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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1958)
SB MAIL TRIBUNE, MtdforJ, Or., Sunday, SapfamW 21, 19S8 m. Buried Treasure Surcharged Penny Post Cards Bring High Price Since history does repeat the surcharge order came, ! itself, through postal rates have just gone up, they will come down again And when they do, the post office will undoubtedly sur charge unused special values to stamp collectors. An example is when post- age rates were cut in 1920-21. On that occasion the govern- ment lowered the rate on two- cent postal cards to one cent, . v In the interests oi economy the post office surcharged their two-cent postal card stocks with the lower rate, thereby creating some extra ordinary values. One of the biggest is that of the surcharged two-cent card issued in 1911 and carry- ing a portrait of President Grant. The card is cream-col- ored. the printing, in red ink. How many of them were left in post office stocks when mand a still higher price. EARLY SILVER COMMUNION CUPS IN ANTIQUE SHOPS Metal cups that look like An example of how this communion cups, whether may PV off is that of an . . j. acquaintance who found a covered or not, and regardless meM cup f the communion of how badly they may be type in a secondhand store. It tarnished or, dented, should was about eight inches high, always be examined with heavily tarnished, filthy and care. badly dented on one side. In fact, If they are priced He paid $2 for it. When he at only a dollar or so as got it cleaned, he was de they usually are in salvage lighted to find a small oblong shops-it is probably a safe mark on the base containing rule to go ahead and buy the initials ,'I.T." them anyway. Once thorough- A little research showed ly cleaned they are always .them as probably belonging ornamental enough to be Ho John Targee, a New York worth more than the price, and besides, in many cases, it is impossible to tell how valu- able one may be until it is thoroughly cleaned. The reason is that without cleaning you may not be able to see the maker's mark. Of course, not 'every piece that is valuable has a maker's mark, but most of them do, and since many of the larger libraries in the country have books listing the various known marks of silversmiths, right back to the days of Paul Revere and beyond, it isn't too difficult to run one down, HISTORY OF 1840s PRESERVED IN ASHBURTON GLASS One of the oldest designs in pressed glass and one that was popular for around 40 years in the mid-1800s is what is known as the Ashburton or colonial design. Whatever the name, it doesn't matter. The design is so simple almost any other designation would do. What it consists of is a series of ovals like thumbprints ex cept that they are perfectly plain and a series of loops below the ovals. In addition to its simplicity the design also has a certain crudity. In part that is prob ably due to the fact that this type of glassware was pro duced by various companies each of which was evidently in a hurry to beat the others in filling the popular demand. Not only did the companies compete in producing the tra ditional objects, but they also vied with each other in think-, ing up new kinds of objects in which pressed glass of this design would sell. For example, as the Cali fornia gold rush of the 1850s got into high gear, there was scarcely a drink that a miner Cannery Workers Oust Bargain Agent Portland - 1TD - Employees at the Libby McNeill & Libby cannery here Thursday ousted their bargaining agent of the past 21 years in favor of a Teamsters union local. Vote in the election con ducted by the National Labor Relations Board was 400 to 236 in favor of the Teamsters over the International Wood workers of America which has acted as bargaining agent at the plant for the past two decades. Automatic refill! don t know, but there were enough of them so that they were in fairly common use for a while. One man I know found one two or three years ago. It was unused. He' figured it might not go through the mails since It was overprinted "1 tfent." A stamp dealer gave him $40 for it, but its retail value today, as listed in the Scott's 1 . 1 6rj B aiaioue, is Such a card, bearing a can cellation mark of the early 1920s, has a value today of $150. As for those that carry ad- vertising matter, cards then were and postal often used in direct mail advertising campaigns, they are so rare as to be unlisted in the cata- logues I've seen. Hence one that is cancelled should corn- silversmith of the early 1800s. A return to the shop and and an hour or so spent in hunting through boxes of odds and ends resulted in the dis covery of a cover that fitted the cup and obviously had originally gone with it. Restoration of the piece re quired a good 15 hours of con centrated labor, but it was worth it. Whether or not the piece had been a communion cup cannot be determined, but it is a thing of beauty, an ex ample of the silversmith's art that would easily command a price of $200. could think of that didn't have a special type of glass for it in the Ashburton de sign. In fact, as the records of the time indicate, eastern manufacturers must have re lied heavily on orders from California. But those from the rest of the country were important, too, and what has brought all this to mind is a friend's pur chase of a celery vase in this old design. Usually the celery vase is found in clear glass, and in that case it generally sells for a price from $15 to $30. But this one, bought for $40, was of a gold color. Since much of the glassware in this design that was shipped to California in the early 1850s was of that color, it is quite possible that the celery vase made the trip around the horn or across the Isthmus of Pan ama. In any event, the price was not unreasonable. The piece is also known in several other colors, the rarest being a deep violet. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Court Records DISTRICT COURT Charles H. Johnson, no operator's license. S10. Gay Anderson, parking in a re stricted zone, S6. John M. Bauer, no clearance lights, $10. Barbara Oakes, inadequate muf fler, $15. Jack Lee Haring. shooting on public highway, $30. George Holbertson, following too closely, $15. Jack Herbert McCandliss, follow ing too closely, S15. Taft Florey, failure to make a traffic stop. $10.' Chauncy Robert Beck, over height, $10. Dwight L. Edwards, overwidth, $15. Chester W. Bennett, overload, $125. 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