About Ginfor's Odditiques

GINFOR'S ODDITIQUES

Ginfor's Odditiques consists of Ginny and Forrest Poston. I'm the one being used as a cat cushion. I wanted top billing, but Forgin didn't seem to have quite the right ring to it somehow. The odditiques part comes from our taste for items that are on the funky side in form or color. Now, I like clean, classic lines when they're well done, but sometimes I've just got to have some eye-popping color, or form that goes in unexpected, somehow pleasing, directions. When we started attending auctions in 1991, I bid on anything bright and cheap. Garish. Since those were the days when we were buying box lots for a couple of dollars, it wasn't too much of a problem.

Fortunately for us all, Ginny got one of her undergraduate degrees (I married a triple major.) in art before going on to Art History in graduate school. She also has eyes that often see colors differently---one eye picking up warmer shades than the other. She's particularly sensitive to line and color, and after hearing her say, "You bought what" or "You paid how much" often enough, I finally learned to see, not just look. I finally realized that something can be colorful, even gaudy, without being garish. I'm getting better at the difference between a piece that catches your eye and one that brings your eye back for long looks. The best are the pieces that make you smile when you enter the room, even though that piece has been on that same shelf for years.

I can't tell you what you'll find on our site at any given time. Sure, there will be American art pottery and American art glass, the things so popular in our country, but there will also be European art pottery, European art glass, dinnerware, metalware from all over, paintings, etchings, most anything that one or both of us looks at and goes, "Oh, yeah" or "Mine, mine, all mine" (Daffy Duck/Bugs Bunny). We buy from numerous sources. In addition to local auctions, I still roam to auctions and shops from Illinois to Ohio, and I pick up some neat oddities with some quirky searches on the internet. With luck, we'll have new items every few days, just so you'll have to keep dropping in.

You'll find at least one cat pictured on every page. You'll also find them featured on the "staff" page and the "Cor-purr-ate Story". The four included in our main picture are Sergeant Major (in the lap), Lady Selena (front center), Lancelot (with his tail draped over the Lady), and Triscuit keeping himself above the fray. We lost the "Mister Cat"(Sergeant Major) and Lady within two months of each other. After that, we added Glyph, also known as Glyph-the-Destroyer, who at about 6 months old managed to crack the toilet and the sink in one leap.

On the non-business related side, Ginny teaches Art History and Humanities at a local college. Given the chance, I teach college level English (20th century literature and composition). We're both still writing dissertations that should have been finished long, long ago and hoping for an eventual return to the Appalachian hills. Given my special talent for bringing out latent insecurities in college administrators, that may take us a while yet. I do most of the buying, so some of the items you see here will prove my sometimes odd tastes. Proving that Ginny's goes for odd things as well? Well, she did marry me, after all.

Experience: We started as collectors back in 1991 and became dealers when the house and garage were filled from boxlots about a year later. We started selling online back when eBay was small enough that you could browse the entire pottery section in a couple of hours. You can check our eBay feedback under the user name ginfor.

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