Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 21, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press j. Monday february pages 17-30 postmen can t hold a Patch on Winnipeg s new junkies by Vera Dickinson you can see them Hardy souls that they Are any Day of the week trudging through rain Hail sleet or Snow the postman have nothing on them. Who Are they Well it takes one to know one but some clues Are a questing gleam in the Eye and an Aura of keen anticipation. They Are Winnipeg s newest a dedicated band in search of the past and the unusual. They grub through off beat Dusty places and Call it High adventure. The junkies Are collectors of innumerable bits and pieces. A prize find is valued not necessarily in teary terms but for its and rarity or just for the personal plea 1 sure the object gives its Pur Chaser. Call it junking or Call it antique collecting it s fun and it can be profitable. People of All Ages and eco nomic condition Are involved strange friendships Are formed that normally would never begin let along flourish. A Tuxedo Matron bitten by the junking Bug rubs shoulders with an unconventional Young woman in search of what s called Funk. Well to do men vie with underfed Young fora picture Frame a map or a 1930 standing ashtray bearing an air plane whose Interior lights up. Hideous to Many eyes but after All Beauty is in the Eye of the beholder. And you can be reasonably sure you won t find such an item in your average Winnipeg House hold. The whole world is a trea sure House for the collector. Can t afford such a Hobby you say take heart there s Hope for people with Little Means but who have the time and that inexplicable col Lector s Eye that can spot a Nugget among the Gross. And the Nugget need t be expensive to Purchase at some of the junkies favorite haunts. There Are of course the Lovely established antique stores like attic Antiques the sugared mule and the what not Shoppe. Doris Van Buren owner of attic Antiques said Young people Are among her Best customers. They love the Wood and workmanship in old pieces of she said. They appreciate the Beauty in old jewelry and China and of course they have More Money to spend today and they Are spending wisely. A lot of their purchases could amount to investments. They Are very in other words the Young peo ple Are not just after Sec Ond hand baubles. Winnipeg offers a score of Little to feed the new junkies appetites. All Are not what would be classified As antique shops. Many Are browsers Check the shelves of Goodwill industries a used Book by Jim Hogarty store on Princess Street. Catch All Stoces scattered along main Street Sargent Avenue Market Avenue and Logan Avenue to name Only a few. Some Are used Furni Ture or clothing stores which have a shelf or two of inter Esting items stained away in a Corner. Not really antique dealers but dealers in Bric a Brac or to use a newer dealers term leading the list Are the Goodwill and salvation army stores. Both these out lets have Small sections where items of More obvious value Are put. The True Challenge is to search through the counters of Junky looking items usually reasonably priced. You May discover a Small cloisonne vase a Large plat Ter with deep Well a Candle stick in need of re silvering but beautifully ornate. Stories abound of precious round in boxes holding buttons and pins rare editions discovered in the Book sections paintings Worth a Fortune. It docs happen. The everlasting Hope is that it will happen window shopping on Street. Craig manager of Goodwill industries limited said there is no doubt that through the Yean items of read value have come and gone through his store with out his knowledge. But somebody who picked up a valuable item for a Dollar or two does t often come Back to boast major Hugh Tilley of he salvation army said that the articles junkies Are looking for at the army s store Are just sidelights of the army s main purpose name help ing those in economic Straits find cheaper clothing and furniture. But some Lovely things have been he said. The wife of a i Iii Tfir Friend of mine picked up two dirty lamps at the store one Day for they turned out to be a pair of old porcelain Beau ties. Cleaned up with new shades each costing five times the Cost of the original Purchase they Are a con Stant source of admiration in a Beautiful Home. Another time taking a print out of a valuable Frame we found an old Bill. And a lady who had Don ated clothing to us phoned one Day to say she had left a Diamond ring Worth several thousand dollars in the pocket of one of the dresses. Well that took some looking for but fortunately the ring was girls still play same old games by David Behrens new Day new York almost everyone agrees with the latest research that Little girls Are made of sugar and spice let alone everything Nice. Probably never were in fact despite the old myth. But would a Good hard slide into third base Fol Lowed by a heated argument help to shape the it the girl of today into to Morrow s successful woman the question is tacitly raised by sociologist Janet lever who just completed s year of watching fifth graders at play and noted some disturbing differences in How girls spend their Lei sure time compared with boys. The Little girls of today May be heading toward the workaday world in numbers greater than Ever before but at age 11 they Are still play ing the old games or. Lever found. In her study prepared forms Magazine. Or. Lever found that fashion dolls and indoor Board games still occupied the in liberated majority of ii and 11-year-Olds once they had outgrown the hopscotch and jacks of Youn Ger Days. On the threshold of adolescence girls tended to become bored with the games of childhood while boys continued to use and enjoy skills Learned at eight or nine years old such As baseball. These sex tracked play lever said take their toll in later because More boys engage in team sports and Are expected to they learn to resolve disputes More quickly. Or. Lever found. Girls on the other hand in less co operative competitive exercises gain Little experience in the judicial thus play for the fifth Grade boy. Or. Lever observed provides a direct rehearsal for competitive work situations and survival in the adult world. Meanwhile girls softball leagues have become just As exciting As fierce As enthusiastic As dedicated As boys remember it to be. In the longer View the key Standard will be the Opportunity for Success a View shared by principal Maureen a. Hartigan. She sees Pread Ole scents As citizens of their own identifying primarily with their Peers acting out a natural maturation. Another find was by Jan Mclellan co owner with her son Neil of Neil s curio Cor Ner in St. James. Mrs. Mclellan purchased a Box of Glass bowls at a nominal Cost during a Sale. At Home she discovered a rare dish in the Orange tree pattern in White carnival China Worth at least she herself had paid for the prize. Did she sell ii i she said and that s the answer of a True collector. But it s Tricky business. Having come upon a picture of Robbie Burns for which she had paid mrs. Mclellan sold it for not until she was wrapping it up for a customer did she give it a Good dusting off. There on the Back of the picture in Fine old English script was the legend sold rotheby a England it s stories like this that add spice to the life of a collector although some times enthusiasm gets out of hand. Take the of John Proctor of Woking. Surrey England whose Hobby recently proved his undoing. Or. Proctor a 38-year-old Bank clerk collects butter flies and the specimens in the Victoria and Albert museum in London proved too much of a temptation for him. He s been charged with stealing 182 specimens of butterflies from the museum Over a seven year period. Their value More than 3.000 pounds. Today too. There is a great demand for the mainly but not exclusively collected by the Young. Funky Means clothes from the 30s right up to and including the 50s. Funky Means overstuffed Chester Fields in mohair and ornate Twilight lamps Ostrich Feath ers or a stuffed iguana. Funky is the not too Distant past objects that fill a need for individuality and some times just for a Giggle. Hardcore collectors How Ever jealously guard newly discovered sources. And Many an unabashed seeker of the unusual has found pure Gold sticking out of garbage cans in the shape of lamps coveted old billboards Pic Ture frames and old bottles. Treasures All. Lorraine Silver of 58t Harstone Road in Charles Wood has an interest in calligraphy which led her to the engrossing area of old pens Ink Wells and related objects. These she has found in an Tique stores both Here and the United states in country schools and at private sales. Her favourites Are an 1896 Lap desk and an old Nib pen with a Mother of Pearl Stem. My collection is a Little easier to handle than my Mother laughed mrs. Sil ver a school teacher turned student nurse. She collects old sewing machines. Her Pride is one that is 100 Yean mrs. Silver s Mother is Elma Buth 30 Evanhoa Street. Mrs. Silver s sister Joanne of the same address. Also collects Ink Wells and pens. It can become a family fetish. 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