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Very rare 2-inch signed Daum Nancy toothpick holder brings $2,700 at Woody Auction sale
A very rare 2-inch signed Daum Nancy toothpick holder, with a winter scene decoration and in fabulous condition, sold for $2,700 at a multi-estate sale held April 4 by Woody Auction. The auction was held in Earth City, Mo., just outside St. Louis.

Rare 2-inch signed Daum Nancy toothpick holder in excellent condition ($2,700).
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PRLog (Press Release) – Apr 20, 2009 – (EARTH CITY, Mo.) – A very rare 2-inch signed Daum Nancy toothpick holder, with a winter scene decoration and in fabulous condition, sold for $2,700 at a multi-estate sale held April 4 by Woody Auction, based in Douglass, Ks. The auction was held at the Holiday Inn Airport West in Earth City, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis. The toothpick holder was one of over 430 lots that changed hands at the sale.

“For what it was – an unassuming toothpick holder you wouldn’t expect to sell for all that much money – it did exceptionally well,” commented Jason Woody of Woody Auction. “It was a tribute to the piece’s rarity and condition.” Mr. Woody said about 70 people attended the event and there were around 40 registered absentee bidders. About 170 online bidder numbers were assigned, through Proxibid.com.

“We had a light turnout for the preview the day before the sale, so I was a little nervous about how well we’d do,” Mr. Woody said, “but by the time the opening bell sounded at 9:30 in the morning, a nice crowd had assembled and everybody settled in for a good day of spirited bidding and healthy prices realized.” Headlining the event was the estate of Patsy Cary, a dedicated glass collector from Illinois.

Bidders had much to consider. Offered were miniature lamps, hanging lamps, table lamps, banquet lamps, cameo glass, R.S. Prussia, Royal Bayreuth, Rose Tapestry, Tiffany, toothpick holders and other items. Typical for a Woody Auction sale, all lots were sold to the highest bidder, without reserve. “From lamps to antique glass pieces, this sale offered quality and diversity,” Mr. Woody said.

Following are additional highlights from the auction. All prices quoted are hammer prices, exclusive of a sliding commission structure. There are no buyer’s premiums at Woody Auction sales.

The top lot of the sale was a beautiful 16-inch signed Daum Nancy three-color cameo corset-shaped vase with a nighttime tree and lake scene ($3,750. The piece was exactly as featured in the book French Cameo Glass, by Blount. The second highest earner was a gorgeous 27-inch Pairpoint reverse painted table lamp ($3,500), with 16-inch “Seville” shade with tropical foliage and parrot scene décor.

A rare, 10-inch signed Handel ball-shaped hanging hall lamp (#6996), with original hardware and fine parrot décor, brought $3,400; a must-see original kerosene cranberry hobnail light fixture set on a fancy brass frame soared to $3,200; and an outstanding pink opaque quilted hanging lamp with matching font fancy brass frame with two opaque faceted cut jewels, electrified, commanded $3,100.

An extra nice 12-1/2-inch signed Galle two-color cameo vase with white and lavender branch, leaf and blossom décor went for $2,100; a 7-inch German figural stein with a graphic of a man with scars wearing an eye patch, with a lithophane village scene base, topped out at $1,800; and $1,800 was also realized for a signed, fish bowl-shaped Galle vase, smoke-colored, with fancy enamel floral décor.

A pair of lots fetched $1,200 each. The first was an 8-inch signed Devez three-color cameo vase, boasting a beautiful cottage, lake, mountain and vine scene in pink, yellow and blue. The other was a 6-1/4-inch French cameo vase, signed G. Raspiller, with a quality engraved leaf, branch and pod décor. Also, a 10-inch signed Devez three-color cameo cut vase with mountain, tree and lake scene hit $1,000.

An 8-inch figural German bisque miniature lamp with matching shade, showing a cherub lying on a pillow holding a base with two cherubs on the shade, reached $1,075; a 2-1/2-inch R.S. Prussia jewel mold two-handled toothpick holder with green trim, opal jewels and melon eater décor hit $800; and an 8-1/2-inch Czechoslovakia (beehive) portrait plate with portrait of a young woman made $800.

Woody Auction’s next big event will be the sale of The Mr. & Mrs. James Wright Collection of R.S. Prussia, to be held Saturday, May 23, at the St. Charles Convention Center Junior Ballroom (lower level), beginning at 9:30 a.m. A preview will be held Friday, May 22, from 4-6. The Wrights, over the course of their long and fruitful lives, collected many fine pieces. Other consignments will also be sold.

Then, on Saturday, July 11, also at 9:30 a.m., an Antique Auction will be held, at the Sedgwick County Extension Center (4th Hall), in Wichita, Kan. Sold will be pottery, Wave Crest, period furniture, art glass and more. And on Saturday, Sept. 5, also with a 9:30 a.m. start time, Woody Auction will present the sale of The Allan Waldron Collection of American Brilliant Cut Glass, in St. Charles, Mo.

Woody Auction is always accepting quality consignments for future sales. To consign an item, an estate or an entire collection, you may call them directly at (316) 747-2694. Or, you can e-mail them at info@woodyauction.com. To lean more about Woody Auction, log on to www.woodyauction.com. Information and photos for the May 23, July 11 and Sept. 5 sales will be posted as the dates draw near.

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Here are a few tips on buying Glass at a market or Antique Store.
(I used to run a stall in an Antiques Market so this really IS from the Horses mouth !)

1 - Read all about the exact item you are thinking of buying.
Some items come in different sizes and usually larger one are worth more.

2 Carefully note down the Measurements - Why ?
You need the measurements because a fairly common practice is to have chips or scratches ground off professionally. This usually happens on expensive glass only as it is costly to have this done. If there are chips or scratches or even a piece knocked off the edge of the top or bottom of the glass the when it is ground down this will be right around the piece and it will either be shorter (if the nick is at the top of the glass) or narrower (If it is on the base). This means the dimensions will have changed from the original.There may also be some frosting around the rim (if it is not done carefuly) This drastically reduces the value of the piece.Check the pattern - a common way to remove a scratch is to engrave a frosted area over it. What SHOULD the piece look like - consult the internet for photos of what you are looking for - especially in a large antiques market like those in Lille,Paris or London Portobello Road where you will see many copies of rare glass pieces.
Some people tell you to run your lips around the edge of a glass piece but I do NOT recommend that - for two reasons - You might cut your lip and secondly have a think for a moment how many other collectors. and dealers have recently done the same (shudder !) - I dread to think where some of those mouths may have been....

3 inspect carefully for scratches or other marks. They seriously devalue any piece. Ciips can sometimes be ground down professionally but breaks generally are worthless

4 Look carefully at the signature. Signatures are not an easy thing to check. You need a linen tester to check them (they only cost a couple of dollars and slip into a pocket or handbag easily)
Some glassmakers signed all their work. Others had the person actually making the piece sign for them. (This is why there are so many different Lalique signatures)
Every glassmaker had different ways to sign pieces. Pantin for instance did not sign or mark anything while Lalique had many signatures and markings. You should read up about your favourite glassmaker before you buy. What I do is to photocopy Lalique signatures from books and take thse with me when I am buying.
I really must scan them onto a pda !

5 Fakes often include fake signatures too. Czech and Romanian Fakes often take the easy way out and have sandblasted signatures.Early Glass was either ACID ETCHED (deeply) or engraved.

Romanian copies often have the word Tip engraved alongside the copied signature.
This is often removed with a dental or craft drill by unscrupulous stores but leaves a blank area which if you study it carefully does not look quite right. This often happens with expensive reproduction lamps of Daum and other leading makers.

Remember - the more expensive the piece, the more likely it is to be forged ! Forgers usually only fake expensive pieces.
Everyone gets caught out by buying a forged piece eventually - even experienced dealers and Museum Curators !

I can be regularly found in smaller antiques markets,fleamarkets and arcades of antiques stores.
The latter are good sources as many of the dealers displaying in showcases do not specialise and it is from them that you will usually find the best bargains.

Daum were famous for making Table Lamps and other Art Glassware during the Art Nouveau and Art Deco revolutions in glassmaking.
They were direct Rivals of Galle and Lalique but produced absolutely different styles of glassware.
If you want to see a good collection (small but good !) then visit the Musee de Orsay in Paris where they have a small collection in their Art Nouveau Rooms (strangely enough without Lalique Glassware but with a small selection of his Jewellery)

Daum Freres did not start as a Glassmaking company – like so many good things it happened by accident.

After the War of 1870, Jean Daum who was a Notaire (Notary) in Bishwiller took as payment for a debt the Sainte-Catherine glassmaking company in Nancy France.

Auguste Daum (Jeans son) took over the control of the company and tried to sort out its finances while his brother Antonin took over part of the glass workshops to create his own Art Glass creations in the then fashionable Art Nouveau Style..
This was a stunning transformation and he took much of his inspiration from French Glass artists like Emile Galle , Lalique and other art nouveau artists.. with a huge effect on their business.
They became famous for heir Art Nuveau Lamps which often feature landscapes of a dreamy and almost mystical nature.
These have been so popular that glassmakers from Romania,Hungary and even Taiwan have copied them.

The Daum Art Glass Table Lamps became the Daum Brothers hottest product and they evolved into art glass landscapes (some only visible when the lamp was switched on ).
The most stunning of the lamps had fantastic bronze bases and some even had cameo glass shades (these are highly collectable today by themselves).

The School of Nancy began with Antonin as its vice-president.. because Antonin became a leader in the Nancy Chamer of Commerce and through his efforts submitted 3 thousand pieces to the various International Exhibitions that flourished in those days.
These exhibitions were the most popular way to advertise new products and sell to international markets.

The most popular pieces were those with up to 3 layers which were either acid etched or engraved to preceding layers.

Several famous French glass artists were trained there including:
Jacques Gruber,
Almaric Walter
Henry Bergé
the Schneider Brothers.
Eugene Gall was also the son of one of the Daums Glassmakers.
During this period several new techniques in glassmaking evolved.
Henry Bergé became a Master Decorator

Incredibly beautiful fantasy pieces were made and sold well.
All went well with Daum brothers until the evolution of the Art Deco Style.
Suddenly Daum and Art Nouveau style was unfashionable as were the outrageous and fantasy designs and colours.
Although the company continued with new generations of the family working there (Paul Daum and his nephews) They continued making French Crystal glass until 1990

Nowadays Daum has had a resurgence of popularity.
A group of superb designers has given a really new life to the rather staid company.
The popularity today is due largely to its new ranges of Art Glass which include the Love range – a sensual range of French art glass which even includes a nude Venusian !
There are also crystal French Art Glass animals and birds, Pate de Cristal pieces and so many beautiful works of art in glass that I could not list them all.

Investors might want to consider the current range of French Art Glass pieces whish should be an excellent investment for the future as the limited editions are only between 250 and 500 on average.(some only 50 !)

This is the most exciting range of collection of modern art glass that I have seen and includes many exceptional artists work.
The Collections are :
African Art
Texier ( amazing eccentric animals)
Arman (stunning viewpoints of Venus)
Black and White
Braque (an affordable Braque original !)
Botanics
China
Love
Art
Animal Sculptures
Jewellery (includes a range of Cabochon rings – similar to Laliques best seller !)
Design
Floral
Special Editions

The Daum Website is well worth visiting
Here is a gorgeous mixture of modern design
and Traditional Pate de Cristal (on the Floral and animal sections)
You need Flash installed on your computer to view it properly.
DAUM Website : http://www.daum.fr

Visit the best French Art Glass site.

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Art Nouveau is more than just a style.
Translated from French to English it means New Art - but it is more than just that..

In fact that is what the Art Nouveau movement was all about.
Unlike some styles, Art nouveau incorporated glass,silver,stained glass,posters,furniture,jewellery,Art,Metalwork,Pottery ,bronze and other sculpture and textiles.All artistic forms were influenced (although some discarded the movement as unworthy ! Strangely enough their work is usually unrecognised today .)

It was more a way of thinking and designing than slavish copies of a common theme.
Naturalistic themes were common but even these were transformed into dream-like pieces with an air of fantasy and other-worldliness.
Some of the motive forces behind the movement were the leaders in their fields.
Alphonse Mucha for his Art and Posters, Klimt for his gorgeously rich
works of Art, Rene Lalique for his fantastical jewelry and exquisite glassware. (I just LOVE his Dragonflies - perhaps because I have them in my garden !)
All of these are now household names and highly collectable.
Potters joined in with amazing designs as did silversmiths with curved and flowing jewelry.

Rings,Necklaces and bracelets in Art Nouveau designs became the highly desired pieces of jewelry that any fashionable lady of the turn of the 19h Century needed to own to stay in fashion.
Actresses and Royalty took up the style and this filtered down to almost every European and American woman.
Sarah Bernhardt alone was a huge influence by advising Lalique to produce his fantasy designs in Jewelry.
The main difference was exactly that the designs were SO very different - very strange - unearthly in fact.
By picking up hints of fairyland,mermaid,niads or nymphs were incorporated into a fantasyworld unequalled even today..
Before all of theses fields were very traditional and mainly unchanged for many years before.

It was the genius of these designers that altered the perception that everyday objects and Jewels did not have to be exactly as nature designed them or indeed as they are viewed in the real world
The movement was widely copied and altered so that similar changes took place in the countries of Germany,Austria and America where artists adapted art nouveau designs to mesh in with ther own work.
Jugendstihl in Germay brought forth art nouveau fantastical pottery and the movement made huge inroads into jewellery design with companies like Liberty in England and numerous french silversmiths working hard to catch up with the demand from excited customers.

Without the Art Nouveau movement we would have lost many delights in what we term as the real world !.
(But which IS the real world ? )

This Video shows the Neptune Jar by Daum (including the signature)
Recognising real Daum Signatures is really important when considering buying glass - especially expensive glass.
On this particular Jar the two pieces of damage to the handle would seriously lessen the value of the piece.

Voici quelques bouts sur le verre de achat à un marché ou à un magasin antique.
1 - Lisez tous au sujet de l'article exact que vous pensez à l'achat. Soigneusement note
2 en bas des mesures - pourquoi ? Vous avez besoin des mesures parce qu'assez une pratique commune est d'avoir des morceaux ou raye rectifié au loin professionnellement.
Ceci se produit habituellement sur le verre cher seulement car il est coûteux pour faire faire ceci.
S'il y a des morceaux ou les éraflures ou même un morceau frappé outre du bord du dessus ou le fond du verre quand il est rectifié en bas de ceci seront exactes autour du morceau et il sera plus court (si l'entaille est au dessus du verre) ou plus étroit (s'il est sur la base).
Ceci signifie que les dimensions auront changé de l'original. Il peut également y avoir un certain givrage autour de la jante (si elle n'est pas faite carefuly) que ceci réduit rigoureusement la valeur du morceau.
Vérifiez le modèle - une manière commune d'enlever une éraflure est de graver un secteur givré au-dessus de elle. Ce qui DEVRAIT le regard de morceau comme - consultez l'Internet pour des photos de ce que vous recherchez - particulièrement sur un grand marché d'antiquités comme ceux dans la route de Lille, de Paris ou de Londres Portobello
où vous verrez beaucoup de copies des morceaux en verre rares.

3 inspectent soigneusement pour déceler les éraflures ou d'autres marques. Regard

4 soigneusement à la signature. Les signatures ne sont pas une chose facile à vérifier. Quelques vitriers ont signé tout leur travail.
D'autres ont eu la personne faire réellement le signe de morceau pour eux. Chaque vitrier a eu différentes manières de signer des morceaux.
Pantin par exemple n'a signé ou n'a pas marqué rien tandis que Lalique avait beaucoup de signatures et d'inscriptions.
Vous devriez avoir connaissance vers le haut de de votre vitrier préféré avant que vous achetiez.
5 articles truqués incluent souvent les signatures fausses aussi. Les articles truqués tchèques et roumains souvent prennent la sortie facile et ont sablé des signatures.

Les copies de la Roumanie ont souvent le bout de mot gravé bord à bord la signature copiée. Ceci est souvent enlevé avec un foret dentaire ou de métier par les magasins sans scrupules mais les feuilles par secteur blanc qui si vous étudiez il n'est pas soigneusement tout à fait exact.

Ceci se produit souvent avec les lampes chères de reproduction de Daum et d'autres principaux fabricants

Apology:
We apologise for our poor French translation.

watch?v=ONfsZz1_iSwDaum Glass Neptune Video

 

 

Studying videos like this one improve your knowledge about French Glasss - remember Knowledge is POWER !

Part of the new range of Lalique figurines are Dragons.

These beautiful Oriental inspired dragons would make a great addition to any Lalique or French Glass collection

Although Dragons were originally from the Far East, these Oriental beauties seem quite happy here.