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Folk art is hard to put a price on; CURRENT PRICES Current prices are recorded from antiques shows, flea markets, sales and auctions throughout the United States. Prices vary in different locations because of local economic conditions. Los Angeles Times Cookbook, No. 2: 105 pages, 1905. $25. Pied Piper children's shoes: white leather, box depicts children following the Pied Piper of Hamelin. $45. Steuben glass ducks: incised signature, 53 4 inches, pair. $65. Halloween costume: Shazam! Ben Cooper, box, 1967. $95. Jane West action figure: Johnny West series, turquoise plastic, flesh-tone hands and face, 1965, Marx. $85. Schick 20 electric shaving razor: 1950s, case, booklet and cleaning brush. $150. Roseville bookends: foxglove, blue, pair. $275. Superman lunch box: 1954, metal, Universal. $700. Victorian parlor table: walnut with burl veneer, inset white marble top, "From James Moriarty & Bro., Cleveland, O." label. $825. Madame Alexander Scarlett O'Hara doll: composition, original hat, 1939-1946, 17 inches. $995.

Boxes covered with shells, flowers made of feathers, chains made of bottle caps, paintings on dried fungus, stuffed frogs playing musical instruments and many other strange crafts are part of the folk-art collectibles market. One of the strangest of the folk-art pieces seen at auction recently is a

Publication: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Brand-name collections a result of much research; CURRENT PRICES Current prices are recorded from antiques shows, flea markets, sales and auctions throughout the United States. Prices vary in different locations because of local economic conditions. Sugar and creamer: Homer Laughlin, Bluebird pattern: $55. Pan American Exposition mug: Buffalo, two women, 1901, Tenton Pottery, 5 inches: $85. Howdy Doody merchandise catalog: 1955, 20 pages, 8 1 2-by-10 inches: $90. Nancy & Sluggo sewing set: original box, 1949, 16 inches: $100. Hair brushes: Tiffany sterling-silver, floral-and-fern design, circa 1892, pair: $275. Christian Dior chemise dress: pink linen, jeweled neck, size 10, 1950: $210. Hawaiian hula dancer nodder: marked "Lenville China," Ardalt, Japan, two pieces: $395. Fiberglass shell armchair: by Charles Eames for Herman Miller, orange, on a black-wire cat's cradle base, paper label, 22 1 2-by-25-by-25 1 2 inches: $440. Double-weave coverlet: medallions, eagle, Independence Hall border, indigo and white, C.W. Jerman, July 4, 1835, 91-by-77 inches: $630. Venini glass bottle with stopper: tall neck, squat base, green and opaque blue, gold-foil label, etched "Venini Murano Italia," 14-by-5 inches: $725.

Brand names that have been used for more than 50 years are popular with collectors. Coca- Cola, Hires, Pepsi-Cola, Dr Pepper, Cracker Jack, Aunt Jemima, Heinz, Camel, Lucky Strike, Planters, Levi Strauss, Anheuser-Busch and many others are now so popular that there are special collectors clubs and

Publication: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Design Doctor: Our LOFT gave us a LIFT; Swapping a Victorian semi for a trendy city apartment changed a family's life.(Features)

Byline: Words and pictures: EWA THREE years ago, Sue and Paul Vaight sold their Victorian semi in Kent, got rid of all their antique furniture and moved with their two teenage children to a fashionable 2,500 sq-ft loft in London. Paul, an executive working for BP, was tired of the commuter run to

Publication: The Mirror (London, England)

Buyer shells out $425 for turtle paperweight

A two-day public auction held for the late Elvin and Martha Hershey of 2715 Columbia Ave. drew more than 500 registered bidders Aug. 1 and 2. Two floating turtle paperweights sold for $425 and $400 at the sale conducted by Witman Auctioneers Inc., Manheim. Other items that sold included a Knox

Publication: Sunday News Lancaster, PA

A family memoir: the men of #2 company, Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry, 1915.(Gazette: Documents & Archives)

I was lucky. My parents lived in the same house for forty-five years and they were always saving things: old daguerreotypes, tintypes, letters, notes, diaries, books, magazines, albums, gowns, and uniforms. History was alive in our attic. As kids my two sisters, brother and I played with period

Publication: Manitoba History

Diary for Thursday, May 2, 2002

00-00-0000 Diary for Thursday, May 2, 2002 EVENTS ARE IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER AND IN LOCAL TIME UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE. ADELAIDE 1030 - Sexpo opening. Royal Adelaide Showgrounds. Contact: 0409 650 834. 1030 - University of Adelaide and Hewlett Packard Australia Entrepreneurs' Challenge. Bonython

Publication: AAP General News (Australia)

Picture this: Ex-Polaroid exec's Connecticut estate on market for $15 mil.

A Greenwich, Conn., estate--built by one of the founders of Polaroid--is on the market $15 million. Julius Silver, who served as the photography company's patent lawyer for 40 years, died in January at the age of 101. As a youth, Silver met the company's founder, Edwin Land, at a summer camp, not

Publication: Chicago Sun-Times

Small wonders THE BROADER PICTURE

Considering that they account for roughly a quarter of the vegetable matter on earth, it's odd that diatoms don't have a higher profile. They are, as well as being ubiquitous, remarkably beautiful. But most people wouldn't recognise them if you held a great plateful of them right in front of their

Publication: The Independent - London