This year’s container party was so amazing. My staff and I were overwhelmed by the wonderful response from our customers; it will be one of those parties to be remembered. The photo above shows a center table decked out for Fall with an early whole-cloth quilt full of shorebirds standing around a cast stone planter that has been decorated with stones, shells, and rocks in wonderful patterns. Click on photos to enlarge.
The long panels on either side of the antler mirror are actually from a Detroit city trolley car. These panels are made out of oilcloth and date from the early 1930s, unlike the reproductions of these that are showing up everywhere. I consider myself very lucky to find a trolley car roll that is from such an historical very American city like Detroit. The “automobile capitol of the world” has so many streets specific to it, such as: the Ford Rouge Plant entrance, the Detroit Zoo, and the University of Detroit and many other historic locations that make it a very interesting city. Click on images to enlarge.
The best German antler mirror ever! It found a new home right away.
This is a close-up view of one of the carved horn medallions on the mirror.
Faux bois French planter full of tiny fall gourds. Behind the planter are several different African horns mounted on stands.
Biedermeier kettle carrier surrounded by antlers and horns.
The carnival chalk-ware kitty seems to have found a comfy home on the vintage German linens.
This pair of French faux bois planters are off to a new home down South. The drum is from Europe and is decorated on one side with a painting of a woman with tankards of beer in her hands.
The drum in the last photo shows the beer hall girl on one side and then this stretched hide panel would have been on the other side, it has been decorated with a rag-tag musical group complete with a dog holding a cap in his mouth begging for donations. The drum panel is artist signed and dated 1930.
The most amazing dog collars on a very early French stool, complete with its original horsehair stuffing. The large brass dog collar looks to be Dutch and dates to the early to mid 19th century, about the same time period as the stool.
I have never had three globes with cast iron bases in the shop at the same time. They look great paired with the German antler chair and the antler lamp. Click on images to enlarge.
The decoy shown above was made by Charles Perdue who was an important Illinois River decoy carver working in the early 20th century. Perdue’s wife Edna often painted the decoys Charles carved. The couple created some of the most beautiful and sculptural American decoys known. Perdue’s crow decoys such as this one are extremely rare. I find the crow decoys made by Perdue are like fine contemporary sculpture, simplified, and very edited.
This life sized carved wood deer mount has real antlers and dates from the late 19th century and has a great face, very friendly.
Wonderful, bright, fun, whimsical gaming wheel, no wonder they are highly collected and very hard to find now.
This pair of zinc angels with wings were found in Europe and probably would have been used in a church side altar or possibly a mausoleum. It is rare to find anything like this in zinc and especially dating from the mid-19th century.
This is a close-up of one of the angel’s faces. I find it interesting that the artisan that made these could convey so much emotion in a face made out of metal.
Turn of the century “hand” prints from a box game, framed up they made for a fun, interesting wall. The lamps on the console have been made from old cast iron soda fountain stool bases.
Each hand tells a story. I love the graphic quality of these prints. Click on images to enlarge.
Domes and body parts, one always seems to work well with the other.
Opening a bar? This European bar sign dates from the 1930′s and comes complete with hanging bracket.
Hollywood regency style chair at its best. This is one of those put it in a room and make a statement kind of chairs, it’s not subtle.
The large trophy case is filled with objects perfect for a cabinet of curiosities.
Pair of aesthetic movement carved gilt-wood panels are hung over an English alligator traveling case from the early 1920s.
These large lenses were taken from huge box cameras made in the late to early part of the 20th century, as decorative objects I think they add a sense of mystery or just plain old mad-scientist to an interior. Above the lenses hang a pair of comedy and tragedy “masks” that have been fashioned out of hammered copper and sterling silver, they date to the 1930s. I am very fond of the “legged” brass trivet stand, it looks like it’s going to run away with that lense at any moment. Click on images to enlarge.
Can you imagine driving a 1920s British automobile with this devil mascot as your hood ornament. The devil figure was made to pivot on its base so that you could turn the car mascot around and so that when you passed a car it looked as if you were thumbing your nose at the driver of the other auto as you were passing by him, pretty creative. The mascot is finely cast from bronze and is mounted on it’s original wooden cap and is in great condition.
Shelf of interesting objects that seem to work well together, and as always just send me an email or call the shop if you would like more information on anything shown in the blog shop photos.
Unusual pair of store display manikin hands dating from the 1920s, they come complete with real mother of pearl buttons, to further the illusion.
The American impressionist painting is by St. Louis artist Kathryn Bard Cherry, (1880-1931.) The victorian birds in domes are safe from the large Austrian bronze hen roaming about on the shelf under the Cherry painting.
Life-sized carved wooden piglets share the stage with a tiny Steiff velvet piggy. All of the piglets had left the building by the end of the night
I love medical models, they are so surreal. This is a paper-mache and wood over-sized ear teaching model. It is European and dates to the early 20th century.
This medical teaching model of a human eye comes apart into many pieces, including a hand-blown glass pupil in the very center. Similar to the model in the above photo this one is made of paper-mache, wood, and glass. The eye model dates to the early 20th century and is European in origin.
Large assortment of early carved and decorated wooden angel wings from Europe. Click on images to enlarge.
One of the most interesting autograph techniques I have ever seen are shown in these signature “Rorschach” tests that are actual autographs written in fountain pen ink and then the paper was folded over and then unfolded to form an ink blot type of Rorschach. S ome of the autographs are dated 1909, and all have been archivally framed. Under the autographs is a well-worn alligator hat box from the 1920s, ready for travel.
The large 18th century Madonna and child seem dwarfed by the eight foot tall framed English rubbing of a 16th century crypt.
The most santos I have ever had in the shop at one time. I seem to have found several collections all at once, which is great because they always seem to look better en masse.
I have always loved vintage interior design renderings like the ones shown here and the one below that were done in the 1930s by the famous Warfield Shop, here in St. Louis. These now rare watercolors were used to show clients what the proposed room spaces would look like when completed. Notice the use of fine antiques in these interiors as well as details like hand-painted wall murals shown in the above image.
During the time these watercolor renderings were made interior designers were expected to do artwork like these to be able to give the client a better visual of the room that today would simply be put together with a few clicks of the keypad on a computer or ipad.
The back of the shop seems so edited after walking through the front and seeing the bookcases with each shelf full of objects begging for visual attention.
This classic iron table from Belgium looks great paired with the hand-forged 1950s iron windsor chairs on either side.
Sunflowers, squash, and pumpkins, kinda says it all, Fall has arrived!
Over the bottle drying racks is a European teaching chart showing the life cycle of a jelly fish, dating from the 1950s.
Loved these huge hand-made iron dice found in Europe. They found a new home very quickly
Zinc window boxes with a hand-crafted galvanized tackle box and an authentic 1920s ship’s lantern seem like they were all made to be displayed together.
Unusual to find planters that have such a strong modernist 1950s vibe to them, I love the tripod legs.
Wonderful 1920s forged iron armillary sphere mounted on a stone base shown in this photo next to a huge wooden pulley wheel.
19th century French urns with gourds and one really huge and really ugly squash.
Industrial butcher’s table filled with iron objects.
The top of the butcher’s table has an assortment of heavy pieces including the large mounted iron rings, the copper and iron hand mold forms in the rack, to the “boat anchor” made up of various found objects and tools, with it’s original blue-gray paint.
In the very back of the shop hangs this large circa 1961 oil on canvas by well listed St. Louis artist Howard Jones. I love Howard’s use of the unpainted canvas as one of his “colors,” it makes the painting seem even more spare and edited than it is. The old general store shelves below the canvas hold an assortment of interesting objects including early stone mortars and a group of cast iron 19th century French coal hod urns. So this completes our tour of the Fall Container Party 2011 at R. Ege Antiques, I hope you have enjoyed it and please come again, anytime. The date of the Christmas Holiday Party at the shop is Thursday night, November 17th, from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm. If you have questions about anything shown in the above photos please contact me via email or call the shop anytime! Email: rick@regeantiques.com or shop number: 314-773-8500. Be sure and click on images to enlarge.
