Ricky seems to be enjoying doing the ironing on the Season 2, Job Switching episode of I Love Lucy. He uses a non-steam iron hence the need for a separate laundry water sprinkler bottle to dampen the clothes while ironing. It appears to be a CLOSPRAY—Plas-Tex-Corp Laundry Sprinkler bottle. In the pre-steam iron era laundry sprinkler bottles were available in all sorts of shapes and designs and are now collector items.
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Profiles in History auction catalog for their December 11th Hollywood Auction 96 lists an original wall art from I Love Lucy. Fans of the show will recognize the landscape that appears on the back wall of the Ricardo’s living room (it replaced the Utrillo print when Lucy got her new furniture). It is a lithograph print by Frank Serratoni. The illustration above is taken from the auction catalog.
More details at the auction site:
https://profilesinhistory.com/auctions/hollywood-auction-96/
A similar unmarked porcelain Condiment Set with caddy in an ivy leaf pattern was sold on eBay in 2016 with the following description:
“The overall length of the caddy is 6 1/4 inches and is nearly 5 1/4 inches tall and just over 3 inches wide. I do not think they have ever been used. The one spoon is broken form storage, but it looks like all the pieces are there. The jar opening is 2 inches and almost 2 inches deep.”
It is similar to George S. Thompson Company (est 1944 and later bought out by Olde Thompson) hand painted Imperial Ivy pattern, pictured below, and goes well with the Franciscan Ivy pieces used on set and Lucy’s Olde Thompson wall mounted salad set.
Lucy’s 1951 Westinghouse Frost Free refrigerator appears on several episodes from that year. The Westinghouse Frost Free Fridge was widely promoted in print publications and on TV during 1951 and with prominent positioning in the kitchen of I Love Lucy.
The focus of this blog in on items that are similar to, or match screen used items on I Love Lucy and not on original props. If you are looking for original props with COA I recommend reading the following article before making a decision to purchase: