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Summary: An antiques expert explains the different colors of iron stone in this free video series about antiques.
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Sue Shea Sue Shea has been dealing in antiques since 1979, and has her own shop, Shea Antiques, located in Shelburne Falls, MA. Her passion is early American 18th & 19... read more
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Questions & AnswersTalking about different colors the forms of colors in iron stone we're just going to show you a few examples here that I have in this cupboard. Here is a piece of iron stone with a gold band which is not unusual to find you'll find gold band in a lot of iron stone different patterns, different shapes this is a nice example of an earlier piece of iron stone from the 19th century. This is a nice example of a teapot with a nice spout and a great handle on it and in great shape. It has the cream and sugar also so that's one example of a gold band we're also going to talk about this plain iron stone pieces here which is completely white different patterns on it thats another example. Another example I want to share with you here is an iron stone base to this is Lamoush this is a piece of Lamosh right here a cup and the saucer and this is what they call the moss pattern a very popular pattern. You find out that they're pretty easily today so this is a piece of iron stone but in a moss rose pattern and put out my lamoush so there's another example of iron stone. So you can see that there's a lot of different colors in iron stone not just he clear plain white base iron stone so I just want to show you a few different examples. You can also see in here we have another this is a toothbrush holder in gold band also that's just a toothbrush holder in iron stone this usually came in bathroom sets with a pitcher and a bowl. And a toothbrush holder the soap container and usually a 5 to 7 or 8 different pieces but this is an example of a part of a set. Also we have here another piece of moush rose that I want to show you which is another example its a this is a hot plate that you would use to put anything like a teapot or any of your pots on to keep from burning anything. So that's one example there of moush rose so thats a few examples here's an iron stone base right here, this is also English and this is a creamer in a very different shape. But it also has a lot of detail in it here this is another iron stone base so when we talk about iron stone there's a lot of variety in color and form so this is what we're going to talk about today.
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