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Soap Hollow Furniture
Soap Hollow furniture was produced roughly from 1830 to 1890 in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. The name was reportedly coined from the brown soft soap produced throughout the region, which lies in a hollow. This Western Pennsylvania enclave of Mennonite cabinetmakers worked predominately north of Davidsville in Conemaugh Township. Collectors and dealers alike highly value Soap Hollow furniture in today’s marketplace and the best pieces continue to escalate in price.
Eight cabinetmakers [...] Click here to continue reading.
Cabinet Cards
In 1863 the cabinet card photographic image was introduced. This format, in many ways, was similar to its predecessor, the carte de visite, a paper albumen print mounted on card. The principal difference between the two formats was their size. The cabinet card mount measured approximately 6.5 inches by 4.25 inches. The images were slightly smaller measuring approximately 5.5 inches by 4 inches. Sometime in the 1870′s a new larger sized card [...] Click here to continue reading.
Cartes De Visite
The carte de visite, or visiting card as it is loosely translated, truly opened up photography to the masses. It should be noted that carte de visite is frequently abbreviated in catalogs as “CDV”. This photographic version of the visiting card followed the popular trend in fashionable society to leave a calling card after a visit. This new format consisted of small paper albumen prints mounted on card.
The albumen process [...] Click here to continue reading.
Cuff Music Boxes
Cuff music boxes were designed and developed by Ferdinand Otto of the F. G. Otto & Sons Co. of New Jersey circa 1894 and sold under the Capital brand name. They were called cuff music boxes because of the shape of their music cylinders which resembles a gentleman’s shirt cuff. The cylinders were designed and developed by Patrick Kennedy of Brooklyn , New York , a machinist and designer for the [...] Click here to continue reading.
Roswell Gleason (1799-1887)
Roswell Gleason of Dorchester, Massachusetts, began pewtering about 1830 and like the Boardmans in Hartford, Connecticut, he must have carried on the making of pewter and Britannia ware more after the manner of modern business than after that of an earlier craft. Lamps, candlesticks, communion sets (including flagons, patens, and baptismal bowls, chalices are not recorded as produced), tea-pots, coffee-pots, coffee-urns, water pitchers (with covers), mugs, syrup jugs and cuspidors, are [...] Click here to continue reading.
Maple & Co.
Established in 1841 on the Tottenhan Court Road in London by a 26 year old John Maple, Maple & Co. was a designer, decorator, builder, manufacturer and, most of all, a retailer of fine furnishings to the English carriage trade. At its peak in Edwardian London, Maple & Co was known as “The largest and most convenient,” not just in the West End of London or London as a whole or [...] Click here to continue reading.
Detrick Distilling Co. Motto Jugs
Around the turn of the 20th century the Detrick Distilling Company of Dayton, Ohio, issued a series of miniature “motto” jugs. These jugs were 4 inches or so high and are properly described as two-toned stoneware with an Albany slip top and Bristol glaze body. They were made with two different tops, one conical and one more rounded.
Detrick jugs were issued with twelve different mottoes, not tied to [...] Click here to continue reading.
English Bilston Enamels
While many English decorative vitreous enamels were produced at Wolverhampton, Wednesfield, Birmingham and other places, the largest and most famous production of vitreous enamels was at Bilston. The artists and craftsmen of Bilston not only enameled the boxes and other trinkets, but others in the town also made the boxes and trinkets for enameling and engraved the plates from which transfers for enameling were made.
The famous Battersea enamel factory [...] Click here to continue reading.
William Henry Chandler (1854-1928)
Chandler was born on June 9, 1854 in New York City. One of seven children born to Mr. & Mrs. Asa Byram Chandler, they lived in the New Jesery towns of Elizabeth, East Orange, and Summit as he was growing up. Born into a deeply religious Christian household, William displayed an interest in art during his youth but had other interests as well. A hunting accident early in his [...] Click here to continue reading.
Kenton Lock Co./Kenton Hardware Co.
The Kenton Lock Manufacturing Company of Kenton, Ohio added toys and banks to its production line in 1894 and the company’s name was changed to the Kenton Hardware Manufacturing Company. However, its reputation as a quality lock manufacturer was not lost, as bank enthusiasts today still marvel at the well-constructed nature of their banks’ locks. Soon after the company changed its name it was destroyed by fire in 1903. [...] Click here to continue reading.
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