/4th editions of Grove's Dictionary of Musicians.
Also a tiny collection on audio tape of works by Carl Friedrich Abel (a friend of mine is a great-great-great-great grand niece of his.
I'm also tracking down some titles I've wanted quite a while. Sometimes I try via an online secondhand book dealers communal site.

One tip that's worked for me is, when you go to a dealer, car boot, auction or whatever, is to say in your head "Go on, surprise me !", or have some particular item firmly in mind in the same situations.
The number of times I've found what I was looking for , or something I was l.f., is too large not to think one can talk to the Universe, and get a response.

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 29 Nov 05 - 01:09 PM

I really get a buzz from finding something at a car boot sale or antique fair which I pay a small price for and I know it is worth 20, 50, 70, 100 or even 1000 or more times what I paid for it. I have built a good knowledge of antiques and often recognise things that other collector/buyers don't....Knowledge is great in anything. I am still learning all the time and will never be an expert I'm sure. Seeing the so called experts on antique programmes making big mistakes is re-assuring in a way. We can't know all there is to know about antiques and collectables but keep learning...learning...learning.
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Beer
Date: 28 Nov 05 - 09:51 PM

$51.00 for the Book Merlin's Furlong and $22.0 for Diana Gabaldon's Outlander. And I paid about $2.00 for a whole box at an auction. The persons who won the auction also did very well. So were both happy. Think I'll go out and get a case of
BEER

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Carly
Date: 28 Nov 05 - 05:06 PM

Bride Judy, take good care of your first edition Wizard of Oz. It is worth a small fortune! It is also a wonderful book.

Kat, The Patchwork Girl is a longtime favorite character of mine. It is a shame that the early Oz books were printed on poor quality paper, and of course, many saw heavy use (the ones I first read were handed down from a cousin, and from our family went on to other cousins, and the few that survived are in tatters,} so I'm not surprised that your copy is coverless. It's a sorry truth that books{and some other things!) can be loved to pieces.

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Metchosin
Date: 28 Nov 05 - 04:56 PM

You mean there might be a market for my tiny orange and pink and yellow striped flares with peace symbols on the buttons?

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Nov 05 - 02:51 PM

It's fine to include your "Handle," Beer. Thanks for doing so, you, too, Mike.

I've got one other thing which I DO want to sell. WOuld like to target the Japanese market for jeans as I hear they are a hot ticket there. Guess ebay is probably the best place. I've a pair of women's, tiny size, side-zippered Western jeans, Wranglers from the 1940/50s with Western-style pearly-looking snaps on the side pockets. The logo even has a cowgirl on it, if I remember rightly. Have to find them to see for sure! Anyway, they are from my days of haunting secondhand shops for vintage clothing.

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 28 Nov 05 - 10:07 AM

Try mine too...nothing on there at the moment but you'll have to guess my handle/nickname! LOL
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Beer
Date: 28 Nov 05 - 10:01 AM

Ooops!! Hope I was permitted to give my handle out.

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Beer
Date: 28 Nov 05 - 09:59 AM

I go in spurts. I'll list on e-bay for a while then won't do anything for a spell. I find that the expense of shipping has been a negative factor in selling. Check out what I'm presently selling.
my handle is: noah_black
Beer

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Nov 05 - 12:23 AM

I've got an early copy of the Patchwork Girl of Oz. It was my cousin's and was used oermuch...it's missing the front cover.

Did you ever read the story of a man who went into a used clothing story in CA, bought a nice overcoat, reached into the pcoket when wearing it and found a cleaner's ticket, I think it was, which indicated the coat had actually belonged to Baum. I think it was in Reader's Digest in the 60's or 70's. Neat story.

Mike/Georgiansilver, thanks very much. I have used eBay a few times. I've even earned a star, can't remember what colour, though!**bg** I need to be more diligent about getting stuff listed on there. I've scads of storage bins to go through, a winter's project, with lots of stuff to sell, I am sure.:-) I have a friend who supports himself quite well through acting gigs and eBay.

Anyone here know much about early raised relief prints? I've got one I haven't been able to find much about of an early football cheerleader. Really, early, she's got a Gibson Girl hairdo and classic hourgalss figure. It has the following printed in the lower right corner: " Copyright 1907 by Woodward & Tiernan Printing CO St. Louis, U.S.A." The only thing I've found on the company is they were known for their maps.

Other good places for gauging what retail prices may be for books include abebooks.com and libris.com, as well as eBay, as Mike said.

Wonderful thread!!

Thanks!

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Deckman
Date: 27 Nov 05 - 10:25 PM

Carly ... "Bride Judy" has a first edition of "The Wizard ..." Fascinating! CHEERS, Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Carly
Date: 27 Nov 05 - 10:14 PM

I come by it honestly. Both my parents are collectors.
Besides the book collections, the instruments and the record/tapes/CDs....
I have a passion for Russian lacquer boxes embellished with folk tale illustrations; I was lucky enough to acquire many of these during the early glasnos years, as they have become increasingly "collectible," meaning expensive, recently.
I cannot resist handthrown pottery, but in my defence it must be said that we eat off of, drink from, and I cook out of, my pottery, even if I do have five times as many mugs and bowls as any household needs.
I did not set out to do so, but I have acquired over the years a vast number of cookie cutters of varying sizes and shapes, many more than I use. Ditto wooden bowls. Ditto baskets.
I am a spinner and weaver, so I do not know if I should count the two closets full of fiber at various stages from fleece to cloth, or my looms (four floor looms and several small looms of various sorts) or wheels, or other tools, but I confess to having much more than I need.
As a child, one of my earliest passions was the Oz books. Some loves never die, and so as an adult I own all but one of the Oz books(I could tell you I got them for my son, but who am I kidding?)I also have been given or found an odd array of Ozzish things: bubble gum cards, jewllery, nesting dolls, an Emerald City snow globe, cardboard ornaments, an Oz game playing board, and my very own pair of Ruby (I know, they were silver in the book) Slippers made for me out of white rubber garden clogs,sequins and rubber cement by Maggie Pierce's grandchildren, who share my love of OZ.
Sell?!! You've got to be joking.

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Beer
Date: 27 Nov 05 - 08:53 PM

I have a collection of canes, trivets, butter molds and a great collection of welcoming cards.

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Nov 05 - 07:25 PM

I have several collections that my mother assembled...Swankyswigs, Powder jars (some very nice and unusual ones, plus some common ones)...and some Roseville pottery (not 'real' fancy, expensive ones, but some quite nice).

I really ought to finally dispose of these things...I guess I'd better learn to use EBay soon!

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 27 Nov 05 - 05:24 PM

How many you got then mate. I have had a few but got rid of each one before the next! LOL.

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Deckman
Date: 27 Nov 05 - 04:32 PM

Does collecting of wives count? Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Metchosin
Date: 27 Nov 05 - 04:29 PM

oh heck, I still haven't even touched on the musical instruments, vinyl, nor my old 78RPM Jimmy Shands.

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 27 Nov 05 - 04:20 PM

So glad to have started this thread as it is quite revealing. There are a wealth of collectables out there and people with talent to collect. Keep going please.
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Metchosin
Date: 27 Nov 05 - 02:37 PM

Apparently he has some old wood block cabinet maker's planes as well.

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Metchosin
Date: 27 Nov 05 - 02:35 PM

My husband still claims he is planning to use them on some furniture stuff because they do a better job of slicing through the pores than can be had with a router's grinding action. He claims the profiles are crisper and more authentic.

Whether he will ever find the time to do so is another matter. I'm still waiting for a dulcimer he started for me about 15 years ago. LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Deckman
Date: 27 Nov 05 - 02:18 PM

Yes, I probably would really appreciate seeing it. One interesting aspect of modern carpentry, here in America, is that the practical use, or need, for planes is about obsolete now. Styles of millwork have changed and simplified largely. And unless you restore older homes, you have little occasion to use them. And there are now so many new tool designs: routers, shapers, power planes, etc. Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Metchosin
Date: 27 Nov 05 - 02:11 PM

Deckman, thenyou would probably appreciate my husband's full kit of old Stanley molding planes.

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Janice in NJ
Date: 27 Nov 05 - 01:57 PM

I collect United States Capped Bust of Liberty Half Dollars, minted from 1807 to 1839. Since no silver dollars were struck for general circulation during that period, these were the largest U.S. silver coins available for commerce. The U.S. mint supplied only a small fraction of the circulating coinage until the late 1840s, so the gap was filled mostly by silver coins from Mexico, ranging in value of 6.25 cents (el medio or half réal) to one dollar (el peso de ocho, piece of eight, or eight réales). I cannot afford the uncirculated (mint state) coins, even the ones that haven't been slabbed and graded, so I collect only "raw" circulated coins, usually in grades very fine or higher, if the price is right.

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: jimmyt
Date: 27 Nov 05 - 10:38 AM

Jayne collects English teapots, has about 80 of them on display. I have several small collections, one of Pewter Tankyards with inscriptions of the pub or hotel, I collect Laguiole pocket knives and corkscrews. I will think of a few other small items that i seem to get in a collecting mode about. I don't get passionate about one thing per se, but I always admire people who manage to acquire fine collections.

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: Deckman
Date: 27 Nov 05 - 08:36 AM

TREEN that's my passion ... as well as very old carpenter tools. Being a carpenter (The Deckman) I stumble across these items often.

But my real passion, besides "Bride Judy," is old wooden ware: hand carved or turned bowls, trenchers, spoons, kitchen knick knats, etc. I do have a spectaculiar collection of bowls.

And as "Guy Wolff" mentioned above, I have quite an assortment of old carpenters planes, including a "Stanley 55", complete with ALL the knives. I sometimes set it on the mantel when we have hoots. CHEERS, Bob(deckman)Nelson

Subject: RE: BS: Any collectors or dealers( antiques etc)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 27 Nov 05 - 07:49 AM

Guy, what is a "turning planer"? I saw a drawing of one-- square of wood with a blade set at an angle and a round hole or depression in the center-- is it for turning legs?

I have a dresser from my grandmother (she's gone) that I'd like to know more about. Our church hosts an annual antique show with 15 dealers' booths, but do you think I can ever get organized enough to take them a picture and/or a drawer to show them? Not in the last 10 years; "maybe next year." Mostly, I'd like to know what the heck is the wood it's made from-- I've even had antiquers in my house, but did I remember to ask one of THEM? No...

~Susan