Dunham Tavern Show, Cleveland – Part II

We didn’t buy a postcard with a great picture of Santa Claus, because at $65 we thought it was too expensive. Other prices: Yellow cast-iron “Old Salt” doorstop, $1,145 (he was the 11-inch version holding a folded fishnet). A two-part golf-ball mold used to hold collectible golf balls was $69. Want a wooden propeller off a small airplane? There was one with painted decorations for $495. A 2-foot wooden barber pole with worn paint was offered for $1,400. Need an iron rooster windmill weight? A Hummer No. E184 was $1,450, just one of five offered by the dealer. Another was a short-tail horse marked “Dempster Wind Co., Elgin, Ill.” Made in the 1920s, it was priced $795.

Other prices that interested us: Silver-plated fruit-knife stand with a dozen pearl-handled knives, $345; Pendleton blankets, $250 each; bookends shaped like brass urns, $75; Tiffin black glass powder box with colored flowers, sandy finish, 7-inch diameter, c.1914, $245. The shocker was a set of six Craemer & Herron Halloween nut cups shaped like jack-o’-lanterns, made 1908-1913, that were $3,500.

Items under $100 included a 5-inch woven wicker penguin for $49; an old lacrosse stick with leather laces, $75; a single brass candlestick, $65; and a blue pressed glass whimsy shaped like a roller skate, Daisy and Button pattern, $58.

to be continued…