Merry Mushrooms
  • Home
  • Products
  • Blog
  • Buy Now
  • Contact
  • Home
  • Products
  • Blog
  • Buy Now
  • Contact

Mushroom Musings

Family Album: Canadian Connections

2/27/2021

0 Comments

 
When I first began researching for my ultimate wish list, which turned into A Collector's Guide to Merry Mushrooms, I stumbled upon the answer to what was the deal with those pieces that sure looked like Merry Mushrooms but not quite. They were part of the Canadian line of Merry Mushrooms. More on them is the blog entry Family Album: Meet the Canadian Cousins.

But because 50-year-old foreign catalogs are difficult to find and those that are for sale are often very pricey, my wish list and book was limited to the two Simpsons-Sears catalogs I was able to find online. Since then, I bandied about the idea of acquiring what Canadian catalogs I could.
Picture
So, earlier this year, I finally bit the bullet. First, I bought the Summer Values 1975 catalog for what I thought was an excellent price. While I waited for it to arrive from Toronto, it dawned on me the reason it was so affordable - it wasn't a Big Book (1,000+ pages), but rather the much smaller sales catalog of primarily clothing. Oh well, lesson learned.

My second purchase, while more successful, only increased my desire for more catalogs.

​
Distributed by Simpsons-Sears Limited in Regina, Saskatchewan, the Simpsons-Sears Fall Winter 1981 catalog is an even 1,000 pages of awesome early 1980s-ness of ordinary people.

Flipping anxiously through, my heart began to sink. Would there be no Merry Mushrooms?

Read More
0 Comments

Discoveries: Spice, Spice Cabinet

2/1/2021

0 Comments

 
Five different types of spice holders were offered throughout the Merry Mushrooms line. The most common ones are the white two-tier rack with twelve embossed spice shakers and the spinning rack with six embossed spice shakers.

The Spice Box with eight embossed ceramic drawers pops up once in a while. The Spice Cabinet, today's featured piece, has been spotted in collector's pictures of their collection, but this is the first one I found for sale. Finally, the Spice Chest with a stained-glass look glass door has remained elusive. If you have one, please let me know!

Offered in just two Sears catalogs between 1976 and 1977, the Spice Cabinet was sold with a set of twelve clear glass spice jars. Sadly, this cabinet didn't include the jars, but it was an exciting sight to see, nonetheless! Were you the lucky one to win?
Picture
0 Comments

    Author

    Write something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview.

    Archives

    March 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020

    Categories

    All
    A Closer Look
    Discoveries
    Family Album
    On The Big Screen
    Recent Acquisitions

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.