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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1985-11-27, Page 2740 40 40 40 ®® 40®® 40®® OP® 41 Crossroads—Nov. 27, 1985—Page 11A fhro Classified a01111••®®•®®®.0®® By James G. McCollam Q. This Oriental -style vase has been in our family for many years. The colors are brilliant and the details are exquisite. Can you tell me where this was made, its vintage and value? A. This is a nice example eGENERAL INTRODUCING INTRODUCING BANDSAWS JOIN'TERS T'IL'TING ARBOR SAWS WOOD LATHES AND OTHER WOODWORKING MACHINERY of a type of Japanese ceramics called Satsuma. Your vase was made in the early 20th century and would sell for $275 to $325. Q. I have a Hummel "Flower Madonna" 10-1 in an all -white glaze. I am at- taching the trade mark that appears on the bottom. Can you tell me when this was made and how much it is worth? A. This is Trade Mark No. 3, used between 1956 and 1960. At the present, this is selling for about $100. The same Madonna with a blue robe is worth almost twice as much. YOU ARE THE DETECTIVE When you arrive at the scene of the fire, which has now been brought under con- trol by the city's firemen, you find that a large part of the mansion of wealthy old Joshua Adams has been de- stroyed and Adams himself has' succumbed from smoke inhalation. His young neph- ew, Tom Trenton, tells you they usually do appear on all town about two hours ago, just after the fire had been put out. He seems very much grief-stricken over the tragic death of his uncle. You follow young Trenton into the ruins of the old house and down in the cellar you find an old iron safe standing upright in, the rubble. "How about that!" exclaims Tren- ton. "That safe was in' Uncle Josh's bedroom on the second floor!. Dropped through two floors and land- ed standing up in the base- ment here!" He opens the safe and your eye is immediately caught by the small, tidy stacks of loose collectors' stamps in- side. Being an experienced philatelist yourself and having long been interested in the activities of old Joshua Adams in this field, you are very much surprised upon going through his collection to estimate its market value at only about $7,000, especially since it had been widely known that his collec- tion was worth at least 1 100 Wallace Ave. 4N. Listowel 519 291-2280—an..54 a49/y company._ Q. I know that silver-plat- ed and sterling silver napkin rings are collected. What ► about napkin rings made of other materials? A. Napkin rings made of almost anything are col- lectible. Here are some typ- ical items and their prices: Bisque, yellow sailboat, 4* $35; bane, carved flowers, $15; brass, dog and dragon, $15; brgqnze, bulldog, $45 - celluloid/ elluloidt/ bear, $5; cloisonne, Chinese, $30; cut glass, $75; ivory, lion, $50; milk' glass, .430; porcelain, Nippon, .HO; porcelain, Noritake, $15. 0 0 0 Send your'questions about antiques with picture(s), a detailed description, self-ad- dressed envelope and $2 per item to James G. McCollam, ' P. 0. Box 1087, Notre Dame, IN 46556. All questions will be answered 'but published pictures cannot be returned. McCollam is a member of the Antique Appraisers As- sociation of America. • A 'C. GORDON $200,000. You know, too, that the eccentric Adams kept all his stamps loose and not in albums as you and other philatelists do. "Was the safe opened be- fore my arrival?" you ask young Trenton. "Oh, no. The first time it was touched was when I opened it for you a few minutes ago." "Were you and your uncle on good terms?" "Fairly good. He was very stubborn and hard to get along with . . . very close with his money, too. I for- merly lived in this house with him, but moved out and into an apartment several months ago." After a few minutes of meditation, you then say, "For the present, I suspect you of robbery. Maybe later you will be charged also with arson and murder!" What has aroused your suspicions? SOLUTION .tuolsnb s,aloun slq sere se sxaels flews Jn►lluieJ aql ui sduiels aql jo lsaJ Missal -niJnogi uagl pun sduiels algenlen lsoui aql. palaeal -xa Jo uoluaay woy aaadsns noA .aJes aqa lnoge lie paaalleas uaaq aneq pinogs sdmels aql 'saooU oM1 Onoagl uallej 5uineq ales aql ql!M -ales agl jo aoolj aql uo „sdwels asool JO svels AP?l Ilnuis„ aq.L SHARES COLLECTIONS The National Museum of Man shared its collections with other institutions through an active loans pro- gram. Pieces from the Ethnology Collection were displayed at the Art Gallery of Ontario in a bicentennial exhibition, at the opening of the Science North Museum in Sudbury and in the Mc- Michael Canadian Collec- tion's travelling exhibition Patterns of Power. The Ca- nadian War Museum, a divi- sion of the National Museum of Man, loaned copies of Lt. 'Cbl. ''John' McCrea's medals to his birthplace society in Guelph. During the construction of the CPR, the post office for the track gangs moved daily to keep up with them as the new tracks were laid. For example, during the period January 1 to November 7, 1885, their address was End of Steel, Rocky Mountains, CPR. S.athe prospers in Iow1ight areas By Patrick Denton Whenever I have occasion to drop into a certain shop- ping mall, I admire the giant spathe flowers grown there to divide the main thorough- fares. These plants are beautiful and easy houseplants that are tolerant of low light levels, though they will pro- duce their unusual blooms more freely given bright in- direct light in winter. The most usual form of the spathe flower (spathiphyll- um) for homes is the smaller type that grows to about a foot tall. Its leaves, bright green and lance -shaped, arch upward and outward from the center off the plant in a most graceful manner. The larger form, with more tropical -looking leaves, grows to around 3 feet. Both types grow fast. The flowers are a bonus that seem almost too much to expect from such a faith- fully beautiful plant. But they usually do appear on all but the smallest plants, at least during the summer. As the plant grows larger, more flowers are produced, and in ideal conditions off warmth, fairly bright light, moist soils and high humidity flow- ers will appear in winter as well. The skylights in the shopping mall, for instance, assure winter bloom on the large plants I so admire. Though it is not necessary, after repotting my spathe in. the spring I like to set it out- doors in semi -shade for. the summer. There, it never fails to blossom. • The blooms are quite unique — rather like an an- thurium or arum (calla)lily. The name spathiphyllum re- fers to the leaflike flower spathe (phyllum means leaf). The flower looks like a curved white leaf surround- ing a crowded flower spike. Jack-in-the-pulpit (Jack the flower spike surrounded by the spathe pulpit) and skunk cabbage both flower in the same way. As with most houseplants, the spathe flower needs feed- ing during its time of active growth in summer, liquid food being added to its water every two week. The leaves should be kept clean by sponging with tepid water, and dead leaves and stems should be removed by cutting the stems at the base of the pltnt. To keep them young and vigorous, spathe flowers cap be divided every three or four years. It's quite possible to pur- chase a small plant and soon have a large one, for a spathe often will double its size within a season. A favor- ite method of mine for rapid- ly increasing the size of the spathe and many foliage plants as well is to summer them outdoors. Usually during the fall or winter I succumb to the lure of tiny plant sales, and pur- chase several babies in 2 - inch pots. Repotted in the spring and placed in the filtered light of a woodland bed, most of them take off and put on a great deal of lush growth during the sum- mer. That means that the following autumn we have a mid-sized decorator plant for the house and with luck and a little attention, a quite re- spectable large foliage plant by the,end of the next sum- mer. A lightly shaded corner of a balcony or patio would serve well also as a foliage Plant holiday resort. If they can be set in dampened peat and grouped together, so much the better for the plumping up procedure. This summer two small plants — a scinapus and a schefflera — each grew into handsome, bushy 15 -inch plants. The scindapus is an attractive spreading bush whose lance -shaped, light green leaves are accented with, irregular light cream. areas. I have it located adja- cent to a south window and keep it turned so that the leaves farthest from the side of the window do not lose their pretty coloring. The other, schefflera arboricola, is a compact type of umbrella 'tree that I ex- pect will grow to around 4 feet. Both seem good-na- tured plants, not bothered by a certain amount of neglect during their summer holi- day. FIELD -WORK Specialists at the National Museum of Man carried out field -work in a range sites, from the south coast of La- brador to Tuktoyaktuk, NWT, in support of the museum's research and col- lection responsibilities. 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