1930's Art Deco and Victorian Revival!

Clarice Cliffe, Clarice Cliffe, Clarice Cliffe. 🎵Clarice Cliffe, oh the fond recollections that lie there, in that old Curiosity Shop...🎵 Well folks, I had no intentions of filming myself today, but... Woo! I went to the grocery store, stopped at the thrift shop. I gotta get home because I got bacon and eggs in the back of this truck, even though it is only 45 degrees today. I did really well at the 2nd Avenue thrift store. Take a look what I am about to show you, and then I will tell you what I spent. You're gonna flip. I love Chromecraft Farber Brothers. I have never had these before. I've never seen them before. There were only three. Big deal. I bought them anyway. So, hey, I'll hold on to them, and someday maybe I'll find some more. The glass is made by Cambridge, and it will come out of there. And then the little chrome footings are made by Farber Brothers Brooklyn. Yeah, it's Brooklyn. So classic 1930s. I wish that there were more, but as I said, I often find the cocktail stems and other weird shapes. I've never had these before. Classic 30s, classic Art Deco, and so I bought those. Then I bought a tea set. We have a teapot, a cream and sugar, four cups and saucers, and four dessert plates. So add that up. Now, no chips. I'm going to show you. No chips, no cracks. The only issue is the sugar bowl is missing its lid. Now, I'm not happy about that, but there was no way, no way I was not going to purchase this tea set. I spent $13 and some odd cents for this tea set, including those deco pieces. Let's take a look at the set. Let me hold up as much as I can at one time. Grab your chairs. Now talk about classic Art Deco, or at least stylized Art Deco. And the first thing everybody is going to say, Clarice Cliff, Clarice Cliff, Clarice Cliff. Well, yeah, but no, it's not, it's not Clarice Cliff. And not everything was inspired by her and her friends in England, but because this was made in Japan. But this kind of bold, very one-dimensional, but bright 19, but bright colors, stylized plants and everything. This kind of thing was extremely popular in the Deco era of the 1920s. Hold on, I'll be right back. All right, sorry about that. I'm back. So let's look at it piece by piece. There's one side of the teapot. Now, luckily, the teapot does have its lid. I would have been very, very sad if the teapot was missing its lid. The mark on the bottom is simply made in Japan, and it's that classic circa 1930 era made in Japan. There's the teapot. Here are the four little dessert plates. No chips or cracks, as I said, but not, well, get too excited. Is that a stylized some kind of flower? Two plates, really great. Now, this one has a little bit of loss to the luster. See, doesn't bother me at all because of how bold the design is. Then I have four cups and saucers. And you know how delicate an eggshell thin this luster can be. Made in Japan. That is quite a set. And then finally, to go with it, there are four of those. There's the cream pitcher and the sugar bowl, no lid. Okay, am I ever going to find that lid? Probably not. And since the lid on the teapot, let's show it to you. The lid on the teapot was decorated, it doesn't fit there, but that you would have had a matching lid for this sugar bowl and it's gone. All right. Well, we take them as we can find them. And that's, we now have an open sugar bowl. All right. Well, what are you going to do? Could not say no. $13 for this 19, circa 1930 tea set plus those chrome pieces. I'm over the moon. Now, let me go home and get these, this bacon and eggs in the refrigerator. And I want to show you something that I bought over the weekend. Yes, I have a pair of mantle lusters. Now, they're not, that's not the electric pair that I showed you maybe two weeks ago. This is another set. Let's go take a close look at them. Standing approximately 10 inches tall are these lovely, lovely glass mantle lusters with glass prisms and beautiful hand-painted details. Now, I don't believe these to be antique, meaning Victorian era. This particular set, I think, was probably manufactured sometime in the 1930s, maybe even the 1940s. They're in excellent condition. And I'll let you see them, not actually using real candles, but I've got little flicker lights in there instead. Oh, did that one fall over? It did. Stand back up. There we go. That's better. And I'll spin them around and let you see. Now, nothing is missing. These wouldn't be displayed with any type of chimney inside. The Victorian ones often had gothic cut crystals, which would hang down much lower than these. And you could replace these with gothic cut crystals if you should choose to do so. I'll let you take a look at the beautiful decorations. And we have some lovely hand-painted flowers and then this trestle design. And I guess I should get them back into the light so that you can actually see the colors. This pair of mantle lusters will be for sale and they will be listed in the old Curiosity Shop in the coming days. Okay, so it just depends on how quickly I can get those listed. I'll let you know. Let's go see what they look like in the light. Still shimmering out here in the light. You have a better idea of the colors. We've got gold and very thickly applied gold here on the outline and some flowers that are sort of gray and black. It's an interesting color combination. Gold all the way down. And I'll let you see. I'll pull one of the little flickering lights out. And we'll bring this down here so that you can see. They are open all the way to the bottom. And that means that these could easily be electrified if someone chose to do so. And it would not affect the value negatively because you wouldn't have to do any drilling or any damage to these at all. They would have to be mounted on a base. Oh, sorry about that. Mounted on a base and then you could electrify them if you wanted to. I think they're charming with the little candles inside just flickering there. I wouldn't actually use a real live flame just for safety, although you would probably be okay. What a find! What a find! And before we bring this video to a close, if you're watching this on Monday afternoon or before 8 o'clock on Monday anyway, make sure you tune in tonight. That's right at 8 p.m. right here on the Old Curiosity Shop featuring for the first time officially Patrick the Trusty Huckster and Scott from the Old Curiosity Shop together with a show we call The Unbreakables. That's going to be the fourth Monday night every month. We're going to be selling linens and things and ephemera and anything that necessarily can't be broken. So no pottery and no glass, but tonight I'm selling this absolutely beautiful 1920s runner in silk. It has a green back, which is felt. The back is faded from being used on that side. But why would you use that side when you've got this beautiful side right here? So this will be, look at the quality of this. This goes all the way back to the 1920s and the business side here is in excellent condition with no damage. It's been washed, no funny smells, no rips, no tears, no stains. Get a load of that. Hey, I think we're going to be selling this beautiful Red Runner tonight as well. Let's have a peek at that. Isn't that luxurious? Look at how, well, if I could focus you could look. This even has a type of a pattern on it, which might be difficult to see. So we'll take a closer look this evening. These could be yours. Hope to see you tonight at 8 p.m. right here on the Old Curiosity Shop. Now, thanks for watching. Wait for the cat. So long for now.