Have Vintage, Will Travel! These Antiques Are Ready to Fly

I am so excited because today I get to share a century and a half of really cool collectible stuff with you. Things that we recognize from our lifetimes, things that we might have never seen before that our ancestors held dear. All of this is really fun, has great stories, and is for sale right now because all of this is going up on eBay. And the first thing that we're listing is this. I always liked these when I was a kid. I like them even better now. This is Viking glass, and it is the medium-sized avocado green mushroom. Such a great color, so rich and deep, and I love that they even have all of the little striations on the bottom like a mushroom would. This is part of the Epic line. Epic was a big departure for Viking glass. They had been the new Martensville glass company from 1907 to 1938, and they went bankrupt in the Depression. And the new owner realized that Scandinavian glass was where things were going. They'd always made clear glass and crystal and etched patterns, and he took the company in a radically different direction with the help of Elmer Miller. And Elmer Miller was a guy who had worked for New Martensville since the 1920s, and all of a sudden was called on to develop this new line. And he came up with swoopy styles and interesting birds and animals. They did old Noah's Ark line, and they did the mushrooms between about 1970 and 1975, about the same time Blanco did their mushroom line. And they are super popular now. I remember when I first was in the business about 30 years ago, a fellow told me, oh this is gonna be the thing. And he had a whole shelf of them, and they were priced at about $15 and $20 a piece. And now they sell for a lot more. He was on to something. This is in perfect condition, and this is going to start out at $29.99. They typically sell for about $65 to $75 now. So we'll see who gets this one. This next piece is really interesting to me. Around the mid to late 1700s and into the early 1800s, women started to use dance cards, and it became really widespread in the late Victorian period. Well, along the same lines were these little pieces. Sometimes ivory. This one, fortunately, is bone, which means we can still sell it. When you flip the little latch there, it opens up and fans out. And what you'll see when we turn it to the other side is, this is actually a calendar. And this was thin enough you could write on it with pencil and erase it. And if you notice, it has little memo sheets for every day of the week. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Except Sunday, because this would have been made sometime around 1870. And in 1870, Sunday was the Lord's Day, and most people stayed home and didn't work and didn't do much of anything. So they figured your Sunday was already set. So you just got six days to fill the rest of the week with all of your appointments and all the things that you needed to do. The shield in metal there with the rivets is very typical of 1860s, 1870s American made. It was right around the time of the Civil War. So shields were definitely a motif you see a lot at that time. Interestingly, you see a lot of shields as motifs now. It's a little more permanent than the dance cards of the era, which were generally made of paper and folded out and had lists of the people you were going to dance with. Because, of course, dancing was rather a social event, and they started doing minuets and things that were rather short. And so the idea was that you got to dance with several different people over the course of an evening. And when your dance card was full, you had an excuse not to accept an invitation from someone you really didn't want to dance with. From the dance card and these calendars came the expression, can you pencil me in? Because you would write on these and pencil, and if there was a space for you, well, they would pencil you in. And if they were too busy, well, you just didn't get penciled in. So that's where that expression comes from. We just don't really see many of these anymore. It's the first time I've ever owned one. And we are going to start this off at $29. They typically sell closer to the $50 to $75 range. And we'll see who finds this as interesting as I did. A generation after that time, these start to appear. This is a very cute tasseled celluloid. You can see it looks sort of bakelite-ish, but it's one generation earlier. It's a green celluloid with an ivory top. And when you unscrew it, it reveals a little manicure set with all these little implements. And all these little implements, the nail file and the cuticle pusher and all that good stuff, they also have celluloid tips. And a little bit of design to them, because we're talking sometime in the 19-teens or 20s for this piece. The Gibson girls would have carried these. The flappers would have carried these, because they were lightweight, they were cute, and if they needed to do something with their nails, they had it with them. Plus, it had a nice little tassel and some fringe for a little extra decoration, and also to wiggle around when you danced. Manicure sets are actually much older than we think they are. In fact, they go all the way back to the dawn of civilization. They have found manicure items in the ruins of Babylon, in Egypt, in ancient China. Cleopatra would have pigments applied to her nails, and that was actually what a lot of women did for many, many, many centuries. But manicure sets that you carried with you did not come to be until Marie Antoinette. She was the first to carry one around, and it became very stylish for a while. And then Marie Antoinette and all things associated with her suddenly were quite out of style, and so most women took care of this sort of need at home. Until the 1870s, when a woman who was married to a podiatrist decided to go to school herself, and she opened the first nail salon in Manhattan in 1878. And it was a big hit, so much so that pretty soon she expanded to major American cities. Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Cincinnati all had nail salons, and that was thanks to Mary E. Cobbs. And because of that, more Victorian women started to pay attention to their nails. More women were not working on farms and working a lot of hard manual labor where long nails would get in the way. And so suddenly growing your nails and taking care of them became very popular. By 1907, shortly before this was made, we see the beginnings of nail polish. It was clear. It took until the 1920s when auto companies started to use a certain type of paint. Charles Revlon and others figured out how to use that same formula and make colored liquid nail polish. And that's about the time that this was made, right about 1920. We see nail salons on pretty much every corner now, so we know this is a big deal. And it was a big deal a hundred years ago as well. We're starting it at $19.99. I suspect the value is somewhere in the $30 to $35 range, and we'll find out together. We all know I'm a big World's Fair fan, and the World's Fairs are so interesting because they show all sorts of innovation and styles of the time. And they were big events then, and very interesting is collectibles now. This is a playing card set. I love the colors of the graphics. This is from A Century of Progress, which is the Chicago World's Fair of 1933. And it says 53 of the latest views because, of course, there was a Joker. And I've mentioned before that a lot of people at a certain period of time collected Jokers only and took them out, and so a lot are missing the Joker. But this deck has it. This has all 53, and it has wonderful pictures of what was going on at the fair. Yes, you can get a rickshaw driver to pull you around. This is an overview of the fair. You see the sky ride. It was very Art Deco. This is the official medallion of the fair, also very Art Deco. Sears and Roebuck had its own building. These are the pylons outside the Social Science Hall. By 1933, streamlined modern was the big style in the United States, and it was the first time we had an architectural style that was truly our own, as you see in the electrical building with that wonderful sculpted mural. The sky ride was a big attraction, and they had similar sky rides all the way through the Spokane 74 Expo. In fact, the one in Spokane still goes over the falls. You can see the ship that Admiral Byrd took to the pole, and this is the U.S. National Pavilion. That was a very famous structure at the fair. And of course, on the back side, we have the Travel and Transport building. I just think these are so neat because it gives you a chance to really take a walk through the fair as if you were there, and there is something really fun about that to me. The carts are in great, almost unplayed condition. The box is in pretty good shape. There must have been a piece of tape or something on the bottom, so it is slightly torn there, but otherwise in very good condition. So this is going up, and we are going to start it at $9.99. They usually sell for around $20 to $25. Now this next piece is a beautiful piece done by one of Weller's most accomplished sculptors. This is a Weller forest vase, and they consider this the pillow vase because of the shape. It originally had some limestain on the inside. I was able to use CLR and very, very fine steel wool, and it all came out. So it's in wonderful condition. No chips, cracks, or blemishes. It does not have any mark on the bottom other than a number, and that was so that if there was a problem with the decoration, that they could go back to the decorator and figure out what was going on. See if there was something wrong with their glazes or the things that they were using to do the exterior. This was one of several sculpted lines done by Rudolph Lorber. Lorbeek was the pattern that is a very strong art deco pattern. It was his farewell piece around the time he left in 1930. Forest line came out around 1915 and was so popular, it was made for about 15 years. If it seems similar to their copper tone line with the frogs, which is one of the most collectible Weller lines, well that's because it's the same designer. The forest line is a very complete line. You can find jardiniers, you can find pedestals, you can find umbrella stands, some really large pieces as well as smaller pieces than this. I just really like the way that it's decorated. They of course have the decorators do it so that it was like you were looking through a forest. Rudolph Lorber was inspired by things he remembered seeing in Austria as a child, and so you see water and blue sky in the background. So it really gives it a lot of depth. I think it's a very attractive piece. It definitely has arts and crafts coloration and that naturalistic look that was very popular in the Art Nouveau period, but this was popular enough that it was made all the way through the 1920s. This piece usually sells for $100 or more. We're starting it at just $39.99, and we will see who is interested in adding this to their collection. I think it's just wonderful. When Disneyland opened in 1955, it was well received, but one of the things people said was, wow, there's really not enough things for kids to do to burn off some steam. And so in 1956, they came up with Tom Sawyer Island, and of course this is right at the peak of craze for all things western and also for any sort of adventuring. Mark Twain's book of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn was absolutely a must-read for a lot of school children, and it was all about adventuring. And so Tom Sawyer Island was created as a response to that. This is the original folio from 1956 when it first opened. It shows all of the attractions, and it also has a wonderful map of Tom Sawyer Island. Now Tom Sawyer Island still exists at Disneyland and most of their theme parks today. It varies depending where you are, and it has changed a lot. In recent years, it's actually been morphed partly into Pirates Cove and has a lot of attractions that are based on pirates of the Caribbean that have been morphed into Tom Sawyer. And the way they've done that is to say, well, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, when they were playing, would have had all sorts of ideas of pirates and that sort of thing because they were on the Mississippi River. And so of course it makes sense that Tom Sawyer Island would also have such things. It's a little bit of a stretch. The original Tom Sawyer Island had things like Tom and Huck's Treehouse, where you could enter through the tree trunk, the Old Mill, the Fishing Pier, Injun Joe's Cave. A lot of those kind of attractions have been changed because, well, we don't really view Native Americans the same way we did then. But of course, this was done through the lens of Mark Twain writing in a much earlier period of time in the prose of that day. There was a pontoon and suspension bridges and forts and all sorts of places to run around and play. That is why Tom Sawyer Island was a big hit when it opened. Originally, there was also a cabin and the cabin would appear to burst into flame. And of course, that was because the Indians burned it down. A very 1950s way of looking at things because, of course, the 50s is an era when kids and adults really had an obsession with the Old West, or at least Hollywood's imagination of what the Old West was like. Interestingly enough, Mark Twain in the book Tom Sawyer only refers to a cabin that burned and left its occupant homeless and that it had happened due to some carelessness. He never specified that there was an Indian raid or anything else. As time went on and that was no longer politically correct, the story was changed to it was a bootlegger who still burst into flames. I'm not really sure how that's better. At this point, it no longer catches fire. It just sits there. But Tom Sawyer Island has actually existed in the Disneyland park longer than just about any other of the attractions. So it has stood the test of time, or at least it has morphed with time into something that we still can recognize now. This flyer is pretty collectible. It may have been folded once. I do sense that there's a fold line in the middle. It was done pretty delicately because it's still nice and stiff and rigid. And because of that, it is in very good condition with great graphics. And we're starting it at just $9.99. They typically sell for about $25. The other reason for Frontierland and Tom Sawyer's Island is that Disney knew he had a little competition already. And that's because just down the road was this place. Knott's Berry Farm still is there, actually. It's now part of Six Flags and they draw 4 million visitors a year. They are the 12th largest theme park in the country. So they became a big thing, which is pretty amazing because it started when Walter Knott and his wife opened a berry stand next to a highway in an area south of Los Angeles that at the time was pretty unpopulated. And because of that, they had a large piece of property. And in 1941, Walter Knott had the idea to add an old western ghost town because his ancestors had come from Texas. They were early California pioneers. They came in the 1860s by covered wagon and they settled in California and he wanted to pay tribute to them. So he built this replica ghost town. His wife had a wonderful restaurant going. It became a big attraction. By 1947, this successful dinner hall and ghost town had morphed into what was now being called Knott's Berry Farm. And it became a bigger and bigger attraction. And here's the ghost town at night. And of course, the sales pitch in the mid-50s when this was made was it was nostalgic and educational and harkened back to when the West was wild, as it said. And of course, you could still go to the farm and get berries and preserves or have dinner with Mrs. Knott at the chicken dinner restaurant. And we know that this folder dates to about the time that Disneyland opens because Knott's Berry Farm is trying to make a point that they have a lot of stuff going on and we also know that it's before 1956 because they don't have a mention in here of the amazing collection of Marion Spear. Marion Spear had 30,000 Old West items in what he called the Western Trails Collection and he agreed in 1956 to put them on permanent display at Knott's Berry Farm. And so there is a wonderful collection of true Old Western things that you can see. So for those of you who are collectors of such things, Knott's Berry Farm is actually a pretty cool place to go. And of course, I like roller coasters, so I'm a fan too. We're going to put this up. We don't really see this one for sale very often. And it is 36 illustrated color cages. We're going to start it at $9.99. I suspect it will sell for at least as much as Tom Sawyer's Cabin and maybe more. We'll find out. And while touring Southern California attractions back then you could go to Escondido and see Lawrence Welk. Or you could just turn on your television because Lawrence Welk and his champagne music were originally on KTLA in Los Angeles and it was on for decades. You can see reruns of it on PBS today. The Champagne Music of Lawrence Welk. This is a letter opener. This would have been something that you would have bought if you went to this place in Escondido. The bubble machine came about because he played at the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh and they said your music is so light and bubbly like champagne and that's where he took on the champagne music moniker. The thing we usually see from Lawrence Welk are trays that have the Lennon sisters on them or the entire ensemble and orchestra. You don't see a whole lot of the letter openers or the other things that they sold. And for those of you who were too young to appreciate Lawrence Welk or who thought that was for grandma and grandpa back when you were which was true. He did a lot of contemporary songs done to orchestral arrangements but he had a very interesting background. His parents had emigrated from the Ukraine. They built a sod house and lived underground for the first year or two on their farm in the Dakotas. And when he was a kid he fell in love with music and he said I will pay you back if you buy me a $400 accordion by working on the farm until I'm 21. And his dad decided that was a good deal. And it was a good deal for Lawrence Welk because $400 accordion back in the 1920s equates to about $6,000 now. So it was an expensive and very good instrument and he became very accomplished on it. He was with a couple of bands with some great names the Hotsy Totsy Boys and the Honolulu Fruit Gum Orchestra. He got a radio show in Yankton, South Dakota and because of that it started to be picked up by other midwestern broadcasters. Ended up headlining in Chicago and he even did in 1944 and 5 some of the first music videos ever. They were called Sammies and they were little three-minute snippets on film of he and the band playing. I remember my grandmother loved Lawrence Welk because it was wholesome and inoffensive. Although he did get into some trouble when he did a cover of One Tug Over the Line by Brewer and Shipley and spoke glowingly of the song. That got a lot of hate mail and so after that they were a little more selective. If you ever see the show you'll notice that he seems sort of shy really considering that he's the headliner and that's because he spoke strictly German until he was 21 and never felt fully comfortable speaking in front of groups of people even though he ended up emceeing his own show. So an interesting man, an interesting story and this is a pretty interesting piece. I sell a lot of letter openers. I don't think I've ever seen this one before. I've certainly never had it before. We're going to put it out starting at $9.99. My guess is that it might be worth $45 to $50 but really we're just going to have to find out together because none of these have been available for me to see and I've been following it for a while. We'll find out together what the value of this is. That is one of the reasons I like doing eBay auctions is that sometimes you just don't know how to price something so let the market tell you. How did a porcelain maker become the namesake of Men's Aftershave? It seems like a strange and unlikely story but it is the story of Royal Copenhagen Aftershave which originally was licensed to the Swank Company. There was a real interest in quote-unquote oriental smelling fragrances in the late 1960s. Spicy with a lot of citrus and Swank had done a pretty popular aftershave called Jade and because of that they decided they wanted to expand their fragrances. Swank started out as the Attleboro Company. You'll see a lot of old jewelry men's and women's that have Attleboro manufacturing on the back if it's from 1920s or earlier. Well by the late 20s they had adopted the Swank name and they primarily just did things for men. Collar bars and cufflinks and tie tacks and then it expanded into a whole bunch of different giftware and the reason they decided to brand that name had something to do with the fact that there was another fragrance on the market at the time that had a Scandinavian sounding name and they figured that Royal Copenhagen was quality and of course the porcelain company was happy to get extra money and license their brand. So why would anybody want to buy an old bottle of aftershave online? Well eventually Swank no longer was the company involved with this. In 1997 it transferred to another firm and they changed the formula and it went from being citrusy and spicy to very powdery and frankly kind of old man smelling. For people who liked the original formula they are still going out and they are still looking for the 1970s era bottles which is what this is and this has not really been used. Perhaps somebody had a splash of it but I don't think so. It looks like it's completely full. I opened it up and smelled it. It still smells good. It has a spicy smell with just a tiny bit of a powder smell which is the way the original formula was. We also know that this is original from the 70s because no UPC code. Those didn't come to be until 1974 and they weren't used by everybody until the late 70s and early 80s. So we know this is the original formula. It does have the Royal Copenhagen logo on the top. Again we're starting it at $9.99. I think we have a buy it now of $35. We do put buy it nows on a lot of these pieces because the members of our channel helped sponsor this video and make these deep dives possible and so as a thank you to them we do give them early access. If that's something you are interested in you can check out the level 2 and level 3 memberships and their perks by going to the membership link under the dashed line in the description of this video. Being in the Pacific Northwest right now we are in Alaska cruise season. We're starting to get lots of people from all over the rest of the country particularly people from Florida and the deep south where it is hot hot hot right now and they're coming for our nice cool summer and one of the things that you find when you go to Alaska are hand-carved totems and they vary in quality. This is really good quality and this is a very collectible line called Alaska Black Diamond made in Ketchikan which is often the first stop on the Alaska cruises. These are made of yellow cedar. They comb the beaches for the cedar so they're not actually taking any trees down to do these and they make them in various sizes. They're done by an artist named Patrick Moore and his wife Terry Brown and they started carving these in 1989 and they've become very very popular because they do follow the native totemic in terms of telling story. The position of the various creatures has to do with the legend behind them and in this case they actually tell the story in this little booklet here. This particular one is called Shaman's Daughter and they have the whole legend with it and it talks about the various creatures involved. The eagle is telling the shaman's daughter that the frogs bring the rain and that's how you get the salmon and it's a very involved tale and goes on for about four pages. It's nice to have these booklets with the piece. That definitely increases the value and these are not inexpensive. They're made by hand. There's a group of a dozen people who work with them. This one actually has Patrick Moore's signature on it and you can see what it costs new. $125 and they do actually sell for that much on the secondary market as well but because we like everybody to have access to this and maybe someone gets a bargain, well we're starting it at just $29.99. If you go to Ketchikan, they do have what they call Potlatch Park which has very large totems that have been done by the group and various log houses and you can see them carving. It's a pretty fascinating tour. Once upon a time, 70 some years ago, television was a brand new concept and televisions had cathode ray tubes and they only could be made in round shapes until about 1953. Because of that, TVs had round screens and you either adjusted it so that you cut the corners off or you had a little picture in the middle of an empty circle and around that time, because televisions were such a big deal, they made novelty pencil sharpeners based on televisions of that time. Novelty sharpeners start to appear in the 1930s. We think of the depression as a time when nobody spent money on anything but little inexpensive novelties were something people could afford and it was something you could give as gifts for children. The marketers realized that children actually drove some of the buying decisions and so they started making more things for children. This is a rather hard one to find. Usually what we see with the television shape sharpeners is they are the flash views from the early 60s and they're the typical televisions like we think of with the rectangular shape. And this one is earlier because it's based on the early 50s console type. And when you look inside, in very 50s fashion, you look inside this hole here you see, gee surprise, western scenes. You see a cattle wrestler and you turn the little dial and you see a cowboy and you see a bunch of people riding horses and you see some guy who is either smiling or getting shot. I can't really tell. I wish I could show you these things but they are very very tiny and so if you want to see these fascinating scenes, well you'll have to buy this piece. It is not something that we see very often. There's the pencil sharpener. It's in really good shape and this would be the kind of thing you could take to school and then have confiscated by your teacher because you were looking at cowboys instead of paying attention to the lesson. So how many of these got home and are still around? Well, I'm guessing not too many. I had not ever seen one before and I couldn't find one online when I went to look. So we're gonna start this off at $9.99. I'm not putting a buy it now on it because, like I said, I haven't seen any of these and I just don't really know what it should go for. So we're gonna let this one run and find out. So from the 1950s to the 1850s and 60s we go. This is a banknote. This is a real one dollar bill from Augusta Insurance and Banking Company of Augusta, Georgia. There was a period of time during the free banking era from 1837 to about 1863 that any little bank or group of people could just get together and issue their own currency. Now if the bank went under and didn't have capital went up to pay it, you were just out. And so there were lots of these all over the country and that was because we had a lot of argument in the early years of this country over whether there should be a national bank or not. Originally there was a national bank and in 1795 they started having bills printed by the American Banknote Company and that's who did this bill. And what's interesting about that is if you look at the date on this, October 24th of 1861. The Civil War is going at this point and yet American Banknote in New York is producing money for both the United States and various banks in the Confederacy at the same time. And nobody thought that was an issue, which is very interesting to me. The Smithsonian actually has one of these exact bills, the same denomination, in their collection. The woman on it is Florence Nightingale, who of course revolutionized nursing primarily by introducing cleanliness and standard in the Crimean War, which had taken place just eight years before. I really like the graphics. They're just so beautiful. The American Banknote Company was really known for these kind of graphics. They ended up doing stamps for the US government and then when the government decided it needed to be in control of printing its own money, then they ended up doing stock certificates and other such things. They are still in business today. They still print banknotes for many of the smaller countries in the world. This was originally sold by this company, Antiquities Limited, out of North Carolina. It does have a certain bit of authenticity. There is no question of its authenticity because, like I say, there's one in the Smithsonian. I do take umbrage with the fact that they call it rare Georgia currency because these are scarce. They are collectible. They are not rare. Rare would mean they made a dozen of them and there's five in existence or something like that. But they are unusual to see and the graphics are really great. It's nice that it's framed. I did not take it out of the frame to look at the back because it's been in there long enough. I thought it just needed to stay put. This is probably framed about 30 or 40 years ago and people definitely have an interest in these. We are starting this at 1999. Typically, these clothes are in the $75 to $85 range and that's usually not framed with a certificate of authenticity. So we'll see if that makes a difference in the value. This next item, or I should say items, because we're selling them together as a lot. They came together as a lot originally. Show a beautiful car that I've always wanted to own. This is a Packard and of course, this particular one would be very interesting to own because they make very few of them. This is the Packard Panther Daytona. Prize winner, record setter. This was a show car. This car was not really meant to be seriously put in production. They took their regular car and lowered it and made a convertible of it. They actually did make several of these and ran them at Daytona. That's why it says Panther Daytona. And this folio also comes with the original press sheet, the photo, and the press release attached to one another. And it's showing how it is appearing at the 1954 Parade of Stars Auto Show. It has the information from the Packard press office with the photo as well as the other folio. Packards were beautiful cars and they were, at one time, extremely expensive cars. They actually were more popular than Cadillacs with wealthy class for a long time. They kind of let the styling go out of style and then they radically changed them in the early 50s and they were very handsome. And the restyle was so different for them that a lot of their original owners were kind of confused by it because it wasn't the old dowdy heart-shaped grille that stood up in the middle and was very formal. And that was a difficulty for them. The other thing is that 1954 is the year that they bought Studebaker. As much as I love my Studebaker cars, Studebaker was not doing well and Packard probably should never have bought them. But the fellow who ran Packard, James Nance, also made a ton of mistakes. And one of them was that he was spending so much money on show cars in order to show off that he failed to actually deal with the merger well. And so Packard in 1954, in spite of being a prize winner and a record setter, was not a record seller. And Packard, within a few years, was gone. Packard's logo was Ask the Man Who Owns One. Of course, the assumption was that you were a wealthy man if you drove one of these. That may have also been a problem for them because by the 1950s a lot of the car buyers were women. Show car stuff is pretty desirable with collectors. And the fact that this has the news release along with the press photo in addition to the folio, because we see the folio from time to time, but we don't really see this whole package together. And so I think for somebody who's a car buff like I am, they're gonna really enjoy this. We're gonna start this at $9.99. I'm not putting a buy it now on this one because, again, with the press photo this is a different animal than what we usually see sell. Our next piece is so teeny tiny that I've almost lost it on a few occasions. So I think it's important to sell this while I can. It is a stick pin and that logo is International Harvester Corporation. International Harvester was the brainchild of J.P. Morgan helping Cyrus McCormick and some other companies merge. The idea being that they would have a monopoly on the harvesting and thresher market. This was in 1902. They were lucky they got it done then because right after that Teddy Roosevelt really started breaking up monopolies and trust. But they got away with it. By 1908 they ended up selling 700,000 reapers, which was a huge amount. They pretty much owned the market. They made light trucks. They were the ones who pretty much invented the pickup truck. Harvester was a big deal for a long time and these would have been something that you would have used as a stick pin in your lapel, maybe in a cravat, perhaps for the sales force. I can't imagine a lot of farmers wearing something like this. So I think it was pretty much for the people who worked in the offices. It's got a little bit of texturing on the shank here so that it would hold in. And this is the logo they used from the time of the 1902 merger until 1923 when they came up with the three diamond logo that was theirs until the early 80s. In the early 80s, after many years of very conservative mismanagement, they ended up not being very profitable and so the parts were sold off. And now the only part that is still international is the semi-truck and big truck division, which is still operating and doing just fine. These are just fun and interesting. They're made of brass. They're very simple. It's definitely the kind of logo we see in the early 1900s. And for somebody who had an ancestor who worked for Harvester or just likes collecting stick pins, I think this will be an interesting piece. We're starting it at $9.99. They usually sell for about double that. This next piece is something that I just found. This is Fred Thompson. And if it looks a lot like Wallace Nutting, well, you're to be forgiven for thinking that because Fred Thompson was from Maine. He was friends with Wallace Nutting and did similar work, hand-colored photography based on New England scenes. This sort of photography was very popular to have hand-tinted and then hang in your house in the 19-teens and 20s in particular. Again, it fits that Art Nouveau era with the naturalistic, and the colors are definitely of an arts and crafts era interest. But it also represents nostalgia for the way things were in rural New England in the colonial era. Fred Thompson died in 1909, but his son carried on in Portland, Maine and continued to do this work until 1923 when he also passed away. So Fred Thompson, not as prolific as Wallace Nutting, a little harder to find. This one is called Brookside. There's the signature at the bottom. I just thought it was really a very pretty piece. It's nice because it's tall and narrow, so it could hang on a stub wall or some places that people sometimes have a little bit trouble finding a thing that fits appropriately to decorate with. And I just thought it was beguiling. So I picked it up and I think someone else probably will too. We're going to start this one at $19.99. They usually sell somewhere in the $30 to $50 range, depending on the scene. And the colors are strong. That's important in these because it was all hand-tinted. It can fade, but this one was kept properly away from a bright light. This next piece is quite fine and rather interesting to me. It's a little snuff box or pill box. The enamelling is a type of work we call Champlevé, where it's die-cast and then filled in. Unlike the name, this piece appears to be Russian, and it appears to be sterling with a vermeil wash on it. Because of those marks in there, you see the bust facing the number 84. Now, 84 can also be a silver plate mark in France, but when we did some research on this, the bust to the left and the 84 to the right indicates Russian manufacture. The detail is really beautiful and quite fine. These were things that were done for the czars and for the wealthy class by the peasants. And the peasants did all of the work, and the wealthy, to whom these were just sweet little trifles, were able to afford them. That had a lot to do with the run-up to the Russian Revolution. It's just beautiful and so really refined and well done. Champlevé goes all the way back to the times of the early Celts around 200 BC. Here he appears in medieval France, and the name Champlevé comes about at that time for this type of decoration. But this does indeed appear to be a Russian piece sometime around 1910 approximately. I don't get very much Russian silver. I've had a few pieces in my career. It doesn't come out terribly often. A lot of it's already in collections. We're going to start this at $49, which is very inexpensive for what it is, and we're just going to let it run. I'm not putting a buy it now on this because I do think it is a very special piece that could have pretty good value. So we're going to find out together. Speaking of the Celts, the next piece we have is also quite nice. This is a Scottish kilt pin. This particular one is also sterling with an amethyst stone set in it. A couple of amethyst stones actually. It has a nice safety chain, and yes, it does pull out to reveal a dagger. Kilt pins are worn at the lower corner apron of a kilt, and the purpose is so that the kilt doesn't flap open, and yet the pin does not go through both layers of fabric because the kilt wouldn't hang correctly. So the idea is that this is just a to keep it down. Pins are chosen based on how much their formality matches the kilt in question, and this particular one is a rather nice one. There's our 925 mark on the back. When you see them in sterling and they have stones, these were intended for evening wear, and it could be for a man or a woman, although with the dagger I suspect that this was probably intended for a man to wear. They became very popular in Victorian times, in fact required dress, because Queen Victoria was rather prudish and she did not approve of the kilts blowing open in the wind and revealing a little more of the Scotsman than perhaps she would like to see. But they also became a display of wealth, and any of them with the silver and the stones were considered a little fancier and a little better and a little more special. I think it's a really nice piece. Now we're only starting it at $29.99, but I honestly think the value is considerably more somewhere between double and triple that, and we will find out together. Last time we put items on eBay, we sold a 1915 San Francisco World Spare Plate from the Danish Pavilion to someone of Danish heritage living in San Francisco now. I found another piece that's rather unusual, and we're going to see who our collector for this is. This is an interesting triangular dish, and it is Royal Copenhagen. Royal Copenhagen seems to be a theme for me lately. I found this in the Norwegian heritage town of Poulsbo, Washington, and there's the mark on the back. This porcelain piece is from 1914, as it says up at the top, and what was happening in Malmö in December of 1914 is a meeting between the three Scandinavian kings. The king of Denmark, the king of Sweden, and the king of Norway. It was significant for a couple of reasons. The main reason it was held was for the three kings to decide what their position would be during World War I, and they chose neutrality, which was probably the safe choice because they were very close to the belligerents in Germany, and yet they also had trade with England and France and the other side of the war, and they decided to keep it that way by not joining one side or another. Sweden managed to do the same thing in the second world war. Norway and Denmark, unfortunately, were overrun by the Nazis in that war, but in the first world war they did manage to remain neutral throughout the entire thing. You see the royal shields. The king of Sweden is on the top, and then the king of Denmark and the king of Norway. This was also a significant meeting because Norway had broken away from Sweden and declared independence in 1905, and so this was a reconciliation between those countries at the same time. So a very interesting historical event and an interesting shape. I like the clover leaf. I think the way this was done was very thoughtful and really rather specific, but a rather intriguing piece from a part of history that a lot of people have forgotten. But I suspect somebody of Scandinavian heritage will find this rather interesting. I have relatives in Denmark and Sweden, very distant at this point. We're going to start this one off at $24.99. We have a buy it now of $45 on it, which is about where they typically go. This next piece I just think is so beautiful, and I'm going to show you in pieces, and then I'll try to back up as far as I can and show you, but you may have to look at the pictures to really get the full effect of this. This came from an estate in Seattle. There are no tags on it of any kind, and so assessing the age is a little bit difficult. It is velvet. It has a sheer aspect to it, and then these wonderful islands of color that make these floral patterns. It is a beautiful shawl. It is in wonderful condition with no runs, no damage. From back here you get a little more of the effect, although you don't really see the color in this light. But in person you also see these wonderful jewel tone colors, a little bit of the rose color, some greenish colors, a little hint of blue here and there. It's just a beautiful piece. All the fringe is in wonderful condition. It looks like something that I imagine Stevie Nicks wearing in concert, and it could be that it's from that era. It might be 1980s, but it might also be considerably older. It came from a three-generation estate, and because it has no tags, we're really left to wonder, is this from the 1920s or 30s? Is this an old piece that came from the family? The way that it's sewn on the edge might be a clue for somebody out there, so we'll show you that. I just think it's so beautiful, but I think someone else will too. And so I wanted to put it online. It's about six feet wide. It's about my entire arm span to hold it out, and so it is something that somebody could wrap around the entire torso. So I just think it's a gorgeous piece of fabric. It's sumptuous. It's deeply colored. It's so soft. Shawls originally came from the Kashmir region, and then in the 1800s, they became so popular that a whole lot were made in Paisley in the UK. And Paisley as a pattern became very popular at that time as well. By the 1870s or 80s, they started to be replaced with coats and cloaks, but as a fashion accessory, they have lived on not just in pieces like this that we see here, but also as folk garments in Spain, in Latin America, in India. There are many places in the world where shawls are still wore regularly, and I think this one is so pretty. You could wear it or you could hang it on the wall. So we're going to start this off at $19.99, and I'm not putting a buy it now on it because I just think it's so beautiful. I want lots of collectors to get the opportunity to see it, vintage fashion people, maybe goth girls. I think somebody out there is going to really love this. And that brings us to our last item. We started with a piece of 70s glass, and we're going to end with a piece of 70s glass. And this could not be more 70s or more appropriate given that we are about to be at the 4th of July. And this is a big, interestingly shaped swung vase. From what we can tell, this is by the Bartlett Collins Company of Oklahoma. Bartlett was an oil man, and he convinced Collins, who was a glass maker from the east, to come and open a factory in Sepulpa, Oklahoma. Which, for those of you who collect Francoma, yes, the same town Francoma Pottery was made in eventually. This piece is just so much fun. It's very, very bicentennial era, 1970s, and it has the colors of the flag stretched in this most interesting way into this swung vase. It measures about 14 inches tall. It has a nice sturdy base. I just think this is so much fun. I owned it once. I sold it to a friend of mine. Then we did a show together, and I liked it so much I bought it back. So I just had to have it for a while. But now it's time for it to go on to another home. It's forever home, I guess. And I just think it's so cool and so timely. Bartlett Collins originally made boring things like lamp chimneys and milk bottles, but they quickly got into tableware, and they ended up being quite a big concern in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. They made tons of fun stuff, a lot of which we recognize and don't realize is theirs. Tumblers with starbursts are theirs. The Scotty Dog bar set with the cocktail shaker. The cocktail shakers from the 1950s with the big round cap, those are Bartlett Collins. And I've seen several patterns of those and did not realize that they were the maker. They did ice buckets, they did barware, they did tableware, and they were so successful that eventually Lancaster bought the factory, ended all of their production of this sort of thing, and switched it all over to making things for their tiara exclusives for the home parties, because that was such a going thing at the time. And so this 70s era stuff, this was kind of the end of the era, and I have not seen one of these before. I think it's rather unusual. I'm starting it at $29.99, and we're just gonna let it run, because I don't really know what this should sell for, but we're gonna see if somebody else thinks it's as cool as I do. It will be great for next year when we have the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. So there's a century and a half of interesting collectibles and vintage items. Please do follow along with the sales. We will do a wrap-up and let you know how they all turn out in the end and where these things go. I think some collectors will be delighted to get these things. We always look for things that are a little unusual or have a good story behind them to share with all of you. And thank you for sharing this time with us. If you enjoyed this video, check out this one. Also, click thumbs up to like this video, and Also, please do check out our website, theantiquenomad.com, for appraisal help. And we'll see you again for more adventures in the antique and vintage community soon. 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