2023Tremont Auctions3 Hampshire Pottery high glaze souvenir pieces. Two pitchers (Mt. Vernon, VA and Eastport, ME) and aSee Sold Price
2024Tremont Auctions2 Hampshire pottery vases with green glaze. One tall vase and one squat open vase. Heights 7.5 andSee Sold Price
2024Tremont Auctions4 Hampshire Pottery high glaze pieces. Tall covered jar 7.5in, two pitchers and steinSee Sold Price
Kovels Antiques & Collecting: Week of Nov. 3, 2014BEACHWOOD, Ohio – Ice-cream scoops, soda fountain syrup dispensers and urns, advertisements, even old soda glasses and sundae dishes are selling quickly. Nostalgia has kept the prices high for things that bring back memories of the old-fashioned drugstore soda fountain. A white ceramic Crawford’s Cherry-Fizz syrup dispenser with gold, orange, green and red lettering and […]
Kovels Antiques & Collecting: Week of Jan. 13, 2014BEACHWOOD, Ohio – Canes were used not only to aid in walking, but also as part of European and American fashionable dress in the 18th and 19th centuries. Many canes had an extra function, too. Some held swords, guns, flasks, telescopes, cameras, fans, seats, perfume, poison, drugs or hidden papers. Many had silver, gold or […]
Kovels Antiques & Collecting: Week of Feb. 25, 2013“Folk art” is the confusing name given to some things made by untrained artists. From the 1930s into the ’50s, antique collectors might have called these pieces “primitive” or named them for a region, like “Pennsylvania German style.” By the 1950s, some daring collectors were searching for woodcarvings, painted chests, sculptures and paintings that lacked […]
Kovels – Antiques & Collecting: Week of Aug. 9, 2010It made news in January 2010 when a photo of President Barack Obama wearing a Weatherproof Garment Co. jacket was used on a billboard on Times Square. The photograph was taken when the president visited China, but he did not give permission for his image to be used in an ad. Weatherproof was asked to […]