February 3, 2012
Dux was a San Francisco based company started by Swedish designer Folke Ohlsson around the time he moved from Sweden to the United States in 1953. By 1955 Dux was featured in major trade magazines as mentioned in Arts and architecture: Volume 72 (1955): “Dux: A complete line of imported upholstered furniture and related tables, warehoused in San Francisco and New York for immediate delivery; handcrafted quality furniture moderately priced; ideally suited for residential or commercial use; Write for catalog – The Dux Company 390 Ninth St. San Francisco“
Ohlsson is also credited with introducing the idea of shipping furniture disassembled in a flat pack or knocked down fashion, thereby reducing costs and contributing to the democratization of design.
As anyone who has ever exhaled a deep breath in the vicinity of furniture from that Swedish place beginning with the letter ‘I’ that I won’t mention by name here knows, flat pack furniture sometimes doesn’t hold up well in the long run. This may also be a problem with older knock down furniture as the corners/legs of this piece look to have after-market reinforcement blocks. Who ever did this did a nice job. Also, there is one very small crack in a stretcher and two slightly grey spots on the top itself.
All of these details may be seen in the pictures.
When made up this table is 19 1/2 inches wide, 29 1/2 inches long and stands 20 1/2 inches tall. As the mark shows it was made in Denmark. Even with the minor flaws I’d consider it to be in good condition.
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January 27, 2012
Telephone tables are sign number 437 that things have changed and kids have it too easy.
“Back in my day we had to have special furniture for our phones. It wasn’t some easy thing where you carried around more computing power in your pocket than the Strategic Air Command and could do internet searches for even the simplest stuff, like how to breathe. No, we had to remember phone numbers or look it up in a book. Ever hear of a book kid? It’s not some E-lek-tronik doo-dad, no sirree, its analog and uses paper and you had to know how to spell to use it. Bah you kids!
Wanna play Words With Friends?”
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January 17, 2012
Stylized blown and hot glass application cat after the work of Livio Seguso (born 1930, active in Murano). It is about 8 inches tall, 8 inches long and 7 inches deep. There is an etched or incised signature Seguso A.V. on the underside as well as a gallery label from Florence, Italy.
In perfect condition.
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January 10, 2012
We’re just as shocked as Katrina here to learn that the ingestion of large amounts of cookies will make ones skirts rather “voluminous”.
This jar was designed by Charles Murphy for Red Wing Pottery and introduced in 1941. She was called ”Katrina” and was produced in tan, yellow and two-tone blue like we have here. Green was later added to the line too.
She is about 10 1/4 inches tall and 7 inches in diameter and in excellent condition with no chips or cracks.
UPDATE (2/1/12): When looking around for something else I ran across the design patent for this piece. It can be found here.
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January 9, 2012
This is a cool vintage mirror with an orange flecked gilt frame and out-swept edges in the corners. It’s probably 1950′s vintage and looks remarkably like the snout/grille of an Edsel. Unlike an Edsel the mirror has eyelets placed so it can be hung with the skinny end at either the top or the bottom.
As the sticker on the back shows this was made in Belgium for La Barge Mirrors of Holland, Michigan, a company that’s still reflecting on its business model.
It is approximately 20 inches wide and 43 inches long and has a few small drip marks (like mascara after crying, or watery ink) on the frame at the skinny end. Otherwise it is in excellent condition.
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January 3, 2012
This cute vintage sewing stand has good ‘bones’ but could use some care. The top was stripped and never refinished and the rest of the original finish is a bit rough too. Fortunately all the parts are solidly attached and it is otherwise OK.
My guess is that this fell prey to an organizer who likes to start projects but has trouble actually completing them.
Maybe you know someone who can finish it?
The lid lifts to reveal a tray with notches and spindles for thread. You can remove the tray to access the lower storage compartment, or you can pull the front out since the compartment is also a drawer.
It is 26 inches tall, 12 1/2 inches deep and 16 1/4 inches wide.
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December 27, 2011
Black loom the crags of the uplands behind me;
Dark are the sands of the far-stretching shore.
Dim are the pathways and rocks that remind me
Sadly of years in the lost nevermore.
From Unda; Or, the Bride of the Sea
H.P. Lovecraft was an author of some really twisted and scary stuff. Throughout his works there are a variety of central themes and the sea can often be found connecting them together. It’s especially prominent in the Cthulu mythos.
I imagine this is what Lovecraft would consider a nice view from the veranda at a vacation cottage by the sea while waiting for the evil ancient gods to come and devour his liver (kind of like this)*.
Fortunately not everyone knows Lovecraft, or cares, or has had a ‘deep well of cynicism’ described as one on their better personal characteristics.
Those folks might take home a very different message from this painting.
In frame it is 31 1/2 inches tall by 43 inches wide. It appears to be a commercial decorators painting in the style of Thomas Kinkade “the painter of light” (or alternatively). I’ve looked closely at the work and it does not appear to be signed but there is a pencil mark on the back that seems to read c187356. It may be one of Thomas Kinkade’s piece, or it may not, I’m not sure.
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*I’m actually quite relieved that someone else made the Cthulu/Kinkade connection well before I did.
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December 24, 2011
The Estate Store & Garage Sale will be closed December 25th & 26th.
According to the wiring diagram this is a TP-6-A telephone. There are very similar phones made by others out there but ours is labeled on the Bakelite receiver so we know it was manufactured by Connecticut Telephone and Electric.
It appears to have been completely retrofitted and painted and then resold by someone working out of their house in Olympia, WA. After this there was a serious cord injury/amputation which resulted in our phone tech putting a new plug on a much shortened cord. While the cord is shorter, the phone still works.
Although the repair/retrofit service noted that it was from 1938* careful inspection of the base shows a painted over manufacturers sticker that appears to read MFP. DEC 4_ (the last number is illegible, see picture below), which fits well with the common wisdom which attributes these to the 1940′s and 1950′s. Interestingly MFP stands for Moistureproofed and Fungiproofed** wherein the interior was treated to prevent growth.
The common wisdom also says that these were used extensively by the Army Signal Corps. and calls them toaster phones (due to a vague resemblance to a toaster).
Other than the shortened cord our phone is in excellent restored working condition. The letter/number dial-plate appears to be enameled porcelain over steel and it is in near perfect condition.
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*I suspect 1938 was the date of the original contract or when the model was first produced hence the attribution.
** according to this vintage manual (page 11 & 12 or .pdf page 22 & 23):
“Telephone TP-6-A (figs. 16 and 17). Telephone TP-6-A is similar in operation and internal construction to the TP-6 type telephone sets. In addition, it is moistureproofed and fungiproofed to permit its operation in tropical areas. How- ever, the TP6-A is not a moistureproofed and fungiproofed model of any of the telephone sets that comprise the TP-6. It is a completely different equipment, and its parts are not interchangeable with those of any of the TP-6 type equipments, except WECo No. 302AW-3, Figure 16 shows the front view of the TP-6-A; figure 17 shows the location of parts with the base plate opened.”
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December 19, 2011
Another great pair to follow up on our paella pans from yesterday. These too were designed by Jens Quistgaard for Dansk’s Købenstyle cookware line. They are enameled ceramic over iron and feature bright white interior with turquoise exterior (except the insides of the lids, which are also turquoise).
We have them in two sizes, which we think is the 4 and 5 quart sizes. In terms of diameter, the larger one is about 10 1/2 inches in diameter, the smaller is 9 1/4 inches in diameter. We measured this at the widest part of the pan, not including the handles. The actual opening diameters are slightly smaller due to the curved sidewall. Interestingly the lid from the larger of these pots fits the small paella pan nicely.
Both pans are in very good condition with some of the typical signs of use, like little flea-bite chips along the upper edges.
We’re asking $75 for the larger one and $55 for the smaller.
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December 13, 2011
Wicked cool mid-century cat by Baldelli Ceramics (Italy). Besides being eye-catching it has a slot in the back and plug on the bottom so you can use it as a ‘kitty-bank’.
Unlike a real cat this one only eats what you give it and never leaves unexpected “returns on investment” on the floor for you to step in (barefoot) in the middle of the night.
This style is directly derived from the cats designed by ceramicist Lisa Larson for Gustavsberg (Sweden).
It is in excellent condition and is 11 1/2 inches long and 5 1/2 inches tall.
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December 6, 2011
Bauer Pottery introduced the ringware pattern in around 1929*. The line was designed by Louis Ipsen and capitalized on the vibrant glazes crafted for Bauer in the late 1920′s and early 1930′s by Victor Houser.
These brightly colored pieces were a major step away from the generally boring looking dinnerware of the era and presaged the success of Fiestaware (introduced in 1936).
This is a lidded carafe in Jade green. Jade green was one of the earlier colors made by Bauer and orange, black, blue and turquoise were later added. This lidded carafe is commonly known as a coffee carafe but it’d work well for other liquids too.
It is in excellent condition with no chips or cracks and still has the usually missing lid. It stands 9 inches tall to the top of the lid’s finial.
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*One of the wonderful things about slinging used stuff for a small charity is that I get to learn something new almost everyday. Today I was surprised to learn that this style was so old, I figured that these were from the tail end of the 1930′s and became popular after the war.
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December 3, 2011
It’s that wonderful time of year again! Every early December we celebrate one of the great practical minds of the 19th century and the savior of lobuli auricularum everywhere.
Meet Chester Greenwood, inventor of earmuffs, wood boring machines, advertising matchboxes and the metal spring rake.
Over the course of his life he’d gotten over 100 patents but it was the patent for Greenwood’s Champion Ear Protectors which made him rich, famous and celebrated even as it approaches 75 years after his death.
The only thing that would make this better for us is if we had any ear protectors to offer but they’re a little scarce in the relatively warm Northwest, so we don’t.
We do have quite a variety of wool blankets though, which are kind of like ear muffs for the entire body.
Here’s a small sample, but we have many more. We’ll be adding new ones as we can so stop in to see them in person.
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December 1, 2011
It’s more than just a clock, it’s a little piece of infinity.
Just after getting his B.A. at Oxford and before going to Cambridge for his advanced degree Stephen Hawking worked one summer for an interior decorator. While doing this he decided to give design a shot on his own and found great inspiration in combining his studies with his vocation.
Thus the infinity clock was born.
It is 31 1/2 inches in diameter and seems to work properly. When the clock is moved the hour hand comes loose and dangles uselessly at the 6 o’clock position. This is easily remedied by pushing it gently back onto the shaft.
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November 9, 2011
“Oh give me a home
where the Visigoths roam
and the Vandals and Iceni play
and if you can’t stand the stench
have a seat on this Roman bench”
That’s not exactly Home On The Range but this isn’t exactly a chair, it is a style of seating is sometimes known as a Roman bench. They seem to have been especially popular in the late 1920′s and 1930′s.
Our specimen was made by the Crocker Chair company of Sheboygan, Wisconsin which went out of business in the early 1930′s. It is in good condition and appears to have the original upholstery. It is 23 inches wide, 23 inches tall and 15 1/2 inches deep.
If you’re into furniture history I recommend looking at the furniture catalogs available through University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. There’s hours of wasted time to be mined there.
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November 7, 2011
Here’s another take on the iconic 1960′s star-burst style. This time by Elgin who used the starburst concept as a launching point for many clock designs in that era. This isn’t the most elaborate style they made, nor is it the plainest; instead it’s a nice middle-of-the-road design.
There are eight large teak wedges which are bordered by brass wire. The clock is about 25 inches across, works and is operated by the original C cell battery motor.
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November 6, 2011
Just because you lived in pre-electric rural america it didn’t meant you couldn’t enjoy a nice waffle.
This waffle iron with ring base was made by Griswold between 1910 and 1925. It’s in good condition but I’d clean it before use.
It is just over 15 inches at the greatest dimension (across the wooden handles) and weighs nearly 9 pounds.
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November 5, 2011
Although once painted this cabinet has been stripped to nearly bare wood, leaving just slight traces of milk-like paint in the cracks and wood grain.
It retains one hanger on the back indicating that it has been hung on a wall before, but since there only one hanger left it now works best on a table or counter top.
It is 27 inches wide, 19 inches tall and 9 1/4 inches deep.
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November 4, 2011
This six tier shelf is designed for use with billiard or other pool type balls. The space between shelves is about 2 1/2 inches and there is a slight groove running down the length of the shelf to keep them from rolling out.
Hypothetically the numbers shelves either indicate which table the balls came from or, possibly, the order of balls pocketed on any particular round.
At the largest points the shelf is 23 inches wide, 19 3/4 inches tall and 4 inches deep. It is unmarked, but probably accompanied a Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company table of the 1920′s or 1930′s.
It is in good condition, with original finish and the gilt numbers are still vibrant.
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October 15, 2011
Happy Saturday morning. Last night we had a special sale and gathering here at the Warehouse. Things went well and a fun time was had by most.
This is a set of three ‘cupid’ photographs by M. B. Parkinson. They were originally published in the late 19th Century. The model is not actually cupid (surprise!) but a girl named Josephine Anderson* (who continued modeling as an adult).
We have Cupid Interested (above), Cupid Awake and Cupid Asleep. ‘Awake’ and ‘Asleep’ are framed in circular oak frames 14 inches in diameter (8 1/2 inches inside). ‘Interested’ is in an oak frame with a heart-shaped cut-out. The outside dimensions of this frame are 16 inches by 18 3/4 inches.
For now I’m thinking that they should go as a set.
* Unfortunately Josephine Anderson of the cupid photos is not related to Josephine Anderson who was the sister of the great Mexican dancer Lupe Velez.
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October 7, 2011
Yes, suede, not a Swede mallard.
I’d almost rather it was a Swedish Mallard. I’d give it to a Swedish Chef then and wait for the (not exactly high) comedy to follow.
Instead this framed Mallard is made of a bunch of pieces of suede (or suede-like fabric) stitched together, mounted on a board with a little padding and framed. In the frame it is 36 3/4 inches wide and 30 3/4 inches tall.
If the prominence of ducks on display in ones home is an indicator of the probability of political conservatism it should be no surprise that this duck dates to 1980 at the early (optimistic) end of the Reagan era. This was editioned as number 15 of 250 which makes me think that the different colors are printed rather than the actual fabric color.
It would look smashing over the big white sectional we just featured!
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September 24, 2011
Cool old vintage roller skate case from Portland’s own, world famous and still operational Oaks Park.
Like many older amusement parks Oaks Park was originally (1905) built as the anchor for the end of a suburban trolley line. This was not an uncommon practice at the time since having an amusement park on the line helped build ridership during off-peak commuting hours, like nights and weekends. Elsewhere in the Portland area this same model was applied to a much shorter lived park on Council Crest.
Oaks Park is still running and the iconic roller skating rink is alive and well. The rink was originally installed sometime before 1944 and was (and is) one of the largest in the northwest. In 1955 a pipe organ, formerly located at the Broadway Theater (installed there in 1926) was relocated to the park where it remains in operation.
Our skate case contains a pair of size 8 Chicago Custom GM II skates from the great roller skating revival of the 1970′s (as indicated by the official 1973 American Roller Dance Skating handbook). They’re in good condition and we have various wrenches for them too.
The case is in excellent condition. It is about 15 inches long by 12 inches tall by 6 1/2 inches thick. Of all unexpected miracles we have the key.
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September 20, 2011
Well, I screwed up and somehow managed to not schedule this at the right time. So only eight hours late, here is today’s 9 am post at 5 pm.
What I’d like to spend most of my time doing is figuring out the weird stuff, deciphering the enigmas of past culture while learning not-exactly useful (on a daily basis) information on the way. Unfortunately the reality is that I get to spend more time than I like doing the dishes, spit-shining furniture and shifting things from one place to another.
So, sometime things take longer than one would like to make it from the pile of denial (the place where all the enigmas go before being decoded) into the store. These neat fellows have been around quite a while (approximately the gestation time of Homo sapiens sapiens), and I’d like to write the tale of how they made it to America (it involved tricking a tourist in a game of seven card stud, stowing away on a tramp steamer and then a dangerous swim through the surf to reach the Port Of Portland) but some things can’t be told in more or less public forum.
We’ve had Burmese puppets before. Discovering what they were was a world ranging exploration in itself, from Korea to Japan and southward to West Africa, before closing in upon Burma (Myanmar). Once we figured out where they were from it was relatively easy to decide which of the set-piece characters in the codified Burmese puppet theater the object represented and go from there.
We know where these come from (that’s the easy part), but which characters do they represent?
The characters in Burmese puppet theater were more or less officially codified by the royal patrons of the theater in the early 19th century. Luckily for us this means that the possible field of characters is restricted and we only have to look with in a relatively finite set of 30 or so individuals.
We’re pretty sure we have one of the Three Jokers (Yaw Yuet, Lu Phyet & Lu Shwin Daw). The pointing index finger on the right hand is the primary indicator of this. We’re not sure which of the three jokers this is, but it’s pretty definitely one of them. The pointing index finger on the right hand is the defining trait and they’re not laughing with you, they’re laughing at you.
He’s in OK condition and comes in traditional dress, carved wooden hair, fixed hands (see below) and clay painted face (with a few scrapes as shown in the picture). He’s about 13 inches tall.
This is the Alchemist or Magician (Zawgyi) they always wear red and the characters “dance is full of high jumps and somersaults and the puppeteer is usually very skilled in his craft.” Without any quantitative basis for thinking this I suspect our Magician was made more recently* than the Joker above. He’s in great shape and stands 23 inches tall. Like the first Burmese puppet we had this one has articulated hands which is just really neat. His beard hairs are plugs of human hair,which is kind of cool too.
*I suspect I’m thinking that relative simplicity (primitivism) is can correlate to greater antiquity. This is a fundamentally false premised based on the idea of progressive evolution and that sophistication increases over time. As the Middle Ages shows so well when contrasted to Imperial Rome this is not the case. As such I could be totally wrong. But I’m a generalist so I do what I can. If the change in construction techniques and styles in Burmese puppets happens to be the subject of your master’s thesis and I’m wrong please let me know and I’ll make the necessary revisions.
The third one appears to be a minister (or possibly a hermit which says something about how in touch with the populace government officials really are). The tall hat suggests that he’s a very important person we’ll go with the idea that the size of the hat correlates to the (perceived) importance of the person wearing it.
He isn’t as elaborately made as the Magician so he probably wasn’t as important a person on the stage. The decorative style suggests that he’s come from the same place and or time as the magician though. He’s in good condition and stands about 16 inches tall.
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September 19, 2011
As we noted before we’ve gotten a bunch of this stuff together and had to break it into two sets.
This is the second set we’ve put together. It has 38 pieces altogether including 12 dinner knives, 11 dinner forks, 10 teaspoons, two serving or table spoons, one slotted serving spoon, one butter knife and a pierced pie or cake server.
All the pieces are in good, but used condition.
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September 17, 2011
Except in Scotland where it’s called a kilt.
Fresh off the boat from inner northeast Portland we’re happy to offer three fine vintage (mid-1950′s) rock maple dresser/chests of drawers. they all match, but we’re willing to break up the group to in recognition of the real world chances of selling them. They were all made by T.F.I which stands for Thomasville Furniture Industries.
My favorite in the group is this side by side chest of drawers. It’s a bit of an unusual piece and it is in quite good shape. It is hugely functional too as it allows two folk to share a dresser without sacrificing a football field size bit of floor space. It is 42 inches wide, 19 inches deep and 45 1/2 inches tall. SOLD!
In case you’re a loner or just not that into sharing we also have a single dresser. It’s in good condition and is a slightly smaller 32 inches wide, 19 inches deep and 45 1/2 inches tall. Update: We never sold this piece so we gave it to one of our client families.
Perhaps conventional shared storage is OK, or maybe you live in place where anything tall will block the cell window. If so the third piece might do the trick. It is a nice, normal double dresser with eight drawers. It is in good condition too and is 50 inches wide, 19 inches deep and 35 inches high. SOLD!
Special Bonus!
We have the mirror for the set too. It hangs from the wall and it is 35 inches wide by 34 inches tall.
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August 31, 2011
Paul Revere never would have imagined that giant gobs of fire could rain from the sky and that school children would have been taught to cower under their desks as the end of the world came.
But then again he never would have imagined fruit smoothies, virtual reality and electric light either. If nothing else it shows that the future is probably going to be radically different than we’re prepared to imagine.
This is a vintage, probably 1970′s, three globe swag lamp. As you might have guessed from the title it can turned on with one, two or three bulbs lit. Of course off is also a viable option.
It’s in quite good condition and we’ve replaced two of the bulbs with energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs. We’d have done all three, but we ran out.
Paul Revere would have ridden 20 miles, uphill both ways in a snowstorm to get a new light bulb, but this time you’re on your own.
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