Most "antique malls" around here are overloaded with stuff that looks like it came from a hoarder's house cleanout. A lot of junk that sits on the...
I don't think it's a cutter of any sort, or a batter mold. Instead, I think its a pattern for dusting powdered sugar or such on top of cakes...
I've seen similar chairs, both rockers and armchairs, but it seems to me that the newer ones don't quite have the same lines as these. I THINK...
These are family pieces, but I don't have any idea of the age. I recently had the seat of the rocker repaired, and the upholsterer said he found...
If there's a mark, I can't find it!
Actually, she was my great-grandmother. Augusta Sharpe Jordan, March, 1876 - Jan. 1959. [ATTACH] Her wedding photo, approximately 1895....
This was her home in Birmingham. As I mentioned, she died before I was born, and the house was sold. I've seen the outside, but never the...
I wish I could've seen it, too. She passed away before I was born. I've got photos of her, though, and she was a looker, too!
I was very careful about how I used the Brasso, and these photos are after I finished. No plans to do anything further.
The images are post-Brasso. I was very sparing in my use of it, but the outside was looking like the inside. A quick application and rub with a...
This heavy solid brass or bronze pot belonged to my great-grandmother, or so I was told. My mother kept it on her hearth full of fat pine...
A new edition is in the works and is expected in October.
In November of 1861, a US warship stopped and boarded the British steamer RMS Trent and arrested two Confederate diplomats. The British government...
I wish I could find an image with Gustave Deflin's signature to compare. I've looked since you posted this, but without luck.
For years, I assumed they were peaches, and wondered it Omaha had peach orchards.
I don't have any Black Americana spoons, but I have several that depict homes or event or locations associated with the Civil War, including some...
You've given me a wealth of information on these. Stand by, I may have to share the rest of my spoons!
This insignia is still in use today. The 29th Division was called the "Blue and Gray" as it was formed in WW1 from state regiments from the north...
My grandfather found these in a burned-out house in France during the Great War. The artist's name is Deflin, but I've never been able to find any...
And these: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] A Yukon souvenir with a gold nugget on the handle, and a Doughboy of...
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