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storage locker finds!
« on: March 01, 2017, 10:47:04 am »
So i started today with a monster task. Four storage units worth of  antiques and collectables! i'll post finds on this thread or it could get a bit crazy! First out of the back of the car.... wish i'd have taken the truck!!!

I'm sure most will be familiar with the artist Vladimir Tretchikoff, this one is the basuto girl, vintage 1950's framed lithograph.


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« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2017, 11:05:06 am »
A primative celtic milking stool (i guess?) it only stands 21cm high so its a wee little thing! Wonderful paitina, guessing it dates to the mid 1800's? though could well be earlier....




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« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2017, 11:07:58 am »
What darn rabbit did you kill to get that lucky ??  (as in lucky rabbits foot) 

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« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2017, 11:16:27 am »
A friend approached me knowing i do a lot of buying and selling of antiques. Her elderly father has just had major surgery he's collected all his life and never sold a thing! she's given me the task of sorting it all out and getting rid of it. I also found a 1950's vintage ford pop in one of them well from the tiny bit i could see that's what it looked like!

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« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2017, 11:20:33 am »
A nice deep victorian picture frame in need of a little tlc...


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« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2017, 11:26:10 am »
An ironstone planter, very heavy for its size. Hand painted. Thought the mark was for masons but it doesnt match the ones in my book so if any one can help? much appreciated!



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« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2017, 11:36:40 am »
Frederick James Aldridge (1850-1933) original water colour. A little bit of info below. 1922.

Aldridge was a south coast artist, who lived in Worthing.  He is predominantly known for his watercolours, mainly of marine subjects.  In this medium he shows exceptional powers. He was a regular visitor to Cowes Week for some 50 years.  He exhibited paintings locally, between 1880 and 1901 and also 29 paintings in London venues, including 3 in the Royal Academy and 12 at the Suffolk Street Galleries.

He died at the age of 83 in 1933 and his obituary appeared in ‘The Times’ newspaper of that date commented that he has established an international reputation especially in the British Commonwealth Countries.
 
this ones got an inscription tho the verso anyone a clue?






         
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« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2017, 11:52:18 am »
Vladimir Tretchikoff, this one is the chinese girl, vintage original framed lithograph.


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« Reply #8 on: March 01, 2017, 02:28:24 pm »
Sounds like a big and interesting job you've taken on.

I would wonder about the age of that ironstone planter?


Wasn't Cagnes the location that Renoir painted at later in life?



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« Reply #9 on: March 01, 2017, 03:12:59 pm »
Thought the same thing Rauville,, !!  But looks like the other items will make up for that one !!  The milking stool I think is later not earlier,, the hole in the center for a lathe !!  Early ones are more utilitarian than decorative that I have seen !!  I would say around 1900 !!

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« Reply #10 on: March 01, 2017, 04:30:11 pm »
Here is one in the same Victoria pattern, but it's a different shape:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LARGE-BLUE-AND-WHITE-VICTORIA-WARE-IRONSTONE-PLANTER-/201831667957
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« Reply #11 on: March 02, 2017, 02:29:12 am »
Yes heck of a task! i'm eager to get back and do some more rummaging. Thanks for your replies, i'll do some more research into the planter as the made in china sticker on your pic certainly raises a few questions! The stool too will require a bit more digging, i'm not too concerned about the mark from the lathe as they were first used in ancient egypt around 1300 bc if memory serves me correctly... more research def. needed! i'll put some pics of more of yesterdays haul up today...

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« Reply #12 on: March 02, 2017, 06:23:17 pm »
True they have been using lathes but not usually for a milking stool !!   I keep forgetting you are not in the U.S. !!  Maybe its different where you are !!

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« Reply #13 on: March 08, 2017, 09:39:59 am »
Sorry for the delay posting more from the first batch! Next up a nice vintage lithograph by Sir Gerald Kelly (b London, 9 Apr. 1879; d London, 5 Jan. 1972). British painter. One of the leading society portraitists of his day, he had many distinguished friends, among them Somerset Maugham, whose portrait by Graham Sutherland he wittily attacked. From 1949 to 1954 he was president of the Royal Academy; in this position he devoted much of his time to organizing loan exhibitions, and became well known for his appearances in related television programmes.



I've done a little more research into the celtic design milking stool, you were correct it dates to around 1900 not earlier as i initially thought...

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« Reply #14 on: March 08, 2017, 09:45:05 am »
A pretty little watercolour, edwardian by the look of the frame, unsigned sadly, looks to me like its depicting the needles on the isle of wight, anyone any other possible ideas?