Antique Coverlets, Creamware, Clewell, Clarice Cliff, Charlie Chaplin, Charlie McCarthy, Corkscrews, and Cybis Price Guide

A coverlet or coverlid is a type of bed covering with a woven design in colored wool yarn on a background of natural linen or cotton. Coverlets were woven in almost every community in the United States from the colonial era until the late 19th century.

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Antique Creamware

Creamware is a cream-coloured, refined earthenware created about 1750 by the potters of Staffordshire, England, which proved ideal for domestic ware. It was popular until the 1840s. It was also known as tortoiseshellware or Prattware depending on the colour of glaze used. It served as an inexpensive substitute for Chinese export porcelain. The most notable producer of creamware was Josiah Wedgwood. Around 1779, he was able to lighten the cream colour to a bluish white using cobalt in the lead overglaze. Wedgwood sold this more desirable product under the name pearl ware. Wedgwood supplied his creamware to Queen Charlotte and Catherine the Great and used the trade name Queen’s ware.

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Antique Clewell

Charles W. Clewell was a metal craftsman, not a potter. Paul Evans, in his text “Art Pottery of the United States” said that metal workers and potters fed on each others’ work. Some potteries of the early 1900s featured animals on their pots, not unlike metalwork. In addition, McCoy and Weller used glazes that had a metallic look. Rookwood potters and others used metal overlay on standard glazes. Charles Clewell also mixed pottery and metal, but he was the first to use an entire metal overlay.

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Antique Clarice Cliff

The name Clarice Cliff conjures up bright coloured pottery typical of the 1930’s style design known as Art Deco. Clarice Cliff was born on the 20th January 1899 in Meir Street, Tunstall, Staffordshire. The most northerly of the six pottery towns in the Midlands of England. Clarice was a skilled potter; and it wasn’t until 1925 when she was exposed to the Exposition Internationale of Arts Decoratifs et Industrialies Modernes in Paris that her creativity came into full bloom. This was the international exhibition during which the Art Deco and “modern” style burst onto the international design scene, and Clarice was fascinated by the geometrically grounded modern designs being introduced for all the necessary amenities of daily life.

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Antique Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer “Charlie” Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era.He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I. Chaplin used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency from the end of the 1920s. His most famous role was that of The Tramp, which he first played in the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice in 1914.Chaplin was one of the most creative and influential personalities of the silent-film era. He was influenced by his predecessor, the French silent film comedian Max Linder, to whom he dedicated one of his films. His working life in entertainment spanned over 75 years, from the Victorian stage and the music hall in the United Kingdom as a child performer, until close to his death at the age of 88. His high-profile public and private life encompassed both adulation and controversy. Chaplin was identified with left-wing politics during the McCarthy era and he was ultimately forced to resettle in Europe from 1952.

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Antique Charlie McCarthy

Edgar John Bergen (February 16, 1903 – September 30, 1978) was an American actor and radio performer, best known as a ventriloquist.Bergen was born Edgar John Berggren in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Swedish immigrants Nilla Svensdotter and Johan Henriksson Berggren. He grew up in Decatur, Michigan. He taught himself ventriloquism from a pamphlet when he was 11. A few years later, he commissioned Chicago woodcarver Theodore Mack to sculpt a likeness of a rascally Irish newspaperboy he knew. The head went on a dummy named Charlie McCarthy, who became Bergen’s lifelong sidekick. At age 16, he went to Chicago, where he attended Lake View High School and worked at a silent movie house. He gave his first public performance at Waveland Avenue .

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Antique Corkscrews

A corkscrew is a kitchen tool for drawing corks from wine bottles. Generally, a corkscrew consists of a pointed metallic helix (often called the “worm”) attached to a handle. The user grips the handle and screws the metal point into the cork, until the helix is firmly embedded, then a vertical pull on the corkscrew extracts the cork from the bottle. Corkscrews are necessary because corks themselves, being small and smooth, are difficult to grip and remove, particularly when inserted fully into an inflexible glass bottle. The handle of the corkscrew, often a horizontal bar of wood attached to the screw, allows for a commanding grip to ease removal of the cork. Corkscrew handles may incorporate levers that further increase the amount of force that can be applied outwards upon the cork.

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Antique Cybis

Cybis is a philosophy. It is very much “the study and science of a particular knowledge.” Namely, creating unparalleled porcelain sculptures. It is also a studio, harmony, a way of life and dedication by a talented team of artists that permits our name to be synonymous with the world’s finest porcelains.Cybis, recognized by collectors and connoisseurs throughout the world for its unsurpassed beauty, offers today’s collector a timeless symbol of elegance and taste. Each Cybis work of art is individually handcrafted and hand decorated in America by the skilled Cybis artisans, with no two sculptures ever being exactly alike.

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