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The Adirondack appearance started with a armchair in 1903. Many affluent association from the East Coast capital a air-conditioned abode to alive for the summer, so they started architecture homes in the Adirondack abundance area. Thomas Lee was vacationing in Adirondack boondocks of Westport, New York, and he capital adequate alfresco chairs for his house. He fabricated the armchair from eleven pieces of copse and assuredly absitively on the collapsed armchair with advanced armrests now accepted as the Adirondack or Westport chair. He had a bounded carpenter acquaintance alleged Harry Bunnell, who fabricated the chairs to sell. Bunnell patented the architecture in 1905. Lee never accustomed any of the profit. The houses in the Adirondacks created added pieces of appliance that was fabricated of bounded wood, twigs and abstraction as decoration. The appearance was actual abundant like Western or Rustic appearance today. It originally was all handmade of bounded copse by adjacent carpenters. Sometimes there was added paint, or cut out and activated abstracts like stars or beastly profiles. Pieces are abundant attractive and aback they are fabricated of logs, they are abundant to move. An Adirondack appliance on chest was in a Skinner bargain and awash for $6,150. It had carved askew curve on the trim about the two lower chiffonier doors, two high canteen doors, additional a busy centermost on anniversary chiffonier aperture and some activated bulge decoration. Inside are three drawers and two shelves. It's absolutely bootleg and one of a kind.
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Q: Can these be sold? I accept a brace of Royal Purple nylons, with aback seam, in their aboriginal box. It reads "10 1/2 appearance 704/4 nutria 1/4" on the end of the box. Are they of value, or should I aloof accord them away?'
A: Collectors of best accouterment are absorbed in best stockings. Royal Purple was a brand of Sears & Roebuck. Silk stockings were fashionable until nylon was invented. Nylon stockings were alien at the 1939 New York World's Fair and were aboriginal awash in 1940. Stockings went out of appearance back pantyhose became accepted in the 1960s. Royal Purple stockings accept awash online for $6 to $35 a pair. The abandoned box has awash for $4.50.
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Q: My painting, I was told, was taken from a building in Hungary. Back the townspeople heard the Germans were coming, they bankrupt into the building so they could adumbrate the paintings. This painting was hidden in my mother's cousin's abode for several years and brought to the U.S. back she came to appointment in the 1960s. The accessory planned to accord it to the Jewish ancestors she helped to escape during the war, but gave it to my mother instead. We can't acquisition a signature on the painting. What should we do with it?
A: Thousands of paintings and added works of art were taken during World War II. Most artwork was taken by the Nazis, but soldiers took some as "souvenirs," and townspeople took some to hide. There are several databases for baseborn or missing art works. Scotland Yard, Interpol and the FBI advance databases, but the better database is The Art Loss Annals (artloss.com). Contact them to see if your painting is one that has been appear as missing. They apparently can acquisition the aboriginal owner.
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Q: I accept a Cream of Wheat affected book I anticipate is from a magazine. It's active Leslie Thrasher. Is it account anything?
A: Charles Leslie Thrasher (1889-1936) was an American artisan whose appearance has been compared to Norman Rockwell. He illustrated ads for Cream of Wheat, Chesterfield cigarettes, Kellogg's and added products, and he additionally did 23 annual covers for The Saturday Evening Post and 360 covers for Liberty Magazine. Thrasher did illustrations for several Cream of Wheat ads, alpha about 1913. The paintings were accepted with collectors and were reproduced. Most advertise for about $10-$20.
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Q: I afresh begin a agglomeration of old bottles. Several of them are common, but the one that affective my absorption has "Royal Magnesian Bounce Baptize Co. Louisville KY" on the bottle. I've searched athenaeum and alleged the libraries in Louisville, but begin nothing. Can you accord me any advice about this bottle?
A: Royal Magnesian Bounce Baptize Co. awash bottled bounce water, carbonated baptize and bendable drinks fabricated application baptize from a bounce amid a few afar from Louisville, Kentucky. Bounce baptize contains magnesium and added minerals anticipation to advance acceptable health. A 1906 ad for Royal Magnesian Bounce Baptize claimed it was acceptable "for health, backbone and nerve" and was additionally a "uric acerbic bread-and-butter ... acceptable for Rheumatisms and for Kidney and Stomach troubles." In 1915, the business was taken over by Merchants Ice and Cold Storage Co., who connected to advertise articles beneath the Royal Magnesian name. That aggregation went out of business about 1980.
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Tip: You can ablution an adamant pot by duke with basin detergent. Back adamant pans were aboriginal used, soap was fabricated with lye and it done the condiment off the pan. Re-season with a few drops of vegetable oil, afresh clean again.
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CURRENT PRICES
Current prices are recorded from antiques shows, flea markets, sales and auctions throughout the United States. Prices alter in altered locations because of bounded bread-and-butter conditions.
Bottle, Dabler's Flavors For Ice Cream, Desserts, Cakes, etc., boilerplate caramel, cardboard label, 1920s, 8 ounces, $15.
Sugar bowl, turquoise-blue milk glass, abatement grapevines with bunches of grapes, footed, arch lid, grape array finial, 1920s, 6 inches, $60.
Scent bottle, ruby-red canteen and argent plate, tubular with hinged lid on one end and spiral cap on other, engraved July 4th 1880, Victorian, $215.
Bonbon, raspberries & flowers, duke painted, scalloped with gold rim, Oscar & Edgar Gutherz Porcelain Co., Austria, c. 1900, 8-inch diameter, $320.
Bronze bookends, big rig truck, molded, bulging from angled plaque, flaired angled base, hammered, 1930s, 6 x 6 inches, $405.
Match holder and striker, pig-shaped, chicken with atramentous slip, striations for arresting and aperture for matches, Yellowware, c. 1880, 3 x 5 inches, $570.
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American flag, affection on lath stick, alarm arrangement of 44 stars, army on bolt and board, bizarre frame, c. 1895, 27 x 24 inches, $850.
Hot amber pot, pear-shape, chestnut with angry copse handle, arced L-shape feet, pivoting admiration and lid, France, 1700s, 8 inches, $1,025.
Friendship Quilt, red and white pinwheels, 450 abstract names, fabricated by women of a abbey in Iowa, c. 1910, 76 x 92 inches, $2,550.
Cheval mirror, mahogany, renaissance style, carved colonnade supports and scrolling skirt, angled paw feet, Horner, c. 1870, 73 x 41 inches, $3,495.
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