Steinbach. ~Cheryl
Hehe - her family and friends will have to take part of the blame, we all contributed (sort of the same way everyone gives me dragonflies)....
Try a piece of card-stock cut to 3" x 1½" - that was a pretty common size for gentlemen's visiting cards in that era, ladies' cards were usually a...
You might find a bowl that would fit, but that's an 1880s-90s cake basket - it never had a liner (the reason it's engraved on the interior)......
Couple of close-ups: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] ~Cheryl
There's more than those - she's been collecting for decades, though she pretty much stopped a few years ago, limited herself to clear and swans,...
Ran across some pics of my Mom's open salt collection while looking for something else, thought I'd share some of them: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
I've had a sturdy melon form sugar & creamer with that mark for years, tentatively attributed to mid 20th century New York manufacturer Hamilton...
Though the underlying form is 'covered', the 'R' actually stands for 'Riempito', meaning filled. On items like cane handles, figurines, etc, the...
Eh - would probably sell over scrap, probably to someone who will try to resell it as 18th century Spanish Colonial... Don't know how your...
Middle Eastern silver isn't really my bailiwick, but would guess late Qajar era Persian/Iranian (late 19th-early 20th century), which fits in with...
It's almost certainly South American, most likely Peruvian, but could be from Bolivia or another country - probably early to mid 20th century....
Count me in, please... ~Cheryl
I framed those up for her maybe 10-12 years ago, that one is a cheapie I picked up at the local hardware store, though she does have some hooks...
Started collecting buttons about 40 years ago, when my Great, Great Aunt Karen, born in 1887, gave me her huge old button jar - still have way too...
Pretty sure we had candy jar, same color, same finial, would have been purchased new in the mid to late '60s - Mom had a bunch of amber, green and...
Given that the this one and the one on the link appear to have the same shape, fabric and binding, as well as the painted branch, wing and tail...
No better proof of the ID than that (what a great label). ~Cheryl
I took it as a whimsical pun on 'old buttons' (not that there aren't owl-themed buttons) - but then I don't see any two-headed owls either... ~Cheryl
Might look into the 'Hotel Virginia' at Long Beach, CA - grand hotel in business at that time... ~Cheryl
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