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I recieve a newsletter from Kovel's Antiques, and this article was in it. I had never heard of the man, and it seems as if I would have?? He sure did an awful lot.

SAD NEWS


Viktor Schreckengost, artist and industrial designer, died this week at age 101. He is best known for the turquoise blue and black Cowan Pottery Jazz bowl made for Eleanor Roosevelt. One recently sold for $254,000. She ordered the punch bowls for parties before FDR was elected president. But Viktor, a longtime friend of ours, influenced your life in ways you probably do not know. He made models and explained how radar worked to pilots training during World War II. He improved the Sears fan by removing one of the four blades, making it less expensive and more efficient. He redesigned trucks hauling freight by putting the cab over the engine instead of behind it. That left 5 feet more for freight and made shipping less expensive. He designed pedal cars, bicycles, golf carts, streetlights, metal chairs, and lawnmowers, and inspired many major car designers who were his students. His dinnerware patterns are still popular with collectors. He did sculptures — from small figurines and vases to huge murals at the pachyderm building of the Cleveland zoo. We own some of his amazing watercolor drawings done with a steady hand when he was over 90. Look for rising prices for his well-known works for Cowan Pottery and for the Christmas Eve (Salem China Co), Flower Shop (American Limoges) and Primitive (Salem China Co.) pattern dinnerwares.

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