The doll is made of molded soap, and there’s a heart with the word “Kewpie” inside impressed on the doll’s back.
It dates from about 1918 and advertised Best Pure Baby Soap. Q: My mother has a 4 1/4-inch Kewpie doll made of soap. It was sold by Olds & Whipple, a retail company that also sold farm equipment, seeds and fertilizers. This type of stove became known as the “Franklin stove.” Your stove was made about 1885. The invention, originally called a “Pennsylvania Fire-Place,” was first made in 1744 by a friend of Franklin’s. Benjamin Franklin invented a free-standing stove that allowed warm air to circulate in a room while smoke went up the chimney. Below the rail there’s a cast plate with the words “Olds & Whipple, Hartford, Conn.” Can you tell me the approximate period of manufacture?Ī: The Richmond Stove Co. Centered over the door is a square ceramic tile showing a profile of Benjamin Franklin’s head. Cast above the stove door are the words “Ivy Franklin,” and ivy is cast into much of the stove’s surface. Q: I have an antique parlor stove made by the Richmond Stove Co. There are auctions that specialize in Fiestaware and other Homer Laughlin dinnerware. Other colors introduced during the first decades of production included chartreuse, forest green, gray, medium green and rose. Original Fiesta colors were dark blue, red, light green, ivory and yellow. Rarities include the green disk water jug, worth more than $1,000, the covered onion bowl, the 10-inch cake plate and syrup pitcher in any color. Vintage Fiesta dinnerware made in the 1930s is more valuable than pieces made since 1986, but some ’30s dishes - depending on rarity and color - are worth a lot more than others. of Newell, W.Va., started making the dishes again in 1986 and hasn’t stopped since. What are they worth?Ī: Fiestaware has experienced a renaissance among collectors. Q: I have my mother’s Fiestaware dishes from 1936-37. Good Basic-Witz bedroom sets the age of yours sell for under $1,000. It also depends on finding a buyer who doesn’t mind picking up the furniture, loading it in a truck and moving it. The price you can get for your 1955 set depends on its style, condition and quality. The original tag on each piece says, “Basic-Witz Furniture Industries Inc., Waynesboro, Virginia.” Can you help?Ī: Basic-Witz Furniture was in business in Waynesboro from 1889 into the mid-1970s, when it was bought by Stanley Furniture, another company based in Virginia. Q: In 1955 I bought a new solid red mahogany bedroom set and now I’m wondering what the set would sell for. The amazing lantern, a rare conversation piece estimated at $2,500 to $3,500, auctioned for $10,350. Bare feet are rarely decorations at parties on Halloween or any other holiday. Faces are painted on the toes, small faces that suggest Halloween jack-o-lanterns, but perhaps they’re ghosts. A candle held by a holder inside the foot lights the eyes and mouth.
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It resembles a TV ad for shoe inserts, but the papier-mache lantern doesn’t talk. And it looks like a foot, but a foot with a smiling face on the bottom. At a recent Morphy auction in Pennsylvania, an item was offered as a “Halloween foot lantern of substantial size.” It’s 7 1/2 inches tall, certainly large enough to be noticed. Sometimes a vintage or antique item is so unusual it’s hard to figure out what it represents or how it was used.
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1948 Texas truck license plate, black & orange, MP 7730, $300.World Globe travel inkwell, portable, original paper world map cover, glass inkwell inside, c.1890, 1 1/2 inches, $265.Welsh dragon pie bird, Creigiau Pottery, bronze, blue eyes, 1900s, 1 3/4 x 4 1/8 inches, $200.Judith Leiber evening bag, black lizard skin, cabochon jeweled closure, pierced jeweled frame, hidden chain-link shoulder strap, signed, 6 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches, $150.Porky Pig doll, stuffed fabric, pressed flocked face, paper decal eyes, blue overalls, felt farmer’s hat, 1940s, 14 inches, $115.Prices vary depending on location because of local economic conditions. Current prices are recorded from antiques shows, flea markets, sales and auctions throughout the country.