What vintage finds are worth carrying across the country for one of Portland’s biggest antique events? This preview includes colorful art glass, elegant jewelry, unusual decor, classic paper ephemera, and several surprises we cannot leave behind.
We’re packing for the Rose City Vintage Show in Portland, Oregon, and we’re reviewing the fresh finds joining everything already reserved for the trip west. The collection begins with large Blenko and Italian glass pieces in rich 1960s blue and purple tones, a striking MCM pottery piece from an unexpected source, and playful kitsch ranging from an original Blackamoor lamp to a psychedelic Sylvester the Pussycat stapler. A Limoges charger, an Owens Utopia jug, and a 1920s chalk chieftain add even more variety for collectors who enjoy both vintage design and true antiques.
The jewelry and boudoir additions bring another layer of glamour, led by an elegant 1980s Clay Art wall mask. Mesh purses and reticules from the 1890s through the 1950s, brass jewel boxes, and MCM travel cases hold sterling and costume jewelry, including signed pieces and examples set with coral, garnets, and malachite. Antique and vintage paper ephemera also joins the group, with catalogs, photographs, maps, ink blotters, sales brochures, military items, concert memories, favorite brands, and a stack of classic car brochures that capture everyday life from decades past.
We still have more to gather when we arrive in the Northwest, but this preview shows why we’re so excited to return after missing last year because of illness. With three other vintage resellers sharing the space, the booth promises an inviting mix of color, nostalgia, history, and unexpected finds for jewelry lovers, antique collectors, and anyone who enjoys seeing what turns up next.
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The time has come for the reveal. I have been saving up things for the last four weeks that
I found in the middle of the country to take to the west coast for this weekend's Rose City
Vintage Market in Portland, Oregon. I'm so excited. I'm packing to leave and wow have I found a lot
of cool stuff. And this is just what I found here in the last month to take. I already have eight
boxes packed and I'm picking up from three estates when I get to Washington so there's going to be a
ton of great stuff. But I'm going to preview this with you so you'll at least get a hint of the kind
of things I've been finding. I have had the good fortune to find some really great pieces of glass
and some really cool ceramics. We're going to talk about jewelry and paper and other objects too so
stay tuned for that. But let's start in the back here. This is a wonderful decanter. This was by
Joel Phillip Myers when he was the designer for Blanco Glass. He came up with this in 1967. It
has a bell-shaped bottom. Wonderful blue color. Very excited to be bringing that. I've actually
found a lot of this very fun bright blue color lately and well summertime blues plus they go with
a lot of those hot oranges that kind of tempers them in the display. Along with purple like this
Vimax piece. This is a Murano piece with that great herringbone optic. A little bit of opalescent
casing there so you get that light through it and a nice bubbly and pulley decanter behind.
This piece is also Blanco from the 1960s. A really nice big fat vase and then this Blanco is from
West Virginia Day and I believe this might have been the 2003 edition. They do a special glass
that represents something in West Virginia every year and I believe this was supposed to be the
thunderstorms that they represented. In front is a really unusual piece of glass. It's actually three
pieces of glass. These little trumpet vases in this nice wrought iron holder from about 1970.
I believe those are also Italian glass. Also case. Love the color. Very interesting way to set up a
big centerpiece on the table. Behind it I have found a little bit of uranium glass including
this. This is a 1920s candlestick holder by Tiffin and it would be great if I had a pair but you know
what? People will buy just a single because it's such a great color. A couple of Art Deco wall
mirrors behind from the 80s. Art Deco revival technically. And to go with the blues well
there's your orange. That is McCoy. Really great mid-century modern piece. I love this funky shape
at the top. I always thought this was one of their better pieces from the late 60s early 70s
when this was their logo. It actually says copyright 1968 right on it. This piece of pottery
is a big surprise to most people. Any guesses what it is? Most people would guess German. Some people
might say Italian. It is neither of those. Believe it or not this is Yadro. Yes Yadro made modernist
designs using their grass finish that they came up with during the 1970s. I think this is a really
interesting vase and it's so cool to have a neat piece of pottery to offset all of this great glass.
And of course I'll have more pottery and glass coming. This is just what I have to pack from
this end of the country. Now not everything I'm bringing is mid-century modern. This guy
dates to about 1920 in chalkware. Great coloration. Conditioned pretty good for a
chalk piece overall. A fine looking chieftain. I do bring western nostalgia and decor to this show
as well. I have three of these in graduated sizes. The Impoli along with this little piece. Now I
think this is actually Japanese. The Japanese did some pretty cool mid-century glass and I love the
stripes. And then keeping with the blue theme, look at the shape of those. And they match everything
else. I really like this color. This is one of the colors I collect in glass. So I'm excited to
present all of this. Speaking of Blanco, these need a little cleaning. But these go to the lotus bowl
sets that Blanco made around 1970. Indiana did a log bowl copying Blanco. But these actually went
to the Blanco and almost nobody has the salad servers. So I think that'll be something people
will be glad to see. This also from about 1970. Look at those colors. It's the standard anchor
hawking pitcher that they screen printed in many many different color schemes. But this one is so
70s. We've got a little bit of cute fun and kitsch going here. This guy is one of these German
incense burners and he is a fisherman. And I love that style with the netting. The juiced glass here.
The 70s were the first time that people put words all over everything. And this always sells every
time I get it in the orange, the lemon, or the lime colors. This is fun. This is from Sears. 60 prepared
slides of actual specimens. A lot of the people who like scientific stuff like this and a lot of
oddities people like this because you have these sorts of things in it. Bee, butterfly, and insect
parts. Sea life. I always thought this stuff was fascinating when I was a kid. Bacteria.
Tiny creatures like aphids and ants and all those little things that live in the plants.
And blood structure. Chicken blood, pig blood, horse blood, cow blood, frog blood.
This little piece also Blanco in blue but in crackle. Underneath a Higgins piece. Great blue
color with the gold. And next to it, well if you don't have a pot you could get this one. This was
a sales sample from Gerber and people would use them also to hold their cigarettes and use as an
ashtray. And it even says Gerber on the bottom. So made out of their actual ceramic. A miniature
toilet. This will date to about 1940 approximately. The crewette here is Holmgard. Wonderful Danish
glass. Love the smoky gray color. I'm seeing people starting to appreciate this color again.
And then isn't this cute? This embroidery. The dog is really cross it. It cannot go out and
chase that guy. Some 60s, 70s era kitsch here. Love the little toadstool. It's very lightweight.
They almost feel real. I think it's probably papier-mâché and felt. This guy looks like
psychedelic Sylvester the Pussycat and says Sylvester right on it. But it is Day-Glo Pink
from about 1970. It's a stapler made in Japan. I'm sure they did not have the rights from Warner
Brothers to make that but he's pretty cool. This is an advertising ashtray in perfect condition
from Whirlpool. They did these in various colored enamel and gave them as premium so that you would
think to buy their appliances that match that color. So you would take one home that matched
your kitchen. Love this little ornament. This is Southwest Native American design. Just thought
that was really something different. And I'll have other Western things too. I plan to bring
some basketry, some pottery, and a number of kachina dancing dolls. This will go with them.
This is a silhouette with a thermometer from Speedway Supply Company. But the thing that's
about it is the campers at the Conestoga Wagon right in front of the mountains. That definitely
looks like the West. Faustoria Heirloom. Love the pink. Such a great color. And we'll also have a
neat piece of pink here. This is Jeanette Glass in Shell Pink. Love the drapery on that. Behind a very
handsome family of owls. I will have other owl figures as well but this one just came to me
recently. And this is a Japanese piece from around 1980. But I love how one of them is asleep
right in the middle. Or maybe he blinked when the picture was taken. Cute little cupies. I've got
one looking up looking a little afraid. And one sitting sucking its thumb. Japanese from the 60s.
And then this is right out of the early 60s. Jam and Jelly. I think this might be Devar.
It's very cute with the little marmalade head. Some house art trays in an Asian style.
These are actually Tiffany and Company. Neo Deco from about 1990. And the Holt Howard Rooster.
I do have some more traditional glass. A couple of Fenton shoes here. And a really hot Fenton
piece with luster and really great painting on it. This is one of the artist pieces from the 1980s
and 90s. A nesting doll of horses. I think that'll be fun in my western display.
And then we have the Blackamore lamp. This is just so cool. It's got a great 1950s fiberglass
shade. It works. I always thought the Blackamore had a distinguished look to them as opposed to
the more stereotypical designs that were being done in the 1950s. Behind is a very fine hand
painted porcelain piece. This is one of the true antiques I'm bringing to this show.
It's got a wonderful gold edge. And the Limoge bark with an actual Company name
from France as opposed to one of the importers. This is a rather fine piece. In front of it a
really cool Tazza from Jerusalem. I like Israeli brass. The menorah in the middle is interesting
and I love the branches. Next to it, speaking of brass to round, this looks great when it's lit.
This is a hanging lamp in green and blue panel from about 1970 with an oraphores candle that
looks rather a lot like what they put the Olympic flame in in front of it. And then next to it a
studio pottery vase with a nice signature. I love the impression of the plant that they give.
There's our signature on that piece. And the original paper label from Valiani.
A cute little Fenton cat here. And then a great big Somerso Italian cat here. This one's really
heavy. Great colors in that. And an abstract face. This one is just a brick of glass but it's really
cool. Love this little guy. The chef from the 1950s. He used to hold a skewer or perhaps skewer
something on it like a menu at the front of the restaurant or put a roll of paper towels on him.
He could be used in any number of different ways. I just thought he had a great look and I like to
bring some fun things and kitsch. Also bringing a couple of seagull pieces by Bing and Grondahl.
I have a whole set of it for sale in Centralia, all the dinnerware, but I thought I would bring
a vase and a compote that I found. And I don't know that it'll end up next to these red resin
grapes but aren't they a great color? A couple of Francoma pieces. An interestingly shaped ashtray
that I actually haven't run into very often. And the Lucky Horseshoe by Francoma. Nice perfume
bottle and a jewelry casket here. I will show you some jewelry in a little bit here. And then a
number of paperweights. The blue one here is Kerry Glass from Ireland. These other ones bear the C
mark and I need to do a little research on those. I like the way the eggs looked and I saw that one
of them was originally $60 so I figured they're good quality. This golf club looks like a Waterford
piece. This is Italian. The nice fruit paperweight with the controlled bubbles in the nice red color
with the gold. That's from about 1960. Below here my favorite game when I was six years old,
Trouble, and that one's in great shape. Whiting and Davis purse. We will be getting a whole bunch
of purses from a collector that we'll be bringing to Portland but that's happening right before the
show so I don't have them to show you yet. But what I do have are a bunch of travel cases.
Love the orange color. Orange and blue those seem to be my theme colors this time.
And love the platform shoes. I got a couple of pairs in Pontiac, Michigan. You may remember that
warehouse dig if you saw that video. It will be very fun to put these together and they're great
because you can take things in them. So I'll pack a lot of the jewelry in there after I show you.
Really like this Art Nouveau. It's maybe for napkins or letters or magazines or cards but I
just love the shape from the early 1900s with the faces next to it a Hawaiian vest from the late
60s. This you've seen before but I decided it needs to go out west because believe it or not
Centralia where I sell in the antique stores is a coal mining town. Just about the only one in the
state of Washington. This I thought was really neat. It is a circa 1970 push button phone with
the speaker and that is something a little bit different for the phone collectors. Here's another
piece of Bingham Grondel with the seagull. Nice compote. I like these ashtrays that are on standing
pieces that you can put next to the floor. Behind is a wonderful enamel with the girl with the
umbrella from about 1970. I just thought that was so sweet. I'm bringing this piece. This I may have
shown before but it has been in cold storage for a long time and it's just beautiful. This is
Victorian redware with the enameling of the bird and the water lilies and the dragonfly. It's a
really great piece. So even though this is a vintage and mid-century centric show I do bring
antiques if they are vibrant and fun and have a special feel to them because people do like to
mix nowadays which I think is great. I am bringing some furniture and signs as well. Love the kidney
shapes on this formica table. I've taken the hairpin legs off for easier transport but they
will go back on and that will be useful at the show because there's going to be three other people
in the booth selling with me and we're going to need lots of room. And this with the musk oxen,
this is from Canada and it has such a great naturalistic and yet mid-century feel all at
the same time. So I'm excited to put that in the space. Forrest O'Brien's Dogs of Paris were so
popular that they actually reprinted them at some point around 1970 and this is a reprint from that
time. But they're so popular and they always sell every time I get them so I figured I'll take this
one too. Back here a U.S. Navy plate. That is Syracuse, China and that's very very good quality
restaurant ware. That would have been in the officer's quarters. A Georges Brillard tray.
This is nice. I do have the lid. This is Arco Rock from the 70s. This nice decanter and cordial set
in the original box. These are cute as can be. These are C. Allen Johnson. C. Allen Johnson was a
Washington artist who loved Alaska and did lots of figures based on Alaskan natives.
And they are studying bear and caribou, learning their ABCs. This is one of his later pieces. He
worked from the 60s to the 80s. This one's called Molly and Sue and these typically sell for about
$135. My friend Billy Galaxy in Portland who does a lot of toys loves the Star Wars stuff. This is
the only piece I've found for him so I'm going to take it. I'm also bringing the Hispaniola bookends.
These were very popular in the 1960s with the globe and the telescope. Something that looks
like you're an explorer. They're by Universal Statuary from 1967. Here's another antique thing
I just thought was so perfect to bring because it's whimsical and fun. This is a whimsy,
not surprisingly. Whimsies were made by the Iroquois and Mohawk and other native groups to
sell to tourists at Niagara Falls initially. And you'll see them made in places in Canada as well.
And this one has the date of 1901 in beads on the bottom with its little perch swinging and
whatever these seed pods are it has in its mouth. I just thought that was really great.
It is sitting in a bowl which is a Metlock shell and I have the flamingo or stork figure that goes
in that packed in another box so it'll be nice to put those together. And then this I bought at
Teakstock. This was done by a woman who takes the Fenton figures and she does cold painting so this
is not fired on. You have to be a little careful of it because it will wear off but they're all
one of a kind and I thought she did such a wonderful job on this and I thought it'd be
really neat with my western stuff. Her name is Denise and her signature is there. I just thought
she was beautifully done and a really neat twist on a Fenton piece. I plan to have other uranium
glass there but this is a piece that I found recently. This is Cameo also known as Ballerina
because you see the ballerina dancer in the cartouche there. With all the drapery this
little relish dish I'll price this around $25. It's in perfect shape no chips or damage of any
sort. This is as darling as can be. This was a present to me from a friend before I developed
gluten intolerance and I'm not supposed to eat a lot of carbs so toast is out of my diet so we're
gonna go ahead and sell it but I thought it was so neat. It's got nice wide slots. The toaster is
from about 1950 and then somebody made a poodle cozy for it and I think that is just so cute.
Pink Elephant Cocktail Lounge in Washington DC at the Washington Hotel. Yes your tax dollars at work.
And then behind here just love this early 1900s late 1800s arts and crafts pottery. This one is
the Utopian line by Owens. Owens was a competitor to Roseville and Weller. I sold a piece of Utopian
at Springfield and then got this shortly thereafter. So I know there are customers
interested in this era of hand-painted pottery and they should be because it's really well done
artware. Down here just some fun stuff. A couple of dexterity games from the 1930s. A book with a
great cover Little Rose of the Mesa. A set of four. I'm only showing one but I've got four
Odigiri mugs with the seagulls. Those will look good with the thing in Grondal. And a couple of
signs off of various machines. Pepsi, Coke and a Honda motorcycle. And then I'm not sure how I
found this in the middle of the country. G.I. Joe's is actually a store that is well known in Oregon
and is a regional from there. So I'll take that back where it belongs. This ship painting I think
is really great. It's a watercolor. It has a date of 1899. It was framed at a later time but I just
love the tall ship. And of course there is a tradition of tall ships in the northwest with all
the harbors. So we'll take that. I showed this in a recent video. I found this in Pace in Arizona
with my friend Sally who is a viewer who took me around there. It's interesting that they cut the
curve in the corner. It must have been under an awning. That's from the 70s. No heavy trucking.
I guess that means there's a weight restriction somewhere. And then the railroad sign that came
from the estate sale in Tennessee. I have a big display of railroad stuff out west.
If this doesn't sell at the show it will go to the railroad display. And then there's this.
I have a moccasin out west to put on this so I will. This is an old sign for fortune shoes for
beating the drum for moxfords. Old time Indian comfort plus modern styling. This is when they
start designing shoes to be comfortable when you first buy them instead of being hard
and difficult to wear. 1950s era. We're going to look at jewelry next but I wanted to show
this a little more closely. This is signed clay art from San Francisco, California. And I look
for the signed American pieces because there were a bunch of knockoffs from Asia that came out
very shortly after these were first coming around from the American companies in the late 1980s.
What a gorgeous face. Love the greens. She's going to be a great centerpiece for the jewelry.
Well here's looking at you. And yes I'm looking at you. If you have not subscribed please do
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have lots of fun all over North America looking at antiques and vintage, learning more together,
and having a great time. And for you uranium glass fans, this little piece of acro agate,
the jar with the man playing the guitar, is another uranium glass piece because it does
have custard in it. So that's a fun surprise. There's our relish bowl. There goes our candlestick
holder. And perhaps the biggest surprise of all, look at that day glow glow. Okay a couple more
small items. This is really fun. It's just pressed metal. It's an old time stove like 1930s.
This is a cool little advertising paperweight and lucite for a mechanical thing. I like to bring
little advertising stuff because I always have people who look for that in the northwest.
And all the power dams. And then we've got a coca-cola pole from the 60s.
This very cute little poodle. This very tiny cute little peacock enamel dish. A couple of good old
card decks. That's Mount Hood in Oregon. You can see that from where we have the show at Expo Center.
And then this is from the Southern Pacific Railway lines. And in addition to advertising
the salads that you can get on their dining cards, it shows places you go through on the train like
El Paso, the canyon in Nevada, and various Oregon attractions like Crater Lake, the Balancing Rock,
and this park in Portland which was the northern terminus of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
You can still take the Coast Starlight, now it's Amtrak, from Seattle and Eugene to Portland
and take the light rail and go right to the show without a car. I'm bringing this uranium
glass Fenton vase with the Fred. I'm also bringing a lime green custard lamp by Fenton. It's an
incredible piece. And a piece of Louise Piper that is very scarce. This Candlewick heart-shaped bowl
is full of Kokeshi doll erasers. Never have seen those before. And it needs a good cleaning but
I'm also bringing this Wack Amethyst vase with the dancers and the Piper. It's a nice window box
from the 1920s by Ellie Smith. All right, I promised you some jewelry. I have some things
that the repair that are really good that I'll be picking up in time for the show including a
Giuliana bracelet and a really good Corot pin. But I have been finding some other fun wearable
costume jewelry and some older stuff. These are my most recent costume jewelry and boudoir finds
and we'll start at the jewelry table. A lot is this just fun and wearable. I am starting to buy
1980s. I thought this definitely had an 80s look. And this is Cristal Saint Maria from Paris,
a 1980s brand that, well, that is an 80s look absolutely. I like this little tiki guy,
little bracelet that dangles. This is very 80s with the geometry and the onyx.
This is 60s era party jewelry but I like the fact that it had all three pieces.
This is Victorian. This is a buckle and if you look on the back you'll see
the way that it hinges together and then you'd put your fabric ribbon strap through it.
Sarah Coventry. I buy these every time I see them. They sell every time I get them.
Probably the most popular thing that they ever made. I had a very similar piece to this in the
80s that I wore. This is hematite and absolutely an 80s look. And they say it's good for you to
wear hematite. Now this is another nice Victorian era piece. This is a locket and it's got a nice
little floral design with one little rhinestone, the fleur-de-lis clasp. I say Victorian but
actually with the safety clasp this is Victorian revival. There were a lot of Victorian designs
that were remade in the 1950s and this would be one of them. A few Claus and A pieces. This just
has so much length. It just goes on and on and on. Some bracelets. I like the yin and yang here
and I have the earrings to match. These are little Dresden lace figures. They are place card holders.
That's why they have a slot in the back so you can tell who's to sit where. This I think is really
neat. Also a very 80s design with hematite. Very popular at that time. And this is sterling. I'm
starting to buy sterling again now that the prices have come down a little bit.
This also, I said hematite, I meant malachite, the green. I thought this was just really fun
and a very happy color of green. And this is a very late 70s color scheme. This is signed,
I believe it's Danecraft. It's a three-piece set in sterling. Lightweight but nice to have all the
pieces there. We do get a lot of Asian clients, Japanese and Chinese, who shop at the Portland
show. So I'm bringing these cufflinks because I always get asked for cufflinks at shows.
This is a fun swirl pin from about 1970. This is actually a rather sophisticated look with the
little blue baguettes, the emerald cut. And this one is signed. I do have quite a bit of signed
jewelry I'm bringing as well, but I'm just showing you the things I've gotten recently. This has
great color with dichroic glass, again in sterling. A little bit more Renoir without
the enameling and matisse width. I do like cameos and I found some cute little earring sets.
These are a little different because the figure appears to be an angel playing some sort of a
flute as opposed to the typical carvings of women. This is a pressed celluloid piece from about 1910,
very ornate with the flowers. And that's why you see that sort of coloration on the back.
These are nylon beads from the 50s and 60s, but I just thought they had a fun color.
I like the musical note. This is an 80s piece. This is the late 70s or early 80s piece that
needs to go in the repair bag. I see it's missing a stone. Cuffs. You've seen a couple of these
necklaces before, but the owl is new to me. And this is new to me from the 60s. Very,
very fun with all the shine. And I really like this 60s era nylon bow knot. Glass beads. These
are just a mile long and I especially like the Chinese red. And then like I said, I've got a
bunch of sterling pieces now. Little pieces, mostly 1980s. I really like the little critters
with the marcosites. The Scotty here. The three dogs here are cool and I like the little pig.
And this also has marcosites. It's a little sandal as a pin. This is older. This is actually
this graffito decorated. And this is a locket that you could put a scent in perfume. These
have carnelian. The tiniest micro mosaic guitar ever. This is another Victorian piece. It's on
the small side, but it's just a beautiful black and you can see it's got the C clasp. So that's
much older than a lot of the pieces on the table. This is 1950s when emerald was a popular
color in rhinestones. This is a style that was popular after the Second World War because they
were repurposing a lot of the materials they were using for metals during the war. And this is a
nice little fob from about 1900. And those are very popular now. Watch chains, fobs, all that
sort of thing. I got a kick out of these. They're very 80s. They're not signed, but they're decent
quality. And I have one in black and one in solid gold. This is a very, very showy domed piece.
I bought this from Barb at Winking Owl Antiques. It's nice to see she and Jeffrey selling again.
And this is a JJ signed pin. Love the spider. That's an 80s era spider. You could tell because
it's a little glossier than the earlier ones. The rings are just fun for fashion. They do have one
I really like. And it's over here with the boudoir items on this cute little stand. I always buy
anything with hands. It says don't forget it has a clip on the back so you can hold a note,
but it also can hold your ring. And the ring I put on it is garnet. And I love garnets.
The clay art piece will definitely be at the center of this collection. I really like this
little brass chest. And it has the key, which is great. I just got this pin with these wonderful
bicolored stones from about 1960. A nice bracelet in gold and purple. A modernist little perfume
bottle in sterling with that turquoise blue top. A Whiting & Davis wallet and purse. And then a
couple of old purses. I got the black and green reticule just last week. I really like this with
the micro beading from about 1910. And then over here, past the jewelry casket, this 1980s jewel
tone necklace and the mirror is this purse. I love the mesh. That's Whiting & Davis from the 1920s.
And this is where all of it will be coming and a lot more because I'm bringing jewelry. Corrine
is going to sell with us. She has a lot of nice turquoise and silver jewelry and better jewelry
and so does Naomi. She's a friend of ours from the channel. She's going to sell with us as well.
And one more category we're bringing, and I've got a bunch of fresh stock in, is paper ephemera.
I really enjoy ephemera because it covers so many different topics. And this recent batch includes
1980s hair metal, 1970s movies, some of these movie sheets from these small town theaters that
have all of the movies upcoming. If they're movies that did very well, some of those can
be kind of valuable. And yes, Rose City Vintage Expo again. You know, once the show's over, that'll
be ephemeral too. Three Daumier prints. I put one on eBay recently, but I have a couple of others.
This is Maxfield Parish. And this is the Eskimo and the Beluga by a Canadian artist. World's
Fair collectors like paper ephemera. I've got the official pictures of the 1934 Chicago World's Fair
and the Wings of a Century that was the transportation pavilion at the Chicago
World's Fair in 1933 and 4. And look how fun that must have been. The map of the New York 1964 fair.
Here are a bunch of advertising blotters. I really like blotters. You've got the Diamond Rio. These
were advertising pieces for various companies, various products. Sometimes they would employ a
famous artist like Charles 12 Trees. So it's collectible for 12 Trees collectors as well.
This little one was to put inside shoes. These are showing various house plans from the 1920s
that you could order. Coca-Cola with the Sprite Boy from the 1950s with the Rockets from about 1960.
And then this was a bottle hanger. You could play a game and win prizes from Coca-Cola. This is
perhaps the oldest piece I have in this set. This is Borden's Products with a horse-drawn wagon die
cut. That'll date to about 1910. From the Second World War, Kenny's famous army dress shoes. That
was a little diary or ledger you could take around with you. A coupon giving you 10 cents off tab
when that was the new product. And a Sprite bumper sticker. This was from a summer camp
so that you could send your letters home to mom airmail when you said get me out of here.
Maps are popular. This one was issued by the Canadian government in 1941. I like these house
paint ones because they often have inside the colors that you can paint them. And that's fun
because it gives you an idea of what colors were popular in a particular period of time. That would
be 1930s. The Guidebook to the Star's Homes back when stars included Lucille Ball, no longer with
us. Farrah Fawcett, no longer with us. Burt Reynolds, no longer with us. But you can see
where they used to live. And then another star, Marilyn Monroe, and she didn't bother to wear
any clothes in that particular picture. She posed in that to get $50 to make the car payment before
she was famous. And it came out after she was famous. And they thought it would be a great
scandal. And she just said, well, I had something on. I had the radio on. Playboy calendars. Above
is a Shunga. This is actually a rather valuable piece. They are collectible. They are scrolls from
Japan. They're very similar to the Kama Sutra. And so I can't unroll it further because, well,
they're busy. But, you know, it was something that was actually seen as educational in Japan
when that was done over 100 years ago. I like the 60s increase your face value and smile card there.
That's a jumbo postcard, actually. Believe it or not, you could send that for $0.03 back then.
In the 80s, Tom Tierney did a whole bunch of paper dolls for grownups based on costumes of stars,
Edwardian doll clothes, all sorts of different things. So we'll bring that. People enjoy those.
A fun book from 1973 from Hi-C and the same era for Sesame Street. And then fun for grownups. Well,
we have the Sears catalog from 1979. And this catalog with this very modern couple in 1975
from the Merchandise Mart. Along with the classic S&H green stamp book and a Pan Am menu. Yes,
you used to be able to order nice food on airlines. I have a large collection of pictures
from the S.S. Adirondack. This came from the family of the fellow who was the officer on board.
And a pile of paper from favorite cars of the past. The 1951 Dodge Wayfarer, the Mercedes back
when Studebaker sold them in their dealerships. The 54 Mercury, the Big M. Dodge trucks. Edsel
quality. That's not a phrase that was uttered too often. And then, well, for the cars that needed it,
some repair manuals. Well, the van is about three quarters packed and the rest is sitting in here.
So I'm gonna finish up and get on the road and head to Portland with a van full of really cool
stuff. I hope to see a bunch of you at the Rose City Vintage Show this weekend and we will have a
lot of fun there. And for those of you who can't come, we will have video with lots of amazing
displays because there's a ton of really great resellers doing all sorts of collections and
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