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Little boys are often terrified when they are taken for a first haircut. All those high chairs, strange men and flashing scissors. So, for generations, some barbers have had special figural chairs for children. The most popular is probably a horse.
There are barber chair collectors who have enough room to display them or antique lovers who buy one adult chair and keep it in a home bar or library or even living room to use. But those who dream of having a barber’s chair must remember it weighs several hundred pounds and will be hard to move to another location, especially up or down stairs. The special large metal chairs with the hydraulic parts also may need repair.
To help calm little boys getting a first haircut, barbers ordered special chairs with added seats shaped like animals. The Emil Paidar Company made this chair in the early 20th century. (Kovels)
Today, the most remembered names of barber equipment are Kokens or Belmonts, but one of the oldest is Emil J. Paidar Company from Chicago. It was the leading barber chair company from the early 1900s to the late 1950s. The company chairs were copied by other makers. In the late 1950s, Belmont merged with Takara Chair Sales Company of Japan. Takara started by 1921 and opened in New York in 1959. The new company joined Koken in 1969.
The man’s barbershop chair has changed little over the past 100 years except for the upholstery material and more streamlined metal parts, but the child’s chair today can look like a car, airplane, horse, motorcycle, spaceship and more. Cowan auctions recently sold this Emil Paidar Company chair. The front of the chair is a realistic stuffed leather horse that the child sat on for a haircut. It was estimated at $1,500 to $2,500 and sold for $1,375.
Q: We’re looking for information and price for an old stove. Several names are stamped on it: “Garland Stoves and Ranges, Inland Garland Stove, Michigan Stove Co., Detroit-Chicago, Garland Aerated Oven, Patented Dec 1889.” We think a part for the back is missing.
A: The Michigan Stove Company was founded in 1873. It made stoves, furnaces and heaters, and was the world’s largest stove manufacturer by the 1890s. Over 200 models of Garland cooking and heating stoves were made. Garland Group was formed in 1995. It became part of Welbilt Company in 2008. Old stoves in good working condition sell for a few hundred dollars. Those in poor condition or with missing parts are hard to sell.
Current Prices
Typewriter, Remington Rand, Model 1, black, white trim, round keys with silver metal rims, Remington Speed Mechanism, c. 1938, $90.
Paper, Mardi Gras parade bulletin, Carnival Edition, Pageant of Rex, Feb. 12, 1929, Outline of History, 20 frames with float images, printed by Searcy & Pfaff, 28 x 42 1/2 inches, $250.
American flag, 45 stars, blue ground, 13 stripes, printed cloth, framed, c. 1900, 19 x 34 inches, $740.
TIP: If a drawer sticks on a vintage piece of furniture, remove it and rub the runners with glide ski wax.
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