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10 things YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT lady HEAD VASES

Ceramic beauties with impeccable style, lady head vases are a charming and popular mid-century collectible. These figural vases in the form of a head or bust of a woman got their start in Europe in the 1800s. The earliest examples of the lady head vases Americans are most familiar with were introduced in the 1930s and thousands of different kinds were made until the 1970s, when the craze waned and decreasing demand caused most companies to stop producing the pieces.

These ladies exude glamour, with their perfectly coiffed hairdos, big lush eyelashes and ruby lips, elegant fashions and are

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