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Bits and pieces: Jewelry designer Stephen Stanish, left, shows charms and miscellaneous items ready for recycling
Bits and pieces: Jewelry designer Stephen Stanish, left, shows charms and miscellaneous items ready for recycling

Bits and pieces: Jewelry designer Stephen Stanish, left, shows charms and miscellaneous items ready for recycling

Date2/9/1992
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0134292F
Right, hairdresser Elmer Olsen is a bits and pieces dresser. He's paired puttee - style pants and polished brown cattle boots from his father's farm.
Right, hairdresser Elmer Olsen is a bits and pieces dresser. He's paired puttee - style pants and polished brown cattle boots from his father's farm.
3/8/1982
It cost him $900 to put together his 400-pound musical toy from brass plumbing pipe and other bits and pieces, says jeweller Stan Griffith of North York but a Louisiana circus has offered him $10,000 for his homemade calliope
It cost him $900 to put together his 400-pound musical toy from brass plumbing pipe and other bits and pieces, says jeweller Stan Griffith of North York but a Louisiana circus has offered him $10,000 for his homemade calliope
9/10/1978
Steven Stanish: Jewelry designer is intrigued by shapes from the past.
Steven Stanish: Jewelry designer is intrigued by shapes from the past.
8/11/1988
It looks like junk but all the battered old pieces of furniture in Derek Maw's barn will, some day, be transformed into items that Canadians will want to buy to remind them of their heritage
It looks like junk but all the battered old pieces of furniture in Derek Maw's barn will, some day, be transformed into items that Canadians will want to buy to remind them of their heritage
3/9/1972
hristmas Ribbon. on this $23,000 Aston Martin symbolizes dealer hn Cox's hope that somebody will buy it as a gift for a loved one. obody's taken up his offer of Christmas morning delivery yet, but other expensive items are being snapped up around Toronto. Jewelry, fur coats an gold toothpicks are big with those who don't insist on sensible gifts. Some teenagers don't mind paying $100 for a gold chain. [Incomplete]
hristmas Ribbon. on this $23,000 Aston Martin symbolizes dealer hn Cox's hope that somebody will buy it as a gift for a loved one. obody's taken up his offer of Christmas morning delivery yet, but other expensive items are being snapped up around Toronto. Jewelry, fur coats an gold toothpicks are big with those who don't insist on sensible gifts. Some teenagers don't mind paying $100 for a gold chain. [Incomplete]
12/13/1972
George Minarsky: Circle Gallery director says buyers of the gallery's art jewelry pieces may already posses paintings or sculptures by the artists that they buy
George Minarsky: Circle Gallery director says buyers of the gallery's art jewelry pieces may already posses paintings or sculptures by the artists that they buy
1/9/1989
Modelling one of the wearable sculptures she makes out of old bits and pieces that most people throw out as garbage is Vancouver artist Evelyn Roth, w(...)
Modelling one of the wearable sculptures she makes out of old bits and pieces that most people throw out as garbage is Vancouver artist Evelyn Roth, w(...)
5/13/1975
Careful melange: Studio/showplace of design team Frank Thibodeau (far left) and Stephen Bailey features a combination of contemporary, antique and art deco pieces, above, with black sofa sections designed by Bailey used as accents
Careful melange: Studio/showplace of design team Frank Thibodeau (far left) and Stephen Bailey features a combination of contemporary, antique and art deco pieces, above, with black sofa sections designed by Bailey used as accents
5/28/1981
Tax free: Kelly and Steve Mason show off some of the anti-tax items they're selling in their recently opened shop on Queen St. East.
Tax free: Kelly and Steve Mason show off some of the anti-tax items they're selling in their recently opened shop on Queen St. East.
7/4/1991
Roger's return. Kenyan troubador Roger Whittaker charms his fans last night during the second of two sold out shows at Roy Thomson Hall
Roger's return. Kenyan troubador Roger Whittaker charms his fans last night during the second of two sold out shows at Roy Thomson Hall
5/2/1989
Debbie Kimel and husband retailer Warren Kimel, check out the silent auction items with Stan Dunford, president of Contraus Corp., and researcher assistant Cheryl Makowsky, from left.
Debbie Kimel and husband retailer Warren Kimel, check out the silent auction items with Stan Dunford, president of Contraus Corp., and researcher assistant Cheryl Makowsky, from left.
12/19/1988
Under two bits: You can get a tax-free peanut-butter-on-soda-cracker special for 20 cents at Fran's Restaurants - one way owner Fran Deck is protesting move to tax meals over 25 cents.
Under two bits: You can get a tax-free peanut-butter-on-soda-cracker special for 20 cents at Fran's Restaurants - one way owner Fran Deck is protesting move to tax meals over 25 cents.
6/9/1982