Now that is interesting! No, I didn't know that. Those presidents assassinated were Garfield & McKinley - how sad for Robert Lincoln. The story is...
Probably not, but any booze from that era certainly conjure up images of mob stuff and stuff. Also I doubt any Joe Kennedy connection. I always...
I bet the dried eggs were sent to the UK from the USA during WWII. Here is an identical tin but with a yellow label on Pinterest. It was found on...
Here's another....
Just stumbled on an interesting connection of Browne Vintners - Zwillman, the mobster - Joe P. Kennedy! Maybe Kennedy did import this bottle! It...
Another thing, the Vintners address was Rockerfeller Center. I believe Rockerfeller Center wasn't started until 1930 and not completed or opened...
Who knows it might have been bootlegged in by old man Joseph "Joe" P. Kennedy, Sr. Bootlegging was the source of seed money to the Kennedy...
I have taken the liberty of cropping your pics so that they can be uploaded to this site. They were huge, 2,361px wide X 3,148px high, before a...
Gee, I didn't realize there was a multitude of very similar exterior design locks on eBay! There are at least 9 on the following eBay page:...
I certainly am no authority on antique locks so can't add anything to whether authentic or repro. I did find another page with another of this...
At the moment can't help on the maker; however, will note that the markings are not consistant on city. The marks in the 4th pic are for Mexico...
The following website is an article on historical locks. It yas a little on screw key padlocks under era "The Enlightenment, 1700 -." "Padlocks...
Here's a website with several screw key locks very similar or identical to this one. There are 2 pages of them. The one in the 2nd row, 3rd from...
Here's Wallace's "Mode" pattern on replacements.com...
Really doubt the Spanish-American War had anything to do in the Brownsville, TX area. The SA war in was concentrated in Cuba with naval action in...
>...details are Louis XVI but it is more of a Victorian Frankenchair...< Gee, this chair was a mystery to me! I can see the medallion-shape style...
Good find, Kronos! Welllll 3 of you have beat me to Trivial Pursuit of the 1800s. Here is a listing of E.B. Treat's publications with the cards...
Just a thought, could the 1 M C 3 or however it should be written, be a ticket to something. Meaning something like 1st Mezzanine, row C, seat...
I haven't a clue either on the purpose of this paper, card, mini poster...; however, the only Ira Maghan I could find around this timeframe, 1876,...
Not to prolong the issue, that certainly looks like a mop cap of the 1800s to me also rather than a hood. Nowww if that hat is attached to the...
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