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$14 USD Offers Considered"Old Rip" Horny Toad, Eastland, TX, Marked
Collectibles:Historical:Texas Tales
This ceramic horny toad (actually a horned lizard, not a toad) was made by The House of Webster Ceramics, once located in Eastland, Texas. The maker's mark was stamped on the bottom, and includes a drawing of a log cabin (photo 7). In raised letters on the horny toad's chest is "Old Rip" (photo 4), possibly the most famous horny toad of all time. According to the legend, in 1897 a horned lizard was placed in the cornerstone of the county's third courthouse. When it was demolished in 1928 to make ...
$6 USD Offers ConsideredLight Turquoise Hand-blown Seed Glass Fruit: Pumpkin
Glass:Mid 20th-c. Art Glass:Fruit
This light turquoise hand-blown seed glass pumpkin is in mint condition with virtually no wear visible on the base (photo 4). It's 3" high and 3" in diameter. It might be a tomato, but the ribbing makes it look more like a pumpkin.
$28 USD Offers ConsideredMauve Redwing Wedding Pitcher, #908
Pottery:By Maker:Redwing
I'm calling the color of this Redwing pitcher mauve because it's somewhere between pink and beige. (Sorry. I don't know anything about Redwing glazes.) I've seen it called a creamer, but it looks more like a Native American wedding pitcher with its two spouts. On both sides there's a raised design, a wreath with a five-pointed star at the top, between the two branches of the wreath (photo 4). On the base is the name Redwing--the Redwing company in Redwing, Minnesota--and the design number, 908 ...
$75 USD Offers ConsideredMurano Oversized Cased-glass Peach Goblet, Vintage Label
Glass:Mid-20th-c. Murano Art Glass
I'm a little uncertain about how to describe the color of this oversized, cased-glass goblet. The outer layer of the goblet itself is certainly peachy, maybe even close to salmon, while the stem and foot are definitely salmon (photo 4). The goblet is a hair short of 10" in height, and the diameter is 4-1/4". A red-and-white rectangular paper label is still attached to the body of the goblet; there were probably numbers at the top of the label, but they are no longer visible. Only "Hand Blown in ...
$6 USD Offers ConsideredSeed Glass Light Turquoise Fruit: Peach
Glass:Mid 20th-c. Art Glass:Fruit:Peach
This is the first of two light turquoise hand-blown seed glass peaches that I'm listing, and it's in mint condition: no chips, cracks, or other damage. It's 4.5" long and 9" in circumference at its widest point. I'm identifying it as a peach because of the dimple near the stem.
$6 USD Offers ConsideredSeed Glass Light Turquoise Fruit: Peach
Glass:Mid 20th-c. Art Glass:Fruit:Peach
This is the second of two light turquoise hand-blown seed glass peaches that I'm listing, and it's in mint condition: no chips, cracks, or other damage. It's 4.5" long and 9" in circumference at its widest point. I'm identifying it as a peach because of the dimple near the stem.
$15 USD Offers ConsideredSmall Hand-blown Green Pinched Bowl, Vintage
Glass:Mid-20th-c. N. American Glass
The wear visible around the bottom of this small green bowl (photos 6 & 7) indicates it was probably produced during the mid-20th century, quite probably by one of the well-known, or not-so-well-known N. American art glass companies. Small "pinches" were made in two alternating levels around the exterior of the bowl (photos 2 & 3). It's 2: high and 4-3/4" in diameter. The pontil was rough but has been ground and polished (photos 5 & 6). Aside from the wear on the bottom, there's no damage.
$24 USD Offers ConsideredUnusual Vintage Solid Brass Vase, Made in India
Collectibles:Metalware:Vintage Indian Brass
The curved side of this brass vase suggests that it may be one of a pair made to fit together and form a circle. The very small opening at the top (photo 3) reminds me of small vases, popular in the 1970s, that had very small openings and were made to hold small arrangements of dried flowers. It would also be useful for holding sticks of incense. The vase is 3-3/4" high, 4-1/4" wide, and 3" deep. Most of a silver foil label is still attached to the base (photo 5). The brass is in fine condition.
$235 USD Offers ConsideredVintage Chinese Blue Cloisonne Urn, Paper Label
Collectibles:Oriental:Chinese Cloisonne:Funerary Urn
This vintage Chinese funerary urn has a background of blue cloisonne on the urn and lid. One side has a many-branched limb covered with pink and white cherry blossoms with a hovering butterfly (photo 2); the other is a large camellia blossom with an unopened bud and green leaves (photo 3). On the top of the lid are two more cherry blossoms on branches (photo 4). The inside of the vase and lid are covered by turquoise enamel (photo 6; it looks blue in my picture). The urn is 8" high to the tip of ...
$34 USD Offers ConsideredViking Glass Small Brown Epic Leaf Vase, #7601
Glass:By Maker:Viking, 1970s:Epic Leaf Vase
Viking Glass introduced its Epic Leaf vases in its 1976-1977 catalog in three sizes. This brown bud vase is the smallest at 13" in height, catalog #7601, and apparently wasn't produced in plain colors after 1979. This one needs to be cleaned, but it's in mint condition--no chips, flakes, cracks, or fleabites. (White spots in photos are glare.) Also available is a large cabbage-leaf bowl (item #1357).
$45 USD Offers ConsideredViking Cabbage Leaf Centerpiece Bowl, #7623, Label
Glass:By Maker:Viking Cabbage Leaf Design
This large ruffled Viking bowl is the color of smoky quartz, and serve well as a salad or fruit bowl. The three large, overlapped cabbage leaves on the underside have thick central branching veins. This is Viking's cabbage leaf design, described in one of their catalogues as a "CR. Bowl," #7623. The pedestal has wavelike swirls separated by six thick veins. The bowl is 10.5" in diameter and 5.75" high. The clear Viking label is still attached inside the bowl, and it's in mint condition. I also ...
$48 USD Offers ConsideredAmber, Clear, and Green Bird Bowl
Glass:Mid 20th-c. Art Glass
This nut or candy bowl is made to look like a crested bird with its wings spread. The colors in the bowl alternate between clear and amber glass, with emerald green trim to emphasize the edges of the wings and tail. The eyes, crest, and beak are attached cobalt glass, and the crest and beak are a single piece of glass. The beak has a nice sharp point (photo 5). The neck was twisted so that the bird's head reaches back toward the wings (photo 6). The bowl is 5" high (to the highest point of the ...
$18 USD Offers ConsideredBischoff Amber Cruet, #601
Glass:Mid 20th C. No. American Art Glass:Bischoff
The graceful curves of this amber cruet and the depth of color visible in the base and handle make it a fine example of the glass artistry of the Bischoff glass makers. The ruffled rim has three crimps that give a triangular shape (photos 4 & 8), perfect for pouring liquids. It no longer has the clear stopper, but this doesn't detract from its beauty. It stands 5" high, and the pitcher is in perfect condition--no chips, flakes, or cracks. The pontil is rough and the base shows almost no wear ...
$10 USD Offers ConsideredBrass Vase w/ Blue Enamel, Vintage
Collectibles:Metalware:Brass
This vintage small brass vase was painted with blue enamel inside the design that appears on both sides. In some places the enamel has worn off, but this doesn't detract from its beauty or utility (see photos 4--6). The vase is just over 4" high and 5" wide.
$16 USD Offers ConsideredBrass Single-coil Hunting Bugle Bell, Made in Taiwan
Collectibles:Metalware:Taiwanese Brass
This is a brass bell, made in Taiwan, in the shape of a single-coil hunting bugle. The bell is quite sturdy, with a pleasant clear ring, and the coil in the horn is perfectly round and tight. It stands 5.5" high and the bell is almost 3" in diameter, with very little wear visible around the rim (photo 4). The brass is in fine condition. A gold foil label inside the bell identifies it as made in Taiwan (photo 5).
$39 USD Offers ConsideredBlenko Tangerine Crackle-glass Vase, C60A
Glass:20th-century Blenko:1962
This tangerine (amberina) crackle-glass vase, catalog #C60A, was probably designed by Wayne Husted during his tenure as Blenko's designer, in 1962, a year before he moved on in his career. It's a little over 4-3/4" high and has two attached red leaves (photo 2). The pontil is rough (photo 6), and it's in mint condition.
$32 USD Offers ConsideredClear Crystal Footed Hand-blown Decanter
Glass:By Function:Decanter/Pitcher
I purchased this hand-blown clear glass decanter, or pitcher, at a local estate sale because it's so unusual. Although it looks more like a pitcher with its high handle and pulled lip, what looks like some light sanding on the interior, near the rim, suggests that it may once have had a stopper. It stands 11" high, to the top of the hollow attached handle (photo 4), and the round body is 18" in circumference. In Fact, the end of the handle is attached to a round opening in the body of the ...
$24 USD Offers ConsideredHand-blown Clear Crystal Drizzler
Collectibles:Kitchenware:Drizzler
I'm not sure that this clear glass vessel is really a drizzler, but the very small hole at the tip of the "spout" (photo 3) certainly makes it a good way of drizzling liquids like oil, vinegar, or soy sauce. There's a straw mark on the part where the liquid would be inserted, a small glitch in the glass body (photo 5), and a large bubble in the spout, but there's no damage. The pontil is rough (photo 8), and there's light wear around the edge of the base (photos 7 & 9). In some light, the vessel ...
$32 USD Offers ConsideredHand-painted Delft Blue Individual Salt & Pepper, 1984
Collectibles:Salt, Pepper Shakers:Delft Blue
This hand-painted Delft blue salt and pepper set is just the right size as part of a dinner table setting or on a tray for serving a meal to someone in bed. It's 3.5" long, 2" high, and 1.5" wide. There's a single hole in the top of both shakers (photo 2), and both have their original plastic stoppers (photo 4; the mark on the right-hand shaker is a small indentation caused by production, not a chip or other damage). Windmills are painted on one side and blue strokes that resemble grass or other ...
$145 USD Offers ConsideredHull Pottery Parchment & Pine Large Cornucopia, S-6
Pottery:By Maker:Hull:Parchment & Pine
I found this beautiful cornucopia vase at the Cato estate sale. It was made by Hull Pottery in their Parchment and Pine pattern; it's the large cornucopia. It's signed "Hull" on the bottom, followed by the design number S-6 (photos 6-8). Also visible on the bottom is a small paper label that identifies it as the property of the Catos, the previous owners (photos 6 & 8). The vase is 12.5" high and 8.5" wide, and in mint condition.
$65 USD Offers ConsideredHeavy Crystal Scandinavian Engraved Vase, Vintage
Glass:Scandinavian 20th-century Art Glass
This is one of those heavy crystal vases made by Scandinavian glass factories. This one was probably made by Orrefors or Kosta. Unfortunately, although Scandinavian companies are fairly consistent when it comes to etching the name of the company and the designer on the bottom of their products, wear on the outer perimeter of the base obscures any identifying marks that might be there. A large bird perched on a branch covers one side of the vase (photos 3 & 4); the other is unadorned. The vase is ...
$75 USD Offers ConsideredImperial Glass Red Slag Toothpick Holder, c. 1951--1972
Glass:By Function:Toothpick Holder
The colors in this red slag glass toothpick holder are a virtual rainbow including several shades of red and orange. In some places the opaque white shows as an icy blue, and the orange looks yellow. This toothpick holder is Imperial Glass's "Three in One" pattern (photo 3), made between 1951 and 1972. It's 2.5" high and in mint condition.
$78 USD Offers ConsideredHand-blown Teal & Electric Blue Sommerso Cylindrical Vase, Mint
Glass:By Function:Vase
This beauty is art glass at its finest, seeming at times to still be in its liquid form (photo 7). Near the top of this teal and electric blue cylindrical vase, the artist used a tool to work the teal out from the column so that it forms a wider mouth of 3-3/8" diameter. The glass at the bottom of the vase is an electric blue that gradually recedes, becoming a rich teal (photos 5 & 7). The vase is 9-1/4" high, and the base is 2-3/4" in diameter. The pontil is rough (photo 9), but the base is ...
$48 USD Offers ConsideredPair Emerald Floriform Ashtrays w/ Silver Aventurine, Both with Original Murano Labels
Glass:Murano Art Glass, 1950s-1960s
Both of these emerald-green Murano ashtrays contain several layers of glass including an external layer of clear. The interior layer is a deep emerald green. Beneath that is a sparkling layer of silver aventurine. Each ashtray is shaped like a four-petaled flower or a four-leaf clover, with the rim deeply crimped in four places. They measure 4.5" square, and still have their rectangular red and gold foil labels identifying them as Vetro Artistico Veneziano, Venetian Art Glass, made in Murano, ...
$24 USD Offers ConsideredScandinavian Ice Vase
Glass:20th-century Scandinavian
Scandinavian glass factories are known for this style of glass, which was mold-blown to create the effect of ice or, sometimes, tree bark. The effects created by the play of light over the rough surface are beautiful. The vase is 6" high and 5" wide, with a highly ground and polished rim 2" x 1.5". The only damage is some roughness on the inside of the rim on one side (photo 5), probably a production flaw hidden by the reflections created by the exterior texture; there is also slight wear on the ...
$22 USD Offers ConsideredSmall Teal Cloverleaf Ashtray, Murano
Glass:Mid-20th-c. Murano Art Glass
This small teal Murano ashtray comes from a local estate where most of the art glass was made by well-known U.S. companies (Kanawha, Pilgrim, Westmoreland, Bischoff, and Rainbow), This ashtray was one of the few piece of Murano art glass. It's 4" wide and 2" high. Aside from wear on the polished base, of the sort one expects on mid-20th century glass, It's in mint condition.
$48 USD Offers ConsideredSwedish Controlled Bubble Blue Dolphin, w/ Label
Glass:Mid-20th-c. Swedish Art Glass
This long, royal blue stylized dolphin with controlled bubbles was made in Granna, Sweden, probably in the 1970s. Its brown and gold paper label is intact and still attached to the polished base, although the part of it with "AB Granna (?) Glasshytte" is virtually impossible to read. The dolphin is a foot long (12") and 5" high at the extended tip of the tail. What is amazing is that this long, heavy figure balances on a base that's just 1.5" long and 1" wide. The dolphin has some tiny rough ...
$35 USD Offers ConsideredSea-Green Scalloped Centerpiece Bowl, 1950s-1960s
Glass
This scalloped centerpiece bowl is Blenko's sea green, and I think it's a variation of Husted's 1954 large salad bowl, #6143-L. Like that bowl, the interior surface is highly polished while the underside has a slightly corroso texture, and it was made in a mold. It also has eight large scallops around the rim, but, because it's flattened and the sides aren't as steep, the ribs are less pronounced and the glass isn't as thick. On the exterior surface, there are also ripples spreading up from the ...
$36 USD Offers ConsideredSquare Charcoal Scandinavian Decanter w/ Original Stopper, 1950s-1960s
Glass:20th-century Scandinavian
This hand-blown charcoal decanter, made (I think) by a Swedish or Danish furnace, is square and comes with its original bubble stopper. Aside from slight wear on the bottom of the decanter, both are in excellent condition--no chips, flakes, or cracks. With the stopper in, the decanter is 13.5" tall, and has slightly depressed sides. Slightly off-center on the base is a smoothly polished concave circle where the pontil was.
$19 USD Offers ConsideredViking Epic Footed Charcoal Swung Vase, c. 1962, w/ Label
Glass:1960s Art Glass
This swung vase is one of 17 vases introduced in Viking's Epic line in the 1960s, which has no singular design motif to unify pieces in the line itself. It's 12.5" high, catalog #1435, in the company's Charcoal color, one of the more difficult colors to find. It still has its clear plastic label and is in mint condition. (Note" Viking labels cannot be used to date specific items, according to Dean Six. The glass-blowers just grabbed whatever roll of labels happened to be handy.)
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