tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37789796275608719562024-03-13T01:05:33.756-07:00maison dogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778979627560871956.post-47284333634066787972015-03-02T08:19:00.000-08:002015-03-02T08:31:00.845-08:00Fifty Shades Of Grey … Hound<div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">
Maison Dog, the specialists in Canine Antiques and Collectibles are proud to present,<br />
"Fifty Shades Of Grey-Hound"<br />
Come and marvel at our collection of Antique Dog Collars, impressive enough to decorate any 'Red Room'</div>
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Our collars have been admired and gasped over and tweeted and re tweeted. They are objects of beauty and make for beautiful decorative pieces in any interior. They can also be worn, and look amazing as fashion accessories in any photoshoot.</div>
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We also have an impressive collection of Greyhound inspired pieces, from cufflink boxes and paintings, to enamels and gold jewellery, clocks and umbrellas.. </div>
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Greyhound-type dogs are the oldest recorded in history. The breed originated some 8000 years ago in the ancient civilizations of the Middle East where hunting dogs with deep chests, delicate heads, and long legs were found depicted on the walls of early cave dwellings. They have been the subjects of art and literature ever since.</div>
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The Greyhound in Art and Literature</div>
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The Greyhound is the only breed of dog mentioned in the Bible (Proverbs 30: 29-31).<br />
The first dog mentioned in literature, in 800 B.C., was the Greyhound in Homer’s Odyssey.<br />
In both Greek and Roman mythology, gods and goddesses were often portrayed with Greyhounds.<br />
In the 14th century, in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, the Greyhound was the first breed to be written about in English.<br />
Shakespeare mentioned Greyhounds in Henry V.<br />
During the Renaissance, the most famous artists of the era – Veronese, Pisanello, and Uccello – captured the elegant lines of the Greyhound in art.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778979627560871956.post-9401056496109739282014-09-07T08:43:00.000-07:002014-09-07T08:45:10.542-07:00Rolling PinsAt Maison Dog we have been working on a small range of kitchen bits and bobs for the dog lover. From aprons and tea towels to rolling pins.<br />
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Here are three of our latest rolling pins; vintage pins embossed with a variety of dog breeds.<br />
They are not on the website yet but I am planning to stock them in my new store -<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778979627560871956.post-35304903202107069102014-06-28T08:10:00.000-07:002014-06-28T08:14:39.439-07:00Summer Repair Clinic and A Victorian CentrepieceYesterday I went to the 'Summer Repair Clinic' held locally to us by the company 'Complete Departure' <a href="http://www.completedeparture.com/">www.completedeparture.com</a><br />
Recently I bought a few Victorian Centrepieces at auction -<br />
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Victorian Centrepiece with Epergne and Deer (undamaged)</div>
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One of them was broken, so the Summer Repair Clinic was a fab opportunity to get it repaired and learn a thing or two in the process.<br />
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Complete Departure created the Summer Repair Clinic as an experimental project that aims to share their facilities and knowledge with people in order to help them do the things they would otherwise be unable to do.<br />
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Book a two hour session and have an opportunity to work with plastic, metal, wood, leather and ceramic, with the guidance from an expert. You choose how much input you'd like to have in the repair process.<br />
At the end of the session you donate what you think the repair and your learning experience are worth.<br />
(the charity send tools to third world countries)<br />
<a href="http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summer-repair-clinic-tickets-11915089353">www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summer-repair-clinic-tickets-11915089353</a><br />
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I brought along my centrepiece which has three recumbent deer chained around a silver central column.<br />
The column was bent and the Epergne (glass flute to hold flowers) also had missing glass from its base, causing it to be very unstable. One of the deer's antlers was missing.<br />
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In the above pics you can see the antler cast being made.<br />
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to be continued….<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778979627560871956.post-63219776212175977082014-06-28T07:42:00.001-07:002014-06-28T07:43:34.695-07:00History Of A French Bulldog BraceletOn a warm summer’s evening just after the war in 1946, two ladies with their dogs returning from Blackpool show were picnicking in a field outside the village of Quatt, just south of Bridgnorth in Shropshire, when a lady on a horse bore down on them and told them in no uncertain terms that they were on private land. She then dismounted and made a tremendous fuss of the dogs; it was love at first sight.<br />
The trespassers were Joyce Hargreaves (Comeytrowe) and Mrs Nutting (Olveston) and the horsewoman was Joan Cottrell. That occasion was the beginning of the Quatt French Bulldogs. That same year (1946) Joan bought her first French Bulldog, a bitch called Northgate (a well-known landmark in Bridgnorth, now a museum) Pippet, bred by the Millner Deightons, a long established Bridgnorth family.<br />
Joan’s daughter, Ann, became just as passionate about the breed as her mother and on leaving school joined her mother in what was, by then, a growing kennel. Visitors to Quatt were always welcomed and entertained by Joan, Ann popped in and out with refreshments and dogs and puppies as requested, while husband John, after initially greeting the visitors, retired to the dining room. Joan reigned over her court; everyone knew their place.<br />
The Quatt kennel remained under Joan’s leadership until her death in 1979 and was continued by her daughter Ann until her death in 2001. A long line of successful dogs emerged, either bred at Quatt or bought in, especially clear pieds and fawns, including many champions worldwide and 31 British champions. The Quatt kennel was the first in Britain to breed champion French Bulldogs in all three colours.<br />
Joan Cottrell had a gold link bracelet and to celebrate a Quatt champion being made up had a French Bulldog head and name tag engraved with the dog’s pet name attached. In total 12 of the 31 British champions are honoured on the bracelet, gold for a fawn and brindle, silver for a pied.<br />
Among those that can be recognised are Ch Quatt Sno’Etta, Ch Snowmaie of Quatt, Ch Snowman of Quatt, Ch Quatt Heirenas Bambi, Ch Quatt Snoanna and Ch Quatt Snow Clown.<br />
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The heads were made by Arthur Payton-Smith, a master jeweller in the jewellery quarter of Birmingham, who also produced other French Bulldog pieces of jewellery. He and his family were French Bulldog enthusiasts, he owned three Quatt champions and his mother-in-law one.<br />
Mr Payton-Smith was in dogs for over 40 years. He was a founder member and chairman of Birmingham Kennel Association, a founder member and secretary of the Midland Boxer Club and one time president of the Midland and Northern Counties French Bulldog Club. This club was founded in 1958 by a group of 31 French Bulldog enthusiasts and was the brainchild of Joan who served as its first secretary with daughter Ann as treasurer.<br />
The bracelet appeared at auction recently in Fellows Vintage Jewellery and Accessories sale with expectations of £500-600 but perhaps not surprisingly sold well above, getting away at £1,000 to a commission bid, and yes the commission bid was from Maison Dog!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778979627560871956.post-35077669188510998732014-06-07T06:07:00.000-07:002014-06-07T06:09:01.482-07:00The GreyhoundGreyhound-type dogs are the oldest recorded in history. The breed originated some 8000 years ago in the ancient civilizations of the Middle East where hunting dogs with deep chests, delicate heads, and long legs were found depicted on the walls of early cave dwellings. They have been the subjects of art and literature ever since.<br />
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The Greyhound in Art and Literature<br />
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-The Greyhound is the only breed of dog mentioned in the Bible (Proverbs 30: 29-31).<br />
-The first dog mentioned in literature, in 800 B.C., was the Greyhound in Homer’s Odyssey.<br />
-In both Greek and Roman mythology, gods and goddesses were often portrayed with Greyhounds.<br />
-In the 14th century, in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, the Greyhound was the first breed to be written about in English.<br />
-Shakespeare mentioned Greyhounds in Henry V.<br />
-During the Renaissance, the most famous artists of the era – Veronese, Pisanello, and Uccello – captured the elegant lines of the Greyhound in art.<br />
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At Maison Dog we stock a wide range of Greyhound and Sight Hound related Antiques-<br />
From Silver Stirrup Cups, Victorian Enamels, Oil Paintings and Silver Brooches, to medals and Greyhound Collars, Firescreens and Bronzes.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778979627560871956.post-81912438172556405452014-05-24T08:01:00.003-07:002014-05-24T08:06:21.652-07:00Automated Dogs by Roullet and DecampsFounded in 1865 by Jean Roullet, in 1879 Jean's only daughter Henriette Roullet married Ernst Decamps, a worker in the company. By 1906 Ernst Decamps became head of the firm. After Ernst passed away, his widow Henriette Roullet Decamps and son Gaston Decamps were the successors. Roullet & Decamps are best known for their automata, mechanical walking and moving dolls and toys. Roullet et Decamps won many bronze, silver and Grand awards between 1867 and 1910. Jumeau, Kestner and Simon & Halbig marked bisque heads have been found on walking and mechanical dolls with an RD marked key.<br />
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humorous pencil study of a terrier</div>
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two terriers on the scent, oil on canvas</div>
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This wonderful majolica greyhound pitcher carries embossed marks of both Keller & Guerin and St. Clement as well as a green stamp and the number 507.<br />
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Older animal pieces carry 3-digit numbers or 3-digit with a slash and a 4th number as does this piece. The newer reproductions are almost always 4-digit numbers. Also the new pieces have a very glassy glaze. This piece has a glossy glaze but not "glassy" and it is clearly an older, original piece, with the green stamp dating it to the 1920s, 1930s. <br />
Created to hold the controversial spirit Absinthe<br />
- a very strong anise-flavored spirit, derived from botanicals. It was bottled at a high level of alcohol but was meant to be diluted with water prior to consumption. The beverage originated in Switzerland but became extremely popular in France in the late 19th /early 20th century, particularly among artists and writers including Hemingway, Van Gogh, Oscar Wilde, Toulouse Lautrec and Baudelaire. Absinthe was portrayed as a dangerous, addictive, psychoactive drug and by 1915 was banned in the U.S. and most of Europe including France. However, the psychoactive properties associated with absinthe were greatly exaggerated and later studies found it to be no more addictive or dangerous than any other alcoholic beverage. Consequently, a revival of absinthe began in the 1990s and today there are approximately 200 brands of the beverage being produced in 12 countries.<br />
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A St. Clements Marmalade ServerUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778979627560871956.post-77728456550201935092014-03-07T11:45:00.000-08:002014-03-07T11:45:25.604-08:00Leeds CastleIf you love Dogs, and you love Antiques, you must go and visit <u>The Dog Collar Museum</u> at Leeds Castle<br />
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By the middle of the 19th century, any respectable Victorian gentleman could be seen wearing a silk or linen handkerchief, known as a scarf, passed once or twice around the neck, outside the shirt collar and tied with a bow at the front. More often than not this was held down with a scarf pin. These scarf pins might have been mounted with small portrait miniatures in enamels,or cameos and in some cases precious stones, pearls or glass. Generally set within a gold mount of varying standard, pins were decorated with a variety of subjects ranging from depictions of dogs to foxes masks, horses and portraits.</div>
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The most celebrated artist of the period was William Essex (1784- 1869). Essex found fame and relative fortune in his ability as a copyist in enamels after artists such as Reynolds, Lawrence, Wilkie and of course, Sir Edwin Landseer. In 1839 he was appointed miniature painter and painter in enamels to Queen Victoria, and from 1841 to Albert, Prince Consort. He exhibited over 100 times at the Royal Academy from 1818 until 1862, when he retired to Brighton at the age of seventy eight.</div>
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Not only was Essex technically superb, he was also responsible for a number of improvements in the art of enameling. He kept these improvements a closely guarded secret until, after the death of his son in 1852, he passed them on to a former pupil, William Bailey Ford (1832-1922).</div>
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Ford was Essex’s most gifted pupil and is recorded as having worked at the Osnaburgh studio from about 1852. After the death of his master ten years later, Ford continued the tradition drawing heavily on the studio pattern cards, so that some of the enamels are exactly the same as the Essex originals, but painted up to thirty years after the originals.</div>
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Ford also exhibited at The Royal Academy in London from 1859-1895, and like Essex enjoyed Royal patronage being commissioned to paint enamel miniatures of Edward VII in 1902.</div>
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Another famous artist in this field is John William Bailey (active 1860-1910). It would appear that Bailey also worked in Essex’s studio from about 1864, however by the mid 1890’s,<br />
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For many centuries, dogs, as well as horses, birds and other images have been portrayed in art. And for the last hundred years, these subjects have been immortalized on enamels as well as on crystals through a process called “reverse intaglio”. </div>
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This technique is said to have begun in Europe, and the crystal process has been attributed to a Belgian artist named Emile Marius Pradier. Some of Pradier’s early pieces were signed, which makes them particularly appealing. Such was the beginning of a treasured art form which evolved into incredible works of art in miniature. </div>
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Around 1860, Thomas Cooke began making crystals for Lambeth and Company in England. The crystals gained immediate favor, and as their popularity increased, Cooke trained a student to assist him. This student - Thomas Bean - later trained his own son and subsequently his grandson in the crystal making process. </div>
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Crystal carving and painting has always been a family enterprise and is one of the few art forms of modern times to develop in secrecy, being passed on from one generation to the next. Yet today, with very few artisans possessing either the knowledge or the ability to produce crystals, the process of reverse intaglio is considered to be one of the highest art forms. The popularity of these “little beauties” soared as the twentieth century began and they remained quite fashionable until the early 1930’s.</div>
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Not all carved crystals are created equally though. There are cheap imitations of the technique produced at times. The best way to distinguish a fine crystal is to view it with a jewelers loupe or other ten power magnifier - especially from the side. One the very good crystals, you will notice the depth of the carving and the phenomenal detail - and you may also see that the crystal has slight chips which have appeared over time. If the crystal is in its original mounting, the age can be assessed from the background - the earliest were done on gold foil. As the art form developed, the backgrounds used differed. The foil was replaced by etched mother of pearl, and this was succeeded by plain mother of pearl. </div>
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At one time, crystals were wrongfully attributed to William Essex, an artist well known for his miniature enamel work. Although he had no connection to the reverse intaglio process, many people commonly refer to Essex crystals even today. As alluded to earlier, there are only a handful of current artists who are considered to be masters of the craft. </div>
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The precise physical process of the reverse carved intaglio crystal is a long and tedious one. Rock crystal mined in Brazil and Madagascar is cut with diamond saws and then ground to the perfect cabochon. This procedure could take as many as twenty different grades of polish, and the entire process is done by hand. Once the stone is shaped, the design is drawn on the reverse side of the crystal with water color. The image is then etched into the piece of stone with a scribe pencil. </div>
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The engraving begins with handmade soft steel tools. As many as 250 of these tools may be used to execute this process. The crystal is carved with a paste made from a combination of oil and diamond dust. When the image has been completed to the artist’s satisfaction, he begins painting the crystal. Just as in the carving phase, the painting is done in reverse. Sometimes the brushes that are used have only a single hair. </div>
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The quality of a fine estate crystal far outweighs the setting. However, the early Victorian mountings are generally as much a work of art as the crystal itself. These mountings are usually of 18kt. or 22kt. gold, and totally hand crafted. Estate pieces can range in price anywhere from $300.00 to $30,000 for a spectacular example. Naturally, the rarity, the size and the quality of the art, as well as the setting and the age of these little beauties must be taken into account when determining the price. We hope this small bit of information can introduce a whole new dimension to the collector and make you want to add a “little beauty” to your life.</div>
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A gorgeous carved wooden bulldog inkwell with leather and felt collar. He can hold your ink pen in his mouth, loyal dog that he is. His head lifts up to reveal the inkwell, though the glass liner is missing, and at present the hinge is broken.<br />
These boys are very hard to come by, getting very rare now! I have two at Maison Dog, so if you want to buy him click on the link to take you directly to the store.<br />
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gift, although you know what they say… a dog is not just for Christmas…..Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778979627560871956.post-85037782816461131822013-11-05T07:42:00.002-08:002013-11-05T07:42:43.282-08:00Discover DogsMaison Dog with be at Earls Court this weekend for Discover Dogs.<br />
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I've just bought this gorgeous Child's Antique Candle Night Light. It's a rare survivor. Made in Germany around 1900 from a Bisque Porcelain. It has three sides; a Pug, a Cat, an Owl. They have holes for eyes so that the candle light can shine through. Full of charm and rare.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778979627560871956.post-85590389309130369602013-10-05T09:22:00.001-07:002013-10-05T09:22:51.352-07:00Victorian Die Cut Fan with Dogs<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Just found this Victorian Die Cut in the shape of a fan, decorated with dogs. It is a Trade Card for 'Stackhouses' Finest Shoes. Very PrettyUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778979627560871956.post-32163133024882802042013-10-05T09:15:00.002-07:002013-10-05T09:15:57.043-07:00Antique Bulldog Inkwell<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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New in at Maison Dog is this wonderful rare 19C Antique Carved Wooden Inkwell depicting a Bulldog. He has his original glass eyes and a leather collar. He has a hole through his mouth where the pen/quill would have rested. He sits in a wooden three ball legged base. The top of his head lifts off to reveal the inkwell. Adore him!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778979627560871956.post-47402582259540754712013-09-12T05:30:00.000-07:002013-09-12T05:30:21.926-07:00Mr Fox Black Forest Whip Hook<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Look who I have found today! Mr Fox. A rare Black Forest Carving of a fox with horns for boots. He has removed one boot and is giving it a jolly good clean. Gorgeous!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778979627560871956.post-44678220998170774632013-08-28T02:21:00.000-07:002013-08-28T02:21:36.349-07:00Steiff Dachshund on Wheels<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Look who just came home with me! A Charming Dachshund on Wheels<br />
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A Russet felt Dachshund with Glass eyes and a stitched nose, with some airbrushed detail, FF button in ear and mounted on chunky wooden wheels. The wheels are "eccentric" meaning the axis is not central, so that when pulled along, the dog appears to bob up and down. When he left the factory in Geingen he would have been wearing a leather collar.<br />
He is 25cm long and was produced circa 1912<br />
A similar one sold at Christies in Oct 2010 for around $800Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778979627560871956.post-22993100394771269942013-07-14T11:49:00.001-07:002013-08-14T09:49:51.191-07:00Victorian Glass Dog DomesNew in today are two Victorian Glass Domes containing Antique Dogs...<br />
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Two Dogs Waiting For Dinner is a rather large Victorian Dome containing miniature oak furniture: a Monks Chair and a table whose top flips up to make another seat, both perfectly detailed; a miniature Wooden Clock, and two dogs waiting for their dinner, a Bronze Mastiff and a Black Forest carved St.<br />
Bernard. Beautiful and very unusual.<br />
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Two Pious Pugs: A Victorian Pewter Ponce Pot Pug wearing a sober top hat and a small metal fellow sitting on a miniature Bible.<br />
This is a miniature antique Dome, and is utterly charming.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778979627560871956.post-81105938796967154372013-07-13T00:22:00.003-07:002013-08-14T09:51:22.837-07:00Drummer Dog Whip Hook<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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New to my Collection is this lovely Drummer Dog Whiphook. Whiphooks and Dogs! My two favourite things. So thrilled to have this boy.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778979627560871956.post-50381029628087639882013-06-12T03:53:00.001-07:002013-08-14T09:45:34.193-07:00Antique Dog Collars<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have a passion for collecting Antique Dog Collars. Such objects of beauty. The leather ones are my favourites but these do not always age well; the leather can get very stiff and start cracking. Metal collars are more collectible, especially those with intricate engravings, or those collars that show that the dog was owned by someone famous.<br />
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I love the old brass tax discs/tags that used to have to be added to the collar<br />
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At Maison Dog we are stocking Original Victorian Die Cuts, specifically dogs of course!<br />
Very desirable, yet very affordable.<br />
A bit about the origin of these Victorian Scrapbooking images...<br />
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From the early 1800s publishers produced picture sheets that were uncoloured or, at extra cost, hand coloured and sold by stationers and booksellers.<br />
The colourful reliefs, adored by the Victorians, were embossed and glossy. They are said to have been imported to Britain in the 1850s and soon became popular as decorative additions to Christmas cards and valentines. They were also used to illustrate historical as well as popular events of the time.<br />
The immediate forerunner of the embossed scraps were sheets containing small chromos printed in a rectangular format to be cut out in exactly the same way as the first penny postage stamps.<br />
In the Victorian home a fashionable pastime was to embellish the folding screens that the draughty living rooms required.<br />
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Scraps, known as reliefs, chromos or die-cuts, were printed by chromolithography, stamped out and embossed.<br />
After printing of the scrap the sheets were coated with a gelatine and gum layer which gave the finished sheets a glossy surface, embossing came next giving the scrap their three-dimensional look.<br />
The final production process was to pass them through a punching / stamping press to cut away the unrequired areas of paper from the design leaving the individual images connected by small ladders, often bearing the name or initials of the maker.<br />
The elaborate use of stamping can often be seen in uncut scrap sheets. Optimum use of space, required minimal cutting and lead to the intricate and ingenious design of the cutting die.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778979627560871956.post-3183644562206039582013-05-05T01:26:00.001-07:002013-08-14T09:56:35.327-07:00Japanese Tin Toys<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Tinplate was used in the manufacture of toys beginning in the mid-19th century. The toys were made from thin sheets of steel plated with tin, hence the name tinplate. They were a cheap and durable substitute for wooden toys. The toys were originally assembled and painted by hand. Spring activated tin toys originated in Germany in the 1850s. In the late 1880s offset lithography was used to print designs on tinplate. After the colorful designs were printed on the metal, they were formed by dies and assembled with small tabs. The lightweight of the toys allowed them to be shipped less expensively and easier than the heavier cast iron toys.<br />
Germany was the major producer of tin toys in the world in the early 20th century. The most famous German manufacturer of tin toys was Ernst Paul Lehmann who is said to have exported 90% of his toys. France and England joined the fray and it wasn't long before hundreds of thousands of these tin toys were being manufactured.<br />
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Production of tin toys in the United States started earlier, but began in earnest when tin ore mines were opened in Illinois providing easily available and cheap raw materials. A number of manufactures scrambled to catch up in the beginning of the 20th century, but it wasn't until after World War I, with anti-German sentiment high, that they began to make real gains. There was a growing demand for American produced products and by the 1920s American firms had overtaken the competition. The largest and most successful firm from the 1920s to the 1960s was Louis Marx and Company. Marx produced a huge number of designs and depended on large sales volumes to keep prices down.<br />
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The production of tin toys was discontinued during World War II because of the need for raw materials in the war effort. After the war, tin toys were produced in large numbers in Japan. Under occupation and the Marshall Plan, manufacturers in Japan were granted the right to resume production. The idea was to give Japan all of the low profit; high labor manufacturing and the US companies could sell the imported product. It worked better than they had expected and Japan became a tin toy manufacturing force until the end of the 1950s. In the 1960s cheaper plastic and new government safety regulations ended the reign of tin toys. Presently, China has taken over the role of the leading tin toy manufacturing country. (source Wikipedia)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778979627560871956.post-63886539775958307932013-05-04T12:29:00.000-07:002013-08-14T09:57:37.542-07:00Bonzo Soft Toys<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am posting here a picture of my Bonzo Soft Toy above.</div>
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Bonzo illustrations in Sketch Magazine, created by George Studdy.</div>
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Deans Ragbook, Chad Valley, Chiltern, Merrythought, and Steiff all made Bonzos.</div>
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One black ear, one white ear, a few black spots, a stub of a tail and big blue eyes are the distinguishing features of that laughing pudgy pup called Bonzo. In the early 1920's Bonzo reigned supreme. He was the envy of politicians, film stars, and beautiful women. His features beaming down from innumerable posters plastered across the world became an institution. He appeared in films and on the stage, and he was the sole subject for a series of art portfolios. He was also the inspiration behind the manufacture of a multitude of highly commercial merchandise such as toys - both cuddly and mechanical, ashtrays, pin-trays, trinket boxes, car mascots, jigsaw puzzles, books, calendars, sweets, and a profusion of postcards. Everyone, no matter what their age, adored the little dog with the crinkly face, golf-ball nose, and big feet. </div>
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Bonzo and the situations his creator George Studdy put him in made him into a kind of 'Everyman', a comforting 'man-in-the-street' symbol which denounced all forms of pomposity. He drank, gambled, and had a wicked eye for pretty women, but Bonzo was never violent, never spitefully unkind, and never repulsively offensive. </div>
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Looking back at the pre-1922 Studdy sketches of dogs it becomes clear that the original concept for a mischievous pup was born around 1911 - possibly earlier. The first dog which, as Studdy put it, "could run by itself" appeared in Pearson's Magazine. The drawing depicted a running hound with a wasp sitting on its tail and was captioned "When you are on a good thing - STICK TO IT!". It was also produced as a framed print, together with a companion picture titled "If you see a good thing - GO FOR IT!". </div>
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This unnamed dog continued to appear in various Studdy sketches, and gradually became a regular feature in The Sketch magazine. It was from this magazine that Bonzo finally sprang in 1922, and he never looked back. </div>
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By the mid 1920's booksellers, stationers, toy shops, and the big department stores were selling a huge variety of Bonzo products. A.V.N. Jones & Co. of London produced two series of jigsaw puzzles, (thirty-one puzzles in all) each having a different colour picture of Bonzo, and consisting of "100 pieces on the interlocking system in Satin Walnut"! When assembled, the picture measured 10 x 7 inches, and the cost was three shillings and sixpence (about 17½ pence today!). The same firm made a range of ashtrays and pin-trays in a brown semi-porcelain, with a gilt edge and a black transfer print of Bonzo in the center. </div>
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Motorists could decorate their cars with Bonzo mascots, made from either chrome or brass. One maker produced a wonderful mascot of him galloping like the wind. It was named 'The Telcote Pup' (after the manufacturer), was about 5 inches long, and sold for 3 Guineas in 1923. Confectionery manufacturers designed lollipops, jelly babies, chocolate bars, and sugar fondants in Bonzo shapes, and special Bonzo tins to sell them. A profusion of soft toys appeared in the toy shops for the very young, and pull-along tin toys for toddlers.</div>
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Chad Valley gained the rights in the early 1920's to begin producing a range of velveteen soft toy Bonzo dogs. They proved to be a very popular item, and many different varieties were produced - some quite simple and unjointed, others with jointed head & limbs. Some had stitched faces, others were moulded & more detailed. All of them had their facial expressions painted onto the velvet base. Each was finished off with a leather-effect collar with the company's celluloid button trademark on it, which gave the company's name and hometown and the name of the toy. The earliest Bonzos had a button with the name Bonzo on it & a metal edge surround, the later & more common buttons were just celluloid.</div>
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This is a Chiltern Bonzo, based upon the early Studdy Dog, similar in facial looks to my dog.<br />
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looks like my Bonzo here, with the red bow..<br />
see link - http://www.worldcollectorsnet.com/magazine/issue28/iss28p4/<br />
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This Bonzo sold for close to £1000 in 2007 at Christies. It is very rare to find a Bonzo Dog with a swing tag.<br />
http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/a-rare-chad-valley-bonzo-dog-4944595-details.aspx?intObjectID=4944595<br />
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