... 'H' is for...

 

Have you guessed??

Back by Popular Demand (LM!!), I'm picking up on the 'svelteSTUFF Alphabet of Collectibles' where we left off (a couple of years ago??!). THANK GOODNESS when I'm lacking for content, I have PLENTY of collections to fall back on !

For this series, I'm trying to uncover collections that I haven't mentioned EXCESSIVELY on here already (just click on underlined collection name for link to to previous ramblings!!)...  

So it's definitely NOT...

HAEGER Pottery

~or~

HATS

~or~

HATPINS

~or~

HAT BOXES

~or even~

HAIR RECEIVERS!

Today's 'honor' goes to...

The iconic HOLT HOWARD!

This is a VERY SMALL collection in our house !   I first fell for them in the 1990's, after reading an article about HH in COLLECTIBLES magazine (anyone else remember that short-lived, but AMAZING quarterly??)

PIXIEWARE (1958-1962)  These little whimsical Pixies are the first HH that stole my heart.  However they are extremely elusive.  In the past 30yrs, these are the only pieces that I have found (IN MY $range!!).  Most of them the Top/Spoon was found separately from the bowl.

I am also attracted to the 1960-70's patterns & designs they used, and I am a sucker for HH stray, lonesome mugs, and can't leave them behind

This cute kitty caught my eye, and her price was right & ripe for resale, but I am afraid she has found a forever home with me!

...and who can have a fondness for HH, without paying Homage to their early pieces - Red Apple and le Coq Rouge?

until next time ~

BE WELL

& 

enJOY !!

...hair, hair ~ everywhere there is HAIR!

WHAT A WEEKEND!!

Sunday Morning Clafouti to use up some fresh eggs from a friends chicks and mulberries from the freezer before this years supply arrives... It won't be long ~ right?!?!?

COLD but SUNNY!

1973 Calendar Towel found @ market

 OFF TO MARKET!

SIGNS OF SPRING!

Garlic chives have sprouted!!

HAIR?!

Bavaria 'Hair Receiver' .50¢

or should I say... 'HAIR RECEIVER'!!

  J was rather grossed.  My 'Daytrippin Buddy' was rather grossed last summer when we came upon an exhibit of these little beauts at one of our stops... but guess what?!  It is but yet ANOTHER of my 'closet collections'. 

   Hmmm... 'Closet Collector' - all kinds of BAD associations with that term, but I Really kind of like it for some reason!!   But, I digress, back to Hair receivers. 

Here is what WIKAPEDIA has to say:

A hair receiver is a small pot, with a hole in the lid, kept on the dressing table in the Victorian era to store hair removed from brushes and combs. The hair was recycled in a number of ways—notably for stuffing small bags, about 8–10 centimetres (3–4 in) across, called ratts, used to bulk out women's hairstyles. Human hair was also used for stuffing pincushions and small furnishing cushions.
It was often paired with a matching trinket box or a powder jar or as part of a dressing table set, made mainly from porcelain, though glass, metal, and celluloid were also used.

Or this magazine article has a more indepth article if you are truly interested ;-) 

• Southeastern Antiquing and Collecting Magazine

And now, may I present a bit of MY tiny 'HAIR RECEIVER' collection (NO! it doesn't really live in a closet - that was just a figure of speech... it actually has a corner of a shelf all of it's own... on a bookshelf... on the second floor... at the end of the hall...). .

Oh, and there IS another
tucked in amongst some hatpins
DOWNSTAIRS...

 ATTIC/STUDIO HAPPENINGS:

 

Not much new to report 8-(
Been working on gathering tax stuff - that REALLY cramps the old creative energies!!


Now, for The PRIZE find of the weekend, week, month, Year to date.... drum roll Please.....
......
......
will ya just look at this....
in all of it's
red
white
and
BLUE
PLASTIC
BEAUTY
complete
with
RHINESTONE in the center,
unlike ANY others in my collection!
...
...
...
for the handsome sum
of a
mere
quarter
...
...



SWEATER CLIP 2014 #4 .25¢

OH YEH!

I'm SOOO easily pleased  8-)