VTT - Kitchen Decor & Apple Pottery

Today's postcard advertises Du Pont "Duco" Enamel paint, which explains why everything is painted bright green. This advertising postcard was mailed in 1955, and is a 1950s interpretation of the Early American style. The woman in the picture appears to be demonstrating how easy Duco Enamel is to clean. On the back of the card it says: "Your kitchen will always be fresh and beautiful, like this one, if it's painted with Du Pont "Duco" Enamel! That's because "Duco" is tough and durable, resists hard knocks, and is as easy to clean as a china dish."

Below is a picture of a sturdy Early American style chair I found at a thrift shop yesterday. The chair is marked "Heywood-Wakefield HW Est. 1826" on the bottom of the seat. Heywood-Wakefield wooden furniture was manufactured in Gardner, Massachusetts in a factory that closed in 1979. The name "Heywood-Wakefield" is being used today by a company that acquired the rights in 1994. This is what the Heywood-Wakefield website says about the Colonial and Early American furniture:

The old Heywood-Wakefield company had several lines that could be classified as Colonial or Early American, and from time to time pieces from these groups appear in used furniture stores, estate and garage sales, auctions, thrift stores, etc. … Our best guess is that whatever you paid for an item is what it's worth, and that it is probably a mistake to buy this furniture with the idea of selling it for a profit.

On the chair are some of my apple kitchen thingies. The apple cookie jar was the start of my apple collection. My mother had a different apple cookie jar. This is the first one I found when I decided I wanted an apple cookie jar too. My jar is very common. It is usually attributed to Hull. The only marking mine has is a small green number eight on the bottom. I originally thought I would collect cookie jars, but I decided instead to collect smaller apple things like salt & pepper shakers.

My chrysanthemums are so beautiful and prolific this year that I wanted to include them in the picture. Usually they don't start blooming until mid-September, but this year they started in mid-July and still have many new stems and buds.

I'm participating in Vintage Thingie Thursday