Hazel Home Art and Antiques: Your Piper Cub source in northern Wisconsin.

Model Airplane News 1930's-1950

Just started going through a couple boxes of vintage Model Airplane News magazines I got today. Probably close to 100 issues altogether. Look at the incredible graphics on theses. I love everything about these magazines, especially the art deco font they used. They are all available here

Vintage Piper J-3 Cub airplane model. The Model T of airplanes.

The Piper J-3 Cub is a small, simple, light aircraft that was built between 1937 and 1947 by Piper Aircraft. With tandem (fore and aft) seating, it was intended for flight training but became one of the most popular and best-known light aircraft of all time. The Cub's simplicity, affordability and popularity invokes comparisons to the Ford Model T automobile.
The aircraft's standard chrome yellow paint has come to be known as “Cub Yellow” or "Lock Haven Yellow" Courtesy Wiki

Cubs gather for their 75th anniversary at AirVenture 2012

Cubs gather for their 75th anniversary at AirVenture 2012

The model we have was scratch built and intended to be flown by radio control. It never had an engine put in it so it never got off the ground. Awesome display piece for cabin or lake house. Wingspan is 60" fuselage is 48" long. It is available for purchase here 

Display including Amelia Earhart lamp, Young Lad Aviator painting and a rustic model float plane.

Rare 1933 Amelia Earhart parachute lamp. Made by The Century Mfg. Co. of Kenosha. Sold in 2014.

This was a really exciting object to sell because we had never seen one before. The man that brought it in said his father owned a housewares and gift shop back in the early 30's and he had this lamp in the store. He also had the original sales letter pitching the lamp to the store owner and a promotional poster for the store.

The store owner could sell them at an msrp of $4.95 each and make a full mark. That made the wholesale like $2.50 each in lots of 12. I am guessing $2.50 was a lot of money in the rock bottom years of the Great Depression so they did'nt sell many. $4.95 retail was really crazy in 1933. Thats why they are rare I guess. It was cast aluminum or pot metal with a steel parachute. The parachute had punched stars and planets and stuff.