My old salt box

This blue and white pottery lidded salt box can be placed on a counter or mounted on the wall. The wooden lid is held in place by small pins. The base is marked with a star and the letters “SB”. The salt box measures approximately 5.9 inches wide by 3.9 inches tall in front [...]

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My Pierre Cardin/Jaeger wrist watch – 1971

This Pierre Cardin from 1971 is one of my favorites of all time. A mechanical wrist watch fitted with handwound Jaeger FE-68 movements, the white circular dial with black hands, and plain bezel off-set to a translucent dark blue acrylic circular surround, fitted to a blue strap.
Width of watch head: 1.8 inch / 4.5cm.

Pierre Cardin [...]

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My vintage sunglasses

Made by Régé – 1950
Lunettes Régé & Associés is a subsidiary of L’Amy group, leader of the french eyewear industry and one of the world largest manufacturer.
Country of Manufacture: France
Color: tortoise shell plastic cat eye with rhinestone accents.

1950
Country of Manufacture: Argentina
Color: silver and black plastic cat eye

1970
Made by Jordache
By the 1970’s, Jordache negotiated licensing deals [...]

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My two Compact – Carryall Evening Purses

Beautifully vanity compact carry-all purse with a nice handle, made from gold tone metal and black suede. The interior is lined with satin and features a rectangular mirror, plus three individual compartments for loose powder, lipstick and a powder puff. The metal and the clasp are in perfect condition, c.1930.

This is another very pretty black [...]

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My Plasco doll house furniture

This is a great old hard plastic doll house kitchen furniture set, in white with the blue bottom, dates from the 1950’s. Set includes a fridge and stove. They are marked “A Plasco Toy Co, Made in USA”.

Plastic became the choice material for American doll house furniture manufacturers, in the 1940’s during World War II. [...]

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My old Christmas ornaments

These antique ornaments were used for my Christmas tree: five wonderful miniatures glass with beautiful detailed molding, twenty-five electric light bulbs in milk glass hand painted (1), many glass balls, one cardboard bell with mica, and the little red horse in hard plastic.
(1) In the 1920s and 1930s Japan began offering these figural milk glass [...]

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My art deco compact by Houbigant

This compact box is pure art deco. The interior is fitted with a pair of rouge pots, two original puffs, the mirror and one lipstick case.
Period 1900-20
Marked HOUBIGANT

Houbigant – Collectibles

Houbigant mark

Jean-Francois Houbigant opened his first shop at 19 Faubourg Saint-Honore, Paris, in 1775. Named “The Flower Basket” (1), the shop originally sold wig powder, [...]

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My Hutschenreuther center bowl

Hand painted by V. Goizauskas

Hutschenreuther – Hohenberg
Germany – Bavaria
Founded in 1814
Present Founder: Carl Magnus Hutschenreuther
This factory was set up by Carl Magnus Hutschenreuther, a porcelain painter previously working at the Wallendorf factory. After his death in 1845 the factory was lead bay his widow, Frau Johanna Hutschenreuther and sons. From 1860 [...]

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My japanese Porcelain Tokusei Suzuki

Mark is for Suzuki Company, a distributor which had pieces made with its mark for sale and distribution (20th century).
Souvenir Dealers:
KOBE:
Porcelain & Laquer: Chujyo Shoten; Harishin; Koshiishi Shoten; Miyazaki Shoten; K. Nikko; Ogurusu & Co.; Suzuki & Co.; Taniguchi & Co.; William Rae; Gengan Yamamoto; Yamato Bros. & Co.; K. Yoshida & co.

JAPANSE MARKINGS:
Arita, [...]

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My two french Limoges plates

This ornate Pair of French porcelain plates is decorated with delicate hand painted floral bouquets on a white background framed in gilt scrollwork.
Signed: J.Roux and J.Ripat

The Limoges Porcelain
Limoges porcelain designates hard-paste porcelain produced by factories round the city of Limoges, France from the late 1700s until around 1930.
The manufacturing of [...]

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