posted on May 27, 2006 08:00:08 PM new
I am almost done helping clean out the house. Lots of great ebay stuff. Some really unusual stuff too. One box filled with very old cotton bags that rice came in. Do you think they are worth listing? I searched the closed auctions under cotton rice bags and found nothing. Maybe the muscle between my ears is as tired and the rest of me. Am I missing something?
Maybe I sould just put them in the pile for the garage sale.
posted on May 27, 2006 08:21:37 PM new
Printing on them. I just grabbed two of the smaller ones out of the box.One says (Reading down the bag)
Premium
U.S. No.1 - EXTRA FANCY
shiraiku Brand
CALROSE RICE
and then an emblem with a flower and the words SHIRA KIKU Trademark Registed
Packed for
Nishimoto Trading co, Ltd
Sanfrancisco, Los angeles
10 LBS Net Weight
Coated with Glucose and talc
wash before using
Then some asian writing on the back
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the other says
DESSERT SEED CO. IN
SUNBLEST SEED
ELCENTRO, CALIFORNIA
LEBANON, OREGON
NYSSA, OREGON
posted on May 27, 2006 08:46:07 PM new
The reason I asked, is that years ago some of the fine grains sold in feed stores came in cotton bags that were various colored print designs. These bags were highly sought after and made into shirts and blouses. I doubt many survived. It would be great if that was what you had.
If Murphy's law is correct, everything East of the San Andreas Fault will slide into the Atlantic
posted on May 27, 2006 10:00:49 PM new
Ditto to what Sparkz said. I've sold some of those, and flour sacks, in the Collectibles/vintage sewing category two years ago. I'd probably consider selling them as a lot, unless you can determine if any of the towns represented have collectors, like for a museum. (Even our little Idyllwild has a nice, small museum and lots of Idyllwild collectors vying for postcards on Ebay!)
posted on May 27, 2006 10:02:50 PM new
different colors, like green cotton with yellow printing on it? I have ONE! It is green and says in this order:
Let the good Earth Produce
then a picture of a hand holding a seedling
underneath that says
FERRY MORSE SEEDS
FERRY-MORSE SEED CO.
DETROIT MICH.-MOUNTAIN VIEW CALIF.
Yup it's old. We don't use CALIF anymore. We use CA. Not only that, there is absolutely no farming or industry in that part of the bay area. It's all houses now!
posted on May 28, 2006 03:08:56 AM new
Check closed listings under "rice sack." Do yours have any interesting graphics (ie objects), or are most just printed with name, etc.? The more colorful the better. The Ferry Morse one may be worth listing on its own.
What you have are not at all flour or feed sacks which had multi colored patterns, florals usually, and were used for clothing, quilts, curtains, pillow cases, etc. Your plain ones were sometimes used for the backs of quilts, and on occasion you can still make out the lettering. Mostly 1930s-40s make-dos.
