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The Columbia Type AT Graphophone Phonograph This two minute cylinder Graphophone was produced in 1899 at 1155 Broadway, New York City. It plays up to six two minute cylinders with one winding and the crank spins as the cylinder record plays. The original horn was spun aluminum, other horns were available at extra cost. Armand Marseille Dolls The Armand Marseille porcelain factory made doll heads in Koppelsdorf from 1885, when Marseille bought the Liebennann & Wegescher porcelain factory, until 1949, when Hermann Marseille moved to West Germany. The Marseille factory was one of the largest in the German toy industry, employing at one time over 800 people and operating ten kilns. Hundreds of workers individually dressed the dolls to reflect the special needs and orders of importers all [...] Click here to continue reading. Skookum Indian Dolls Made by a variety of companies from 1913 to circa 1960, Skookum dolls depicted Native American Indians in a variety of sizes and clothing. The principal manufacturer, the H.H. Tammen Company of Los Angeles, California, provided authentic costumes of the Siwash Indians living in the northwestern United States. Besides elaborate clothing ranging from feathered headdress to leather moccasins, the features of the dolls were colored with a yellowish-brown earth pigment called [...] Click here to continue reading. The Wiener Werkstatte The Austrian equivalent of the English Arts and Crafts Movement, the Wiener Werkstatte [VEEN-er VEHRK-shtet-teh] (German for “Vienna Workshop”) was a direct offshoot from the fin-de-siacle Vienna Secession. Together, Josef Hoffmann (1870 to 1956) and Koloman Moser founded the Wiener Werkstatte Produktiv-Gemeinschaft von Kunsthandwerken, Wien (the Viennese Workshop and Production Cooperative of Art Works in Vienna) in 1903 as an association of artists and craftspeople working together to manufacture fashionable household [...] Click here to continue reading. Graflex Speed Graphic Cameras In many ways, the Speed Graphic was America’s first and last great camera. It was manufactured by Graflex, a Rochester, New York based camera producer. It was the dominant portable professional camera from the 1930′s through the end of the 1950′s. The Speed Graphics and their brethren, the Crown Graphic and Century Graphic are remarkable cameras capable of the highest quality of work. The older Graflex SLR with its patented [...] Click here to continue reading. Seagreaves Pottery 20th century Folk Art pottery, Seagreaves was the product of James Christian and Verna Seagreaves of Breinigsville, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Here is a 1999 column about them and their work from East Pennsylvania Publishing: Breinigsville artists’ work a Pennsylvania Dutch legacy By Julia Foster NazimovPress writer They were unlikely artists-a couple with roots deep in Pennsylvania Dutch country; he a worker in the mill at Bethlehem Steel, she a teacher. But art [...] Click here to continue reading. Musterschutz Steins Made in eastern Germany during the late 19th century, these porcelain steins – many of character form – were marked “Musterschutz” – a German term literally translated as “copyrighted” or “patent-protected”. These steins were originally made by the firm of Shierholz & Sohn in the city of Plaue. In 1989 the German firm Rastal began to reproduced these steins from original factory molds. Their work was of high quality and faithful to [...] Click here to continue reading. Fiesta Ware Pottery Fiesta ware was introduced in 1936 by the Homer Laughlin China Co. of Newell, West Virginia as a line of lower priced dinnerware at the Pottery and Glass Show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Fiesta line was styled by the noted designer Frederic H. Read and featured a streamlined look characterized by a band on concentric circles. Most importantly, it was issued in five “festive” colors in a self-reflective glaze. The original [...] Click here to continue reading. C.B.G Mignot Miniatures A manufacturer of miniature soldiers and other figures, the firm was founded in Paris, France in 1800 by Henri Mignot, a maker of toys and “flat” miniature soldiers, and is still in business today. In 1825 Mignot joined with Messrs. Cuperly, Blondel, and Gerbeau (skilled craftsmen of the Luccotte firm of miniature makers) to form C.B.G. Mignot, with himself as the chief stockholder. The new firm produced their own miniatures as [...] Click here to continue reading. Lucotte Miniatures Miniature toy soldiers were manufactured by Lucotte Miniatures in Paris, France from 1780 to 1825, when they were acquired by Mignot. One of the earliest such manufacturers, their work can be recognized by the trademark “L.C.”. A metal worker by trade, and perhaps not wanting to copy the German flat soldiers of the time, M. Lucotte produced the first “ronde bosse” or fully-rounded figures which became known as Lucotte’s Petit Hommes, his [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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