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This Week: Kids And Antiques, Part Two

By Peter Seibert

In my last column, I was riding high on my horse about how collectors have misread the future of the antiques world as it relates to new collectors. This week, I want to focus on the positives and where we can go.

The antiques trade needs to embrace future collectors at a very young age. If Mom and/or Dad are out with the kids, then this is an opportunity to engage them rather than seeing them as a risk factor for something being broken.

These are my thoughts about how we can engage the next generation.

Have reasonably priced items that kids can collect, and spend some time with young people on those collectibles. For example, both of my daughters began their collecting passion with an interest in Wades, those fun ceramic figures that are generally not more than a dollar or two. It was a great place to begin collecting and building memory skills about what they had and didn’t have.

Antique shops are cooler than museums because you can pick the stuff up. So, let’s encourage that mindset. Allow young people to sit down and touch things. When I was actively dealing, I was more worried about the shaky senior breaking something than I ever was about a young person. Yes, we can incur loss, but that is life.

Make the shopping easy. This to my mind is central to the experience. Several weeks ago, I was in New England and was walking around downtown Plymouth, Mass., and went into a mall that was in a reconditioned department store. There were things I would have liked, but finding myself in need of a restroom and there being none, we fled for somewhere else. Come on, folks, make it easy on your guests and provide the basic amenities of life.

Speculation in antiques should be allowed to die. This is a hard one because every collector innately wants a good deal, and all of us have purchased items that perhaps we did not want but bought because the price was right and we might just be able to sell it for a lot if we hold onto it. Now ask yourself the hard question: did that ever really happen to you? Maybe if you purchased new toys in the 1950s and held them in an airtight room for decades. However, I am not sure the dealer I met who was hoarding cereal boxes or the collector buying every single “limited edition” collector plate is ever going to have anything more than landfill material. We need to encourage collecting because it is fun, because it can be affordable, and because living with the past in a physical way is part of our human experience. And if we also collect and are able to resell the pieces in 20 years and make a bit, that’s great too. But it is not the reason for collecting and certainly is not the turn-on button for future collecting.

Sorry to sound preachy, but we need to openly embrace young people as collectors. At my favorite antiques mall in Mullica Hill, N.J., my youngest daughter loves to hunt through cases for jewelry. The owner makers her feel comfortable, is engaging, and in return my wallet is lighter because my daughter has found those wonderful treasures. That to me is how we keep collecting going.

“Born to collect” should be the motto of Peter Seibert’s family. Raised in Central Pennsylvania, Seibert has been collecting and writing about antiques for more than three decades. By day, he is a museum director and has worked in Pennsylvania, Wyoming, Virginia and New Mexico. In addition, he advises and consults with auction houses throughout the MidAtlantic region, particularly about American furniture and decorative arts. Seibert’s writings include books on photography, American fraternal societies and paintings. He and his family are restoring a 1905 arts and crafts house filled with years’ worth antique treasures found in shops, co-ops and at auctions.

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The exhibition also looks at artists and writers who responded to the novel, as well as the censorship that attended its publication in the U.S. “Ulysses” was first published in book form on Feb. 2, 1922. Set on one day, June 16, 1904, the novel follows the young poet Stephen Dedalus and the unlikely hero Leopold Bloom on a journey through Dublin.

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“One Hundred Years of James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’” draws on items from the Morgan’s Sean and Mary Kelly Collection, including inscribed copies of the author’s works, rare publications and broadsides, a manuscript fragment, and Joyce’s typewritten schema of the Homeric structure of “Ulysses.” Major contributions from the James Joyce Collection, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, and additional institutional loans include the first and last pages of the manuscript, proofs on which part of the novel was written, and rarely seen letters between Joyce and Nora Barnacle. Also featured are textual and visual responses by figures such as Virginia Woolf, George Antheil, Henri Matisse, Vladimir Nabokov, and Ralph Ellison.

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This is Berenice Abbott’s (1898–1991) photograph of James Joyce, 1928, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, gift of Sean and Mary Kelly, 2018; 2018.20, and courtesy of Berenice Abbott via Getty Images.

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A powder blue, fully restored 1959 Chevrolet Corvette convertible sped off for $82,600, and a Canadian Red Indian Aviation motor oil sign from the 1930s changed hands for $47,200 in Miller & Miller Auction Ltd.’s online-only Petroliana, Railroadiana and Advertising auction held on June 18. Overall, the auction grossed $628,674.

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The Canadian Red Indian Aviation motor oil single sided porcelain sign from the 1930s was a seldom seen sign promoting Red Indian’s Aviation brand of motor oil. The vibrant cobalt blue and blood red email info@millerandmiller graphics popped against the auctions.com or visit white ground. The 26-by-72- www.millerandmiller inch sign retained the original auctions.com. flanged mounting ends and was graded 8.75 for condition.

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The vehicles he refers to included a 1937 Ford Model 78 Deluxe convertible sedan, a rare openair car with rear doors and the original paint (except for the front fenders). The restoration included new upholstery, carpet and convertible top. The car was powered by the correct flathead V8 engine, and the odometer showed just 10,175 miles. It realized $32,450. Also sold was a 1972 GMC 1500 Custom pickup truck with 49,138 miles on the odometer. The rustfree truck featured a long box, three-speed manual transmission, the original interior and correct original 307ci V8 engine (undetailed). The restoration, by Ernie Droogers, included new paint, headliner and a rechromed rear bumper. It sold for $30,680. It was a 299-lot auction, one in which 368 users registered to bid online, via Millerand MillerAuctions.com and LiveAuctioneers.com, and placed a combined 5,996 bids. One hundred percent of lots sold, and 86 percent of the top 50 lots exceeded estimate. “It was a feel-good sale that energized the market,” according to Miller.

Among the railroadiana lots, bigger didn’t necessarily mean better. A collection of rare badges rose to a combined $18,800, led by a group of six Canadian National Railway badges from the 1930s that blasted through their $300-$500 estimate to bring $7,080. Five of the nickel-plated brass and sterling silver badges were marked, “J.R. Gaunt & Son, Montreal, Made in England.”

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The fully restored, powder blue 1959 Chevrolet Corvette convertible, meticulously maintained, rust-free and running, featuring a correct 283 c.i. 230 hp V8 engine, sold for $82,600. A 1937 Ford Model 78 Deluxe convertible sedan, the restoration including new upholstery, carpet and convertible top, with the odometer showing just 10,175 miles, sold for $32,450. This Canadian single-sided porcelain Red Indian Aviation motor oil sign from the 1930s, graded 8.75 out of 10 for condition, brought $47,200. graded 9.5 and 9.25, rang up $7,080, while a Texaco Gasoline double-sided porcelain service station sign (Canadian, 1957), marked “P&M Orillia 57” on the lower edge of one side, 5 feet in diameter, graded 8.75 on both sides, with minor scattered porcelain losses, hit $6,490. For additional information, An Eco-Meter 150 “Clockface” gasoline pump (Canadian, 1930s), painted to Shell colors, with a reproduction globe, sold for $29,500. This General Motors doublesided porcelain sign (American, 1950s) with atomic age design, consisting of six pieces total, sold for $23,600.

The 1930s Service Station Equipment Co. Ltd. (Toronto) double gasoline pump, Clearvision Model No. 700, an older restoration to Sunoco colors, sold for $21,240. This double-sided porcelain White Rose Gasoline “Slate Boy” sign (Canadian, 1940s), with iconic “Boy and Slate” graphics, sold for $23,600. A double-sided porcelain Supertest Gasoline Service Station sign (Canadian, 1930s), graded 8.75 on each side for condition, sold for $18,880. The single-sided porcelain Red Indian motor oil sign (Canadian, 1930s), with a raised border, graded 8.75 for condition, sold for $24,780.

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