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“O” is for….. an ostrich egg hand-painted by Sylvia 40 years ago. Next Meeting: Monday, June 26, 7:30 p.m. Delwood Community Hall, 7515 Delwood Rd. Program: Items starting with “P”. June/July 2017

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“O” is for….. an ostrich egg hand-painted by Sylvia 40 years ago.

Next Meeting: Monday, June 26, 7:30 p.m. Delwood Community Hall, 7515 Delwood Rd.

Program: Items starting with “P”.

June/July 2017

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DIG & PICK

Edmonton Alberta Canada

Volume 42 Issue # 10 June 2017 This is the official publication of the Wild Rose Antique Collectors. All articles appearing in this publication express the individual opinions of the writers and are not necessarily those of the W.R.A.C. or the Editor. Articles contained in the bulletin may be reproduced by other clubs, except where prohibited by the author, provided proper credit is given. CLUB OFFICIALS FOR 2016/17 Phone Email address President Bruce Gilbertson 780-914-7955 Vice President Clinton Beck 780-474-7447 [email protected] Secretary Position vacant (Marjorie Berg, Acting Secretary) Treasurer Tom Fritz 780-454-7480 Membership John Horrigan 587-597-6277 [email protected] DIRECTORS Editor Marjorie Berg 780-432-2244 [email protected] Social/Prog. Kim Stade 780-479-1234 [email protected] 2017 SPRING SHOW Show Chairman Bernie Haber 780-479-1234 [email protected]

If you know of a club member who is ill or who has suffered a bereavement in their immediate family, please contact Susanne Balslov-Kulak 780-987-2851 and she will send out a card expressing the Club's best wishes or sympathy. The Club Address is: Wild Rose Antique Collectors, PO Box 38150, RPO Capilano, Edmonton, AB, T5J 2N5 Phone Number (780) 437-9722 www.wildroseantiquecollectors.ca

The Club meets the 4th Monday of each month (except July and December) at 7:30 P.M. at the Delwood Community Hall, 7517 Delwood Rd NW, Edmonton, Alberta. VISITORS WELCOME! Membership per year: $30.00 - Entitles 2 family members in the same household to all privileges of the Society (September 1 - August 31). Each member is entitled to one free classified ad per month. Non-members may place a classified ad of up to 30 words for $3.00 per issue. Business advertisement $40/month or $100/three months. Library books are due at the next meeting after they are checked out, after which the borrower's name may appear in the Dig & Pick. Fines will be assessed for overdue books. If you have any questions pertaining to our Library call: Gillian Budd 436-4436, Nancy Ross 479-7706, or Marvin Berger 436-4436. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions pertaining to advertising for the Spring show, call our resident expert Bill Borgwardt at (780) 973-6655.

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Wild Rose Antique Collectors Society

General Meeting May 22, 2017

President, Bruce Gilbertson called the meeting to order at 7:30 pm.

All members present had received the Dig & Pick.

Bernie Haber moved the adoption of the April 23, 2017 General Meeting minutes; seconded by Karen Herd.

Motion carried.

Correspondence: Vernon Collectors Club meeting minutes from April 23, 2017.

Old Business:

2018 Show: Bernie mentioned that our Show dates for 2018 are April 21 & 22, not 22 & 23 as reported in last month’s Dig & Pick.

Treasurer: Tom Fritz is just back from holidays and will begin compiling a report on the 2017 Show.

Membership: John Horrigan reported that we have 1 new member, (Al) Douglas Richardson.

Social Program: Kim Stade reported that Show & Tell at the June meeting will be “P” items. She also reported that Lori Haig is not able to host our August meeting/barbeque. Marjorie Berg suggested that we ask to hold the outing at Leduc West Society site. Gord Soch says he has been there recently and thinks that would be a good fit for us. Kim will contact Ron Bodnar, President of Leduc West Society.

WRAC Annual Scholarship: John Horrigan reported that a committee of reviewers will be formed.

A motion was passed at the June 22, 2015 General Meeting that a $200 scholarship be awarded annually to any club member or child or grandchild of a member for the best original research paper on Alberta history.

New Business:

Auction notices: Doll Auction May 27th in Thorsby and a Petroleum Signs Auction May 28th at the Calmar Legion.

Attendance tonight: 34 Guests: 0Door prizes: $25 Gift Certificate from the Rocky Mountain Antique Mall won by Bruce Gilbertson. Oilers book won by Sylvia Kuzyk. Raffle prize: Oilers poster won by Bernie Haber.

Moved by Jim Close; seconded by Bill Borgwardt, that the business portion of the meeting be adjourned at 7:50 P.M. Carried.

Program: Members showed collectibles starting with “O”. None of the 7 selected reference books sold via Silent Auction.

Bruce Gilbertson Marjorie Berg President Acting Secretary

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Show & Tell; “O” is for…….

Cloisonné owls

Oilers playing cards, Olive Oyl on a Popeye crayon box, and a vintage Oxo cubes tin.

Jim Close says buildings along the Thames River in London are not permitted to display advertising. The Oxo Company got around this rule – note the windows of the Oxo building (seen on Jim’s cell phone)!

100-year-old sign from the Osram & Robertson electric lamp Museum in Hammersmith, Wales.

The backside of the Electric Lamp Museum sign

Imperial oil half-pint, an original Oil King’s crest , and John Duke’s certificate of attendance at the 1st Oilers Regular Season Game in the NHL. “The opening game was played on Saturday, October 13, 1979 against the visiting Detroit Red Wings”. The certificate was signed by Peter Pocklington!

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Oilers’ hockey cards produced by Red Rooster (Jim eventually got signatures on all of them, though Gretzky would only sign 1 of his 4 cards), Occupied Japan figurines, and early Oilers Programs featuring Frank Mahovlich and Jacques Plante.

Oilers Stanley Cup badges

Ottawa button, Ontario loon badge

Owl buttons

1941 road map

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Calgary Olympics (“Hidy”) mascot pin y

Omega watch

Onoto fountain pen, circa 1937 – 1947

Oxo tin & a cardboard Santa ornament

Iowa Dairy SEPARATOR OIL tin, circa 1905, 1906

Old basket; probably Micmac (Nova Scotia)

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Olds, Alberta souvenir plate showing (clockwise, left to right)): Church of England, Catholic & Presbyterian churches, Baptist church, Methodist church and in the centre the High School below which is the slogan: “Olds, Alberta. Educational and religious privileges unexcelled. Prime Beef. Golden Wheat. See Olds first”.

Souvenir decorative bottle, Baptist church, Okotoks

Self-leveling oil lamp with handle

(R) orangutan glass sculpture by Mats Jonasson. (L) stoneware orangutan sculpted by Susanne’s grandfather.

Oil can with spout and 3 sewing machine oil cans; Singer & Pfaff.

Ostrich feather duster

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Oneida community plate silverware brochure, probably from the 1950s.

16 fl oz Gattuso (Montreal) olive jar piggy bank, 1950s

Oilers’ shirt, Jason Smith’s #

Old Quaker whiskey bottle

First 20 years of Oilers’ captains

Oilers Molson Cup poster

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O-cedar oil polish bottle; sold door to door in the early 1900s

Library Books for auction at the June Meeting

Teddy Bears Collectors Guide

Costume Jewelry – Judith Miller

Novelty Teapots

Heisey Glass 1896 – 1924

Elegant Glass with Corn Flower

Oriental copper dish, which sat on Betty-Jean’s grandmother’s dresser.

Cap Guns

Guide for Camera Collectors

My Little Pony

Old Jewelry - Jeanenne Bell

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42nd Wild Rose Antique Collectors Show and Sale

At the biggest show in Western Canada, I got to see Indiana Jones in his Raiders of the Lost Ark costume

BY GALE PIRIE. PHOTOS BY LESLIE OTTERBEIN

The Wild Rose antique Collectors Show and Sale – the biggest show in Western Canada, held this year on April 1 – 2 in Edmonton Alberta – runs as smoothly as a well-oiled machine with Bernie Haber at the helm. Forty-two years of experience shows. Marj Berg, who edits the Wild Rose antique collector’s club newsletter, “the dig & pick”, reported attendance was up from last year by 500 to 3,581. This long-running show had 262 vendors this year from across the west. Edmonton’s Expo Centre at Northlands hosted quite a diversity of shows on this April Fool’s Day weekend: The Wild Rose Antique Collectors Show, the Canadian Cannabis Show, and a Tattoo Show. The weather was just as diverse, with snow in the morning and sunshine in the afternoon. Antiques by Design (Dennis and Tammy Dargatz of Chilliwack, British Columbia) had a wonderful booth displaying many fabulous arts and crafts furniture pieces , among other quality and vintage pieces including a very substantial quarter sawn oak rocking chair. Dennis told me about his recent sale of a very rare #86L&G Stickley 1910 tall case clock. The clock sold for an undisclosed amount and will now live in a cabin somewhere in Ontario. I had my eye on a dainty ink stand with original crystal ink bottle, at the booth of Larry Kotz (Vernon, BC). The bottle had a hinged lid with a dainty silver inlay posey, and was a bargain at only $20. My policy is to resist the urge to buy and to buy if the piece is still there later in the day…which it wasn’t, and of course I now must live with regret for my hesitating on this purchase. The vendor also had a very nice Victorian copper door push for sale at a reasonable $110. Classic European Antiques of Edmonton always has a great booth at this show, and in keeping with this reputation showed several very nice bronze figures including ballerinas by Gory and several Chipurus dancers with prices ranging between $395 and $575. There was also a lovely working copper water pump priced at $595. Ol relics Gramophones owner Randy Dubnyk also offered a variety of Red Wing and various other crocks. The show featured a few non-vendor displays: one to commemorate the April 2017 hundred year anniversary of Vimy Ridge, and diverse collector displays – Raiders of the Lost Ark including the collector in costume; as well as mesh handbags and pie bird collections. Vintage items including clothing and textiles were popular and I noticed many millennial generation buyers leaving with Corning Ware, corn-flower pieces, vintage blankets and Pyrex bowls. Ihor Rudyk, owner of The Stamp Gallery in Edmonton, seemed to be busy at his booth featuring stamps, postal history and supplies for collectors. One vendor from Where on Earth Did You Get That antique mall offered a vintage Westinghouse roaster circa 1954 for $395. This seemed to me to be an early example of a specialized appliance of the type one buys and seldom uses. Light Up Your Life (Calgary, Alberta) always has an interesting booth, featuring antique lighting. I loved their copper and brass oil filler, offered at just $195 and a beautiful brass inkstand priced at $295. One item that seemed a little out of place at this booth was a ceramic cookie jar in the form of a strawberry ice cream cone. For Coca Cola collectors, Randy Pysh offered all sorts of soda pop machines and collectibles. On the way out on the last day of the show I spotted a Coca Cola display with a life-sized carousel horse on a Coca Cola base for $1,500. Ron Thompson of St. Albert, Alberta specialized in Canadian coins and paper money, however offered many other items at this show. I liked his vintage inlaid wood clown plaques, which were in beautiful condition – they would definitely appeal to a clown collector and were available at just $35 for a set of three. A survey of vendors indicated they were very happy with sales made at the Wild Rose Antique Collectors annual show and sale this year. Most of the vendors showing at the Wild Rose event will have booths at other Spring shows in Alberta, including the Lloydminster Antique Show, the Red Deer Mother’s Day weekend show and also Antiques by Design’s Antiquing at the Arc in Calgary.

Originally published in Canadian Antiques & Vintage, May 2017

Reprinted with permission. Re-typed for ease of reading. The editor

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{ llre term hride's hasket is a modern n-roniker for so!'ne-II ttrrng srlver and glass rnakers often referred to as cake.

i:erry or fruit bowls or baskets, wlriclr made perfect sense

since thcse are the types of items cne would expect to find !n

ihe baskei:.

F 0n rare occasions. the fi'ames sl baskets would be

O racle fronr brass, brorze cr pewier. bui by and large

silver vras the preferrecl materiai.

gifts of silver during ceren':onial

events. lrke a r,teroing - hence

the nan:e bricle's basket. However,

before the baskets wouliJ becon-le popu-

lar wedding gifts, they served importanipurposes during lavish weddings during the

early-tc-mid 19th century. The paiatial bas-

keis, th*n cfte n made of coin or sterling silver,

wouid hoid flswer petais scattered aiong the

aisie by flower giris. The basket woulci aiso

sit aicp the wedding party's iable durirrg ihe

reception, io clisplay a bride's nridel bouquet.

q Durrrrg th: fourth quarier of th* i9th cenl!ry, eallrer

J na,,uiacture,s ou*l thu potentiat lor a gre;ter market if the

bi'icie's baskets were more affcrdahle. trhis realization prompted

many ccmpanies io use silver plate instead ol coin or sterling

silver, tc create the appealing baskets. Glass comDanies sa',1

the boom associaied witl bride's baskets and .:hcrtly before the

iurn cl the 20ih ceniury glass bcwis started appearing anC were

paired utith the silver piated baskets.

a A s,iver bt,ie " [,.as(et rraru-I ractrrred bY the MaLiser lv1t3.

C*., in the early 20th ceritury,

weighing 28 oz" 76 dwt", sold iar

$1,134 at aucticn in Nr:vembert 2014 through Leslie Hindman

Aurtiqneers" The bride's i:askei.plciur*d at lhe brttor-n leit ci tl';is page,

features a flaring rim with scrolls and

roses applied at intervais, iairth prerced sides

riepicting beli{lor*ers and latiice.

tfl AlthoLreh many cut-glass bcwls.1i6 frarnes anci piates *ere scid as singu-

lar bnde's baskets, ln tcday's nrarkeipiace

seascned collectors advrse checktng the'snugness' of the glass rnsert io confirm the auihent!ciiy of the

pairing. ll the glass bowl can easily be rnoved within lhe stand, it

is not a pure pair"!ng and instead was 'marrted' scmetinre durirgits history.

O C:e of the

v, larqesi

bride's baskets

to ever crcss the

auctirn i:iccksold for $5,310{uriih buyer's Sride's

&askefwith enamel

decarated

premiurn) during Woctly

bawl paintedwith {lawers,

ct^n a

silverplate{rame, late 19th

glass rim on the bcwi. The

century,sold for

*,eya i*2412.

*rcta: aacrfei.!,Crtaha Ai:.!|..

i:etiiel

The baskeis grew out cfihe pcpularity cf bestowing

A A most appealing form of bride's basket during the short-f period of time they were largely in fashion (i860s-1910s),

- and in the eyes of mcdern-day collectors,

ff :+ is the double bride's baskei. At auction in

H * october 2o14, a pair cf antique ruffled art

W glass bowls featuring enamel pear branch

l, d6cor, set upon a Pairpoint frame boasting

& a design of cherubs riding turtles, sold for

F $16,520 with buyer's premium, throughI*6 ,A Woody Auction. {lmage is pictured above at

-.ffi'*'. "s L1ffi:'[:il.,

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companies to Purchaseglass baskets to pair wrth the

silverplate stands they produced, and

vice versa for glass conrpanies.

._ --"1 .

'*+.& + &*t

Aucrior s 0lt,,rber 2Jll a,-iciicr: EThe basket neasiirecl 28 incnes '{

nigh and l6 inches in diameter

and 'eatL.:'ed a cdsed art giass

rutilri brwl \ritn f;nk rnfe'ior ,>'sh:drng lo r,vhrle, witn a vrnt

design and an ar:.lber applied

si lverplate stand featured

the figure of a child holding a

cornucopia above ihe heaC.

10 ;"Ji;:'f"x';Ix3:?::l:,, inc,urje pairpoinr, Reed &

Barton. Meriden, Mt. Washinglcn, l,,4oser, and Webb.

Compiled hy Antoinette Rahn

Sources. fheft ibbffi lfi MyJournal,coni My1dHistoicHailse.blagspo!.com; rvw.d re ss e d h e rd a y €v i ! r ta ge. c o t n

50 ANTIQI,E TRADER . www.AntiqueTrader.corn . December 2i, 2016

c'o)dZlrr'{nb ,%os6e/s

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The Classifieds

For Sale

Large collection of Black Memorabilia.

Approximately 200 pieces including 2 large cookie jars, string holders and many different pieces. Mostly ceramic, but some plastic. Can supply pictures.

$2400.00.

Contact Al Richardson

250-861-3888

Wanted

To members of the Wild Rose Antique Collectors

Hello everyone,

I am working on a couple of projects to help the Edgerton Museum and the Beverly Interpretive Center improve their dairy related exhibits.

My search for dairy crates, butter boxes, and red colored label milk bottles has been unfruitful.

If you have any such items that are spare to your needs, I would be interested in buying them.

Best regards

Bob Snyder

Phone/Fax 780-477-2809

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Calendar of Events

Jun 17, 18 10th Annual Fort Macleod Antique Show & Sale, Sports Complex, Fort Macleod, AB

Jun 17, 18 Acadia Sportscard Show, Acadia Rec. Complex, Calgary, AB

Jun 24 Hillhurst Sunnyside Antiques Market, Hillhurst Sunnyhill Community Centre, Calgary, AB

Jun 25 Parking Lot Sale, Old Strathcona Antiques Mall, Edmonton, AB

Jul 15, 16 America’s Largest Antique & Collectibles Show, Portland Expo Centre, Portland, OR, Early entry 8am Fri Jul 14 $30 (Canadian), Sat: 9am-6pm Sun:10am-5pm www.christinepalmer.net

Jul 22, 23 Leduc West Antique Society Annual Exposition, 49541 Range Road 260,

Aug 15 - 22 Antiques & Collectibles Show, Grande Prairie 780-228-2723

Aug 18 - 19 The Valley Antique & Collectibles Sale, Cowichan Exhibition Grounds, 7380 Trans Canada Hwy. Chemainus, BC Fri:5pm-9pm, Sat:10am-3pm

Aug 19 - 20 Antiquing at the Arc Acadia Recreation Complex, 240 – 90th Ave SE Calgary Sat: 9am-5pm Sun: 10am-4pm www.antiquesbydesignshows.com 604-316-1933

Aug 25-26 9th Annual Antiques & Collectibles Sale Enderby Drill Hall, Hwy 97A , Enderby, BC Fri: 9am-5pm Sat: 9am-4pm

Sep 2 – 3 Kerrisdale Antiques Fair Kerrisdale Arena 5670 East Boulevard, Vancouver, BC 21st Century Promotions 604-980-3159

Sep 4 Parking Lot Sale, Old Strathcona Antique Mall, Edmonton, AB

The WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SOCIETY respects the privacy of its members. Information collected is for the sole use of the WRAC Society and its operation. All information is kept confidential and is not sold or transmitted in any form to any outside party. Requests for information and its use should be directed in writing to the WRAC Society and its privacy office.