Most Sensational Dealer George Nyiri of George’s Antiques in Fullerton will be bringing the perfect symbol of green living to the upcoming Del Mar Show, which is being paired up for the first time with the Green Expo. The double show, one which features antiques, and the other, items for green living, is slated for January 22-24th at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. George’s windmill is more than just a symbol of efficient wind power. This table top contraption from the Victorian era has many secret functions. For starters, it is a piece of tobacciana. Although there are many collectors of smoking items, which includes such things such as cigars box labels, cutters, and cigarette lighters, there are few who could boast having a cigarette holder as extravagant as George’s jewel-encrusted musical windmill. The windmill was one of the original implementations of green energy, but some may seem a certain amount of irony in this green energy also serving the purpose of holding cancer sticks. The Fullerton dealer’s late 1800s Austro-Hungarian windmill powers for $18,000. The cigarette and match holder feature is one of the windmill’s most obscure purposes
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Smoking poster
A poster for the 1936 movie, “Marihuana: Weed with Roots in Hell,” smoked for $800 in the space of Bill Priest at the recent Del Mar Show. The poster in bold reds and whites shows a very Art Deco couple engaged in smoking dope. It is most likely a reissue from the 1960s or ’70s, but still retained the same striking Art Deco artwork. If the poster fails to sell at Priest’s upcoming shows, he may sell it at auction, where he has been told it may sell for anywhere between $1,500 and $2,500. The movie emerged at around the same time as its more popular exploitative counterpart, “Reefer Madness,” and it too attempted to lure in viewers with scenes of sex and drugs. ”Marihuana” told the disturbing story of a young girl named Burma who is attending a beach party with her boyfriend and a group of friends. After getting high, she has sex and gets pregnant, and one of her girlfriends dies while skinny dipping in the ocean. Burma and her boyfriend go to work for her pusher in order to make money so that they can get married. However, during a drug deal gone bad, her boyfriend is killed, leaving Burma to fend for herself. She then becomes a major narcotics pusher in her own right after giving up her baby for adoption. The daring drug expos
When smoking was cool
A 1970s General Dynamics ceramic ashtray with an image of a plane in iits center landed for $15 in the space of Dave McPheeters at the recent Long Beach Show.The ashtray is most likely from the smoking heyday of the 1960s or ’70s, but the company it represents, General Dynamics, is still in business today. The San Diego-based company formed in 1952 through the combination of the Electric Boat Company, Canadair Ltd. and other smaller companies. The company is a market leader in business aviation; land and expeditionary combat vehicles and systems, armaments, and munitions; shipbuilding and marine systems; and mission-critical information systems and technologies. General Dynamics grew internally and through acquisitions until the early 1990s, when it sold nearly all of its divisions except Electric Boat and Land Systems. Beginning in 1995, the company expanded those two core defense businesses by purchasing other shipyards and combat vehicle-related businesses. In 1997, to reach a new, expanding market, General Dynamics began acquiring companies with expertise in information technology products and services, particularly in the command, control, communications, computing, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) arena. In 1999, the company purchased Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, a business-jet aircraft and aviation support-services company. Over the past 10 years, General Dynamics has acquired and successfully integrated 43 businesses, including three in 2006.
