Brookfield/Elm Grove Monthly
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JULY 2013 Freeman Brookfield & Elm Grove • Page 5A Clay pot prized for quality; spool cabinet worth pretty penny Q. My great-grandfather boom was 1905-1920; no longer did you need to spin was from Amarillo, Texas, your own threads when and worked as a cowboy on a wooden spools of readylarge ranch. I'm interested made cotton, wool and silk in the history and design of were available. The Sears this object. The signature on 1908 catalog sold a dozen the back has worn away . Antiques Appraised spools of cotton thread for – A.K., Waukesha $.49. Silk sold for $.85/dozen ventional drawings of bird and was used for luminesdesigns, especially abstract cence, buttonholes and basYour small 4-inch parrots. With attached ing. shallow plate is signed provenance, value on your In 1860, brothers Hiram "Acoma NM." The historic polychrome plate is $100. and Alvah Belding started a Acoma Pueblo Nation is a Large decorated pots can be business in their home and federally recognized tribal very valuable. sold door to door. By 1890 entity and lies 70-plus miles they had four textile manuwest of Albuquerque, N.M. This spool cabinet facturing mills and Belding, It is the home of successive came from a general store Mich., became known as generations of extremely and was given to me in 1967. "Silk City They sent out ." accomplished potters. NatuMany people continue to ask traveling salesmen, had ral dense slate-like clay me about it and I wonder modern dorms to house sources are mined and of what the value is. women employees and a corthe whitest slips (liquid – J.F Brookfield poration hospital. .S. clay). Then it was mixed Your oak, six-drawer, spool with pulverized pottery Country stores sold cabinet is the top portion of shards using a laborious anything available but it was a stacked display column. process. After firing, it is the well-made display cabiThe 22-inch high case is strong enough to allow pronets that promoted and sold missing the all-important duction of lightweight and marquee or top sign that had very thin-walled pottery Old products. Secured cases . reflected quality merchanthe store owners name – Acoma, known as "Sky most were kept by families City is located in the desert dise and kept items clean. ," One-room stores were heatwhen stores closed. It has where rain is a blessing. In ed with pot-belly stoves, heat original patina, decals and the early 20th century fine, did not add the right color to brass hardware. The glass line sectioned designs were fronts are complete on the painted with yucca brushes. new thread! In exchange to dominate a prime store loca- 17-inch deep drawers. In 1925 Black represents rainfall, tion, companies would offer Belding merged with Hemand terra cotta color reprefloor, counter and wall fixingway Silks, closed in 1932 sents earth. Acoma potters and eventually nylon thread tures with their branded are highly known for stylistook over. Value is $595. logo. The sewing machine tic fluted rims and uncon- BARBARA EASH A. Q. A. Waukesha County student wins 'Wisconsin YES!' business plan contest ELM GROVE – An eighth-grade student at Pilgrim Park Middle School has earned the grand prize in a statewide contest that encouraged middle- and high school students to develop their own business plans. Sara Linderman's plan for a music app called SongJudge – which allows musicians to select a song, record their performance of it and receive a score based on their accuracy, tone, articulation, volume and tempo – was judged the top submission for the Wisconsin YES! business plan contest. Linderman, a Brookfield resi- dent and flutist, developed this idea as an objective means to determine performance ability. The plan was presented to more than 250 people at the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs' Conference in Middleton during an awards luncheon for the Governor's Business Plan Contest on June 5. Participants in this contest had to summarize their ideas in a 250-word online summary. Professionals from across the state acted as judges, provided feedback and scored the ideas. The top 17 entries were selected to move on to the next stage, where they submitted 1,000-word executive summaries covering company overview; product or service description; customer definition; market description, size and sales strategy; competition; management team; financials; and capital needs. Teacher Barb Wood, also of Pilgrim Park Middle School, earned the 2013 Wisconsin YES! "Gold Star Teacher" award for her efforts in involving and coaching students throughout the Wisconsin YES! contest process. – Josh Perttunen, Freeman Staff FYI Early 20th-century , Appalachian Mountain quilt makers set selling price by how many spools of thread that it took to create each quilt. They kept the empty spools to give the buyer. Have an item for appraisal? If you have an item you'd like to be appraised, mail entries to Waukesha Antique Shop, 1427 E. Racine Ave., Unit E-2, Waukesha, WI 53186. Send sharp, well-lit photos of front, back and underside of your item, and measurements are important. List any known history or even hearsay length of ownership , and all markings, even partial ones. Include your name, address and phone number. No photos can be returned and no purchase of antiques will occur. (Barbara Eash is a member of the Certified Appraisers Guild of America, specializing in appraisals of antiques and collectibles and has extensive experience writing and speaking about antiques.) Boehm-Madisen Lumber buys Brookfield location BROOKFIELD – Boehm-Madisen Lumber has bought a new location in Brookfield for a warehouse and possibly a hardware retail store. Boehm-Madisen Lumber Vice President John Kestly said the company has been leasing a site on Sommers Drive in Brookfield, but decided it wanted to buy a location. The 25,000-square-foot location at 21475 N. Doral Road was a good fit for the company, Kestly said. Boehm-Madisen Lumber's main location is at N16-W22100 Jericho Drive in the City of Pewaukee, and it has a manufacturing facility on Hickory Street in Pewaukee. Kestly said the company hopes to move into its new Brookfield location within two weeks after renovations are complete. It will maintain its City of Pewaukee and Pewaukee locations. Jon Packee of NAI MLG Commercial represented 21475 Doral Road, LLC and Curt Pitzen of NAI MLG Commercial handled the transaction for Boehm-Madisen Lumber. Boehm-Madisen Lumber is a third-generation, family-owned wholesale stocking distributor of hardwood lumber and forest products, founded in 1934. – Katherine Michalets, Special to The Freeman Looking for a way to save? You need to insure both your auto and your home, so why not save money in the process? Call today for a free, no-obligation look at auto and home discounts from American Family. Keith Loveless Agency, Inc. 13500 Watertown Plank Rd. Suite 105 Elm Grove, WI 53122 (262) 785-1033 kloveles@amfam.com Foggy windows a problem? 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