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This horse boot scraper can be found on the internet with conflicting identifications. Some say it's from the 19th c....some say it was manufactured by Hubley. There is one example that is marked "Hart" inside a heart on the bottom of the base.  The horse does indeed to appear to be the Hubley Show Horse Doorstop. Other examples are also clones of Hubley doorstops...a    nother horse, the Boxer, Mammy, Setter and Cocker Spaniel. All of these examples are marked 5700 or 5800 on the bottom of the base, just like the B.B. Butt examples. Here is an example of the Mammy I have some information that gets closer to the real story as to the origin of these boot scrapers.  The patent for the base was obtained in 1938 by Savannah Barrett Butt. She ran a little business out of her basement in Baltimore, Maryland and had a couple employees. There are multiple examples of twin figural scrapers that are marked "BB" on the top corner of the base and ...

Do you know this pattern? I know it's Weller. This is the Roma pattern. It's a 5 1/2" Comport. 

Hello, I am trying to sell an old Real Photo Postcard of a Baseball Team. I was told that it was a professional team. Can you help identify it? Your photo appears to be that of the 1920 General Office Baseball Club which was in the Duquesne Steel League. I found a box score that contained 7 of the 9 players in your RPPC. The jerseys have the letters GO on them which correspond with General Office. Industrial leagues were very popular in the years prior to WWII. They were not part of organized professional baseball, but, some serious companies were known to hire good ball players so that they could play for the company team. 

I have a platter with a Bavaria mark I cannot identify. It has an RW in a shield. Please help if you can. This is Retsch & Co. out of Wunsiedel Bavaria.  

I have a mission quartersawn oak side chair that I believe may be Stickley (Quaint). It is wooden pegged and had mortise and tenon construction. Is this Stickley? The chair was refinished at one time and no longer has it's label. It appears that you have a nice chair made by J.M. Young & Sons out of Camden, NY. It would have had a paper label that easily would have disappeared due to being refinished. Young was influenced by Stickley, and in fact, filled some orders for Stickley after they stopped making mission style furniture in 1922.  

My mother was an antique dealer and had 2 Jolly Nigger Banks. You Identified one of them, can you possibly identify this one? This appears to be a JNB made by Sydenham & McOustra out of Walsall, Staffordshire, England.  They made a "fixed eyed" version c1910 and a "moving eyes" version  c1935-1950's. You stated that these were fixed eyes...so circa 1910.

I recently purchased this slot machine vendor that apparently won you a gumball. What is it and how much is it worth. The back is missing. You have a 1930's Trade Simulator/Counter Game made by The Daval Manufacturing Co out of Chicago. Trade Stimulators/Counter Games were "soft-core" chance machines found in stores. They were not physical pay-out machines and thus merchants typically would not run afoul of the law by using them. The "prizes" won were typically small (such as a gumball) if you played. So, you got value for your play.  The same machine you have (in red) with some missing parts sold for $250 at live auction. Other colored versions of the Daval Tally Stimulator in complete condition have sold for $425 at live auction with the occasional one hitting the high hundreds.