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Today’s favorite find…

A big beautiful batch of vintage hand blown pulled feather art glass shades made by Lundberg Studios out of Davenport, CA

This style of shade look amazing on both Arts & Crafts light fixtures AND Art Nouveau light fixtures! taken in Old Portland Hardware by @oldportland

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**SOLD!**
This c.1900 wrought iron bench is one of our favorite pieces from last week’s purchase of old Portland historic pieces!
The gentleman we purchased it from recounted going to the steel scrap yard with his dad when he was a kid (c.1960) and seeing a huge mangled pile of the benches. His dad paid the crane operator to pull the best one off the pile and they took it home. He seems to recollect that the city may have pulled them out of Washington Park during a revamp.
The bench has its original maker’s tag showing that it was made by Portland Wire & Iron Works which was located roughly in the area of Burnside and Front Street (we found three possible addresses.
There’s a great historic picture of the business when it was at 84 N Second St (and Everett) at oldoregonphotos.com taken in Old Portland Hardware by @oldportland

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It’s been a great week of new treasures in the shop!! Victorian doorknobs, light fixtures, and house details, mirrors, historic Portland iron work, cast iron roof cresting, iron fence panels and gates and so… much…more! taken in Old Portland Hardware by @oldportland

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🐉THAR BE DRAGONS!!🐉

Not just one, but TWO, frickin’ fantastic dragon smoking stands made by the Scroll Art Mfg. Co. out of Bridgeport, Connecticut circa 1926.

These beasts look like they just crawled out of a Tolkien fantasy, but… this pair predates
“The Hobbit” by ten years!

The dastardly pair came by way of a recent buy where we had the opportunity to purchase several artifacts from the old Sacajawea Hotel that WAS located in La Grande, Oregon. Amenities included 95 rooms, a ballroom, restaurant, coffee shop, and the Sand & Sage lounge. The Sacajawea began construction in 1926, opened in 1928, and was demolished (by dragons?🤔) in 1970.

We imagine the dragon smoking stands would have lived in the lobby and/or lounge 🐉 taken in Old Portland Hardware by @oldportland

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The product testing to do means cheaper prices for you!

ACCIDENTS HAPPEN WILL PREFORM TOMORROW
9/19 CHAOS LAB
TICKETS ARE SOLD OUT!

The Lab shoot was both the most complicated to put together and the most rewarding to see all the hard work pay off. I’m so incredibly proud of how this turned out and I hope y’all love it as much as I do! Here’s the crew that made it come to life!

Photographer: @picturesbymisty

Location: @oldportland

Prop designer’s
(Purpleberry box): @unclebettypdx
(Liftoff Laxatives Bottle): Cesar Villaca

Costume coordination: @tinabeans_80816

Models: @ladyterrafying @t4nk__grrl @afuabanful @thevega_star

Show: @vegadancelab

#scince #spookyshoot #budoir #cabaret #creativeshoots taken in Old Portland Hardware by @oldportland

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It’s pretty unusual for us to come across 140 year old entry set as complete, and as special, as this!

The c.1886 Victorian entry set is the “Ekado” design by Sargent & Co.

Interestingly, the interior doorknob is standard size to meet visual proportions of a house interior, while the outside knob is larger to better match the feel of proportions of the house exterior.

Also, where many antique doorknobs are only decorated on the front/visual side, this set is decorated both front AND back!

And, we know it’s “special” because the back of the entry plate says so…😬 taken in Old Portland Hardware by @oldportland

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Absolutely amazed by this recent find!

We have not one, BUT TWO, never used decorative Victorian porch arches! The tapered fan details are beautiful!
We can only guess that these were a couple of extra leftovers from a c.1880’s house kit that stashed in an attic or basement for the last 140 years!

Both arches are made of cedar. They are double sided so they look beautiful whether you are sitting on the porch or admiring from the street.

27H x 31 1/2W x 4 1/8D taken in Old Portland Hardware by @oldportland

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We found a little piece of old Portland history!

This cool little gimbaled ship’s compass was originally sold by the C.F. Beebe Co.
They were founded right here in Portland Oregon 140 years ago in 1884. The company originally supplied equipment for the shipping, sailing, and boating industry along the Columbia and Willamette rivers.

Compass in original wood box 5”x5”x 3 5/8”

Descendants of the original founders are still doing business in Portland today.

@thebeebeco taken in Old Portland Hardware by @oldportland

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It is hard to deny the aesthetic appeal of a pile of old clock gears.
They have so many artistic possibilities and stories to tell. taken in Old Portland Hardware by @oldportland

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Encountered on a buy…
In a dark dusty stairwell…
Ladders were climbed…
Impulsive choices were made…
Functional antique taxidermy?…
🤷 taken in Old Portland Hardware by @oldportland

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“Old Portland” find the f the day!

I saw one of these killer two gallon Aero Eastern Motor Oil cans at a buy a couple of years ago, but the owner wasn’t ready to let go of it.

I have had my eyes out for one ever since! I love the colors, I love the graphics, and as I discovered today, they were from right here in little ol’ Portland, Oregon!! 😃

The last couple of pics are of the current address shown on the can for Aero Eastern Motor Oil.

Now usually, vintage and antique petroliana stuff is NOT in our usual lineup of finds, but… what can I say, I love this can!🤷 taken in Old Portland Hardware by @oldportland

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This is, hands down, THE coolest piece of antique terra cotta we have ever come through the store!

It appears to be a rather chess like stately royal figure flanked by a pair of large birds (eagles? ravens? …rooks?😬)

Where’s it from? What building was it on? …we have no idea!🤷
And the people we bought it from? …they had no idea either. 😞 They got it from the estate of a collector with no info🤔

We do know that it’s BIG! 30”H x 23”W x 16”D.
We’re guessing it weighs somewhere north of 125 pounds

It’s definitely a statement piece! taken in Old Portland Hardware by @oldportland

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