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Article: Folk art is hard to put a price on; CURRENT PRICESCurrent 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. Los Angeles Times Cookbook, No. 2: 105 pages, 1905. $25. Pied Piper children's shoes: white leather, box depicts children following the Pied Piper of Hamelin. $45. Steuben glass ducks: incised signature, 53 4 inches, pair. $65. Halloween costume: Shazam! Ben Cooper, box, 1967. $95. Jane West action figure: Johnny West series, turquoise plastic, flesh-tone hands and face, 1965, Marx. $85. Schick 20 electric shaving razor: 1950s, case, booklet and cleaning brush. $150. Roseville bookends: foxglove, blue, pair. $275. Superman lunch box: 1954, metal, Universal. $700. Victorian parlor table: walnut with burl veneer, inset white marble top, "From James Moriarty & Bro., Cleveland, O." label. $825. Madame Alexander Scarlett O'Hara doll: composition, original hat, 1939-1946, 17 inches. $995.
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- October 20, 1996
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Boxes covered with shells, flowers made of feathers, chains made
of bottle caps, paintings on dried fungus, stuffed frogs playing
musical instruments and many other strange crafts are part of the
folk-art collectibles market. One of the strangest of the
folk-art pieces seen at auction recently is a lobster claw on which
someone painted the image of a bearded man with a large nose. The
12-inch-long claw-face has a painted cap with red-and-white stripes
and a blue band with white stars. The owner said it was meant to be
a picture of Abraham Lincoln.
The claw face probably was made years before a collector purchased
it in the 1930s. It most likely hung in a fish market as an ...
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