The “Bates Bazaar” is a curated, occasional offering of curious and quirky Bates-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 Bates Bobcat, looking more like a werewolf, is part of this Maine-themed silver bracelet 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 chemistry notebook from her junior year at Bates.
She taught school before marrying Arthur Hale and raising a family.
Wedgwood cup and saucer
Nothing says Wedgwood like Wedgwood. This Bates cup and saucer date to 1949. A decade before, Bates’ first Wedgwood offering, a plate, was commissioned by the Boston Bates Alumnae Club to celebrate 75 years of Bates being a college.
Bates Bedspread
While it’s not from Bates College, this item helped propel the Bates name into national view in the mid-1900s: the wildly popular Bates Bedspread, often dubbed “George Washington’s Choice,“ manufactured in Lewiston by the Bates Manufacturing Co.
Vintage pen holder
This rhinestone-rimmed metal pen holder (dimensions not known) with the word “Bates” in bas relief was, the seller says, “a gift to a professor.”
Two circa-1900 Bates football players
Classmates and football teammates Arthur Chick and Harold Putnam of the Class of 1901 pose for a portrait in this pricey photographic print circa 1900.
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 winter 2007 Village Club Series.
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.
Bates Student issues from 1945
During World War II, The Bates Student editorial leadership (editor, managing editor, associate editors, business manager, and circulation manager) were all women, so this collection of 11 issues of the Student 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. Bates Victory in Wilmington, Calif., on May 2, christened by noted alumna Dora Shaw Heffner, Class of 1906.
