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Pair of Art Deco Marigold Carnival Glass Rolls Royce or Packard Bud Vases
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This pair of automobile bud vases are unsigned, but presumed to have been made in England in approximately 1920 in the period Art Deco style. The vases are done with a thick clear glass in a fluted form, with marigold iridescent or carnival glass accents around the bulbous tops. These bud vases were used in luxury cars, and these came from an automotive collector with various Rolls Royce items, which these were included in. The Rolls Royce ashtray...
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Early 20th Century English Art Deco Historical Memorabilia
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Antique Van Melles Large Toffee Store Display Advertising Tin with Arabic Motif
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique Van Melles store display tin was made in Amsterdam in approximately 1925 in the period Art Deco style. The tin is half moon shaped with a hing...
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Early 20th Century Dutch Art Deco Historical Memorabilia
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New York Vanity License Plate OPIUM
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
New York vanity license plate OPIUM, authentic vintage license plate.
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Late 20th Century American Historical Memorabilia
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Napoléon's Footbath by George Bullock
Located in New Orleans, LA
This amazing footbath was created for Napoleon Bonaparte. It was part of the toilet service to be used during his exile on St. Helena. Just before shipm...
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Early 19th Century English Empire Antique Historical Memorabilia
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Porcelain
Set of Gilt Metal Ethopian Insignia
Located in London, GB
Set of gilt metal Ethopian insignia
Ethiopian, early 20th century
Measures: Sash badge: Height 10cm, width 4.5cm, depth 1.5cm
Breast star: Height 7.5cm,...
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Early 20th Century Ethiopian Historical Memorabilia
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Two Books on Trade Tokens, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Two books on trade tokens. 1.) U.S. Merchant Tokens 1845-1860 by Russell Rulau. Iola: Krause Publications, Inc., 1985. Softcover. 192 pp. A catalogue of the unofficial coinage of Ame...
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20th Century American Historical Memorabilia
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Paper
Grandma Moses Vintage 1950s Autographed Color Photograph
Located in Jersey, GB
American painter Grandma Moses (1860-1961) was discovered by the collector Louis Caldor.
At the time, Grandma Moses was bartering paintings at the wo...
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1950s Vintage Historical Memorabilia
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Vintage French Red Cross WWI Poster, circa 1918
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This WWI poster features a woman wearing long robes holding a red cross symbol in her right hand and an American flag in her left. The figure is set in fro...
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1910s French Vintage Historical Memorabilia
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Olympia 1952 Picture Album
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Olympia 1952 Oslo 1952. The 6th winter Olympics Bilder Sammelband. Collectors picture album.
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Mid-20th Century German Historical Memorabilia
Rare Yellow & White Suffrage Parasol with "Votes for Women" Text
Located in York County, PA
EXTRAORDINARILY RARE, YELLOW & WHITE, SUFFRAGE PARASOL / UMBRELLA, WITH “VOTES FOR WOMEN” TEXT, DISTRIBUTED BY THE NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION UNDER ANNA HOWARD SHAW’S LEADERSHIP [HEADQUARTERED IN NEW YORK], CIRCA 1913-1915:
In the world of Suffrage memorabilia, parasols and umbrellas are known to have been produced, but hardly any exist. Made in both Britain and America, most of the organizations known to have commissioned them did so with white or purple, green, and white, utilizing the traditional British colors. In America, some of these can be identified to the Women’s Political Union of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
As for those in the traditional American colors of golden yellow and white, typically with black text, examples are known to have been produced and sold by the National American Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA), beginning in the summer of 1913. According to author and expert Ken Florey, the organization peddled them for “one dollar each or ten dollars a dozen…[promoting] them as good for advertising the cause at street meetings, summer resorts, and county fairs. The design consisted of yellow and white in alternate sections, with “Votes for Women” in the white sections.” Florey goes on to explain how some umbrellas in this style are known with names of states hand-painted in the yellow panels. I am aware of Oregon and Idaho. Florey also indicates that one is known for Alaska. His discussion of the subject, and an illustration of the Idaho example, appear in his book, "Women's Suffrage Memorabilia" (2013, McFarland & Co., North Carolina), on pp. 192 and A8, respectively. The Oregon example, which have seen and held first-hand, is illustrated in "The Keynoter: Journal of the American Political Items Conservators," Summer/Fall/Winter 2008 (Women's Suffrage Special Triple Issue), Vol. 2008, No. 2-4, p. 110.
In “Woman Suffrage Memorabilia,” Florey describes a heavy demand for parade accoutrements in the 19-teens. Despite the supposed numbers in which these yellow and white umbrellas were likely to have been produced, this is the only example that I am aware has actually surfaced with the “Votes for Women” text only and no state names. This makes it far more universally desirable.
A period image survives in the Albert R. Stone Negative Collection, Rochester Museum & Science Center (Rochester, New York,) of a women carrying parasols in this style on Main Street West in that city on August 15, 1914. The marchers, masked, were described as wearing yellow dominoes (nun-style dresses) and carrying yellow parasols. According to museum catalogers, “The outside parasols are plain; those on the inside have the inscription, "Votes for women". The first group, in yellow and blue dominoes, advertised the speech and visit of Dr. Anna Howard Shaw [this would be members of the Empire Campaign Committee]. The second group carried placards with the names of equal suffrage states and the dates when they adopted votes for women. The Club Theatre, whose sign advertising "Burlesque" is clearly visible behind the marchers, occupies the premises at 75 Main Street West formerly occupied by the Shubert Theatre.”
The National American Women’s Suffrage Association was formed in 1890. It represented a merging of the two largest Suffrage groups in America before that time. These were the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), formed in 1869 by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), also formed in 1869 by Lucy Stone and her Husband, Henry Brown Blackwell, Henry Ward Beecher, and others. Stone’s daughter, Alice Stone...
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Mid-20th Century North American Historical Memorabilia
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Cotton
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