I'd say! I went to an estate sale this morning, waited 90 minutes plus ... cancelled. They didn't tell us until after it was supposed to be open.
You cleaned house! I hope to get to an estate sale in the morning and do likewise. The early 50s blue rhinestone is a winner. It and the...
Maybe it was attributed to fancy maker and they were hoping Michael Jackson would walk in. He liked crazy, over the top, silly money pieces.
WHOA. That's a chunk.
Kentucky? :p:p:p
The more kids, the creepier? If I were an Odd Art person, I'd amass a collection of these and frame them together.
Gillows is a name to conjure with. Conjure up a profit, that is. Top end pieces still sell for top end prices. Usually.
That's a possibility too. Either way it's a strange image. I bet the Nightmare Before Christmas/Krampus crowd would go for it.
It's a mix. The faces were real photographs, printed into blank areas on the card. I'd bet these were made for one family, and that there are...
Seconded. That alas is the way brown wood has sold until very recently. Some of it is doing better than it was, but better is relative. Big...
Ditto. I saw the same thing. A lot of similar upholstry fabrics in the late 60s/early 70s was synthetic, so it fits.
Definitely somewhere they serve tea that way. The metal banding might be because the potter didn't entirely trust the ceramic.
They were selling leftovers that had been in the fridge for too long.
I think it's a copy of an older piece. The metal doesn't look like the vintage ones.
IIRC Sobral is usually signed. It's far too new for me to know much about it though. This is site for vintage and antique items, and this is...
Thirded. They don't realize that they make/made many other things.
I'd bet on lacquer on the outside and tinned inside, once upon a time. If possible and you really want to use it, you can have the interior...
...and what they were thinking. Or smoking.
Ticking is generally cotton, but linen is possible. The hard bits look like peeled wood and bone.
I think 10 items sold, total. It makes you wonder why they bothered.
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