This is what I call the Orange Bay Window House. Some of you have seen these photos before but it is of a house and type that
I uncovered last year. As a type these houses all have an extended piece of cardboard
on the bottom of the platform base and it projects about 1/8" of an inch all
around. Further these all seem to have square posts with caps all made of
folded and glued cardboard. None of them have gold mullioned windows and
are usually smaller just red cellophane windows but not always all that
small but never the mullioned windows of any kind. Point 3 these house all
have an interior floor. This is sometimes hard to determine without
removing the house from the base but this strange feature is exhibited in
all of them.
The following house is very closely related to the gloss top
houses and has orange lacquei on the house part with NO mica or glitter at
all and is glossy. The roof is green lacquei and has glass glitter all over
it, and the base is light blue and has fine glass glitter over all. This
glitter is Very SMALL and unlike anything available today or even on later
houses made in Japan in the thirties.
So in sum this group of houses is different and likely made by the same
small maker. They have 1.) extended or flanged bases. 2.) Square folded
and capped cardboard posts. 3.) interior floors in the buildings separate
from the base and attached to the house part. (and ceilings in a couple of
instances.) 4.) The use of laquie somewhere on the building. In addition
some have a very ODD plaster like snow paint though this orange house does
not.
The orange house in addition to the above that make up the "TYPE" has bay
windows and some sort of odd removable roof detail that I have attempted to
recreate. What it likely was was a bird house type steeple but this is no
church. And a chimney proved to be to big. This type of cupola can be seen
in some of the generalized views in the lacquie section of papatedsplace.
Here are the Photos. The colors of Orange & Green are so Early thirties!
Commentary is appreciated and the HOM was one of my favorite features of
Ted's site.
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