LACQUERS
(More probably shellack)
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The first time I saw one of these "LACQUIES" it made me mad! I thought some goon had painted over or varnished a fine old house. Not so! I began to come across more. There are 9 different shown here, plus one SUPER-LACQUER but I am sure there are more. I have to place them in the late EARLY PERIOD - roughly 1929 to1932 -along with GLOSSY-TOPS because of the styles and colors and all-wood fence posts. You'll find the exact same houses in other finishes... later COCONUTS and mixed textures. I sometimes think the factory ran out of the cellophane flocking and let them go out the door anyway, because you do not come across them as often as the others. Or it could have simply been something that was tried and proved unpopular. I cannot say. They have an almost edible quality, as if made from brightly colored hard taffy.
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"Pagoda"

This exceptional piece has things in common with the early period, mostly, but also foreshadows styles to come. You have the obviously glossy roof, either lacquered or shellacked. The wood fence posts. The chenille "bottle brush" tree. The flat-finished sides of the building like the large G.T's. But you have also a luffah shrub and the rafia fence which begins in the early 30's. The base, of course, is something unique in and of itself-but the dark olive sand is the same as on some of the large G.T.s. I have to place this LATE EARLY or EARLY MIDDLE period -1930-1932. But I'm just making an educated guess here. It also has something in common with the next category ......

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"Pagoda"
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