Laundry Antiques: Sudsy Conveniences

An exceptional collection of laundry-related Americana brought exceptional prices at a Morphy auction this fall. Lillian and Joseph Shapiro, a Massachusetts distributor of commercial laundry equipment, put the collection together over 30 years. It included anything and everything connected to laundry or soap: washboards, washing aids, advertising signs, laundry bags, clothespin bags, drying racks, carved […]