William McLaren of Anchorage, Alaska correctly identified the June’s What Is It pictured to the left. He tells us it is “a German-made, 1950’s Schuco Elektro Ingenico 5311 battery-operated, remote-controlled, tin maroon sedan with chrome accents. The sedan was modeled from the Buick V-8 of that period. Schuco began in Nuremberg, Germany in 1912, as Schreyer & Co. In 1921 […]
By Marcia Ragonetti “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.” And in La Cache’s case, that means a new doorway and new spatial configuration for this well-loved consignment shop. Pivoting successfully after two different closures in 2020 due to Covid-19, La Cache had its Grand Reopening — in grand style!— on May 14, 2021. From the kernel of a idea […]
By Tom Billings Tarzan, John Carter, Pellucidar! From books to movies and beyond, the fantastic characters and exotic places created by this master storyteller offer the collector many unique items. Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) introduced the world to his most famous creation, Tarzan, via the pages of All-Story Magazine in 1912. After piling failure upon failure, Burroughs (often referred to […]
By Sandy Dale It’s pouring rain here in Florence today. Overcast and gray. Perhaps we should be building an ark. It started raining at 3:30 on Sunday afternoon and has been raining off and on ever since. (It is now Tuesday afternoon.) I know the exact time because our fabulous Merchants’ Car Show ended at 3:00 on Sunday, then the […]
By Robert Reed It might be difficult to determine the fairest armchair of all in historical America. There were many styles with many origins. According to one expert writing many decades ago it could have been the Windsor armchair. Initially such chairs, with and without arms, were made in small villages in a certain region of England. However the American […]
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