Vintage Chick's Head Vases and Hand Vase!

Like I always say, you never know what you will find until you look. WW2 seemed like a bad dream, when America settled into the late 1940's 1950's for those "happy days", when everyone had a job, money was easy, ice-cream was at the local soda shop, top 45's were the hit among teenagers and dad had extra to buy mom some flowers from the local florist. These were called ceramic planters or head vases, sometimes called florist ware.

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A mint Lady with Hat Head Vase, found In the past, head vases were used for a little vase to put flowers in. She has no problems, no crazing that I can see, no cracks, no chips, no defects that I can find at all.  Marked simply, Japan on the bottom.  Someone better take her before I break her. SOLD

Lady Headvase without Hat Even the pearl earrings worn on both vintage ladies were intact.  The pearl necklase is just so cute on the vintage elegant lady above.  She does have some mild crazing, very mild, you need to look closely to see it.  Right eye lash looks to have been repaired. Underneath, in the back, there is a chip out.  Does not affect the display  as you can see.  I found both head vases in my Grandmother's basement, some years ago after she passed away. .  Marked - Bedford Ohio on the bottom SOLD 11-02-2009

Nice hand vase.  Lovely formed hand holds a vase of pink roses with green leaves.   Gold trimmed. No mark on the bottom.  Only flaw is a line/crack in the back, but you can't see it from the front and you have a hard time seeing it unless you are really looking.  It runs along the top finger in the back.  Tried to get a pic of it, but it didn't show up.  No crazing or other damage.  Roses and fingers are perfect. Gold trims the roses, fingernails, top, bottom and anywhere they could trim with gold.  50.00 with 12.00 for shipping. poodle not included

Like I always say, you never know what you will find till you look.  Take your time, browse around, look through everything.  Who knows what vintage treasures you can uncover.

My mom took us to Kresky's, a local five and dime for shopping and I remember seeing these little head vases there. Nestled among the little handkerchiefs and fold out fans, were these elegante vases. She would buy fans for use in church services. Sitting on the wooden pews during the hot summer Sundays, it was a blessing when mom would pull out one of those colorful fans to fan us........

Many of these head vases were made in Japan, but our country made many of the head vases too. There were companies like Roseville, Royal Copley, Royal Haeger, Shawnee Pottery, and Weller are a few I know of. Many were located in my state of Ohio. Mom use to drive to Roseville in Northern Ohio about once a year to purchase items to sell in their truck stop gift shop. Head vases were made by the thousands, everyone copied someone else's. The ones to catch on were the elegant, fashion model look. Adornments like little faux-pearl necklaces and earrings, cute hair bows, and long eyelashes were on most vases. Then you can't forget the 1950's glamorous movie stars, I've seen Marilyn Monroe. It wax common to see head vases with a graceful hand softly touching the face. This was elegant and the shoppers love them. My two little girls to the right have pear earrings and a pearl necklace. By the late 1960's the head vase fashion gave way to other things. Now in 1999, these head vases are hot collectibles again, reminding us of what we once had.  You just have to look for it.

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