It’s pumpkin spice season, which will either make you salivate in anticipation or gnash your teeth at the ridiculous number of products that jump on the pumpkin spice bus every year. You might not like the flavor or scent, but it’s nearly impossible not to love the color all the year around. We present as evidence the Imperial Glass bowl in this week’s fresh to market vintage, which has a distinct pumpkin spice hue.
Before Imperial introduced colored glass, they made utilitarian clear glass for five and dime stores and a pressed glass called Nucut, that gave middle income buyers a chance to own pressed glass that looked like cut glass at a lower price. We are lucky they introduced many colors of glass, especially Rubigold, like the bowl below. What a lovely pumpkiny glow…
If pumpkin is not your cup of latte, never fear, our other fresh to market vintage picks are certified pumpkin free.
Sterling & MOP Navajo Jewelry Set
This Navajo demi parure (half set) was made by the artist Jimmie Patterson. It includes a pendant/brooch combination and pair of clip on earrings. The stones set inside the shadowbox are pink Mother of Pearl. The contemporary modern look of this set makes it idea to wear with modern outfits featuring minimalist design. The artist was most prolific from the 1970s through the 1990s.
Jimmie Patterson Jewelry Set, $120
Pam, Vintage Renude
Mid Century Rubber Elf Shelf Sitter
Christmas is coming eventually in real life but now in shop life. This little mid century rubber elf shelf sitter has the expression of an guy who is looking for something pesky to do. I’m not saying he has magical powers, but every time I tried to upload a sweet lil picture of him sitting pretty, the photo on the right also uploaded without being invited. Make of that what you will. Buy at your own risk.
1950s-1960s Rubber Elf Shelf Sitter, Made in Hong Kong, $22.
Laurie, NextStage Vintage
Imperial Glass Marigold Bowl c 1930s
The story of the Imperial Glass, which began in 1899 with Edward Muhleman, a riverboat captain, and ended in 1984, is interesting enough that it boasts an Imperial Glass Collectors Society dedicated to preserving its history. Known for a wide range of both practical and decorative glass items, Imperial’s colored glass lines were the forerunner of what was known as depression glass in the 20s and 30s. If you’re ever in Bellaire, Ohio, please stop by and let us know if indeed their museum is the thing of beauty I am envisioning.
Vintage Imperial Glass Bowl, $43
Linda, Selective Salvage
1960s Baltimore Colts Band Beanie
This being the first weekend of NFL football, we are renewing our request to have marching bands perform halftime shows at ALL NFL games, including the Super Bowl.
There are only two full bands in the NFL*. One is Baltimore’s Marching Ravens, who started out as the Baltimore Colts Marching Band in 1947. They have played and performed continuously for 79 years, including the dark years of 1984-1996 when Baltimore was teamless after the Colts owner snuck the team out of town under cover of darkness to relocate to Indianapolis. In fairness, the Colts left because their stadium was decrepit, the decade long drama over funding between the city and the Colts’ owner was nowhere near a resolution, the Maryland legislature passed a bill that allowed the city to take over the team by imminent domain, and Indianapolis was standing there, waving the keys to a shiny new stadium.
Keeping their instruments and uniforms in Baltimore when the owner was clearing everything out took cunning and Bond-level tactics. The band’s president and equipment manager, John Ziemann, got tipped off about the move. He was the one with the keys to the band’s equipment truck, so on the night it was all going down, he drove the truck full of instruments to his house. Luckily, the band’s uniforms were at the dry cleaners and not the stadium. Band leadership cut a deal with the dry cleaner and grabbed the uniforms before the Colts’ officials could get their slimy hooves on them. To further protect their gear from Colts management, the uniforms and instruments were hidden in a cemetery mausoleum temporarily until being moved to a band member’s basement.
Renamed Baltimore’s Marching Ravens in 1998, the band continues to perform at games and community events. This Baltimore Colt Band beanie is exactly what a marching band fan, Ravens fan or Marching Ravens fan needs to be the rarest bird in any room.
1960s Baltimore Colt Band Knit Beanie Cap, $69.99
available from this week’s guest, StevieStars
Hear the Marching Ravens play the team fight song performed remotely during the Covid lockdown.
*The Washington Commanders Marching Band is ten years older and has also played continuously except for two years during Covid.
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