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H and H High Grade one-pound vacuum tin

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In August 2014 we added this one-pound cylindrical can from eBay. The litho is the High Grade vacuum packed layout: a red top band with the silver H and H ma...

Alamo Cook Book (Hoffmann-Hayman)

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In July 2014 we bought this at Magic Carpet Books, a used-and-rare shop. The Alamo Cook Book is a stapled, buff-paper retail booklet with a black Alamo view ...

Master Chef “We Serve” hand-painted sign

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Debbie Keneson turned up a large hand-painted Master Chef board: a thin plywood panel, roughly 4 by 8 feet, with a red field and white Master Chef serif lett...

Third Crystalvac jar — clear, bail, base 5

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On 8 July 2014 we closed another eBay Crystalvac for the comparison shelf. The jar is clear glass in the square Crystalvac plan: molded shoulder relief with ...

Household Institute three-piece percolator

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The listing read like an H and H aluminum pot, so we took a closer look. The piece is a three-part stovetop percolator: a tall brushed-aluminum carafe with a...

Wait! Spices?

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On the second floor, a stave of wood is screwed to the ceiling, blocking one of the old roof-vent cutouts. It is printed Domestic Paprika; from the shape, it...

Three Tins and a Crystalvac jar, Comfort

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Debbie Keneson set more stock aside for the collection on the same Comfort, Texas, circuit that handled the June 2014 hand-off in Three Rivers: a one-pound a...

Broncho Coffee & American Pickers

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Purchased Mike Wolfe’s Art of the Pick photo book and the signed 12×18 Broncho Coffee print from Antique Archaeology / Art of the Pick—the American Pickers r...