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COLLECTIBLE SETTEE
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Antique
or
Junque
Settee
less than
100 years
By James G. McCollam
Member, Antique
Appraisers Association
of America
Q. According to my family,
this settee is very old and
quite valuable. Can you sup-
ply the information we need
as to origin, age`and value?
A. This settee was factory -
made in America some time
around the turn of the cen-
tury. Since it is less than 100
years old, it would be consid-
ered a collectible, not an an-
tique. The value would be in
the$275 to $325 range.
Q. You recently comment-
ed in your column about
Elvis Presley • collectibles..
You suggested that the inter-
est in these items would sur-
vive for a long time. Could
you list some of the things
that are considered col -
The other day I met a
farmer friend who is a big
operator now in the egg busi-
ness. Meaning that he isn't
really a farmer at all any
more, but the warden of a
modern hen penetentiary —
where ten to a hundred thou-
sand birds (each in its own
tiny cage) spend the rest of
their days pooping out eggs
as if they knew their lives de-
pended on it. And when I
twitted him about it, he
readily admitted that this
wasn't his idea of the good
life either, even when the
price of eggs was good, that
putting a hen in solitary for
the rest of her life, shutting
her away from the green of
the earth and the blue of the
sky till the day of her execu-
tion, wasn't his idea of pro-
gress at all. That it was just
one of those pagan things a
man has to do today to stay
in the rat race.
"But to confine a hen for
life in a cell so small she
can't even manicure her own
tail anymore!" I said, "and
all because she happens to be
the one creature in man's do-
main who is always trying a
little harder — well it just
doesn't seem right, Joe, and
I wonder that the Humane
_Society doesn't put a stop to
it!"
But Joe thought it a
wonder that the conservation
people hadn't got after him.
"Look at it this way," he
said, "the conservationists
have made governments
spend' millions to save the
Whopping Crane and the
Trumpeter Swan.- You take
our, own Macdonald College
down in Ste. Anne's in
Quebec and they're building
lectible and their current
prices?
A. The only reservation on
Elvis Presley collectibles is
that those made while he still
was alive are and will be
more valuable than more re-
cent souvenirs like those sold
at Graceland.
Belt (1956), $60; Buttons
(pin back) 19503-1960s, $10 to
$20; Calendar (1963), $20;
Bolo tie clip (1956), $60;'
Lobby cards (1950s -1960s), 11
inches by 14 inches, $15 to
$25; Record: "A Date with
Elvis", 1959, $40; Record:
"Blue Suede Shoes" (1956),
$25; Perfume (unopened in
original box) 1957, $90.
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Send your questions about
antiques with picture(s), a
detailed description,oself-ad-
dressed envelope and $2 per
item to James ,• G. Mc
Collam, PO Box 720, Clifton
Park, NY 12065. All ques-
tions will be answered but
published pictures cannot be
returned.
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a special barn now to breed
Peregrine Falcons so that
bird too won't disappear. But
there doesn't seem to be a
soul anywhere who gives a
damn about the disappear-
ance of the most wonderful
bird that ever scratched the
surface off this earth, be-
cause there's hardly any
hens left anymore, you
know. Only machines."
Which to an oldtimer like
me was so sad a speech I've
been thinking of it ever
since. Because those of us
who are so old we can even
remember a time when we
were so backward and unen-
lightened we had the quaint
idea that money wasn't
everything, recall that in
those days the hens in our
barnyards were very often
not the kind that laid the
most eggs. As often as not
they were just a kind that the
old man thought looked
awful pretty when the sun
bounced off their backs in
the morning. Or a breed that
used to come sailing up to the
back door like a bunch of
friendly puppies whenever
mother called them.
In those pi imitive days the
hen was a personality, a very
important part of our whole
way of life. She even had a
name, Biddy. Even the liter-
ature of those times took her
to heart. The very first story
in the old Primer was that
one about "The Little Red
Hen', the wise old girl who
found that kernel of wheat
one day and in spite of the
scorn of her friends, ended'
up in the bakery business.
And then there was that
other hen of unspecified
color who also taught the
younger generation a moral
by running all around the
farm one day shouting that
the sky was falling in after a
cherry fell on her head.
That last story wouldn't be
a joke if it were in the
Primer today though, be-
cause now the sky is falling
in on the hen.
The hen has even played
an important part in the
shaping of ourlanguage. She
was, first of all, asymbol for
busy bossiness in the female
world. The Ladies' Aid, for
instance, were often referred
to as 'a bunch of old hens' by
their irreverent husbands,
who, when friends wife re-
turned from said Ladies' Aid
meeting, might suffer the
fate of being `henpecked'.
When the money in the
baking powder can on the
clock shelf ran out, it was
said that dollars were 'as
scarce as hen's teeth'. When
a man got too old to cut the
mustard any more and it was
even a chore for him to split
the kindling, it was noted
that he was puffing 'like a
hen drawing rails'.
And when yesteryear's hen
decided that she had put
enough eggs in the nest and it
was time to hatch a few
chicks, the change in her
personality gave birth to
other idioms. Because she
was a rather fierce kind of
old girl nQvr',' so fierce that
the pup 'which used to send
her squawking in full retreat
might now find himself
struck square amidships
with a bundle of incredible
courage and fury. So it was
that when the women off the
house got into a bad mood,
her husband would often tell
her that she was 'as miser-
able as an old clucker'.
By the way, do you re-
member what your mother
used to do to discourage a
clucker from sitting on the
nest? What she would do in
the hope that it would
destroy a hen's brooding in-
stinct and induce her to go
back to laying eggs again?
Your mother would get a pail
of cold water, grab the hen
by the legs and plunge her
two or three times head first
into the pail. I don't really
know whether this barbarous
rite had the desired effect or
not, but one thing sure the
hen came out of the ordeal as
the most insulted creature on
the farm. Hence the term 'as
mad as a wet hen'.
I could go on with this,
telling you how the hen has-
contributed to the humour of
the land too. There was for
instance the complaint of the
amorous hen who went to
roost one night with a capon
and complained next morn-
ing to the rest of the girls
that all he wanted to do was -
to talk about was his opera-
tion. And then there was the
one of the two hens in full
flight across .the barnyard
with a rooster in hot pursuit;
and one hen suggests to her
sister that they might be
running too fast.
The bit of feather humour I
remember best however
wasn't a joke really, but a
full page cartoon in Esquire
magazine many years ago.
Two big roosters are stand-
ing knee deep in a yard full of
hens and baby chicks, and
one reportedly says to the
other,"You know, some-
times I wish I had it all to do
'overagain!"
The way things arg going
in the big bright and oh so
progressive world of com-
mercial poultry these days, I
can't help but wonder if the
big roosters in that business.
aren't wishing that they had
it to do over again too; if they
wouldn't like to go back to
the days before chicken
factories and production
professors, when the hens
were still in the barnyard
and you could still make an
honest buck out of them.
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