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Red Wing

Red Wing Spruce Salt & Pepper Shakers

Red Wing. Contemporary. Charles Murphy. Spruce. 1955. Salt and Pepper Shakers.


I've never seen Spruce in the wild until spying these shakers in an antique mall and I couldn't go home without them. 

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Average: 4.8 (4 votes)
mpratt's picture

Re: Red Wing

Oh, my!!!!!

atomicscott's picture

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A holy grail find, Clyde. Nice!

modlectic's picture

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Scott, I take it for granted that Spruce is scarce but surely you're joshin' me a bit when you write "holy grail find"?

mpratt's picture

Re: Red Wing

In the past twenty years, I have seen only one of these shakers in an antique mall. That was in Red Wing, Minnesota.

modlectic's picture

Re: Red Wing

Oh, my indeed!

studiosmith's picture

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Really, really nice pieces.