Prized Antique & Vintage Finds With Surprising Value

There is nothing sexy like fishnet, but that is not actually why Laminasa Porcelain made this teapot. This is a beautiful pattern inspired by Empress Elizabeth I, the original patron of the Imperial Porcelain Factory in St. Petersburg, Russia. It was the third porcelain factory established in Europe. This pattern was inspired by her and by, of all things, the diagonal tape put over windows by people during the siege of Leningrad in the Second World War to prevent shattering if some sort of a concussive device went off. The combination of those two led to the cobalt net design. It is painted with 22 karat gold in the stars. This actually came out in 1949, and it was so successful it won the first prize at the 1958 World's Fair. And while Russia mostly sanctioned export of items from their country, they were in need of Western dollars. So particularly in the 1980s, you start seeing a whole lot of made in USSR-marked Laminasa porcelain. In 2005, they turned the name back to the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory. Laminasa was actually the head of the science agency in Russia during the time of the Bolsheviks, and so he really had nothing to do with it. So we still call it Laminasa by popular usage, but it in fact is the thing of royalty. And we are starting this one on eBay right now. We're going to put it out at $29.99. These typically sell for $100. And in fact, everything we show you today is going on eBay as we speak. This is our member bonus video. We are happy to put 20 items out on eBay for everybody to see, and everybody to learn about, and everybody to buy. Members do get first dibs, so if you're interested in that, go to the membership links in the description of this video under the dashed line. When I list things for eBay, I try to find all sorts of interesting things in a lot of different categories, including this next piece. Or should I say pieces, because this is a wonderful perure. A perure is any set of jewelry that has at least three of its components between necklace, brooch, ear clips, bracelet, and ring. And this has three. This is Matisse, made in enamel on copper when that started to be a very popular thing to do in the 1950s and 60s. This company, Spongere, the company that made all the really cool wall pieces out of metal in the 70s, because after they stopped making jewelry, they decided to use the same ideas and technology because they knew they could make really well crafted metalwork. As you can see here, this Matisse set is such a great turquoise color. There is one little chip in the corner of one earring that I want to show for full disclosure. The pieces are marked on the back of the necklace, that little tag you see swinging there, and also on the earrings. The bracelets are not always marked, and this one is not, but they have lived their entire life together since the 1960s. This one piece, with all the interest in Native American jewelry, copper and enamel in these colors, is very popular, and so this set could go for over $100. We're starting it out at just $49. After World War II, General Motors' styles were really dated and kind of bland, and a gentleman named Harley Earl came in to do their styling. He started fins on Cadillacs in the late 1940s, and Cadillacs became by far the most popular luxury car of their time. But Chevys and Oldsmobiles and Pontiacs were still pretty dowdy up until the show cars of the early 1950s. Buick came out with the LeSabre in 1951. This was a beautiful car, not a production car, but something to show futurism and sleekness, and pretty soon all the other divisions of General Motors wanted something like that too. So in 1953, Oldsmobile ended up with the Starfire, the XP Rocket, and this was a beautiful car. It was a one-of-a-kind. They introduced it at the 1954 GM Motorama at the Astoria Hotel in New York City. It was a big deal back then to introduce your cars in a big splashy presentation like that, and this one was the show car. And Oldsmobile did adopt that front end with the big oval grille, and they did indeed use it to promote their Rocket 8 engine, because Oldsmobile had gotten a V8 that could make 200 horsepower. You could go to your Oldsmobile dealer and get a car that maybe wasn't quite as sleek and streamlined. It wasn't made of fiberglass, but looked pretty similar and was pretty hot. The Starfire name was very popular in pop culture because there was a very fast fighter jet named the Starfire at the time. Oldsmobile proceeded to use that name on models through the early 1960s. But this one, well, it's a one-of-a-kind car, and this flyer given out to show you this beautiful car was of course intended to get you to go to your Oldsmobile dealer, as it says on the bottom. So there's not a lot of these left, and automobilia collectors like myself oftentimes favor ephemera because we either can't afford or don't have room for another classic car in our garage. And so this stuff does very well, and it's fun for me because I am a big car enthusiast. We're starting this at $9.99. It usually sells about double that, so we'll see what happens now. I recently held with an estate sale where there were a number of oil lamps, and this one, which was the finest one made of brass in the house, I ended up with because it didn't sell, and I thought it was really beautiful and very significant. I think our price was too high for an estate sale, but I don't think it's too high for eBay because none of these have actually sold in a really, really long time. And for a serious lamp collector, this is a nice piece because it is this, the Perkinson House Safety Lamp by the Cleveland Non-Explosive Lamp Company. And you think, my goodness, well, yeah, you certainly hope they're not explosive. We take it for granted that this technology has always existed, but in fact, it had not. There was a terrible explosion in Massachusetts that killed the four daughters of a woman in the Victorian times, and she was so distraught they had to confine her to a mental institution, and that made news. And people started thinking, we need to have some safety standards for this new technology. And so this company got three patents, and the patent dates are actually marked on the piece because it was a big enough deal. They wanted you to know that they had the rights for this, that they were the inventors, and what they did was they invented a way for it to breathe, see underneath there, and a couple of other inventions that made it possible for this piece to be used continuously. As long as you had coal oil, kerosene oil, a wick, you could keep this going and not worry about safety issues. And that was a big deal, and so they did very well for a period of time in the 1880s, particularly. This one came from a collection, and so it has been very brightly polished. It has one small dent on the bottom. It does not affect the function in any way, but it is something to show because, again, honest representation is what makes your way in this business. Now, because we had this at the estate sale and it didn't sell, we're just going to start this at $999 and see where it goes, because the only ones listed on eBay are for sale, not sold, and they're all listed in the $150 plus range. Sometimes we list things on eBay just so that we can test the market and find out what it is, and that's a great example. After it sells, we'll all have a comp and we'll all know. It's hard to imagine anyone in the English-speaking world does not know the story of Peter Rabbit. Beatrix Potter's wonderful books were so popular with collectors that in the late 1980s and early 90s, they republished the entire set of 23, which is what we have here. Originally, they cost $6 each, which would be close to $200, and they sold so many at that price that they actually made three editions. This one is from 1991. It has all of the books, and it's in wonderful condition. The box has just a little bit of wear on the edge here. Beatrix Potter herself was quite interesting. She was raised by governesses to a wealthy family who were quite busy, and there were not other children around. And so she lost herself in her art and in studying flora and fauna. And as a young woman, she was actually a rather well-respected mycologist, meaning that she studied fungi, and she also painted watercolors. So based on her original watercolors and her literary talent, she came up with the tale of Peter Rabbit in 1902. It was so popular that by 1903, Peter Rabbit became the first character licensed to have a plush made. So you plush collectors, this is where it all started. The illustrations are all hers. And while she wrote 60 books in total, these 23 children's books are the things that she is best known for. They have sold 250 million copies in the last century and a quarter. And it doesn't really matter what animal you like, it's probably shown in a Beatrix Potter book. Such a cute set. If you are a kid at heart or you have kids around, it might be a perfect thing. And well, these were printed 35 years ago. Time really marches on. So they sell now for about half the original issue price, around $100. We're starting this one at $29.99. And the reason we do auctions is because we figure that the market knows a lot more than we do a lot of the time. And if we're willing to take the market price, we sell almost everything we put on eBay and oftentimes get more than we would expect to get if we just tried to guess a price and let it sit. When I hear people say, oh, eBay spends slow, I think, well, you might need to adjust your expectation, your way of selling, and don't just leave listings up for years and years and then get mad when people say we've seen all this. Usually when I talk about Blanco glass, I bring up some really wild, huge design, but this little drinking glass actually is more interesting than you might think because it was one of the first designs by Winslow Anderson, Blanco's first in-house designer, and is the reason that Blanco got the reputation it did for being the leaders in modernist glass in the United States. He grew up in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and so he was exposed to a lot of antique stores, and antique glass actually used little rondelles like these, which were applied as far back as hand-blown glass was decorated, which is all the way back to the 1820s. And so this is actually antique-inspired, yet absolutely modernist in its shape, its form, and the color of sea green, which was a 50s favorite at Blanco, and one of my personal favorites. These are smart because when you hold the glass by the bottom, it gives you a little bit of a place to hold on to it. They also did pieces with glass rings around them, and the pinch tumblers, all of those were designed so that the glass wouldn't get slippery and fall out of your hand. Form and function, not just art for art's sake. That's part of why Blanco became very popular. Winslow Anderson went to Alfred University the same place that the gluten stoneware makers were attending in the 1940s. He won a contest at the school, and the prize for the contest was Stu Ben Glass would take your goblet design and turn it into an actual production piece, and Winslow Anderson won. Blanco Glass came out of the Second World War and realized that they needed modern design in the Swedish style. They called Alfred University, who recommended Winslow Anderson, and he was hired as their first designer from 1947 to 1953. He ultimately left Blanco to design for Lennox, and worked there until his retirement in 1967, then went back to Milton, West Virginia, and lived in the town where Blanco was made for the rest of his life. So he was a great designer, and while this piece may seem modest, the tumblers are actually not so easy to find now, and I found this in a flea market. They didn't know what it was. It was insanely cheap, and I wanted to share it with everybody, because if you see these out there, this is Blanco, and you should be picking them up. This should sell around 20 to 25 dollars. Around the same time, a company in West Virginia making traditional glass decided to start experimenting with color rather than design, and that's when Fenton came up with the idea of doing an emerald green overlay on their melon shapes. They were already making these cute little ewers with crib handles in a solid color and a transparent color, and they said, why don't we do an emerald overlay? This was made from 1949 to 1953 only, and it's actually a rather hard color to find. A four-inch face recently sold for 45 dollars plus shipping. The ewer is a little bit harder to find, a little more complicated, and a little larger. So again, we're going to let the and we will see which Fenton collector who looks for this rather obscure color combination in case glass overlay will find it. Well, I would sing the Mickey Mouse Club theme to this, but this Mickey Mouse is older than the Mickey Mouse show, older than Disneyland. This is a 1940s Pelham puppet of Mickey Mouse, and I am not a good marionette master, but he is cool. Pelham got the contract because they made good quality ware, and whether it was the English companies or the ones here in the United States, Herman K. Kamen, who was the merchandising director for Disney in the old days, he really insisted that anything bearing a Walt Disney Productions character was to be made in good quality, and this is, and he's in reasonably good shape. His face is composition, similar to dolls of that era, which were made of plaster and wood chips and sometimes even horse hair. I mean, they would come by all sorts of stuff to make this, and so it was a composition material because that was what they used before plastic, because then they could mold it to match his face as it was in that era, a little different than what we're used to now. It is just so great. I wish I could operate him better, but hi everybody. Okay, that was bad. The shoes are a little scuffed. He hung in a window for a while. He was very well loved. He was used, but he's in good overall shape. He's not cracked. He's not broken. He's got all his strings, and they're on the original controller here. I just think he's the coolest guy. I'm gonna start him at $19.99. I haven't seen one of these sell recently. My guess is that maybe in the $50 range, but we're gonna find out together. It's been 40 years now since the beginning of the collectible figurine boom when Hummel figurines, Royal Daltons, and Beswick figures all had big collector followings, but another really good maker of English porcelain was Colport, and Colport made these figurines around the 1980s. This one is called the Medicine Man, and he's got all of his snake oil in there, and the bottle he's holding, and everything's in good condition. It's all hand painted. Colport was a rather respected and long-established company in the Staffordshire pottery area because they had been there since 1750, and they called this the Character Collection. There were various other characters. There was a maid, a pig that is rather collectible. They didn't seem to have a theme per se. They just were looking to do something that was a little different than everybody else, and I think this really is, and it's a century after the era where snake oil salesmen went town to town and sold all sorts of noxious alleged cures, mostly made of alcohol or poisons, for all of the things that people did not know how to heal on their own. So he has a countenance that is somewhere between cunningly shrewd and kindly in the eyes, which is probably just what you needed to be a good snake oil salesman, but we are not snake oil salesmen here. This is genuine. Colport was absorbed by the Royal Dalton group along with pretty much everybody else during the difficulties of the first 10 years of this century in the industry, and so they are no more. These figures did not actually last in their line very long. We're starting this at just $9.99. I usually see figures by Colport sell in the $30 range, and collectors groups were very popular in the United States as well, particularly for Midwestern pottery companies. This one is from McCoy for the sesquicentennial, their 150th anniversary. They first issued these at an appearance in 1998, and Billy McCoy and Nelson McCoy, the original owners of the firm, agreed to sign all of these for the McCoy Collectors Society, and there you see the 1997 McCoy Collectors mark. I'm showing you a few of these collectible things from this period on this video because they are in estates. They are starting to come to the fore, and there's a new generation of collectors who enjoy these companies, and the fact that people just a generation ago got to meet Billy and Nelson McCoy when they were alive makes this something that for a McCoy collector would be an interesting addition to the collection, because the days where you could just meet these people who did all of this stuff are pretty much behind us now. So this is the memory that we have. We're starting this at $19.99. I haven't seen any sell lately, but that's substantially less than I see people offering them for online. You may also have seen this piece in our recent estate sale. We had a big collection of Sanford's ink bottles, and we did sell a bunch of pieces, but this one lasted, and I thought it was very interesting. It's got all the original labels. It does have fading. It's got some natural age you would expect considering that this bottle was made sometime around 1910, and we know that because the seam in the bottle goes all the way up to the collar. The collar is not applied, and so that means it was done after the turn of the last century, but not long after. Sanford got started because his dad in Massachusetts had a stationery store and needed somebody to supply ink, and so the son said, well, I could do that. Sanford's big flame to fame in the 1800s was they invented this cap, and this cap was way better than quartz because the ink wouldn't dry up, and it wouldn't leak, and it was easy to get on and off, and that was part of why Sanford's became the leading ink company in the United States. They had started in Massachusetts. Their original founder passed away, and a new investor took it to Chicago and opened a plant there because with everybody moving west, there was suddenly a lot more long-distance correspondence, which meant they needed to be in the center of the continent to serve everybody, and so Sanford's became a big employer in Chicago and is one of the few Victorian-era home goods that is still in production today. It doesn't look like this. What it does look like is that Sharpie you might have in your pocket right now because they invented the Sharpie and became very famous and were eventually bought out by another company that still uses the Sanford's name because it's so well regarded in the marketplace. This bottle is great because it is embossed and it's advertising and library paste. Don't forget we make that too. The bottle's in good shape. It does have some dried ink in the bottom. Mylet ink, if you notice, is actually red, and red ink became available in the 1840s when they invented a process they could replicate and make it. Accountants started using it to highlight losses, and that's where the term red ink for money-losing businesses arose. It's not top condition for these, but it's in pretty good shape overall, and we usually see them in this condition selling in the $50 to $75 range. So we're going to start this one at $29.99. It could be a really fun thing to have on the desk. Years ago I toured Winter Tour Museum in Delaware. It's a fantastic museum. We were allowed to go into the archives of the dinnerware section, and a display was being mounted for Campbell Soup to sponsor, featuring antique terrines, and I have really enjoyed them ever since being exposed to them. The shapes are just so beautiful. This one is by the John Maddock and Sons company in Staffordshire, England, and this is the moss rose pattern. Moss rose is a variety of rose that was first observed in France in the mid-1700s. It's got this sort of fuzzy appearance in the leaves, popular in English gardens in the Victorian era, and so you see shapes like this, the stick handles from the aesthetic era where things were supposed to be beautiful but also functional. The colors were very popular in the mid-Victorian era, and that's why moss rose is a pattern you see over and over, created through the 1960s. There's even derivatives of it being made today. I love the fanciness of the handle. Now this is absolutely a Victorian design, but this piece was made for a long period of time because it was so popular. The spoon for the terrine is in wonderful condition. The fact that it's here at all, let alone in such good shape, is a great thing, and the bowl is in pretty good shape too. It has one very small glazed nick in the bottom, but no chips, no cracks. This is how we know that it dates after 1891 because it has the word England. John Maddox started in the 1840s specifically to export to the United States, and first they did heavy things like graniteware, but they eventually moved into semi-porcelain, and semi-porcelain is a term that English were among the last to figure out the secrets of porcelain making, and so they made ironstone that was very heavy and called it semi-porcelain, with the idea being that it's close to porcelain, it's more durable than regular earthenware, and it has the look. But it is heavier, and this is a heavy piece. It weighs about four and a half pounds, not including soup. So we're going to start it at $9.99. I don't really know what to expect because we're not exactly in dinnerware season, yet it's such a lovely spring piece you could just use in display, and we also have June Brides coming, and that is another period where we do see China selling. So we'll see what the interest is now. We saw the books, now here is the figurine. Peter Rabbit himself, and this one was done by Beswick, or Beswick if you're from England. That pottery started in Staffordshire in 1892, and was very successful in part because they made Disney figurines, and they made these three-dimensional ceramic images based on the watercolors from Beatrix Potter. Now Beatrix Potter had died a few years before this came out, and Lucy Beatrix had the notion to ask the estate if they could purchase rights to make these. And because Beatrix Potter had left all of her land in conservation to protect the Lake District of England, so the estate said yes because they needed money to continue to maintain the trust, and everybody was happy, including this guy. Well, he seems happy enough because I think he got away by this point. But this one has not just the Beswick mark done until Royal Albert Marks supplanted it in the 1990s, but it also has the signature of Michael Dalton II, because after Royal Dalton bought Beswick, Michael Dalton did a tour in the 1990s all over North America. I know that he got to Vancouver because I bought sign pieces of his there several times, and in the Seattle area. So his signature makes it just a little bit more special because most people had him sign a new figure that said Royal Albert, and this one actually is from the original line. The Royal Albert line was discontinued in 2002 because the factory was closed and is now made overseas. So there are three generations of Peter Rabbit now, and that makes sense because, well, he's a rabbit. We're starting this at 1999. Beswick signed ones don't come up as often as the Royal Albert signed ones, so we'll see where this goes. I hear people say, oh, I've collected so long, I have everything that I can use, and I don't know what to collect now. Well, think beyond the obvious. Besides glass and pottery and decorative objects that a lot of us really love, there are things that are useful every day that you can have in vintage form that are better quality than they would be if you bought new, and this is a great example. This is a bottle opener, and it is industrial strength. It had a gold wash over what I assume is nickel because this would have been made in the 1920s for the And Schroeder Hotels had a rather interesting story. Christian Schroeder started an insurance company in Milwaukee back in the 1880s, and it did very well, and his son ended up parlaying that into a hotel chain and built and owned and operated several major hotels, the finest hotels in several cities in Wisconsin and Minnesota, including the Schroeder Hotel, which he built in Milwaukee in 1928. Somewhere along the line, this left the hotel and came to live with a collector. This thing could probably peel bark off a tree, let alone open your bottle at home. You could use it to hammer stuff. I mean, this thing is stout and heavy and really great because of the embossing. There are collectors for things from old hotels. I actually gravitate towards that myself because I like going to fancy old hotels that are still around, and the Schroeder Hotel in Milwaukee is still around. It is now known as the Milwaukee Hilton after a few mergers. Walter Schroeder sold all of his hotel interests in the 1960s, having survived a pretty serious accusation from the IRS that he evaded taxes during the Depression in order to stay in business. So, he was a survivor, Schroeder Hotel is a survivor, and so is this piece, and we're going to start it at $9.99. I usually see pieces like this selling in the $25 to $30 range, and this is an example of another practical thing you could have in your collection that could replace a flimsy new one. Even though women didn't get the right to vote until 1920, the 19th century was really big for women's rights and advancement, and that goes all the way back to the Adams administration. The second president, his wife Abigail, was educated and really advocated for women to have more rights in society, and that ethos stuck. Because by the mid-1800s, a lot of universities were being started for women. There was a realization that women needed to enter the workforce. We needed clerical help for all these new businesses, and help with teaching, and child-rearing things that required education. And educated women of a certain status would have lovely desk accessories, and the most lovely of all, in the opinion of a lot of Victorian and early 20th century women, were pieces made in France, particularly in Limoges, the porcelain making district. The Limoges district was not where the Royal Manufactory was, that was the Sevres factory in Paris, but the Limoges district had feldspar and kaolin, and that's what it takes to make hard-paste porcelain of high quality, with few impurities. And they developed a lot of decorating prowess. This one is not amateur decorated, a lot of Limoges, but this one says decor mine, and an initial that is actually from the factory. This piece is just beautiful, really well made. It was to be in the center of a desk. It had a place to dip five different pens, and rest them. The inkwell comes out so that it can be cleaned, and it's in great condition. And the interior is pretty clean too, considering what this would have been used for. A lot of these were broken, of course. A lot of them were thrown away when this sort of ink pen writing was no longer necessary. But some of them, because they were so beautiful, were kept and maintained. This one should date to about 1910-1920. Wonderful yellow color. And we are starting this one at $29.99, with a buy it now of $65. Recent arguments between the government and the Pope take us back to a time when that controversy made an election very, very close, and that was the election of John F. Kennedy, because there was a lot of sentiment at the time that Catholicism would take over politics if a Catholic was elected president. And these are two brochures and a mimeographed, as they called it back then, letter, all about the issue, and give a challenge to Mr. Kennedy to explain how he is going to avoid capital influence if he's a good Catholic. This flyer was done by Concordia, which was an arm of the Lutheran church, where they say fears have been aroused by official pronouncements and political activities of the Roman church in other countries. Yet, interestingly, the first quote in the book is, My vote would never be changed on the basis of religion, said President Eisenhower when asked about the prospect of a Roman Catholic president. At this time, the separation of church and state was what people were arguing for. History does not exactly repeat, it just echoes. Mr. Kennedy narrowly became President Kennedy, and President Kennedy did not appear to be under the influence of the Pope during his term in office. And these things were quickly forgotten in drawers, and that's why these are not in great condition. Somebody wrote their name on the front of this one. This one, once the issue was over and forgotten, sat forgotten in a drawer and got some age spots and a little bit of creasing. And there is a little foxing on this one, which is excerpts from a sermon by a Protestant minister decrying the notion that a president could possibly be faithful to the United States if he was also faithful to the Catholic Church. Historians find it useful to show actual examples like these to students when they're trying to explain current affairs that have an echo of affairs of the past. And so this is a timely thing to put online. I have no idea what the market will be, but I have a feeling if the right political memorabilia collector finds it, it will be snapped right up. We're starting it at $9.99 for the lot. Grandfather is always popular when he brings beer. And the beer he brought was Hensler's Popular. Hensler's Popular beer was made in Newark, New Jersey, originally by this man. This is Josef Hensler, whose family moved him as a boy to Newark, New Jersey, from their native Germany. One of many thousands of German families to move to Newark in the late 1800s. Because of that, Newark became a brewery town, and the Hensler brewery was a little better, a little more premium than a lot of the other beer in the New York area. And so it did very well for a long period of time, all the way up until Prohibition. Like all the other breweries that were shut down during Prohibition, they managed to scrape by and keep the brewery going through a number of other things. Some would make malt, for example, for non-malted beverages. Then Prohibition lifted, and Hensler's was back in business. One of the first lines they came out with in the 30s was Hensler's Popular, which was made up until just after the Second World War. So this tray would date to that time as well. It has the style of a pre-Prohibition tray. They are not quite as heavy as the pre-Prohibition trays are, but they're a lot heavier than the ones you see from the 1950s and 60s. So it's easy to date them in that manner. This one's in pretty good condition overall. A few little scrapes here and there. You can see one next to his ear, one in the red feel. It's had some use and some wear in this small dent. When you see the surface there, you can tell that it actually was used in the bar for a period of time. But overall, the graphics are strong and it's a great color. And we're going to start this at $999. I suspect being a 1940s, 50s era beer tray, it has a value somewhere in the $35 to $40 range. I want you, says this trivet. And I'm sure it said it to all of the housewives around 1910, when the double-point I want you comfort iron was created by the Syracuse Gas Iron Company in Philadelphia. Why is the Syracuse Gas Iron Company in Philadelphia? Who knows? Mergers and acquisitions were a thing back then too. But they did come out with a very successful gas iron. This funny little apparatus here is a flexible tube, and that would connect to some sort of a gas source in your home. If your home was tubed for gas, or you could use a portable gas source if you were in a rural area. And this was very important in the era before electrification. This trivet and this iron came out around 1910. And the trivet is just a really cool, fun advertisement. Nowadays, we would call it meta because it's for an iron and it shows an iron. They're very solid. They're fun to use on a table. This one is actually large enough to hold a modern iron because it has this lip. You could actually set a modern iron on there. So it could even be another practical thing. Again, if you're looking for practical things to buy because you already have all the pretty things that you can fit in your house, well, this is another one of those. We're starting this at $9.99. They typically sell between $20 and $30, and we have a $20 buy it now. Another practical collectible for a certain set are old tools. And this in the box, the very nicely made, heavily made wooden box, is a Starrett gauge. For those in the know, Starrett tools are really good quality, and that's how they made their reputation. They were started in Massachusetts by a farm boy from Maine who dreamed of inventing something useful and was fascinated by tools. His first invention was actually a meat chopper, but the company that he got to make it for him basically aced him out of the business. And so next, he decided to develop a square so that you could measure very precisely when you were cutting wood. And people said, oh, it's too expensive. People don't need that. And as soon as it came out, it was a huge success. He went on to make many different tools during his lifetime, and the company he left behind is one of the most regarded by tool collectors. And in the 1920s, they started making gauges. These are called dial indicator gauges, and the first one they made was so that they could measure the curvature in spectacles when optometrists were making them. So that was a pretty important thing. This one should date to about 1960, and it's the sort of thing you use to make sure that when you're making something in the round, it is perfect. And these gauges are very, very good, well-made, very precise. That's why they made these very heavy-duty cabinets to make sure that they were kept in wonderful condition, which this is. So Starrett is a great name in tools, a name to look for. And there are collectors who want these vintage items like this for practical use, as well as because they're cool and they have some age. So this one is going out now. Again, we're starting at $999, but this piece typically sells for over $100. And I saved a beautiful piece for last, and one of the most popular Roseville vines ever made. This is Fuchsia. Fuchsia came on this background. It came on blue. It just pops. So pretty. The colors are great. They're very realistic looking. They would be careful not to overuse the mold, so the detail is always sharp. And that's why Roseville was so popular then and so popular now. It does have the embossed mark on the bottom because Fuchsia was a later line for them sometime in the late 1930s, and they made it for about 10 years. Roseville is great to collect because most of the pieces are marked in this way where it says 34-7. So, you know, it's the 7-inch and number 34 is the model number. So very easy to identify for the most part. There are some patterns that are not well marked or were marked with an ink stamp in the earlier years of the floral lines. And then the very latest years, they say USA because they started exporting. So they had to be marked with our country of origin. It's just so pretty and so well done. When I first got in the business, I remember a van load of people came in and they were all looking for Roseville Fuchsia and Pine Cone because they were collectors of specifically those two lines, and there must have been a dozen of them. It has remained super popular all the time that I've been around, and I think you can see why it likely will stay so. This piece retail is in the $150 range. We're going to start it at $59.99. It is flawless and in perfect shape. So much fun to find pretty pieces like this to bring to you when we're traveling around in the world of antiques and vintage. Do follow the listings. If things are still for sale, by all means, please make a bid. We will combine shipping, and we are happy to send these things to their forever homes. If you enjoyed this video, check out this one. Also, click thumbs up to like this video, and check the description for information about our Patreon, our memberships. We've got a lot of different levels with different perks and bonus videos and early content. 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. Bye for now.