Vacation Finds Porcelain and glass

By John Moon; posted June 20, 2011
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Well some of you may know that I went on vacation last week to Charleston, SC. While in the area I couldn't resist taking a peak in a few junk stores. Here are a few things I found. The porcelain and the Hemingray were all found piled together near the roof of an old junk store. I initially asked about the glass as I recognized it immediately and they got down the porcelain for me to look at as well. I am not up on my porcelain like I should be but after closer inspection I realized these were Uniparts and not multi's. Then I remembered someone mentioning that Dewitt manufactured some of these so I picked them all up.

Anyone know what I have here. They both have a darker blue ink stamp of Mfg. Mar. 1930 or Mfg. Dec. 1929 and measure approximately 10 1/2" wide by about 7" tall. You can see a side view of the porcelain here [id=313175970]. These are U-908. Thanks To all those who responded.

The Hemingray 302 is a real beauty with lots of tiny micro bubbles. Only had one small bruise at the neck so I decided it was safe to bring it home also. Its the [020] EIN in a nice Hemi blue.

I picked up the piano insulator because it was neat and a nice color. First one of these I had seen in person. Not sure of much other than I know some on here collect these. The color is more of an amber than red.

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