Paul Cuskaden Auction, St. Paul, Indiana

Today we had great weather for a 45 minute drive to St. Paul, Indiana to visit an auction held by Paul Cuskaden. It was in the downtown district of the city, but there seemed to be little traffic and plenty of parking. The auction house was very old, but there was plenty of seating for crowd of around 40. The in-house catering served me up a chili dog, with macaroni in the chili! It tasted much better than it sounds, I recommend everyone try it, and the homemade apple pie. The auction was attended by mostly locals, and the proceedings were very informal and easy going. Aside from the variety of carnival glass, there were a good 30 pieces of vintage Roseville pottery for sale.

Roseville Pinecone Jard and pedestal

One of the nicer pieces was a very clean Roseville Pinecone pedestal and jard in brown. Very sharp mold, and no apparent damage or restoration. This one was was one of the smaller ones, with just an 8 inch jard, but the bidding ran up to $800 which is a decent deal if you just want to add it to your collection.

Assortment of Roseville for sale

The landscape pitcher had several chips near the lip, but someone still took it home for $80. The blue pinecone dish went for $115 to another buyer, we would have bid more if not for the poor mold. The 9 inch poppy vase was in nice shape, and a small bidding war erupted over it ending with a happy buyer at $185. The Rozane pillow vase was scratched up a bit, with atypical glaze pops for Roseville and potential lip repairs that we could not veryify 100%, but it still walked out the door for $90.

More vintage Roseville art pottery

We wanted the ming tree basket, but did not want to top the winning bid of $90 for a line with so few collectors.

Roseville pottery pinecone assrtment

We brought home these three pieces of pinecone in brown, the big canoe console has a lip chip, but the other two pieces are flawless. These had some of the crispest molds we have ever seen, and great glaze. We were quite glad to come away with them.




Rare Rosevill pottery piggy bank

We had to pay up a bit to get the winning bid on this little piggy bank, and he has a small chip on the back on one of his ears. However, these are incredibly rare in any condition as they had no holes in the bottom to get the coins back out. Nearly all of them were broken open for the coins in the last 100+ years and you just can't find the survivers. We have laid eyes on a few of these mottled beauties in the past, but we have never found one with blue glazing mixed in.

Aside from the Roseville art pottery, we brought home a bit of fenton glass as well, so for the time we put in it was a pretty good day.