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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

A firm in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane made these mirrored shadow boxes in the 1930s–1950s


Stamped with the brand - 'Star Mirrors' these do pop up from time to time, all mine were found in the sixties and into the seventies. Barb and I had every one we own massed on one of our bedroom walls when Alan Carter came and did his two five minute episodes of "treasure hunt' at the house.
He had never seen one and came the following day with his wife in tow to see ours.
We moved the collection down to Tasmania to hang on the bathroom walls in Tunbridge, shown above. The local dealers and collectors were equally astonished to see them as they were not evident in Tasmania either. Ann Hesse bought one of the two spare ones I couldn't accommodate and took it home to their Avoca house. People made plastic and paper flowers on tall wires and placed them in the drilled masionite just viewable in the one on the bottom. Another shot here.

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