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Share the Joys, Failures and Lots of Information acquired during my 84 years.

 

There are four main reasons why people collect Antiques, each in its own way can bring Beauty, Profit, Joy, Satisfaction, Knowledge of the Past, Talking Points and Interaction between Persons. Today with computers and the Internet it is a remarkable activity that enables handicapped and retirees access to auctions, interested groups, malls, antique shops, clubs, societies, and whatever form of interest taken, keeps the mind young.

 

1.      A Fascinating Hobby

 

2.      Profitable Income Activity

 

3.      Investment Gaining Historical Knowledge

 

4.      A Way to Save to have a Substantial Sum Invested for Retirement

 

Within these four reasons there are innumerable collectable items each one a method of subduing our hoarding instincts, giving a relaxing and exciting addition to our lives. It is considered by many to be an expensive hobby, this is not necessarily true, a fascinating hobby need not cost a lot of dollars and scents, the size of the market makes items available to all makes of pockets.

 

Call me at:  al-wood@rogers.com  or  905-434-8259

Roman Art and the European Tradition

 

Antique Showing by

 

World Wide Antiques Internet eBay Meetup Group

When: Tuesday, JUNE 28 from 10.00 a.m. until 8.00 p.m.
Where: In Alex Wood’s Howland Center at Oshawa Canada. You can attend by

clicking on the following URL which will bring you into the Communication Room:

 

For those attending their will be some Videos available FREE.

 

http://www.howland.ws/Howland%20Room/Howland%20Com.htm

You will need a Computer, and a Headset with Microphone.

Event Description:
A Presentation about Antiques by Alex Wood on Tuesday at 7.0 p.m.
Eastern Zone at His Communication Room in Oshawa, Canada, any
person is invited just click on the above URL to receive
full details and the link to come in, there is unlimited room,
and many features available when you come, one on one talking,
presenting pictures, discussion, and above all ASKING QUESTIONS
on Antiques, Check your attics, garage corners, look under
unlikely places and perhaps you could make your first find,
that I can tell you would give you a fantastic lift. So come
and join everything is completely at no cost, come and Join
Meetup also No Cost, come chat and discuss within the most
advanced Internet Technology of today. My Partner Will Gruber,
PHD, will be there to answer questions on the Internet and
Electronics.

Alex :               al-wood@rogers.com

Will Gruver:      wgruverj@earthlink.net

Come send your eMails, join and everything No Cost so join Meetup
The Oshawa Oshawa eBay Buyer Meetup Group
is my Group I will be changing the name to

 

World Wide Antiques, Internet, eBay Meetup Group.

 

Available to all Click the Link and come visit and be ready for an exciting

Experience.

 

http://www.howland.ws/Howland%20Room/Howland%20Com.htm

All the Best Alex and Will

Very Rare Thomas Webb Peach Bloom Vases

 

by Alex Wood

  

Decorative Glass

 

 

7 ins. tall

 

These are two Peach Bloom vases  by Thomas Webb. I do not call them Peach Blow because I believe them to be original Thomas Webb productions of the early days and are very rare museum pieces, they have a beautiful graduation from the top very red color to a very delicate salmon which at the bottom in bright light almost appears white. The inside is lined with a thin layer of white glass also the decoration has only been applied to one side with the beginning butterfly mark of the Webb Co.

 

Decorated on one side with a gold application of leaves a vine on a long stem with bunches of black berries, and the beginning of  Butterfly Wings, again a delicate design being on one side of the vase only, an excellent decision design wise. The signature on the base of both vases is exactly the same, a figure 2 with a point, as such making them a purpose built pair.

 

The story of these vases I bought from an antique dealer in Tunbridge Wells, England, in the late 50’s not as a collector at that time but to furnish a very old house my wife and I had just bought. I have searched over 40 years in England, Italy and Canada and I have never found the like. He was an old man and did not really want to part with them as they came to him through his family, he had owned them for many years, but he liked my wife and sold them to her, I just paid for them.

 

Now I am old not liking to part with them but faced with the situation my children are not into antiques so I must sell them, they will make a terrific  investment for some one. The smaller one just 5” tall has also been decorated on side only and I believe it is an early experimental vase the gold applied decoration has a dragonfly within it a possible preparation for the pair of larger vases above which have the beginnings of the butterfly mark of the Webb Co.

 

The smaller vase was a pair but one got broken during unpacking in Canada. This also has a very red top which lightens gently down the same as the larger ones but not to the same extent. It has a decoration of applied gold leaves on a stem with a Dragonfly fluttering beside them, the figure 81 or 18 on base could be a date or model number.  These are the first attempts of the Webb factory to achieve this Shading effect, and would have taken place in the mid 1800’s. The photograph is not very good, but better than nothing.

 

If you are interested and would like to buy these call Alex Wood - al-wood@ rogers.com or 905-434-8259 Canada

 

 Above is the signature on the small vase.

 

“Thomas Webb and Sons (England) produced a peach blow (originally Peach Bloom) which was deep red at the top, shading to salmon-yellow at the bottom, with a white lining.” This quote I reproduced from the following website.

 

http://www.glass-time.com/Encyclopedia/peachblowglass.html

 

e-mail – al-wood@rogers.com