The “ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Bazaar” is a curated, occasional offering of curious and quirky ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½-related items that are just a click away on websites devoted to what’s vintage, historical, and wicked cool.
Maine charm bracelet, including the Bobcat
The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Bobcat, looking more like a werewolf, is featuring 12 charms. Colby and Bowdoin are also included, as are a lobster, moose, the state seal, and Sugarloaf Mountain.
1905 chemistry notebook
Mary Alice Lincoln, Class of 1905, was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate, and this is said to be her handwritten at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½.
She taught school before marrying Arthur Hale and raising a family.
Wedgwood cup and saucer
Nothing says Wedgwood like Wedgwood. This to 1949. A decade before, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½â€™ first Wedgwood offering, a plate, was commissioned by the Boston ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Alumnae Club to celebrate 75 years of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ being a college.
ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Bedspread
While it’s not from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College, this item helped propel the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ name into national view in the mid-1900s: the wildly popular “Ìýmanufactured in Lewiston by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Manufacturing Co.
Vintage pen holder
This (dimensions not known) with the word “ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½” in bas relief was, the seller says, “a gift to a professor.”
Two circa-1900 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ football players
Classmates and football teammates Arthur Chick and Harold Putnam of the Class of 1901 pose for a .
Click on the photo to see an early piece of equipment hanging from Chick’s waist: a nose guard known as the “Morrill Nose Mask,” worn in an era when open-handed blows to the face were legal in football.
Village Club Series mug
This mug touts the .
These acts performed in the Mays Center that winter: Tree by Leaf, Wes Hutchinson, Meg Allison, Tim Blane, Sean Doherty, Nick Howard, Warrior Poetes, Ryanhood, Jason Levasseur, Clarias, and Ryanhood, the last perhaps the most enduring act, with a show in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, this November.
ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Student issues from 1945
During World War II, The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Student editorial leadership (editor, managing editor, associate editors, business manager, and circulation manager) were all women, so from 1945 is distinctive in that regard.
Appropriately, one of the featured issues in this sale has a cover story about the launching of the S.S. ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Victory in Wilmington, Calif., on May 2, christened by noted alumna Dora Shaw Heffner, Class of 1906.
