Items of Value Inc

Once again, we have enough new items that we are ready to do another showroom sale already this weekend. All of the silverplate flatware and most of the silverplate bowls we offered last week are gone. So is the mid-20th century colored dinnerware set, all of the pink Depression glass, and the large dinnerware set of white flowers amid green leaves against black background and all of the round brass trays of many different sizes. We sold a large portion of the sterling that we had. We have brought in 8 pieces of sterling repousse vanity pieces.

Focus for this sale is on Asian items, most of them vintage. While perusing the many Asian items we offer, imagine the number of hours it took to make a single lacquer piece, or the skill required to create a wood carving in relief, or make and hand paint a porcelain plate or bowl, also hand embroidery using "the forbidden stitch". We had nine small Japanese watercolors framed in order to protect them from ripping and soiling. They hang on the wall over the metals, lacquerware, wood and stone carvings we have arranged on the display tables. We have also hung a red/white kimono and a blue/white Japanese jacket. We offer you two sizes of "usubatu"s. They are the bronze flower arranging containers that have a wide flat top centering a "well" for the flowers, over a separate bulbous body with molded decoration and three feet.

We have devoted a lot of table space to displaying a great variety of sizes, shapes, and colors of Ikebana (Japanese flower arranging) containers. We also offer you four relatively large slices of tree trunk that are used to display items on. In addition to the large ones, you will find a box of sanded wood stands made from an odiferous wood. They give off a very pleasing smell. You can use them to display small items or put them in your drawers with clothes as a natural scent.

We have removed much of the hanging fine art from our last sale and hung new pieces in their places. What we offered previously will now go to auction. That's how we do it.

So, come for another good time, discovering the variety of items we offer, also learning something more about items made by skillful hands.