Collection of Nine Vintage Black Americana Memorabilia Collectibles From Estate

Description

Found in the estate of a Black Memorabilia Collector in southern Oregon, this group includes the following:
* Two hand embroidered flour sack towels, Saturday and Sunday, measure 31 1/2" x 28", in very good condition, no tears or holes, minor light staining along a couple of the folds.
* Two hand made pot holders, measure 5 1/4" across, excellent condition
* One glass coaster with decal, measures 3 1/4" across, in very good condition, no chips or cracks, decal intact
* Two vintage photographs.  Victorian era cabinet photo of woman from studio in Seattle, Washington.  Sepia photo of young man, "Morton R. Hunter, one of Ella's teen age friends" written on the back.  Both in good condition.
* One vintage postcard with illustration of young child getting a licking.  "Ah tried to be puhlite an' nice  An evabody's friend  But no mattah how hahd ah tries to be good   Ah allus get licked in de end."   The postcard has a message on the back, from Al to Vern, stamped and postmarked from Metairie LA on April 28, 1957.
* Perhaps the most interesting and valuable of these items is the 1930s Coon Chicken Club money clip.  Coon Chicken Inn was an American chain of restaurants founded by Maxon Lester Graham and Adelaide Burt in 1925,which prospered until the late 1950s.  The logo for the restaurant, used at their entrances, on menus, napkins, advertising, and restaurant promotional items depicted a smiling caricature of an African-American porter.  The first restaurant was opened in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1925, followed by one in Seattle in 1929 and another in Portland, Oregon in 1931.  Due to changes in popular culture and the general sentiment of being culturally and racially offensive, the Seattle and Portland locations closed in 1949 and the one in Salt Lake City in 1957.  The clip measures 2 3/8" wide x 1 5/8" high and is in fair condition.  Some tarnish and erosion from age and use.  However, these money clips are very rare and highly collectible.