Saturday, May 14, 2005
CURRENT PRICES
Around the nation
Current prices are recorded from antiques shows, flea markets, sales and auctions throughout the United States. Prices vary in different locations because of local economic conditions.
Victorian purse made from varnished and strung apple seeds, long strap attached with chain links, 4 inches, $90.
Bull Dog canning-jar-rubbers display box, 24 original boxes, blue ground, red letters, bulldog on front, 12 x 101/4 inches, $275.
Krepps & amp; Co. Egg-Tester, hand-soldered tin, brown-and-yellow ground, picture of woman seated in wicker chair using product, dated 1874, 21/2 x 31/4 inches, $375.
Spanish gilt wrought-iron occasional table, hourglass form, scalloped feet, central openwork baluster, glass top, 96 inches, $455.
Chad Valley doll, Princess Elizabeth, blue glass eyes, original dress with blue wool coat and blue felt shoes, 1930s, 18 inches, $460.
Sunderland Luster pitcher, pink luster with three black transfers, "A West View of the Iron Bridge at Sunderland," 2 verses, 8 inches, $860.
Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd private car, streamlined, reverses when bumpers are hit, heads spin, Marx, 1939, 16 inches, $1,155.
Staffordshire plate, "The Baltimore & amp; Ohio Railroad," dark-blue transfer, shows train on an incline, shell border, 9 inches, $1,380.
Sampler, strawberry and grapevine border, alphabets, numbers, verse, "Barbara Ann Donaldson, Oct. 8, 1811," tan, ivory, green and dark blue on linen, 23 x 21 inches, $1,435.
Scrimshaw tooth, inscribed "U.S. Flagship, Colorado, Rear Admiral John Rodgers, Asiatic Station, Feb. 1870-Mar. 1873," 6 inches, $4,970.