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I know that image as “The Red Lion” as in the Red Lion pub in Houston Texas.
Hey Mike, then as you well know, the person performing the amber and rubylith separations was known as “The Stripper” which outside of the printing industry could mean something else entirely. I did a small bit of stripping myself. LOL
I was trained at 16 years old to start learning and running typesetting on the early photo setters where the IBM hole punch would run the 10-12 point text (depending upon which lens you used) and the first EditWriter. Typesetting up until that point had been a man’s job, and just like you said, men would sit at keyboards and slide the little metal letters into place backwards and upside down to create printed material. I saw them in action working in no air conditioning, many of them typing in suits that they wore to work everyday.
I created all sorts of advertising, print, etc. Went on to become a Creative Director, worked with Bill Gates for a bit s he got up and running, then start building Internet websites after a 12 year old kid showed me how and accomplished a lot of internet “firsts”. Eventually, I became an IT Project Manager Consultant running multi-million dollar projects for major corps. Mostly doing project recoveries, rescuing IT projects in big-big trouble. Got burnt out and took a break to take care of my families real estate properties and finances. Listing the older one’s estates as they transition into senior care. Times gone by.
The wall of texts are actually amazing. My early career was as a graphic artist / typesetter, spending a lot of time working with printers and their printing presses. And still, I learned from your input here. Thanks.
It looks like a cross stitch piece. Probably from a kit. And yes, it’s very common to stitch only the design and not the full background. The Chinese characters are probably the name or initials of the person who did the work (guessing). It helps to also photograph and show the back of the piece. How neat and tidy the worker kept the threads on the back will speak highly/poorly of their ability. It also helps to grab a close up of the stitches themselves with the fabric in it. Most kits are stitched on 14 count Aida; they are not as desirable as works stitched on higher count linen.
It’s typically called “Finished” or “Completed” at this stage, but not an “FFO” or Final Finish Object as in framed.
It looks like a HSN product to me. I’ve not researched it, but try searching Jeffrey Banks, or some of the other HSN product brand names.
Two things:
1. Jay, I would suggest maybe that you should add a permanent topic in the main menu here on your website called something like: “eBay System Issues” where we can go straight to that and chat as a community for anything major that comes up (like the photo issue). Otherwise, I seem to be hunting through the meta tags and other forum subjects to stumble onto postings regarding IT bugs and glitches.2. Getting a discount for the photo issue. I’ve called twice and posted once up to the eBay for Business FB page and have not been able to get any discount whatsoever from eBay. I’m one person with 32 items that have only 1 photo. Each time, I asked nicely for the discount. Each time, I was told that there is “none being offered at this time”, so I would like to know how many of us are being denied the discount vs how many are getting it. It seems discriminatory.
Wow. Old Curiosity Shop videos look amazingly awesome. Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll see if he can tell me anything and I’m going to marathon through his videos for sure!
Aunt Mary was super credible. She actually had a house FULL of antiques from what I heard. Another relative got to the big furniture and sold all that. The small stuff was snuck out of the house and given to my MIL who then gave it to me decades ago and it’s been up in my closets until now. Some of it she had appraised and those pieces actually have the appraiser’s notes inside of them. But then I have some that does not.
The problem is… I’m very impatient with research. I hate research. It seems like I’m always spending a ton of time trying to find information on stuff that turns out to not be worth much. I have 5 (five) warehouses of inherited households to pick through and sell on eBay.
I did finally find this website as a glass starting point: https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/glassware-price-guides-149488
Pic of glass
I don’t know anything about the piece or brand, but out of curiosity, how and where did you obtain this?
I would rule out WWII and the Korean War. I have military pics of my father-in-law and his soldiers during the Korean War and the men of that period would have never worn their hair that long nor carried such heavy mustaches. I think you’re looking at 70’s or 80’s time period.
Ah. Thank you. Very helpful. I’m going to just use it personally for awhile then and add your research source to a good look up for me.
