Antiques Newsletter Archives – October 12, 2006 features articles about the History of the Lane Cedar Chest; the Hell’s Kitchen Flea
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the history of the lane cedar chest
Remember seeing that old cedar chest in Grandma’s house when you were growing up. Well aside
from being a functional piece of antique furniture, chests have a rich history from earliest times as storage containers. Some
of the earliest chests have their history with the amazing pharaoh’s of Ancient Egypt, where they were used to store golden treasures
as well as the documents of the time. In modern times however, one of the largest and best known manufacturer of cedar chests
was the Lane Furniture Company.
Edward Hudson Lane first founded the company in
In the 1920’s, Lane, whose tag line had been, “The gift that starts the home,” began advertising their cedar chests as “Hope Chests,”
where young ladies could stockpile clothing and small furnishings in anticipation of a future marriage. Many of the advertisements
at the time featured soldiers with their betrothed and other patriotic gestures. Later, Lane became known for and is still known
for their quality furnishings and accent pieces.
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DUMB MIKEY
One year, Mikey’s mom came to his house for the traditional Thanksgiving feast. Knowing how dumb Mikey is, his mother decided to play a trick on him. She told him she needed something from the store and off Mikey went. While he was gone, his mom took the turkey out of the oven, removed the stuffing, inserted a Cornish hen into the turkey, and then re-stuffed it. Later, when it was time for dinner, she asked Mikey to pull the turkey out of the oven and carve it.
netsuke
Japanese artists starting in the 17th century cleverly invented the miniature sculptures known as netsuke to serve a very practical function. Traditional Japanese garments - robes called kosode and kimono - had no pockets. Men who wore them needed a place to keep personal belongings such as pipes, tobacco, money, seals, or medicines.
The elegant solution was to place such objects in containers (called sagemono) hung by cords from the robes' sash (obi). The containers might take the form of a pouch or a small woven basket, but the most popular were beautifully crafted boxes (inro), which were held shut by ojime, sliding beads on cords. Whatever the form of the container, the fastener that secured its cord at the top of the sash was a carved, button-like toggle called a netsuke.
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