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The Ricardo’s Sierra-Columbia Planter

lucyplanter The Ricardo’s set also had a Sierra-Columbia planter. The one indicated in the screen capture above from an “I Love Lucy” episode is a typical design from Sierra-Columbia of Pasadena California. The design seen above is a ceramic planter inside a brass effect metal holder. An interesting thing about the metal holder is that it  was recycled leftover metal from their scissors manufacturing.

You can clearly see that scissors shapes were cut out of the metal making an interesting pattern which can be found on planters and TV lamps made by Sierra-Columbia during the 1950’s.  By the end of the 50’s a kiln explosion and fire brought an end to the company after only 8/9 years in business.

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Scissors pattern cut into the metal

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