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The Maine Antique Digest July 2008 Edition had in their help needed section an item that a reader was requesting to be identified. Well...I got this one. The item is an International Order of Vikings Grave Marker. The described hole behind the 12 was to allow the marker to slide on to a post.

A friend of mine picked up a nice set of bookends at a recent auction. Preliminary research came up with very little information about them. They appeared to be signed by a sculpter, L. CUDEBROD. Internet searches came up empty. However, there is an entry in the fantastic "Collector's Encyclopedia of Bookends" by Louis Kuritzky and Charles De Costa (2006) of a pair of Egyptian Pharaoh bookends that are signed by the same L CUDEBROD. After a few scratches of the head, he noticed that on one of the bookends, the "C" in CUDEBROD was actually a "G". A quick internet search revealed that the sculpter was actually Louis Albert Gudebrod. Gudebrod was born 9/20/1872 in Middletown, CT. He spent one term at Yale Art School and then traveled to Europe from 1897-1900 where he attended the Art Student’s League, studying under or with Mary Lawrence, Augustus St.Gaudens and Jean Dampt. Gudebrod had a studio in the Latin Quarter in Paris. While there he worked on a st...

Rooster's purchased an early model portable television yesterday. It is a 1949 Motorola model 7-VT5B. We plugged it in and the screen lit up and it appeared to work. (The atenna was not included) This TV is housed in a suitcase style case and was available for sale for $199.95 in 1949. We will have it available for sale in the shop for much less!!!. Check out this great site for the history of televisions: http://www.tvhistory.tv/ SOLD

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Here is a recent item that we sold on consignment, it is an 1884 Shifting Buggy-Top Salesman's Sample or Patent Model. My guess is that it is a Patent Model. It was patented on 4/29/1884 by George Engelhart and Charles Weidner of Attica, OH. Patent number 297771. On the bottom is a typed label that says "Adjustable Shifting Rail for Buggy - Made by Geo. Engelhart in 1883" This adjustable seat was a suppossed improvement over existing buggy seats of the day. It is made of wood and metal and is in well preserved condition despite it's having a small sliver of wood missing on the top. What is great is that you can look up patent dates on line with the Patent Office and get the original diagram and patent request. Check this item out at http://www.patimg2.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=00297771&homeurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpatft.uspto.gov%2Fnetacgi%2Fnph-Parser%3FSect1%3DPTO2%2526Sect2%3DHITOFF%2526p%3D1%2526u%3D%25252Fnetahtml%25252FPTO%25252Fsearch-bool.html%2526r%3D1%2526f%3DG%2526l...

I just picked up an old advertising sign for Scotty Beverages from Detroit, MI on E-Bay. Little is known about Roma Gazosa Co, who was the manufacturer of the soda, but, the sign itself was made on a sheet of aluminum made by Kaiser Aluminum, which was founded in 1946 and I found a couple of examples of Scotty Bottles that were from 1945 and 1947. I would date this fragile sign around 1947. It will be available for sale at Rooster's, which loves Detroit related items.