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<p>[QUOTE="busryde, post: 874406, member: 10891"]I bought this today. It's pretty well chipped on the bottom, and heavily scratched on top. Personalized glass items like these were sold at fairs as souvenirs. Started researching it and learned a few things. The Dallas Fair was the precursor to the Texas State Fair. Searching JH Dowdy found a soldier serving in the Civil War in Ga. Dallas court records found a JH Dowdy sued a transportation company in 1916 and lost. Mrs JH Dowdy entered "Dowdy's Girlie" in the AKC dog show in 1915. Can't confirm the Dallas Dowdy is the same as the soldier. One thing I found that discounts this is I found an image of the soldier's signature that's very different from the paperweight. However, could the engraver have take the person's signature and etched it or done it in his own handwriting? Could signatures have changed over 35 years? Civil War soldiers were pretty young, so he would have likely been in his 50s when went to the fair and in his 70s when he filed the lawsuit...so many questions...but this why I love antiques, to learn the history of these pieces. Overall, I think they were different Dowdy's...but what fun! Well worth the $10 I paid for it.[ATTACH=full]198660[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]198661[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="busryde, post: 874406, member: 10891"]I bought this today. It's pretty well chipped on the bottom, and heavily scratched on top. Personalized glass items like these were sold at fairs as souvenirs. Started researching it and learned a few things. The Dallas Fair was the precursor to the Texas State Fair. Searching JH Dowdy found a soldier serving in the Civil War in Ga. Dallas court records found a JH Dowdy sued a transportation company in 1916 and lost. Mrs JH Dowdy entered "Dowdy's Girlie" in the AKC dog show in 1915. Can't confirm the Dallas Dowdy is the same as the soldier. One thing I found that discounts this is I found an image of the soldier's signature that's very different from the paperweight. However, could the engraver have take the person's signature and etched it or done it in his own handwriting? Could signatures have changed over 35 years? Civil War soldiers were pretty young, so he would have likely been in his 50s when went to the fair and in his 70s when he filed the lawsuit...so many questions...but this why I love antiques, to learn the history of these pieces. Overall, I think they were different Dowdy's...but what fun! Well worth the $10 I paid for it.[ATTACH=full]198660[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]198661[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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