Shakersammlung zu verkaufen

Liebe Leser,

ich habe neulich eine CD mit einer ppt-Präsentation zugeschickt bekommen, die verschiedene Shaker enthält.
Diese Shaker werden zur Zeit zum Kauf angeboten, da der Besitzer seine Sammlung auflösen möchte.
Unten habe ich ein paar Bilder aus der Präsentation eingefügt, diese bilden aber nur einen sehr kleinen Teil der Sammlung. Es werden insgesamt 106 Seiten gelistet.

Die in der Präsentation genannten Preise habe ich hier nicht veröffentlicht, sie bewegen sich aber absolut im Rahmen des Markts.
Die Shaker wurden meist mehrfach fotografiert um eventuelle Schäden oder Mängel offen zu legen. Die Texte zu den Shakern rundeten dies noch ab.
Es handelt sich allgemein um eine sehr gut erhaltene Sammlung!!!
Einige Shaker sind auch in Stephen Visakay´s "Vintage Barware" abgebildet und somt sehr gut dokumentiert.
Wer Interesse hat, kann sich gerne bei mir melden (email steht oben in der Kopfzeile), ich leite dann die Kontaktdaten an den Verkäufer weiter und er wird sich dann melden.
Sammler sind bevorzugt, da die guten Stücke auch in gute Hände geraten sollen.

Wenn ihr auf der Suche nach einem bestimmten Stück seid fragt gerne bei mir an, vielleicht ist es ja dabei.

Ich wünsche euch viel Spaß.

Visakay @ Robin Leach, "Talking Food"

Visakay @ "Martha Stewards Living"

Nettes und intelligentes Video.

Ich liebe dieses Video...

...und schenke es mir daher heute mal selber ;)
"I wasn´t following you, I was following the cocktail shaker"

"Olive or Twist" - Cocktailshaker

Dieses Video ist aus "Olive or Twist". Wie man am Namen bereits erkennen kann, handelt es sich um einen Film, der sich mit dem Martini befasst.
Unter anderem versucht einer der Hauptdarsteller das Leben eines Martinis nachzuvollziehen. Ein teilweise schlecht gelungener Versuch.
Wunderbar allerdings der Teil, der sich um die Cocktailshaker und das Glas dreht.
Hier der entsprechende Ausschnitt:


Der langhaarige Mann mit der Zeitung ist, für alle die ihn noch nicht kennen, Stephen Visakay, DER Experte für alte Cocktailshaker und alles rund um die Bar.
Mein Interview mit ihm, für alle die mehr wissen wollen.

Insgesamt denke ich, dass es sich hierbei um ein wunderbares Video handelt, das den Bereich Cocktail Shaker sehr gut abdeckt.
Mein Lieblingszitat aus diesem Film von S.V: "I wasn´t following you. I was following the cocktail shaker!"
Es zeigt aus seine Art, wie sehr man etwas mögen kann und wie schnell einen der Zufall/ die Neugier überfallen kann. Selbst wenn man eventuell bereits alles über das Thema weiß.

Interview with Stephen Visakay Part 2

Why did you write you book Vintage Bar Ware? And how did you choose which items to fit into the book?
The book was really done as a catalog for the museum exhibition Shaken, Not Stirred; Cocktail Shakers and Design. The show was comprised of 100 cocktail shakers, but have more in the book to represent the many styles and materials of cocktail shakers.
The book and the seven museum exhibitions helped to popularize cocktail shakers as unique works of art and living history. I mean how many antiques can you collect that are this much fun and can be used on a daily basis? The side effect of all this was that cocktail prices began to rise as they became well known to the general public.

Is there still a cocktail shaker or bar item you have heard about but never seen? Something like the Holy Grail of Shakers?
Any cocktail shaker I don’t have is the one I am looking for. Amazing how many new ones we still see on e-bay all the time. After all this time of collecting I understand I can not have them all. Arlene brought one home from a second hand shop, twenty years ago, it was missing the top, and designed by Kem Weber and stamped on the bottom with his name. We are still looking for a top.

What do you think about modern bar design; ie; the Flip Top shaker by Metrokane?
I love this company. They were pioneers in early new bar ware and were the first to bring out the “bullet” style cocktail shaker. And Love their new Flip Top cocktail shaker. These will all be collector items in the future.

Do you think reproducing vintage shakers is a good idea?
I am not overjoyed at this and think it reduces prices some what of real vintage shakers.
Many of these are sold as real on e-bay to beginner collectors and as e-bay will not let you contact buyers as the sale is on going, it’s a real problem.
The up side of reproductions is that they make items like the Lighthouse Shaker affordable to all collectors and when Restoration Hardware started to reproduce these starting with the Penguin cocktail shakers, followed by many other knock-offs of vintage shakers, they helped popularize and promote good design cocktail shakers to the general buying public.

What are your future projects and plans.
Another cocktail shaker book would have to have all new items so that is out of the question for now. I enjoy writing articles and have published a story about an obscure pottery company, White Cloud Farm, that produced the bottoms up cups and cocktail shaker. You can find this now on the web. And have others up on e-bay Reviews & Guides.
As for now I am working on a swizzle stick article which should be out in March, will keep you posted on that. And next a Norman Bel Geddes cocktail shaker article that Jimbo Walker will publish in his cocktail shaker booklet that he will hand out at our collectors symposium in July. His booklet from last year is now a hard to find valuable collectors item.

Can you tell us a few homepages where we can find further information about shakers and bar ware?
www.thejazzage.com by Gary & Joy Graham
www.cocktailshakers.com by Mark Biggler
www.shaken-stirred.blogspot.com by Jimbo Martini Walker

Thank you for the interview, Stephen.


Thorsten it has been a pleasure talking with you and I hope you and your readers are finding far more vintage bar ware than I have found lately.
all best, Stephen Visakay

Interview with Stephen Visakay Part 1

How did you get started collecting?
My mother had a cocktail shaker in the china closet when I was a small child. It was the only shiny chrome item in there and I always had my nose up against the glass as she was scolding ”Get Away From There!!”
Years later I saw one just like it at an outdoor flea market for fifty cents. I took it home, shined it up and the following week went back and found two more. The collection soon took on a live and drive of its own.

How many shakers do you have and how do you store them?
I have de-acquisitioned part of the collection and now have only a few hundred, most of them in storage, but have my very favorites in two tower showcases in our living room.

Which is the oldest and which did you buy last?
Have one in my book on page 19 stamped 1904 that I love. And the last one I bought was on e-bay; a Farber Bros. Krome Kraft, glass and chrome that we will give away this July at Tales of the Cocktail. Last year we gave away in a free lottery, to all attending our symposium, over one thousand dollars in bar ware prizes. Same thing this year.

Which is your favorite shaker and why? And do you have one with a personal story?
I have made many great finds in search for cocktail shakers, but like to tell the story of a treasure found at the Orangeburg N.Y. outdoor flea market. It was over twenty five years ago on a cold June morning. Focused on a cobalt blue cocktail shaker on the seller’s table, I never saw Nyack antique dealer Arlene Lederman also reaching for it. After a brief tug of war Arlene laughingly let me buy the shaker – and treat her to breakfast. It was the start of an ongoing excellent adventure that continues to this day. We live happily ever after in an Arts & Crafts cottage in Upper Grandview, New York. It’s the one with the white picket fence and red roses out front. And have a nightly ritual of shaking a martini before dinner, sometimes a few. As for the cobalt blue cocktail shaker, it sits in a place of honor. I never could sell it. After all, it helped me with the find and love of a life time: Arlene Lederman-Visakay.

CONVERSATION WITH A COCKTAIL SHAKER COLLECTOR

Hier die Einführung über Stephen Visakay:
Stephen Visakay was hailed as one of America’s Top 100 Collectors, by Art & Antiques Magazine in 1996, His definitive book Vintage Bar War, an identification and value guide, Collector Books, was published in 1997.

In a new book, The Business of Spirits by Noah Rothbaum, Kaplan Publishing, September 2007, Visakay is sited as a factor in the rise of today’s cocktail culture.
His museum exhibition, Shaken, Not Stirred; Cocktail Shakers and Design,
toured the Country from 1993 to1998 with seven venues, including The Milwaukee Art Museum, The Louisiana State Museum at Jackson Square, and The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. The show gathered a deluge of World wide media attention at every location.

His last exhibition was in The Museums at San Francisco International Airport, and was viewed by an estimated twelve thousand people every twenty four hours for eleven months. Visakay is quick to add, “whether they wanted to or not” they had to travel through the concourse to reach the terminals. Many travelers got off the people moving walkways to return to the start and view the long display on foot.

One of the viewers was Stephen Gordon, Restoration Hardware’s founder and CEO, according to an interview with Southwest Airlines Spirit Magazine in 2000. “An old martini shaker caught his eye. It was functional, yet stylish…had a sense of history, a story to tell, … Besides, it was cool” He called Restoration’s in-house design team to get down to the airport pronto. A few months later Restoration issued a copy of a 1936 Penguin Cocktail Shaker, followed by a Rooster, then a Zeppelin. A whole line of barware followed.

Visakay also displayed twenty cocktail shakers at the first cocktail dinner held in New York’s Rainbow Room, February 23, 1995, at the invitation of good friend Dale de Groff. Dale’s idea was innovative and unique. Instead of wine a cocktail was paired, by Dale, with each course of the special menu. The timing was perfect. As the new millennium approached there was a trend of nostalgia toward retro music, and retro culture.
Retro cocktails epitomized the elegance of a bygone era. More cocktail dinners and displays of Visakay’s cocktail shakers soon followed as did prominent media attention. The zeitgeist was now moving and shaking.

Morgen gibt es Teil 1 des eigentlichen Interviews...

Morgen Einführung zum Interview

mit Stephen Visakay. Da Es mir nun vorliegt (und ich es selber erstmal lesen muss), gibt es ab Morgen den ersten Teil.
Es handelt sich um eine Einführung in das Interview, die erklärt, wer Stephen ist und was er tut.