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Yard Bike Skills Park in Canon City opens this weekend with loops, ramps and jumps. Mountain bike and BMX riders, but no motorized vehicles. Connects to the Riverwalk and South Canon Trails. Near Eagle Wing Trailhead off Colburn Lane. Adds to the city s trails system that already has 61 miles of singletrack.
FRIDAY
A new art gallery opens in Pueblo, The Front Room at
Colorado Center for Metal Arts, 625 S. Union Ave. Among the featured artists, Sean O Meallie. 6 p.m. reception during First Friday Art Walk. For every type of metalsmithing. coloradocenterformetalarts.com
FRIDAY
The doors are reopening Friday at the Manitou Springs Heritage Center with the history of that area,
Turner Auctions + Appraisals offers 260 lots of fine and decorative art
Norton Bush (1834 - 1894). Medium: Oil on canvas. Size: 16 x 20 . Signed: Signed and dated lower right. Title: Tropical Landscape at Sunset. Date: 1874. Condition: Good. Estimate $6,000 - $8,000.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals is pleased to present the sale of Fine Art, Silver, Art Pottery & Art Glass at its online auction at 10:30 am PST on Saturday, April 24, 2021. Offering 260 lots from various consignors and estates, the sale features a diverse selection of art and decorative arts from the 16th to 21st centuries from the U.S., Europe and Asia. This auction also presents the personal collection of art pottery of Steven Yvaska, a noted writer, speaker, appraiser and advisor on antiques from the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Glass bottles were expensive packages for alcoholic drinks and other liquids, including many beauty products, by the late 1700s. But makers liked to give products a permanent label, not just a pasted, handwritten or printed paper label. So bottles were made with a thin layer of glass that was heated to cover the label and adhere it to the bottle permanently. Other less decorative bottles were made with the product name captured in the mold.
A label under glass couldn’t fall off, get damaged or become illegible, so they were favored by apothecaries, the drug stores of the past. Many of these glass-covered labels were handwritten with the Latin names of medicines using fancy style gold-leafed letters. Glass Works Auctions featured milk glass barber bottles in an auction that included an American circa 1880-1900 barber bottle. It has a shaker top and a label under glass with the name “W.L. Doremus, Bay Rum” surrounding the head of a girl in a colorful bonn