Lucy keeps her household accounts in a classic record keeping book. Boorum and Pease record keeping account books have been around for over 100 years and look similar in style to Lucy’s account book and they are available on Amazon.
Boorum & Pease Canvas Account Book, Record, 20 Lb., 9 1/2 x 6-Inches, 200 Pages, Olive Green (667-R)
Boorum & Pease 3738150R Record/account book, blue/red cover, record rule, 9-5/8 x 7-5/8, 150 pages
In the screen capture above from the “Lucy and Superman” episode Lucy is sharing peanuts from her pedestal glass compote/candy dish. Lucy’s dish looks like the Fostoria ‘American’ Compote Candy Dish which can also be found with a matching lid. Hand washing is recommended it is not dishwasher safe.
Pictured below is an example of the Fostoria footed glass candy dish in the “American” pattern currrently on eBay HERE.
Fostoria’s “ice-cube” style American pattern, line 2056 is pressed glass (which you can tell from the seams in the glass) not cut crystal: The color called “Crystal” means clear glass, not lead crystal and does not give an indication of lead content. According to this article American pressed glass made after the Civil War does not contain lead. [If you are concerned about lead content and wish use a vintage bowl to hold dry food such as peanuts or unwrapped candy, line the class first with transparent plastic – cut a rounded corner from a plastic food bag to make a funnel large enough to fit the bowl place into the bowl before adding the food]
In the I Love Lucy episode ” Little Ricky gets a Dog” we see the book Lobagola on Ricky Ricardo’s bedroom shelf. Bata Kindai Amgoza ibn LoBagola (1877 – 1947) was an early 20th-century American impostor and entertainer who posed as a native of Africa, his real name was Joseph Howard Lee from Baltimore, Maryland.
“LoBagola” posing as an African “savage” managed a long career in the early 20th century, during which he delivered lectures to institutions and conducted public debates and published articles. This book from publishers A.A. Knopf,1933, a pseudo biography, was an attempt to capitalize on public interest at the time.
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The I Love Lucy episode titled “Sales Resistance” opens with Ricky using a new Webcor tape recorder to record his song “There’s a Brand New Baby in Our House”. The tape recorder was the must have gadget in 1953, the year Little Ricky was born. Ricky is seen using a 1953 Webcor Reel to Reel tape recorder from Webster-Chicago.
According to the ad pictured above the Webcor Model 210 with 2 hour tape and microphone sold for $197.50 in 1953, which calculates to a buying power of $1,765.21 in 2015 dollars.
Pictured above is a vintage portable Webcor seen on eBay this week (Click Here to view) selling for below the 1953 price although not in 1953 condition. Continue reading Ricky Ricardo’s 1953 Webcor Tape Recorder
In the I Love Lucy kitchen you may have noticed a wall mounted salad set ( see previous post) Today I see these two sets -pictured below – that are not an exact match for Lucy’s set but will create a similar look on a kitchen wall.
In the I Love Lucy episode “The Sublease” Little Ricky’s play table is among the items Lucy has to store at Fred and Ethel’s apartment. Little Ricky uses a state of the art 1950’s folding metal baby seat – a Cosco Feed-N-Play Table.There are a couple of them on eBay this week. Pictured below is one example. Click HERE to see the listing.
In the I Love Lucy episode Little Ricky Learns to Play the Drums Ricky discovers Little Ricky’s drumming talent when he uses his spoon to play drums on his cereal bowl at the breakfast table. Here we see a set of Brock Pottery in the Country Lane pattern with brown borders. Some matching bread plates can be seen on a dish rack next to the sink in the same scene.
Brock of California made the farm themed pottery with either brown or yellow borders. In one of the early episodes we saw Lucy using Brock egg coddlers with the yellow border – also sometimes seen on display on the kitchen shelf. Also on the table in the screen capture above there is the Franciscan Ivy milk jug and sugar bowl and the base of the ivy butter dish.
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Hummel Figurines had gained wide popularity in the post war years when US soldiers stationed in West Germany began sending them home and here we see some on the I Love Lucy show Season 2 Episode 9 Ricky Loses his Voice. The figurines of little children seem to emphasize Ricky’s child-like refusal to take his medicine.
In the screen capture above we note two Goebel Hummel figurines on the shelf behind Ricky. On the left is Hummel number 65 “Farewell” and on the right is Hummel number 50 “Volunteers”
This is the 1922 Cadillac that Lucille Ball had a close encounter with on the hillarious episode ‘Lucy Learns To Drive‘ is it available to rent at colesclassiccars.com
1922 Cadillac
In the I Love Lucy episode Lucy is Envious we see a plastic toy rotary phone on the mantelpiece of the Ricardo’s living room. In this episode Lucy is short of cash and searches the house for coins. She tells Ethel she even looked in the baby’s piggy bank but only found a couple of IOU’s from Ricky inside. Little Ricky’s savings bank is a match for the two color red and white plastic telephone savings bank by Amerline.
The toy rotary telephone savings bank is by Amerline of Chicago, IL, copyright 1945 . Currently there is one for sale online in red and white pictured above.
CLICK HERE to See it on Etsy
There is also one on eBay HERE but is it not a 2-color phone like we see in the screen capture above – it is being sold as an original prop.