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Page 2 The Antique Shoppe January, 2018
on today’s secondary
market. A Fantasia
elephant, produced by
Vernon Kilns in
1940, is valued
at $300. And,
while it isn’t a figurine,
a Walt Disney’s
Fantasia planter,
produced by Vernon
Kilns in 1940, sells for $500 Walt Disney “Ostrich”
today, making Vernon Kilns pieces figurine produced by
good investments. Vernon Kilns in 1940.
This figurine from
the movie
“Fantasia”
is valued at $550.
90 piece set of Vernon Kilns “Organdie” dinnerware from the 1950s or
early 1960s. This set is valued at $1,100. In 1958, due to mounting labor costs and
Vernon Kilns Artist Janice Pettee’s Vernon Kiln foreign competition, Vernon Kilns closed

Continued from Page 2 figurines are also highly sought after. its doors for good. Metlox Manufacturing
Company of Manhattan Beach, California,
Pettee sculpted a series of celebrity purchased Vernon Kilns remaining patterns
One notable Vernon Kilns dinnerware figurines that included the likenesses and molds and continued producing
artist was Rockwell Kent, designer of Paulette Goddard, Anne Shirley, Vernon Kilns pottery items for a number
of three Vernon Kilns dinnerware Bette Davis, Gary Cooper, Dorothy of years.
sets—“Salamina,” “Moby Dick,” and Lamour, and many others.
“Our America.” In 1940 Vernon Kilns signed a
Don’t expect any of Vernon’s contract with Walt Disney to produce
dinnerware to be cheaply priced. Disney figurines based on the Disney “Dumbo” The Flying
A seven piece Vernon Kilns “Lei films Fantasia, Dumbo, and The Elephant, lying on his ear,
Lani” pitcher set, a pitcher and six Reluctant Dragon. A Walt Disney was made by Vernon Kilns in
matching tumblers, sells for $1,485. “Baby Weems” figurine, produced 1940 for Disney Studios.
This set is signed “Aloha Don by Vernon Kilns in 1941, from It is valued at $125.
Blanding.” The Reluctant Dragon costs $425

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