Saturday, November 26, 2011
RANDOM 341 OBJECT
VINTAGE 60-70-year-old Hammered COPPER HORSE, Muscular ~ SIGNED FOLK ART-$13
If you’ve never seen horse art with the musculature taking center stage…well this is it.
The handmade hammered copper sheet is 12” x 16 and mounted on board. I’d say it’s been around for the past 60-or so years. It’s unusual & the artist had quite an imagination.
The artwork was created on a substantial sheet of copper—likely a little thicker than most.
The work approaches folk art status. If you want to call it that…go right ahead. I won’t object.
RANDOM 341 OBJECTS
2 Old BELL PUBLIC PHONE Porcelain SIGNS - 1935 TELEPHONE ALMANAC + PRINT BLOCK-$143
One of the fun parts of buying an entire household estate is snooping around and finding related things. Here are four items related to Bell Telephone, AT&T Long Distance and telephones in general.
RANDOM 341 OBJECTS
2 Old BELL PUBLIC PHONE Porcelain SIGNS - 1935 TELEPHONE ALMANAC + PRINT BLOCK-$143
One of the fun parts of buying an entire household estate is snooping around and finding related things. Here are four items related to Bell Telephone, AT&T Long Distance and telephones in general.
The two signs are porcelain enameled metal, and I believe the print block was meant to be a paperweight. The 1935 “Telephone Almanac” is what it is, and it contains lots and lots of interesting information including a little section for children.
I guess the 8” by 8” sign was bolted to a wall. Except for a tiny bit of toning in the upper right, it’s in super condition. And for all I know, that might bleach out. I haven’t tried.
This, of course, is one of those double-sided signs used to call your attention to the location of a public phone. The circle is 8 ¼”, and the total length is 13”. It has a few little scratches and dings, but overall it’s in nice shape.
Perhaps the almanac is the most interesting of all. (See the little missing corner? That’s all I can find wrong with it.)
And “What the Devil is a Rebus?” you ask. Well, it’s a representation of a word or phrase by pictures, symbols, etc., that suggest that word or phrase or its syllables.
If you couldn’t solve it, they provided an address where you could request a translation. Hmmmm . . . It crosses my mind: Why didn’t they simply provide a phone number to call in your request? Had they forgotten the telephone had been invented for just such purposes? (See? That type thing keeps me awake nights.)
The almanac has 14 leaves, 28 pages, unpaginated, with little articles on such things as the one you see on the inside cover: The Conquest of Time. It’s deep! I don’t want ruin it for you, but the last sentence sums up the content.
Among the products of modern research, few have proved more potent in humanity’s struggle against the tyranny of time that the telephone, by means of which man’s thought, expressed in spoken words, outdistances the swift flight of seconds.” It’s full of things you don’t know. (No offense.)
The almanac is a real almanac with an article or two about each month of the year with other useful information about each month.
want. i come from ATT/WI bell and post split telephone workers.
