Category: Collectibles
Collecting Civil War Relics
| October 29, 2010 | Posted by admin under Collectibles |
The War for the Union, 1862 – A Bayonet Charge. This Civil War Harper’s Weekly newspaper features the famous “Bayonet Charge” by Winslow Homer. The Civil War still holds a great deal of fascination for many people in America. Some family members fought on opposite sides to uphold their beliefs. Because of the continuing fascination…
Uncommon Vintage Collectibles
| October 7, 2010 | Posted by admin under Collectibles |
You never know what someone else might be looking to buy. The saying that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure couldn’t be more true. If you doubt that, take a quick look at the completed auctions that show up on eBay every day. You will almost certainly find at least one or two things…
Depression Amber Glass
| October 3, 2010 | Posted by admin under Glassware |
Depression glass can be recognized by three characteristics, its light-weight body, a delicate impressed pattern and the pale colors it was made in. As a reaction to the heavy, cut glass pieces made before World War I, glass makers developed molds for pressed glass for the machine presses. Less glass was used for each piece,…
Strehla Pottery
| September 1, 2010 | Posted by admin under Ceramics |
Strehla was founded in 1828 and takes its name from the town it was established in, northwest of Meissen and Dresden in Saxony, Germany. Like most ceramics factories, it produced a wide range of functional wares, tablewares and decorative pieces. Under Communist rule from the 1950s to the 1980s, the company produced decorative ceramics similar…
Japanese Satsuma
| September 1, 2010 | Posted by admin under Collectibles |
Satsuma wares are named after a feudal province at the southern tip of the Japanese island of Kyushu. Close proximity to the Korean peninsula meant that Satsuma province benefited from an influx of Korean master potters following Japan’s invasion of Korea in 1597. Incoming search terms:satsuma japanese figure
Hummel Figurines
| June 15, 2010 | Posted by admin under Collectibles |
Hummel Figurines Hummel items are the original creations of Berta Hummel, who was born in 1909 in Massing, Bavaria, Germany. At age 18, she was enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich to further her mastery of drawing and the palette. Berta entered the Convent of Siessen and became Sister Maria Innocentia in…
Louis Comfort Tiffany, Peacock Vase, 1893-96
| February 25, 2010 | Posted by admin under Collectibles |
The spectacular glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany, with its fluid shapes, brilliant coloring, and sinuous ornamentation, became America’s great contribution to the international art nouveau style. It was lavishly praised in 1898 by Siegfried Bing, proprietor of the Paris shop L’Art Nouveau, especially for its decoration, which was not applied to the finished form but…
Goldscheider Figures
| February 16, 2010 | Posted by admin under Collectibles |
Founded in 1885, Goldscheider became one of the few Austrian companies to focus on Art Deco figures after World War I. It used elaborate moulds that gave its pieces detail which few could match. Incoming search terms:goldscheidergoldscheider figurines
Vicke Lindstrand
| February 13, 2010 | Posted by admin under Glassware |
Vicke Lindstrand was born in 1904 in Gothenburg, Sweden. In 1928, after studying commercial art for a year, he was hired by glass artist Simon Gate to work at the Orrefors glassworks. Lindstrand added new artistic dimensions to the already famous Orrefors glass with his unique deigns and revitalization of classic forms and techniques. Incoming…
Peter Voulkos (Panagiotis Voulkos) Pottery
| February 12, 2010 | Posted by Jacob Devies under Ceramic & Pottery |
Peter Voulkos was a native of Montana, born in 1924 to Greek migrant parents. He was trained at the California College of Arts and Crafts. Along with fellow American ceramicists such as Paul Soldner, Voulkos was a key player in the American Clay Revolution – an artistic movement that developed the status of pottery in…
