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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2012
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ANTIQUES
Fenton Art Glass lamps are prized By TERRY KOVEL The shape of a lamp once was determined by its power source. A candle required a holder that kept the candle upright, caught drippings and was not damaged if the candle burned too low. Most early candlesticks were made of metal, and many had drip pans and handles so the lit candle could be moved. Whale oil and kerosene needed a lamp that had a way to adjust the wick and burned oil in the font, a special ball-shaped container. In the late 1890s, when electricity was available in many homes, some lamps were designed for a light bulb that could be positioned to Tip direct light down toIf you have old ward the top of a laces and ribbons, table. But manufaciron them by pulling turers also created them over a warm electric lamps that electric light bulb. looked like old-style Limp lace can be “kerosene” lamps. washed, then They had new parts sprayed with starch that included an onor sizing. Lace can off switch, a light cord be colored by a and a plug. quick dip in tea. Even today some modern electric lamps look as if they were made before 1900. The Fenton Art Glass Co. started making glass in 1907. It made dishes, bowls, lamps and other molded glass pieces. The L.G. Wright Co. of New Martinsville, W.Va., opened in 1937 and soon ordered and sold lamps made by Fenton and other glasshouses. L.G. Wright also bought old glass molds from several companies. Today there often is confusion about who made a particular piece, about whether the piece is a copy made from an old mold and about the piece’s age. Collectors search for Fenton pieces sold by Fenton, and for Fenton pieces made for and sold by L.G. Wright. The Fenton Art Glass Collectors of America is an active club still researching and collecting the glass. A peachblow L.G. Wright Fenton lamp decorated with painted roses sold a few years ago for $106. Q. A friend gave me a Burleigh Ware wash set about 20 years ago. It included a basin, chamber pot, covered soap dish and toothbrush holder. I recently found a matching pitcher and second basin at an antique show. All of the pieces are stamped with a beehive mark surrounded by thistles and the words “Burleigh Ware, Estd 1851, B & L Ltd., Made in England, Reg. Trade Mark.” Can you tell me when the set was made? The mark on your pieces was used in the 1930s by Burgess & Leigh, a British pottery company. The pottery started using the trade name “Burleigh Ware” in the 1930s, and it continues to use the same trade name today. Burgess & Leigh was founded in 1862 in Burslem, a town in England’s famous Stafford-
tos. The auction probably will want to discuss the history of the photographs with your family and its own legal counsel just to be sure the photos are clearly owned by your family and not Esquire. Q. Almost 50 years ago, I bought a federalstyle secretary-desk from a Salvation Army store in Milwaukee. On the back there’s a note that reads: “From Rockford Chair and Furniture Co., furniture manufacturer, Rockford, Ill.” Each of the two glass doors on the top has 13 sections, which I have been told represents the original 13 states. Is that true? And can you tell me something about the manufacturer? It is true that early-American cabinetmakers often designed glass doors with 13 sections in honor of the 13 original states. So companies that copied early federal styles copied early door styles, too. Rockford Chair & Furniture Co. was founded in about 1882 by Pehr A. Peterson (c. 1846-1927). He had opened the Union Furniture Co. in the same city in 1875-76. The Rockford Chair & Furniture Co. continued to make furniture in revival styles until 1950.
Current prices
This 19-inch-tall electric lamp made to resemble an old peachblow kerosene lamp sold for $106 at an Ohio auction a few years ago. shire district. We have seen sets of Burleigh Ware pitchers and matching wash bowls selling online for more than $200.
Current prices are recorded from antiques shows, flea markets, sales and auctions throughout the United States. Prices vary by location. ä Elsie the Cow needle pack, cardboard, red ground, yellow daisy around Elsie’s neck, “If It’s Borden’s, It’s Got To Be Good,” foil needle pack inside, 1950s, $20. ä Colorblock shoes, black, Magdesian’s of California, 1960s, size 6½, $35. ä Indiana Glass Co. cake salver, Bubble pattern, clear, square top, brandy well in center, circa 1935, 10½ square inches, 7 inches high, $95. ä New York World’s Fair cane, Trylon & Perisphere decoration, fireworks in background, 1939, 28 inches, $115. ä Paperweight, railroad coal car, Central Coal Mining Co., copper-plated cast metal, circa 1920s, 2½ by 5ø inches, $185. ä Mantel clock, New Haven Clock Co. Cottage model, rosewood veneer, 30-hour time and strike, circa 1870, 14 by 10 inches, $225. ä Display sign, Dionne Quintuplets Rexall Cod Liver Oil, quints in sailor suits saluting bottle, Puretest Rexall, 1942, 24 by 27 inches, $250. ä Bicycle, boy’s, AMF Roadmaster Luxury Liner, black, chrome, spring front suspension, headlight, 1960, 26 inches, $300. ä Plastic hood ornament, Indian chief’s head, chromed metal, plastic, light-up, box, 1950s, 4 by 2 by 4 inches, $465. ä Candlestand, Queen Anne, wood, round top, baluster support, red stain, Delaware, circa 1790, 27½ by 18 inches, $1,778.
Q. My grandfather was a photographer for Esquire magazine back in the 1940s and ’50s. We have a couple dozen black-and-white photographs of celebrities, and are trying to determine their value. They include photos of the Andrews Sisters, Irving Berlin, Bing Crosby rehearsing in a studio, Emmett Kelly performing, Clark Gable smoking as he’s walking down a New York City street, Jimmy Stewart sitting in a lounge chair and David Niven in his dressing room after a Broadway performance. We also have the negatives of most of these, but none of the photos are autographed. Your photos have value even without autographs. Plenty of collectors want original vintage photos of movie stars and other famous people. You should contact an auction house that special- Write to Kovel, Features Dept., The Record, izes in photographs to ask about selling the pho- PO Box 471, Woodland Park, NJ 07424.
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The New Jersey band is coming to theaters, sort of, for one night only – in “Bon Jovi – Inside Out.” TELL ME MORE: This “interactive” movie-theater event will feature a Q&A with the band, live from Times Square, and a showing of split-screen concert footage of Bon Jovi performing hits, recorded at three different venues – MetLife Stadium, Madison Square Garden and London’s The O2. During the live broadcast, hosted by Allison Hagendorf of The CW’s music-competition show “The Next: Fame is at Your Doorstep,” the band will talk about their upcoming Because We Can 2013 world tour and their next studio album, slated to be released in the spring. Bon Jovi fans will have the opportunity to submit questions for the Q&A, either in advance of the event or live that night, via Twitter using the hashtag #AskBonJovi, or texting in questions to a number that will be provided onscreen at the event. The nearly 600 U.S. movie theaters that will feature “Inside Out” include four in our area. DETAILS: AMC Clifton Commons 16 (405 Route 3, Clifton), Edgewater Multiplex Cinemas (339 River Road, Edgewater), AMC Garden State 16 (1 Garden State Plaza, Paramus), Kerasotes Showplace 14 (650 Plaza Drive, Secaucus). $15. Tickets available at movie-theater box offices and at fathomevents.com. FOR MORE INFORMATION: bonjovi.com. — Virginia Rohan
QUICK SPINS Rihanna, “Unapologetic” (Island Def Jam Music Group) ÆÆÆ There’s something about Rihanna. And her producers. The singer’s new album – her seventh in seven years – is like many of her other releases, full of songs that are catchy, fun and addictive. Her albums are almost like listening to a “NOW” compilation disc. “Unapologetic” is no different. It’s full of future hits, and not a single miss. “Fresh Out the Runway,” which kicks off the album, does so with a bang. And there are more: “Pour It Up,” which has Rihanna sounding like a female version of The-Dream, is appealing; “Jump” samples Ginuwine’s “Pony” – and it’s surprisingly good; and the David Guettahelmed “Right Now” is Europeanflavored and upbeat. Even Rihanna’s duet with her ex Chris Brown on “Nobody’s Business,” which samples Michael Jackson’s “The Way You Make Me Feel,” will make you move your feet. Lyrically, though, the song is somewhat dismissive. “Ain’t nobody’s business,” she sings. OK, then stop tweeting at one another. When Rihanna slows it down, she’s still on point: Her duet with singer Mikky Ekko on the piano-tune “Stay” is touching; the midtempo first single, the Sia-penned “Diamonds,” is enjoyable; and “What Now” builds nicely from its calming verse to its electrified hook. — Mesfin Fekadu, The Associated Press ä Bad Brains, “Into the Future” (Megaforce Records) ÆÆÆ There’s a sample on the new Bad Brains album, “Into the Future,” that perfectly captures the influential D.C. punk band’s early contact with audiences: “We figured if they didn’t mind us being black, we didn’t mind them being white.” The statement, like the band, is an incitement, an acknowledgment of the occasionally uneasy relationship among punk, metal and race in the genre’s formative years. It didn’t hurt that Bad Brains were one of the most incendiary of the first-generation hard-core punk bands, and the band went on to influence a wealth of recent acts, including the Beastie Boys, TV on the Radio and the Mars Volta. Formed in 1977, Bad Brains – singer H.R., guitarist Dr. Know, bassist-producer Darryl Jenifer and drummer Earl Hudson – offer a heavy blend of riffage and Rastafarianism on their first studio album in five years. As on the band’s classic self-titled debut and its oft-overlooked ’86 metal/punk/reggae album “I Against I,” the four musicians on “Into the Future” present brutal songs that often travel on meandering paths. “Youth of Today” starts hard and ends dubby, and “Come Down” is as ferocious a hard-core wind sprint as anything the band’s ever done. As always, singer H.R. is as much a preacher as a singer, and the constant proselytizing about Jah gets a little old, but complaining about it is like knocking Kirk Franklin for singing about Jesus. It’s best to sit back and let the power of visionary punk rock wash over you. — Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times ä Pitbull, “Global Warming” (RCA) Æƽ Last year this Cuban American MC installed himself as the commander of a worldwide dance-rap scene with “Planet Pit,” which spawned a series of club-ready hits featuring the likes of Marc Anthony (“Rain Over Me”), Chris Brown (“International Love”) and Ne-Yo (the Hot 100-topping “Give Me Everything”). Having evidently found leadership to his liking, Pitbull is now seeking a second term. “Don’t stop the party!” he barks not long into his new album, and the rest of “Global Warming” gives you little opportunity to consider other options. It’s an all-night rager as envisioned by the planet’s bestdressed autocrat. What makes Pitbull’s rule tolerable is his goofy shamelessness. Though the approach here precisely mirrors that on “Planet Pit” – think big beats and bigger cameos – he’s using his increased power to venture even more daringly beyond the limits of good taste. In “Have Some Fun” he and guests the Wanted riff on “All I Wanna Do” by Sheryl Crow, while “Feel This Moment” (with Christina Aguilera) turns A-ha’s ’80s synth-pop curio “Take on Me” into the stuff of a Las Vegas bachelorette bash. The title track is bolder still: It opens the album with the unmistakable keyboard pulse of Los del Rio’s 1996 novelty smash “Macarena.” — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times
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