Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-07-25
TO KEEP OFF THE RAIN.
THINK OF PAYING $500 FOR AN
UMBRELLA.

Om OhELLA.
Yet Some People Who Have Plenty
of Money Are Just Foolish Enough
to Pay That Amount and Even
More.
You can buy an umbrella for fifty
cents or you may pay $50 or a great
| deal more for one If you wish to. In
one retail stock in New York the um-
brellas range in price from So up to
hundreds of dollars apiece. Here for
So may be bought a silk umbrella with
a natural wood handle. Umbrellas Of
this sort for men and women range in
price up to $3.50. Above that price
the value of the umbrella depends up
on the mountings, which are made Of
many materials and in very great va
riety. Some of them are comparative
ly inexpensive and some very costly.
OF the more costly umbrellas, some
are made for mems use, the greater
number of them for women's use.
There are, of course, handles in many
forms of gold and silver, and these at
all sorts of prices-$15, $40, $25, and
$50, and on up. For instance, one
mounting with gold top might cost $24;
mountings of gold or silver enamel
might cost SO. One gold mounting
with platinum ornamentation cost $40.
In fact, umbrellas with mountings of
gold or silver may be bought in one
form and another at practically any
price. A mans umbrella with a han
die of stained ivory, carved, is valued
at 500. Another umbrella with Ma
lacea handle and mounting of silver
and stained ivory costs $34.
A woman's umbrella, the handle of
which Is mounted with gold and enamel
and set with large garnet, costs $3.50
The price of one mounted with head
of gold set with large amethyst is
$340. The amethyst in this handle is
set in rim of gold which is hinged on
one side and held down by spring on
the other. The end of the gold handle
is followed out, forming box of which
the amethyst serves as the lid, in
which might be carried bon-bons, or
whatever else might be desired
Umbrella mountings are now made
in very considerable variety of gun
metal, and many of these heads are
set with diamonds. A gun-metal UNI
brella handle may be in the form of a
little ball. or globe, with belt formed
of single line of small diamonds run
ming around it, this belt encircling the
globe in some cases in horizontal line,
and in others diagonally. Some of these
gun-metal heads are sprinkled over
with diamonds, more or less closely set,
these diamonds being sometimes Of
uniform size and sometimes of different
sizes. Sometimes the diamonds are
set In the metal in some sort of design;
as little horseshoe made of tiny dia-
monds, this being the handles only
ornament. Gun-metal mountings are
made in various other shapes, as we'll
as in the spherical form. 1t might
seem that diamond-studded umbrella
handle would be very elaborate ap-
pearing affair, but as matter of fact,
many of them are at once simple and
beautiful. Umbrellas with gun-metal
mountings, most of them, if not all,
with some sort Of diamond ornamental
ton, sell from S14.50 to $240 each
There are umbrellas with handles Of
rock crystal, cut in yarions forms;
there are mountings of jade; there are
mountings in whole or in part of va
rious fine minerals; there are mount
ings of rhinoceros horn; and the COM
Here, for example, is an umbrella
binations of materials used are many.
mounting that presents handle of
shark skin and gold, with n sapphire
In the end of 1t, this umbrella costing
S275; here is an umbrella with han
die of Jade, with diamond and anne
thyst ornamentation, price $165; and
here with a Malacca stick, mounted
with stained ivory and jade, with q
band of Russian enamel for S02.
Whatever their means may be, not
very many people pay more than $40
for an umbrella for ordinary use: by
far the greater number of those sold
at higher prices are bought to give to
some one as a present. The sale of
these costly umbrellas is, of course,
comparatively limited, but they are in
demand, and they may be found In
stock in mountings of hundreds of va
rites, with new things all the time be-
ing added.
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