St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 177

OCTOBER 7, 1990 ST. LOUIS POST- DISPATCH 5S KNOW YOUR ANTIQUES and the icebox, food was stored in cool root cellars or in an airy "pie safe" kept on a back porch. The pie safe had doors of screen or punched tin to let in the air but keep the insects outside. Many were homemade. By the 1890s factory-made examples were being sold.

0 Dear Ralph and Terry: Is there any way to tell whether my solid silver teapot is old enough to have belonged to my grandmother, greatgrandmother or perhaps my greatgreat-grandmother? It is not marked. The design is very plain. The handle is made of dark wood. I have seen similar teapots in gift shops so the design cannot help to tell me the age. The usual rule for antiques is to figure 25 years for a generation.

No one buys teapots or other household items at their birth. Most items are purchased after marriage. The cupboards of 65-year-old women are probably hiding many collectables from the 1940s and 1950s. Your greatgreat-grandmother's teapot could be 100 years old if you are about 25. Teapots made in Victorian times were usually machine-made and had a stamped mark.

Silver was usually made by hand before 1850. A teapot was made by curving a flat sheet of silver to form a cylinder. It was then soldered on a flat bottom. The pot was later pounded into the desired rounded shape and the spout and handles were added. A 150-year-old handmade pot should have some hammer marks, discolorations at the side seam and slight irregularities.

None of these are found on a machinemade pot with cast handles and spouts. 0 Dear Ralph and Terry: I have a pressed glass dish that according to the books is a banana boat. How was it used? The banana was imported into the United States in the 1880s. Unfamiliar fruit is usually considered exotic and special. The banana became the fashionable dessert.

Banana bowls and banana boats were made. A curved bowl held the fruit. The bowl was attached to a pedestal to raise the glamorous banana above the other food so that it could be admired. 0 Current prices are recorded from antiques shows, sales, flea markets and auctions throughout the United States. Prices vary because of local economic conditions.

Hamilton Beach milkshake mixer, adjustable column, marble base, inches high: $55. Haskell pin, snowflake, covered with tiny baroque pearls, 2 inches in diameter: $85. Aunt Jemima and Uncle Mose sugar and creamer, green: $160. Van Briggle lamp, galloping horse, turquoise: $175. Porter Blanchard sterling silver tray, round, shallow form, flared scalloped edge, 11 inches: $275.

Loetz vase, crackle glass, spherical body, inverted pinched rim, ring foot, cased in red crackled over clear glass, circa 1900, 5 inches: $385. 0 The Kovels welcome letters from readers and answer as many as possible, but unfortunately, the volume of mail makes most personal answers or appraisals impossible. If you send a photograph, include a double-stamped, self-addressed envelope. Write to the Kovels in care of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 900 North Tucker Boulevard, St.

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Central of 1-270. Hardware 1 Block on W. of Manchester Where Something Special's Always Happening! OFF ALL REGULAR Care Necessary When Using Antique Lamps By Ralph and Terry Kovel Cowles Syndicate NTIQUE LAMPS with glass A shades prices. are popular Collectors and must bring remember that in the early 1900s the lamps did not give as much light as they do today an early Tiffany lamp with a leaded shaded or a Pairpoint lamp with a molded colored-glass shade would have used bulbs of about 40 watts each. Two or three bulbs were used in most of the lamps so the glass had an even glow on all sides.

We now use several hundred watts in a table lamp. The higher wattage produces extra heat and might damage a glass shade. Of special concern are the cameoglass lampshades that are almost closed at the bottom. The heat has difficulty escaping. If you have an old lamp with a glass shade, never leave it on if the shade becomes hot.

Use low-wattage bulbs. Remember to check the cord on any old lamp a frayed cord is a fire hazard, and it is simple to replace. 0 This cameo glass lamp made Dear Ralph and Terry: We are by Galle is of great value having a family argument. A popular today. The curved glass brand of bread has the words "store in shade retains the heat from icebox" on the label.

What is the difference between an icebox and a the light bulb, causing a refrigerator? What was used before possible problem modern with the icebox? bulbs. An icebox is a box that was cooled by a large block of ice. The icebox was used after the Civil War and was the best food-storage cabinet until refrigeration was introduced in 1913. The refrigerator cooled by using electricity. Before the refrigerator Weddings and Engagements Vahle Hackmann Mrs.

Kay Vahle and Mr. Bernard Vahle of Indianapolis, Indiana announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Autumn Rene to Mr. Clifford David Hackmann, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernst Hackmann of St.

Louis, Missouri. Miss Vahle, a graduate of Indiana University, is counter manager for the Estee Lauder Company in Champaign, Illinois. Mr. Hackmann graduated from the University of Missouri and is a unit manager for the Kellogg Company will in take Champaign, November Illinois. The 1990 wed- in Krack Chouteau ding Indianapolis.

place 17, Jane Clark Chouteau and Daniel Stewart Kahlmeyer-Guithues Krack were married September 22, Julia Ann Guithues and Jeffrey Carl KahlThe garden ceremony, officiated by Rever- meyer were married Saturday, July Robbins, and the reception 1990 at Mary Queen of Peace Catholic 14, end Joanne were held at the Whittemore House. Church. Following the a ceremony recepMiss Marie Therese Chouteau, sister of the tion was held at the Ritz bride, served as Maid of Honor. The broth- The bride, of Mr. Mrs.

Donald er of the groom, Mr. Jeffrey Krack, served as daughter Guithues, chose her sister Deborah GuiBest Man. thues, as her maid of honor. Bridesmaids Mr. Daniel Stewart Krack, son of Daniel were Ginny Cooke and K.C.

Faron, sisters and Mary Krack of O'Fallon Illinois, is a of the groom; Sallie Oberhausen and Ruth Wedding and engagement an- graduate of United States Military Academy Taylor. nouncements appear in the Sun- at West Point with a degree in Military Arts. The groom, son of Mr. Mrs. James C.

day Circulation of the St. Louis Mrs. Jane Clark Pierre P. Chouteau, of daughter of Mr. and de- Kahlmeyer, chose brother, Christopher -Dispatch.

For information scendant of one of Chouteau the founding Clayton, families is a of Kahlmeyer of Tampa, Florida, as his best and rates regarding your an- St. Louis and of General William Clark. The man. Groomsmen were Thomas Cooke, call Terry Bohn at bride is a graduate of Mary Institute and has James Faron. Chrismer, Arthur Genasci and nouncement 622-7259.

a Bachelor Science in Management from George Webster University. The bride is attending the University Tampa, and the groom is a graduate of Fontbonne College..