The Community Collection
Costume & Prop Rental Service

Now available for rental to area schools, colleges, and community theaters. Collection includes costumes from recent decades, classical Greek, Medieval, Renaissance, 18th & 19th century eras. Hats & shoes also available.

Old Wicked Songs, Jon Marans, 2000

Set dressing items include
- hand, stage props, & furniture.

Hand Props
- Baskets: various incl. antique sewing basket
- Bedding: Bedspreads, pillows
- Books: including leather bound, some large series
- Bottles: incl. wine, some leather, 2 flasks, 6 decanters, milk & baby bottles, & breakaways
- Candlesticks & paper lanterns
- Carpets: Mostly Oriental pattern, various sizes
- Clock: Mantel "anniversary" style
- Coal scuttle
- Draperies & wall hangings: Contemporary & period
- Flowers & foliage
- Dishes: incl. tea and coffee cup sets: silver plated tea service and trays; various coffee/teapots; iron kettle
- Flags: Incl. Union Jack & French fleur de lys banner
- Glassware: Glass & acrylic champagne flutes, martini, tumblers, wine & water glasses; snifters, cordials etc.
- Ice bucket: & tongs, silver finish
- Lighting practicals: Pr classic wall sconces; pr sml table lamps/shades;ironwork candle sconces; 4 hanging lanterns elec railroad lantern, elec street light globe
- Linus' miniature piano (from Charlie Brown)
- Lunch pail & thermos — both vintage
- Luggage: incl vintage suitcases, carpet bag, doctor's bag, train case, replica luggage tags
- Magazines/comic books/newspapers: replicas
- Mirrors: various wall mirrors, cheval mirror:oval, brass trim
- Picture frames: Antique & modern large & small
- Records: Authentic 45 & 78 rpms
- Stationary/writing implements: incl. desk accsr's telegrams, stamp replicas,scrolls, proclamations
- Tablecloths: incl fringed wine velvet and 2 white linen circular
- Telephones: 1940's- '50's style
- Telescope: on stand
- Tobacco & accessories: Cigars & cigarette packs, pipe, humidor; replicas 18th cent. clay pipes
- Toiletries: Hand mirror & brushes, vanity bottles
- Toys: Vintage doll, stuffed animal, child's puzzle
- Trees: 2: 6' ficus
- Trophy: Loving cup
- Umbrellas: black
- Vases: various
- Venetian blinds: One pair, dark wood
- Weapons: Gun & sword replicas; handcuffs
- Wheel: 30" diam, faux stone finish

Waltz of the Toreadors, Jean Anouilh, 1992

Stage Pieces
- Cyc pieces: Black velevt/duveteen & scrim; blue cyc, silk "balloon" curtain
- Doorway trim: Dark wood, Victorian decorative units
- Doors: Modern standard, pr French doors, pr tall classic
- Erosion cloth lengths
- Fireplace logs: electrified
- Gothic window: dark wood
- Grillwork: decorative, gold
- Moulding trim: various cornice and chair rail
- Scrim lengths: 4 grey blue
- Shelf unit: free standing bookcase reverses to pigeon holes
- Window panels: 4 Art Deco panels

Furniture
Assorted Tables
- Globe stand: Tall, 12" square
- Kitchen table: vintage, white
- "Peasant" table: Authentic plain wood
- Pedestal tables: 2 matching, dark wood
- Sheridan side table: mahogany veneer
- Side table: hardwood, vintage twisted leg detail, tall
- Side table: glass & metal, Deco style
- Metal small tables: 2 matching, adjustable heights
- Vanity: kidney shaped w. brocade skirt
Chairs, benches, stools
- 16 bentwood chairs: brown, black, blue, white, blonde
- 5 small stools: brown solid wood milking stools
- 2 tall stools
- 2 small stools: collapsable for beach, natural wood
- Large ottoman: upholstered
- 5 single seat benches: upholstered, various
- 2 matching benches: 4 foot long
- 3 wood or metal stools
- 5 kitchen chairs: vintage 2 pairs, one single
- 6 straight back chairs: all antique, 2 each style
- 2 "U" back chairs: Pair, all wood
- 5 assorted chairs: wood or wicker
- 3 upholstered side chairs: identical
- 1 "boudoir" chair: white wicker
- 1 wheelchair: antique
- Tall back, wood wing chair
- Two seat hearth bench w. back: matches wing chair

For further information
Call: 410-516-7159
Email: thehop@jhu.edu

Galileo, Bertolt Brecht, 1990

 

Laura, Vera Caspary and George Sklar, 2002

 

Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw, 2002

 

Fallen Angels, Noel Coward, Spring 2004

 

The Royal Family, George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber, 2005