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Art, trunks, furniture, decor. Mostly stuff I find curbside or in dumpsters

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L. Rudin oil painting - Fine Artin Fine Art
Vintage wooden seltzer bottle carrier, J. P. Bottling Company - Furniturein Furniture
True Magazine (Fawcett Publications) 1937-1944 - Paperin Paper
Vintage Lincoln BeautyWare coffee and tea canisters - Kitchenin Kitchen
Ceramic rabbit signed M.M. Bokalo - Animalsin Animals
rescued Ramon Prats, untitled still life oil painting on Masonite, 1972 - Fine Artin Fine Art
Pair of Orange Bird glasses, Walt Disney Productions - Advertisingin Advertising
Abstract triptych painting - unknown signature - Fine Artin Fine Art
1988 hand-carved Fantazzimals wood swan rocker - Furniturein Furniture
Shore bird statue - Arts and Craftsin Arts and Crafts

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  1. This is beautiful
  2. That’s Donal Donnelly, who acted in Irish, British, and Broadway theater, as well as some TV and film work
  3. Possibly William Plomer, the writer? He published a book, Sado, in 1931.
  4. Thanks Kwqd. That does seem to make sense. Still, it’s pretty and I’m glad I saved it from the trash, specific artist or not
  5. The background reminds me of a Rothko, but with a forest in front of it. Nice!
  6. French opera singer Lily Pons, who appeared at the Metropolitan Opera in NYC for decades. She did a USO tour of China and Indochina during WW2. The flautist behind her is probably Frank Versaci, who a...
  7. I wonder if that’s a reference to Ike Bloom, a gangster who owned a few cabarets in Chicago in the 1920s.
  8. Sorry for the multiple comments- the site’s still buggy so I didn’t realize it went through!
  9. How nice!
  10. Thanks Dave!
  11. Mshainprats I’m not sure how I’d go about that
  12. The “new” library - I love it! I just walked past the building during a break from work. It’s still beautiful and attracts quite a crowd.
  13. Happy Star Wars Day to all!
  14. On the signature page there are the place names Moyemont and Romont, both in Vosges, France
  15. It’s hard to tell from the photos but I wonder if the paper is vellum. The only word I can really make out at the top is “flowers” - please let us know if you get any of it translated!
  16. Looks like it’s written in French
  17. Image searches show a lot of similar street scenes (with the arch and other elements) in paintings of Italy, by Petrilli and others. It’s possible only the frame is from Mexico. Sorry but I can’t mak...
  18. Yes, MP got it! This is “Mother and Child” by Dora Holzhandler
  19. My guess is that the stencil is an abbreviation for “nahradni soucasti” (spare parts; I didn’t type the diacritic marks here but those make a difference). The only word on the bottom I can possibly ma...
  20. The most legible name is Keifer Rackley. He played on a few minor league teams affiliated with the Seattle Mariners from 1993 to 1996. Searching team rosters for those years yields matches for Julio P...
  21. These were designed by Romero Britto
  22. It looks like DeCola
  23. No idea about the artist, but the subject seems to be preparing the West African staple fufu
  24. Burt Books was bought by Blue Ribbon Books in 1937, and in 1939 Blue Ribbon sold its assets including the Burt imprint to Doubleday. So I would suppose if Doubleday isn’t indicated anywhere that shoul...
  25. Thanks for the input, Kwqd. I agree that the signature is very hard to decipher- none of the guesses I tried yielded any positive results
  26. May the 4th be with us
  27. The building that VintageTAKER54 references is simply known as the Big Duck, in Flanders, Long Island. It was built in 1931 and listed with the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. It’s still...
  28. I would think mid 1800s to maybe early 1900s is about right, but that’s only a rough guess. Hopefully this gets the ball rolling and one of the trunk experts on this site will weigh in with more speci...
  29. Here’s a prior post from years ago on this site with some information you can use: https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/229008-picture-given-as-school-prize-in-1870-on
  30. This is a version of River Landscape With a Column by Canaletto, a capriccio (“caprice” or fantasy painting, with unrealistically combined architectural elements, here an Italian column on an English ...
  31. Thanks Vishinis. Sorry but I can’t provide that info
  32. Happy to help!
  33. I heard back from the artist’s sons. Unfortunately they couldn’t provide a current value for this (which is not something we could discuss in this forum anyway). Here’s the reply I received in full, a...
  34. Ok, I sent them an email and will let you know if I hear anything back
  35. When I contacted the archery club I extended the courtesy of writing in German (using Google translate, and apologizing for any errors in advance), since I figured they might just ignore messages in a...
  36. I don’t know about the Mills part but of course Indiana is a reference to Robert Indiana, who first made this now ubiquitous design in 1964
  37. You could reach out through the artist’s website via the link provided above. There are contact email addresses if you click Home and then “Ihre Eindrücke” under Feedback
  38. Actually I reached out to Bogensportclub Frankfurt directly (using a translation app) and the club’s officers provided the information. Happy to help!
  39. It’s by the artist Werner Arndt. He was a founding member of the Bogensportclub (Archery Club) Frankfurt in 1958. You can see that specific artwork listed here: https://wernerarndt.de/WA_Homepage/W...
  40. They look like a younger version of the couple in Grant Wood’s painting American Gothic
  41. There’s a museum in a defunct elevator shaft down an alley near Chinatown in NYC dedicated to “contemporary archaeology” and “object journalism” - this rivals anything I’ve seen there. I’m loving it!
  42. Typo in my prior comment - he was born in 1922!
  43. Looks like Oppi Untracht (1992 - 2008), a metalsmith and enamelware maker born in New York City who later lived in Finland. He taught and wrote several books, including one on enameling techniques on ...
  44. It’s hard to tell but I thought possibly Anderson with another letter before that. There are a few painters named J. Anderson but I couldn’t find a definitive match.
  45. Thayer’s Universal Tool, for multiple kitchen purposes (trivet, meat tenderizer, pot lifter…), US pat. #241,893 on May 24, 1881 https://trivetology.com/2018/06/01/thayers-universal-tool/
  46. Thanks Newfld! (That painting was a found item too)
  47. Yeah, I’m amazed and saddened by what’s considered garbage. Most of the items I post (particularly in my “stuff I found” collection) were rescued from the trash
  48. Looks like it’s by Peter (now Paedra) Bramhall
  49. The SSWRY stands for St. Louis Southwestern Railway, which was a subsidiary of Southern Pacific Transportation Co. I came across your post when I was researching a Ford wrench I found
  50. That’s Intertwining Forms by Isaac Inbal
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