Evelyn & Russell

This photo was taken in 1913. It kind of ties in with the posts we had on earlier this week on clothing and sewing items. It shows an example what the style for the wealthy was like in 1913. Mom had quite a history by the way. http://www.shorpy.com/node/16118

Victorian Sewing

This website is devoted to help you make clothes from the Victorian Era. There is also info on Edwardian clothing. Two articles on how what is in a Victorian sewing box and a housewife needle case.  http://victoriansewing.com/

laglass

Michael is a dear friend and knows more about glass than the average antique and glass dealer, us included, will ever remember. He sells on ebay under laglass. Here is one of his past listings. The details are in his description. The toothpick without the wording is rare. 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Ruby-Stained-Heisey-TOURAINE-toothpick-holder-/141063292187?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20d807051b&nma=true&si=dgglbE%252Bj3OzRN6uOGJoEj0NefYg%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

The Writer Automaton

This small boy automaton is over 240 years old. What a marvel!

http://www.chonday.com/Videos/the-writer-automaton

Thimbles and Thimble Holders

This site is about thimbles and thimble holders. A life long collection is up for sale from the Thimble Holders Museum. The link to the page below features 20 treasures from the early 19th and mid 19th century. Check out the other categories on the site from children's kits, clamps, tables etc, etc. 

http://www.thimble-holders.com/twenty-treasures

Antique Golf Clubs

Fore! Interesting site on antique golf clubs. There is also a page on antique golf balls. Just type golf balls in their search box to show that page. Have a good weekend everyone. Stay out of the rough!
http://antiquegolfclubs.org/Antique-Golf.html

National Autumn Leaf Collectors Club

Autumn has arrived in Southwest Idaho. The colors of autumn are warm with shades of orange, gold, green  and brown. The link we have today is to the Autumn Leaf Collectors Club. Autumn Leaf is the name of the pattern and it decorated many items made by the Hall China Company of Liverpool, Ohio. The china was offered for sale by the Jewel Tea Company as a premium. Learn more at http://nalcc.org/

Relics of America's Gilded Age

This link is to the Lightner Museum in St Agustine Florida http://lightnermuseum.org/main_lightner.html
If you want to see how life was in the 19th century this is the place. There are displays ofAmerican Brilliant Cut Glass, Victorian glass and the stain glass of Tiffany.

Blenko Glass

"For over 100 years Blenko has maintained and will carry on the tradition of hand-made glass. We offer a wide range of products which include functional glassware, art glass, mouth blown sheet glass, dalle de verre and other quality products". 

Blenko has been in business since 1893. Every year they have a Festival of Glass were courses are offered to students of all ages to learn how to make hand crafted glass items. They are keeping the tradition of glass making alive in the U.S. http://www.blenko.com/

Carlo Bugatti, Father of the carmaker Bugatti

Carmaker Ettore Bugatti's father, Carlo Bugatti, was a designer and manufacture of Art Nouveau furniture. This link is to auctions of his furniture by Christies. 

http://artist.christies.com/Carlo-Bugatti--53642.aspx

Couldn't you see a Lalique Mascot on a Bugatti ??

Yesterday we had a link for Lalique mascots. Then I happen to read an article on Ettore Bugatti. I can just see a Lalique mascot on the hood of one of these cars!

http://www.rarecars.co/cars/bugatti/

Lalique Mascots

We would call them hood ornaments. The Lalique Mascot Collector's Club is hosted by the BrmmBrmm Classic Network & Directory. 

http://www.brmmbrmm.com/lbcc.bb

The Glass Art Society

This site is about contemporary glass artists. " The Glass Art Society (GAS) is an international nonprofit organization founded in 1971 whose purpose is to encourage excellence, to advance education, to promote the appreciation and development of the glass arts, and to support the worldwide community of artists who work with glass. GAS members are artists, students, educators, collectors, gallery and museum personnel, writers, and critics, among others."
http://www.glassart.org/

Loetz and other Bohemian Glass Companies

In addition to Loetz Glass this website is about the many Bohemian glass factories that operated at the turn of the 20th century. The words on the title page below Loetz Glass are Tiffany Twisted and Mercedes Bends. What? Where did those words come from? A book title? A billboard sign? Yes, this is a bonus question. No prizes except for the satisfaction that you know stuff that may help you win a trivia game.

http://www.loetz.com/

Corning Glass and their ideas for the future!

A fun video to watch. How soon will we have some of these products?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZkHpNnXLB0

Maxfield Parrish

Maxfield Parrish was a very well known artist in the early part of the 20th century. His illustrations were everywhere: advertising, books, magazine covers, murals etc.  When Wayne and I traveled up down the central valley of California for shows in the late 1990's we would stop at a restaurant in Mojave. They had about 30 Maxfield Parrish original prints in their dining room. We would tell the waitress we would love to buy them. Each time we were told they were not for sale. One day we came through and stopped for breakfast at this restaurant. It was still open, but there were new owners and the prints were gone.

http://parrish.artpassions.net/

Hudson River Landscape Stained Glass Window By Tiffany

Imagine that you owned a home on the Hudson and you commissioned Louis Comfort Tiffany to make a stained glass window. It is finished in 1905. In the 1970's the home is sold and so is the window. Thank goodness it ended up in a museum, the Corning Museum of Glass.
http://www.cmog.org/artwork/window-hudson-river-landscape

Ruba Rombic

So Art Deco. The pattern is called Ruba Rombic. Made by Consolidated in 1928.
http://www.cmog.org/artwork/ruba-rombic

Phoenix and Consolidated Glass Collector's Club

Fabulous home page with great photos of Phoenix and Consolidated glass. In addition to Phoenix and Consolidated glass  they have info about Kopp Glass and Muncie Pottery.  There is a quarterly newsletter with membership. http://www.pcgcc.org/

Labor Day Greetings

Ok, ok so you had to work today, but at least you may have had a childhood. Howard worked hard for the money. Happy Labor Day to all who labor!

http://www.shorpy.com/node/12783