They look to be dolls from the Li'l Abner comic strip which ran in newspapers from 1934 to 1977. They represent Mammy Yokum and Pappy Yokum....
My mom called hers a 'chicken fryer'.
I wouldn't want to give birth on a stool with all that marital imagery! Give me roses, butterflies, a bird on her nest...
A spinner could use that to hold carded wool fleece.
There is a black glass that is translucent when held up to a light, showing a dark color, purple maybe. Glass should 'clink' when you tap it on...
If the information had already been blacked out when you got the magazines you wouldn't have this concern. So I would go ahead and neatly cover...
They do echo the grid pattern on the stand.
Cod liver oil? I've loved it since childhood. I was very disappointed a few years ago when my primary health care provider said I should stop...
Looks like a garlic bulb with stem. I don't know who made it.
The last time I sat on one of those the fabric ripped and dumped me!
I would wear that. Lately I have been looking at mechanical wind up watches because I am done with having a quartz watch die just when most...
Holes for hanging pens on a wall?
On the back of the upper piece there is a strip of metal, perpendicular to and behind the pin. Is it a broken loop for a chain? The woman...
Guatemala? Quetzal?
I remember my mother using ration books in California. The stamps were time sensitive, the ones for meat had red designs. There were stamps for...
Lea Stein makes delightful brooches, to be seen on Google Images. I wish I had one!
You were a stealth baby, shhh.
Yes!
Woman's wrist cuffs from the 1940's, worn with a lace collar to dress up that drab suit.
This brings a memory, I was still a crib baby in the middle 1930's and these things were tied on my hands! Aluminum with floral perforations....
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