Cats were valued employees at bakeries. Grains and flours and sugar attract mice, so a mobile mousetrap is required.
I've heard the name and seen a piece or two, but never seen one scored in the Wild like that. Nice!
I'd be thinking tobacco or chocolates, and maybe even earlier. These boxes are common; no one threw them out because they were pretty and useful....
I hoard some, scrap the damaged or no-design pieces, and sell some to pay for the rest. It's a crying shame when antiques sell for less than...
Love the biccies box, but surely they should have let the Mouse Patrol back into the building.
I thought I recognized Moses. Score! @cxgirl - Ittala glass birdie! The little silverplate box may have those black spots forever. The...
That's a new one. They swiped the thermostats. Idjuts will be idjuts I guess.
That's warmer than it was this morning here. I only saw one image with stuff for me, maybe, but here's hoping the crowds turned out.
It's rare to find a pyrographed box like that made in the USA after WWI. I'd guess it's about 120 years old and someone really went to town on it.
Oddly, I just watched a Youtuber (Commonwealth Flipper is one of his channels) buy a whole collection of flower frogs. His were all the steel...
The agate lump is a banana, btw. The lumps in the front look like glass, but may be ceramic. The flat one looks like a paperweight. The...
Score! I got my find of the day today for sure. Maurice Heaton fused glass bowl. Teardrop shape. $10. The charity thrift had zero clue. I...
Caught one OOPS today - 5 cents on the dollar art glass, and one on Saturday (Napier 1930s cocktail jigger, sold as as a random pewter coffee...
Bone, critter, with a ball. If that's a foo dog it's one with rabies.:p
Or a souvenir piece that could be brought back to friends/mama for not much money.
That little pyrographed box and the bitty wood inlaid snuff now... I like those. They're not worth a pile, but I like them.
We need more thick-skulled volunteers pricing stuff!
Opaque watercolor- gouache. Mixing the two was standard, back when. Still is.
Or just leave it as a C clasp; that happens all the time.
Yup!
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