A '20S-30 Inkwell

[Bo Bo Olson]

I paid much too much for this inkwell set, but the live auction, had vase collecting nuts stacked up to the ceiling....calling in from Switzerland and the US on various things.

I think this is a '20- more than likely a '30's ink well...It too has no mark. With the vase nuts I paid, 30% over my original 'high' bid limit. Hoping to get it at what was a couple years ago, the cheap ink well prices. ......Time marches on, with orders from me.............

 

 

The vases that caused the huge price jump are nothing really special or even marked. But one the vase sharks get the taste of blood, common sense go out the window.......

[inkstainedruth]

"Vase sharks"?

What a great phrase! I am SOOOO stealing it. I think it would make a great name for a music group -- either art rock or heavy metal.... I keep trying to come up with good names to use in the book I've been on and off again writing for about five years. Every time I think of what I think might be a good one, though? Turns out that someone, somewhere, had the idea first. I think the list of "nope -- that's a real band" is longer than the list of "hmmm -- this one seems to be safe and I won't get sued, or harassed for infringement by the group's fanbase if they think I'm dissing the real group...."

One of those instances where the Internet is both a boon and a major PITA....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Bo Bo Olson]

Ruth your book will name it's self from some line in it.

In my 4 book western saga, the first is "A Mournful Wind', the forth and last is 'Tears on the Mountain.' The heroine did such a brutally cold murder, I dicided she needed her own book, she decided she needed three.

I have no Idea what the second, third books names will be. Somewhere in them will be the names.

 

Sticking a name on your book....'early' could limit it, in you might try to force it to be that name.

(you do need a tool box to write. PM me.)

 

Thanks for the props...but you had to have been there....much went for high prices, silver was unexpectedly high, but Id not looked at marks, in that was always out of reach; and we never had a need for it.A box of silverware is enough.

....nice, old but not super fancy glasses, and I'd seen such vases....of course not chasing stoneware, didn't look to see if those vases had any of the two or three names I could recognize.

 

Emile Galle, or Daum from art glass vases Nancy, are expected to be high priced...........and were going for more than normal.

There were online bidders from Switzerland and the US.

 

So many of the folks there are dealers..........and need to restock.(normally want to do that cheap) with the prices, some collectors were mixed in or egos were bruising other egos....

...but with out looking on the bottom of stoneware I can't tell if it's Westersbach or similar (defiantly I'd have to look for the brand mark on the bottom...and don't know much more than Westersbach is a very good name, with collectors. ) or Karlsruhe Majolica (have seen enough of that to have a good guess ratio).

Rossler. ....my wife has my permission to buy any that pleases her. There was none...It was middle class to upper middle class stone ware....very, very good and fine designers. My wife liked it even before we knew the rest of the story.

From classic little bitty roses to then very fine up-to-date Art Decco.

The owner lost both his sons in WW1, so left his factory to his workers. The Nazi's, promptly stole it from the workers.............and oddly the work in the factory went down hill fast...the company was broke before WW2.

 

I go to live auctions often, and either some couple of someones had collected very good stoneware died, but those were going for very much higher prices than I expected, right across the board.

 

After sitting thee for 4 hours the second time (the first hour and a half, my wife won a great garnet ring then we went home and ate.....my rear end said it had best be worth it, and I paid too much.............

My wife got this 18 K garnet ring at her limit........but being of harder will, will mostly stay at her limit..............me

 

Edited October 21, 2019 by Bo Bo Olson

[inkstainedruth]

Oh I already have a title for the book. I was specifically looking for good names for bands (two of the major characters are musicians). I keep getting great ideas for band names and then look them up online only to find that there's a real group with that name. I need a couple -- one for the one the one character used to be in, and one for the main character to sort of jerk him around with at one point by saying "Yeah, we're in a group and it's called...." And then say, "No, dumb(bleep), I made it up just now...." I've got that one already, and so far it seems good to go, because the concept made me laugh. But I need a name for a band that would be plausible for the late 1960s.

I've already run into the duplicate name thing in another context. There's an old group I really like that never went anywhere and disbanded after one album. And there's some modern indy group with the same name that I ran across on YouTube a couple of years ago, and it confused the heck out of me.... And I was going, "Who are these people? They're not [name]....."

That's a pretty ring your wife got. I'm really fond of garnets for some reason. I inherited garnet earrings from my grandmother (they weren't old, my parents got them for her for Christmas at some point) but I don't know where they are. And I had a really cool crescent shaped pin that is studded with very small garnets -- not sure where that ended up either....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Bo Bo Olson]

Severe Impact?

.....there were so many with a lead singer name, and some dorky name. XXX & The Dorky's. XXX & The Dorky Trio.

For every one hit wonder were a hundred, whose record went nowhere. And their name is around....so don't worry too much about it.

As long as it's not Alvin and the Chipmunks.

 

I knew someone when I was in the AF, that spent a real new car and more fortune making his own record, with the wrong music, wrong era......great voice....could have given young Dean Martin, or Perry Commo a good run for the money.

 

Aorta was perhaps the very first acid rock band..........made an album (that I only heard a cut played many decades later), at least one, perhaps two years too early....Hippyism hadn't spread out of SF yet. Beach Boys were still hanging on and the Beatles weren't known for grass.

 

Righteous Brothers....but a different slant on that name.

 

It does matter what drug era and drugs ....like 'beer' or a 'whiskey' band. . Beach Boys was beer....Stones were always downer drugs.

Are they taking themselves serious, or are they a garage band that escaped the HS prom?

Where are they coming from, R&B south, Grand Ol Opry, Or mid west, Cornfield Blues? Edgy North East.....................no one had heard of the North West yet.

 

Music is not really my thing. I didn't like Elvis because he ruined a perfectly good western when I was 7-8......but at least he could sing I thought when the Beatles came in.

12 O'Clock Rock was a pure sex song.........

And so on.

 

You need to know the year and see what could have been playing on the radio....If I ever get around to my spy book, ABBA and John Revolting get mentioned....but that has nothing to do with character building

'Character's Make the Story', by Mary Ellsworth............I made a photo copy of that back in the dark ages.....still got it as a book I got someone to cheap ...like free bind for me.

Its great a must have, but one needs the rest of the tool chest, Writer's Digest books on Plot, and even theme.......man against the world.....nature, his wife....what ever. There are many minor theme's. Dialog, body language. I've some 40 books . The Cinderella Complex? something another, the Manipulated Man....you defiantly 100% need at 'the Games People Play, by Dr. Eric Bern...a 1964 book international best seller, that has so many reprints. One came out even in German some 7 years ago.....look in Amazon.

Game being played..........Klutz....the man or woman who always puts their wine glass on the edge of the table......'why does that always happen to me?' Kick Me....got a sign on the back.

There are deadly inherited games....all games are inherited and played constantly.

Divorce can be the lack of similar games. Alcoholic starts as a five handed game, until there is only the bar tender left, before the alley.

Which of the other three hands do you want someone to play, the 4th hand is played by the bartender.