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Western Butter Churn
Churn
Monmouth Pottery Company started working in Monmouth, Illinois, in 1892. The pottery made a variety of utilitarian wares. It became part of Western Stoneware Company in 1906. the maple leaf mark was used until 1930. If "Co." appears as part of the mark, the piece was made before 1906. (Source: Kovels)
SOLD
Red Wing Cookie Jar, Fondoso pattern
Red Wing Cookie Jar
The Red Wing Potteries factory began producing the Fondoso line (designer, Belle Kogan) in 1938.

SOLD

Frosted glass vase
Green urn, frosted glass with grape pattern
Vase or urn with embossed grapes, 10 1/2 inches tall: unknown maker
SOLD
Western brown jug
Brown Jug from Monmouth Pottery Company
Monmouth Pottery Company started working in Monmouth, Ill., in 1892. The pottery made a variety of utilitarian wares. It became part of Western Stoneware Company in 1906. The maple leaf mark was used until 1930. If "Co." appears as part of the mark, the piece was made before 1906. (Source: Kovels)

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Arrowheads
Indian Artifacts
Native American arrowheads, a small scraping tool, and fossilized buffalo? teeth (or other ancient creature teeth) discovered in a cave @1956 on the Sac River in Missouri before the construction of the Stockton Dam. The cave where these artifacts were found is now underwater.
SOLD

Turned wooden bowl
Turned Wooden Bowl
Turned wooden bowl; 14" diameter
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Cardinal China vintage measuring spoons
Vintage Measuring Spoons
Measuring Spoons & Measuring Spoon Holder by Cardinal China Company
Similar to one pictured in Garage Sale & Flea Market Annual 8th Edition, page 108, without basketweave pot.

SOLD

Silver Certificates
Silver Certificate
Silver Certificate Front
Series M22347748A
Large size Silver Certificates are 7.4218 by 3.125
Small Silver Certificates are 6.14 by .00043

Pictured are President Lincoln (1861-1865) and US Treasurer Frank White
SOLD

Hammered leaf tray
India Charger Tray
India Charger leaf palm design silver plated hammered
Roping trim on edge; hand wrought
Made in India

SOLD

Treenware: Spanish or other
Wood tray or bread bowlTreenware: 1800s kneading bowl with handles
Measures 23 inches, point to point.
Sold

China doll pins
China Dolls
Marked "China"
SOLD
Treenware: large wooden bowl
Turned Wooden Bowl
Huge turned wooden bowl, 17" in diameter, unfinished wood.
SOLD

Vintage Document Box
Love Letters

Print by Nutting

Nutting Print on Love Letter Box
Nutting Print on Love Letter Box
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Job Mucha Museum Print
Job Mucha museum print
Text on back of print:
504 Alfons Maria Mucha
Job (Zigarettenpapier). Plakat 1898
Museum fur Knst und Gewerbe Hamburg
copyright Verlag L. Dabritz
Alleinvertr. ART H. Hilscher, Munchen
Printed in Western Germany

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Four skeleton keys
Skeletan Keys
Four skeleton keys
No markings
SOLD
Antique Gold & Silver letter opener
Gold and silver letter opener
Antique Letter Opener of bronze and sterling silver or gold and sterling
Marks: "Sterling" "797X" and "5-14-11? (hard to read) and trademark wing with "s" in circle in middle of wings
Who is emperor or warrior pictured on letter opener?
Hercules?
Greek Roman god Emperor?
Alexander the Great?
SOLD

Range Finder for Leica CameraRange Finder Photography Accessory
DeJur-Amsco auxillary Range Finder
Vintage camera tool
Optical device

SOLD

CPR train lamp burner
Train Oil Lamp
CPR train lamp burner
Brakeman's hand lamp burner from the Canadian Pacific Railroad.
African Carving
Ebony Carving
A gift from Dr. & Mrs. Gardner to Lillian Wiskur after a trip to Africa, 1958-1959: private collection.

Antique Chinese Vase Lamp
China lamp
SOLD

Vintage Bead Necklace
Necklace
Vintage Bead Necklace

Syroco Wood Bookends
Styroco Bulldog Bookends
Syroco Wood
Made in USA
Each weighing 1# and 6 1/2" tall
SOLD
Welby Travel Clock
Welby Travel Clock
Welby Travel Clock

The Angelus by Francis Millet, 1857-1859
Potato Harvest vintage print
Farm couple prays over a meager, potato harvest. An influential painting by Millet with hidden meaning to some. Salvador Dali thought in fact the two figures were praying over their buried child.

Waltham Pocket Watch
Waltham Pocket Watch


Etching
"Cathédrale
Notre-Dame de Chartres"
"En Pissos"


The Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, painted from the vantage point of Pissos.
Pissos is 560 km (348 miles) from Paris
Charcoal of the Cathedral of Nortre Dame by French artist

Interior Decorations
For the Home
Period Furniture, Pottery & Lamps
C. Allen Correll
Bronxville, NY

Raymor Bitossi footed bowl, marked "Italy 852"
Raymor Bitossi Italy 852 Footed Bowl
This pottery bowl is in the remarkable Rimini blue color combination of blue and turquoise glazes with gold and in a repeating, sunburst like pattern.
Could be it was designed by Aldo Londi for Bitossi in Italy, circa 1960?

Oak firkin bucket
Oak firken
Oak firkin bucket
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