Just Dishy!

Inside this box featuring a photograph of two charming children from yesteryear playing tea party . . .

. . . .is a complete set of darling diminutive dishes from the Akro Agate Company. This type of vintage opaque vintage glass colored in streaks or swirls is known as slag glass by collectors. Here the set is swirled with vivid jade green and white. 

Founded in 1910 in Akron, Ohio, the Akro Agate Company originally repackaged marbles from another firm, but soon began manufacturing its own marbles. It moved to Clarksburg, West Virginia, in 1914, making marbles, caster balls, and glass balls used in lithography. By improving its machinery and manufacturing process, Akro became the major manufacturer of marbles in the world. In the 1930s, Akro expanded into other lines, introducing colorful glass products for the home, including ashtrays, cold cream jars, toothpick holders, trinket dishes, vases, and powder boxes. During WWII, when Japanese toy exports to the United States were cut off, Akro began producing children's dish sets in a wide variety of colors and patterns. However, after the war, Akro was unable to compete with the inexpensive plastic toys entering the market; in 1949, the company stopped production, although it continued to sell off its remaining inventory, with a final auction taking place April 24, 1951.

All posted items are of sale at Next-to-New, but things can sell quickly

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Pulling Out All the Stops

"To pull out all the stops" means to use all the resources at one's disposal to achieve a goal. And you might want to start pulling out those stops to obtain this magnificent antique oak organ with its accompanying stool. In fact this idiom originally refers to the physical stop knobs of a pipe organ.

This elegant organ is just what you might need if you want to re-enact your own version of "Phantom of the Opera" or get a Handel on your Bach (both George Frideric Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach composed music for the organ). It is of vividly striped "tiger oak," a process of milling that produced oak patterned like a tiger's pelt. Although popular from the 1800s through the early 1900s, furniture manufacturers stopped using tiger oak because the milling process wasted a lot of valuable oak and was no longer economical. 

The organ proudly displays two brass plaques of the  Imperial Organ & Piano Company, Ltd., an English manufacturer established in 1902. It was known for its high quality instruments, which included upright and baby grand pianos and organs for both home and church use. 

If you are wondering where the foot pedals are. . . 

They are tucked behind a folding oak panel, which unlocks with a key (included!).

All posted items are for sale at Next-to-New, but things can sell quickly!

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