Berkey and Gay Furniture Company
Berkey and Gay manufactured and upholstered furniture in Grand Rapids, Michigan from 1866 to 1931, and again from 1935 to 1948.
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Napoleon Bonaparte Born on August 15th 1769, in Corisca, Napoleon crowned himself emperor on December 2, 1804. He died in exile on the island of St. Helena in 1821. In 1840, King Louis Philippe ordered that his remains be brought to Paris and placed in the Hotel des Invalides. The German Pickelhaube Helmet This piece of originally Prussian headgear is probably the most distinctive item worn by the German army in World War I. The helmet itself was designed by King Friedrich-Wilhelm IV of Prussia in 1842. Two years later the artillery adopted the ball topped helmet officially called a kugelhelm. The soldiers’ slang term for it was Pickelhaube, which literally meant “Pimple Hat”. With the growing dominance of Prussia and the emergence [...] Click here to continue reading. Japanese Tetsubin Exactly when the tetsubin first appeared in Japan is unclear, but much evidence suggests a close relationship with the rise of the sencha, a form of tea-drinking that uses tea leaves instead of powdered tea. Sencha was introduced to Japan from China around the middle of the 17th century, a period when Japan’s literati were greatly influenced by China as well as by Neo-Confuciani thought. Sencha was not considered a formal ceremony [...] Click here to continue reading. Decanters & Stoppers A great number of early early decanters were made with a heavy ‘donut’ shaped lip often referred to as a bar lip. These were designed to be used with cork plugs or what were referred to as ‘patent’ stoppers. These were much less expensive to manufacture than matching glass stoppers which required grinding by hand to the correct size. As an example of this practice consult the McKee Bros. (Pittsburg) price [...] Click here to continue reading. The A.H. Heisey Glass Company The A. H. Heisey Glass Co. was founded in Newark, Ohio following the Civil War and remained in operation until 1956. The company was known for its finely cut and etched glassware and for a number of popular and widely marketed lines of pattern glass in the 1920′s to 1950′s as well as a line of glass animal figures. Gunpowder Cans of the E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Company Gunpowder cans and kegs produced by E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Company represent products from the oldest gunpowder manufacturer in America. There are a greater variety of cans produced by this company than any other; consequently they have become very desirable to collectors. Prices of these cans have risen dramatically, with the rarer examples becoming very difficult to find. courtesy Early American History [...] Click here to continue reading. Henry Aston Pistols, 1842 to 1852 From 1846 until 1850 Henry Aston made approximately 24,000 Model 1842 pistols at Middletown, Connecticut under a U.S. Army contract of February 25, 1845 at $6.50 each before the firm’s name was changed to H. Aston & Co. Thereafter, another 6,000 pistols were made from 1851 to 1852. Although rendered obsolete as a sidearm by the revolver, many Aston Model 1842 pistols were pressed into service due to [...] Click here to continue reading. The U.S. Colt Model 1860 Army Revolver Colt manufactured about 200,000 of these Model 1860 Army revolvers in Hartford, Connecticut, between 1860 and 1873. It was the major revolver used by Union forces during the Civil War. The federal government contracted for about 127,000 of these revolvers for use in the war. Kathy Kruse – Early 20th Century German Doll Maker In Germany, 1910, Kathe Kruse began her successful doll business with the use of a simple potato. As mother of seven children, she pleased her daughter by fashioning a doll using a potato for a head with features drawn on with a burned match and sand-filled toweling for the body. Amazingly, by 1910, Kruse had sufficiently polished her doll making efforts to attract orders from [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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