This glorious pitcher featuring the mascot of The Sleepy Eye Flour Mill Company was among the popular promotional items given to customers of its flour. Decorated in the round, the pitcher includes tee-pees and trees.
Condition is Very Good, suffering from age toning and crazing. There are no cracks or chips.
Dimensions (inches)
Height: 9
Width: 9
Depth: 3 3/4
This is one really nice 6 1/2 inch high Frosted Tumbler featuring the 1964-1965 New York Worlds Fair. This Tumbler measures 2 3/4 inches in diameter at the top and is in very good condition with no chips or cracks. The decorations are all very good and legible. The back of the tumbler features the Pool of Industry Water Display story. I pictured both sides of the tumbler for your information. Be sure to search our other Worlds Fair items available. We guarantee all items to be as described...
This is a really great 1950s Crosley Radio advertisement plate for Crosley Automatic Dishwashers made in the U.S.A.. The advertisement on the front of the plate is: HOW ABOUT YOU DOING THE DISHES TONIGHT or HOW ABOUT BUYING ME A CROSLEY AUTOMATIC DISHWASHER. The plate is signed on the back: Salem WARRANTED 22K. The plate is in very good condition with no chips or cracks. The Crosley advertisement print is very good. There is some slight wear on the platinum around the edge of the plate...
This stylish basket weave purse was quite the rage during the 1950s when Dorset Rex marketed this patented purse during the Eisenhower years. The patent was actually issued in late 1949, after which a wide range of purses entered the market. The Dorset Rex tag tells us that the purse was made after 1951, thus we date it c. 1955.
This purse is gold with reddish-brown, possibly deep mauve, lucite top which closes with an S-hooked clasp. The horse shoe handle rotates freely on pins...
From the Sunday December 10, 1899 New York Herald is an advertisement for RIPANS tablues, an over the counter remedy for a litany of ailments. Its founder was George Rowell who was an advertising trailblazer in the brokerage business...
This red and yellow sign promoted the Coca Cola campaign to encourage grocery store sales of its flag ship brand. The daring use of two primary colors certainly got people's attention and should get yours today, too.
The sign is made of cardboard and features a 6 pack carton of coke with the message to Take Home A Carton...
Very nice original set of Applause Beatles Rag Dolls.
They all have their original tags on, three have their Guitars and I believe that Ringo may be missing his Drum sticks.
Made in 1987.
They measure approx 23" in height.
Vintage clip-on earrings by Wilma Spagli, Italy. Grey wool bound together by flaxen thread in a check pattern. 1980’s, the gold tone metal base signed Wilma Spagli and Made in Italy. Height "1 ¾ / 4.5 cm. Condition: fine.
A fabulous, vintage school teaching tool from the early 20th Century! Copyrighted 1940 and manufactured by the Richmond School Furniture Company, Muncie, Indiana, this early teaching tool featured the unusual option to practice both spelling on one side and computation on the reverse!
Measuring 13 inches wide x 9.50 inches high x 1/8 inch thick and constructed of heavy, multi-layered cardboard, this wonderful piece is in very fine, all-original condition with a warm, rich patina and color...
This highly decorative, quite visually appealing, and VERY RARE children's alphabet and nursery rhyme combination block set was designed to teach young ones their ABC's along with the skill of memorizing and reading the popular nursery rhymes of the day.
This 114 year old educational toy manufactured by Parker Brothers of Salem, Massachusetts, New York and London, is marked copyright 1909, in the lower left hand corner of the cover...
A first edition hard cover published by Abbeville Press in 1998.The dust jacket shows some wear with scotch tape on the upper corner ( see photo ), the back has a tear and creasing at the top edge and there is an ink spot on the bottom text block. The book is in fine condition. Illustrated. 359 pages. Original price $ 75.
This fantastic metal advertising sign for Grapette soft drink is among its earliest productions if not the first, alone making it a very desirable collector's item. But the fact that it is so large and decorative gives it extra oomph - especially for that holy of holies - the man cave.
This advertising sign is in exceptional condition considering its past life as an advertisement. It has nail holes at the outer rim on the top and the bottom...
This is a really great little vintage glass Lantern Candy Container with blue metal base and lid and wire handle. This Lantern Candy Container measures 3 1/2 inches high. With the handle up it measures 5 3/4 inches to top of handle. The glass part of the Lantern is signed: U.S.A. - AVOR 3/4 OZ. The glass part of the lantern is in very good condition with no chips, cracks or scratches. The blue metal base and top are in very good condition with no dents or damage. The lids screws on well...
This is a really great little 3 ounce vintage Maytag Household Oil tin with the original red protector tip still on the tin. This tin is in very good condition for it's age with no dents or damage. Some of the printed information on the tin includes, but not limited to: MAYTAG HOUSEHOLD OIL Tin - PART NO. 57190-x - MADE IN U.S.A. - THE MAYTAG COMPANY, NEWTON, IOWA - CONTENTS 3 FLUID OUNCES. The lettering is readable. We guarantee items to be as described. THANK YOU.
A flamenco-style fan purchased in Spain during the 70's that has flowers painted on the mother of pearl sticks and black lace. The brass etched handle is a bit bent.
This is a really great turquoise Fiesta 7 inch diameter Potter's plate advertising the 1939 Worlds Fair, made by Homer Laughlin Co. On the front of the plate is a design of a potter at work. On the back is stamped JOINT EXHIBIT of CAPITAL AND LABOR - The AMERICAN POTTER - NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR 1939. This Plate is in very good condition with no chips or cracks...
Professionally framed in 1989 with museum-quality, acid-free backing as well as acid-free double-matting, this fabulous 1863, double fashion print from Godey's Lady's Book Magazine depicts the high style of the upper echelons of ladies' fashions during the Abraham Lincoln presidency, 159 years ago!
These fashion prints were carefully folded by Godey's to preserve the image and then were typically placed at the front of the magazine. The prints were reproduced from an actual, intricately detai...
Professionally framed in 1992 with museum-quality, acid-free backing as well as acid-free double-mats, this fabulous 1863, fashion print from Godey's Lady's Book Magazine depicts the high style of the upper echelons of ladies' fashions during the Abraham Lincoln presidency, 159 years ago!
These fashion prints were typically placed at the front of the magazine, carefully folded to protect them from damage. They were reproduced from an actual, highly-detailed engraving which was then hand-tinte...