I'm sorry, King of Things. I didn't mean to "copy/echo" what you had already said. Now I know to whom you were referring with the "heard this...
Look over the dress (inside out) for any reference to a perhaps-famous previous owner (an actress or high-society lady). The reason I say that is...
Your aunt painted with a broad brush, didn't she? :D ;)
Just speculation on my part but . . . I think it looks like a confederate soldier (he isn't dressed in "Union" blue). The only "blue" depicted is...
Just curious, BillyD, . . . did you buy it? Why? I would "almost" guess that the workers in the factory which produced it didn't know that...
Happy, I would add only two words to Hollyblue's comment above: Soft natural bristle toothbrush. ;)
SBSVC, thank you, thank you, thank you. I've put that on my "wish list" (meaning I told DH I would like that book and he probably would too). ;) :D
SBSVC, do you happen to remember the title and/or author of the book you read about the fall of Lloyd's? P.S. Oh my goodness, what I would have...
Not an old (antique) book that I found today, but I can hardly wait to start reading it. I hope it is even half as interesting as I think it will...
Think of it, Bev. To qualify for living in "two different centuries" a person born in 1999 and still alive today can say the same thing. I'm...
916bulldogs, what exactly do you consider "bad condition" for an 1881 printing of a hardcover book? Do you live in the USA? There are...
I'm asking only about the first piece of pottery . . . by any chance is it a "whistle"?
Now, now Bakersgma, at least he's not a baboon/mandrill that looks like he is in need of a big bucket of anesthetic salve all over his behindy. I...
Oh my goodness, I think you left the phrase "great find" in the dust when you found that book with so many of its ownership...
I found an "interesting" book at an estate sale today. It's written (and self-published) by a local long-time (old) pastor/minister/preacher....
Just curious but . . . at 30 inches long is there any chance that it might be a belt?;)
Please wait for more knowledgeable people to respond, but it does remind me of an interpretation of "raven releasing (the) sun" and if so it would...
Bakersgma, you are a wonder!!! ;)
I know, I know, pie-in-the-sky thinking but . . . wouldn't it be nice if each time an upholstered piece of furniture is re-upholstered the owner...
Be still my heart. What a wonderful find of a lovely old book.
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