| Owner hopes for good sign
The sign that indicates a popular stop for antique buffs is receiving an inspection only an antique lover may appreciate. The owner of the building that houses Cabbages and Kings Antique Mall brought in a Lafayette company Friday to look at the sign, which is estimated to be about 50 years old. "We're just looking at our options," Dick Howell said. "The sign is grandfathered in to the newer sign ordinance. So we have to be careful what we do." There is a hole in the bottom of the classic vertical structure outside the business at 124 South Washington St., caused by an electric transformer that fell through recently. That caused city officials to get involved. "I certainly have sympathy toward the Cabbages and Kings folks to have such a visible sign," Mayor John Zumer said at this week's Board of Works and Public Safety meeting.
Auctions | Small is big: Miniature dioramas, and Dinky cars
Collectible toys - including a niche collectible, miniature dioramas - will be featured at two suburban sales this weekend. The dioramas, along with an assortment of dolls, will be offered by Stephenson's Auction beginning at 5 tonight at its gallery, 1005 Industrial Blvd. in Southampton. Roughly 35 dioramas, electrified models each about 13 inches high by 25 inches wide and 12 inches deep, depict a variety of quaint scenes with miniature furniture and figures about 6 inches tall. A barbershop diorama includes a shoeshine stand, a brass clothes tree, a barber pole, and a cigar-store Indian. A costume and shoe salon displays footwear ranging from galoshes to ballet slippers. An 1870s trophy-room diorama comes with hunter, animal heads, a gun collection mounted on the walls, a hand-painted landscape, and a globe reflecting the world as it looked in 1850.
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Huang Yuan-chun, a resident of Tunglo Township in Miaoli County, has spent 10 years visiting 5,000 different households. In the process, Huang has collected 80,000 handicrafts, which will be put on display at the Miaoli Story House. The opening of the museum will realize Huang's dream. The museum will be housed in an old 60-ping house, where all sorts of antiques, such as ceramic bowls, theater tickets, vinyl records, and Tatung dolls will be displayed. Visitors will get a sense of the lifestyles of several decades ago. Huang Yuan-chun, 54, is the older brother of the magistrate of Tunglo Township, Huang Fang-chun. He opened a sundries store many years ago. While he was in that business, many suppliers would give him various advertisement posters, many of which he thought were excellent.
EXCELLENT ANTIQUE AUCTION
Selling a Large Quantity of Excellent Antiques and Miliary Items. Uncataloged, No E-Bay Bidding.
FURNITURE: HORNER Library Table with Massive Griffin Legs; Hepplewhite Cherry Corner Cupboard; Hepplewhite Drop-front Cherry Desk; Pair of Brace back Windsor Side Chairs; Hepplewhite Blanket Chest and Early Bench - original green paint; Early Cupboards; Grain Painted Blanket Chest; Sawbuck Table; Set of Six Plank Seat Chairs with Original Decoration; Empire Game Table; VICTORIAN: Fancy Parlor Table with Barley Legs; Cast Iron Garden Furniture; Wire Planter; Two Door Bookcase; Curio Cabinet; Marble Top Parlor Tables; Seating Teak Chinese Marble Top Table; Also Bentwood High Chair; SINGERGS Swedish Cabinet Makers Workbench; Set of Four Rosewood Danish Arm Chairs, Table and Credenza.
GLASS/CHINA/POTTERY: Large Meissen Onion ( with orange trim) Dinner Set with Many Superb Service Pieces; Acid Cut Back Table Lamp Base; Steuben; Hawkes; Sinclair; Heisey; Tiffany 9" Prism; Lalique; Quimper; Oriental Blue & White with Wax Seals; Wedgewood; Staffordshire; Over Twelve Large Opaque Glass Eggs; ROSEVILLE Fresia Jardiniere on Stand; Weller; Van Briggle; Green Spongeware Umbrella Stand
CLOCKS: Ansonia CRYSTAL PALACE; Two Rosewood Arch Tops; New Haven & Cloisonne Case Crystal Regulators; German Regulator; French Figural; English Time Regulator; OG; Steeple and More.......
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