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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Antique (?) Coasters, World's Fair Decanter, Reference Guide for Nurses

« on: May 23, 2010, 11:57:21 am »

The two best in shape ones are:

(exactly this) http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/modern-music-primer-1901-electricity-ad

The . Modern Music . Series

            Primer

by Eleanor Smith
Silver Burdett & Company

Copyright 1898, 1899, 1900 by Scott Foresman & Company

Copyright 1901 by Silver, Burdett & Company

 - and -
http://books.google.com/books?id=tF0AAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA43&ots=EyvwzSTdJ5&dq=michigan%20edition%20history%20stories%20for%20primary%20grades&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false

Michigan Edition
History Stories
For
Primary Grades

Macmillian Company Publishers New York

by John W Wayland

14th printing, 1927

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Antique (?) Coasters, World's Fair Decanter, Reference Guide for Nurses

« on: May 23, 2010, 09:28:12 am »

I'm surprised at the Decanter. The posts do unscrew from the base of the coasters, but in the condition I didn't think they would be worth anything anyway. I found this regarding the book, http://www.antiqbook.com/boox/uhr/050551.shtml a year later but with the other links, it might be worth $10 or $20. Thanks for the identification help, now to decide what to do with this stuff...shouldn't have pointed out a World Atlas she had was from 1891 

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Antique Questions Forum / Antique (?) Coasters, World's Fair Decanter, Reference Guide for Nurses

« on: May 22, 2010, 12:52:11 pm »

New member! I've recently been getting into this stuff, and after finding a mint 1959 'Calculating Machine' worth $50 for $.25, I'm hooked. But I don't really know what anything is...

Today for a couple of bucks I picked up a set of these coasters:
http://imgur.com/rTS4t.jpg
http://imgur.com/4iwRe.jpg
http://imgur.com/t7t3v.jpg

This Decanter:
http://imgur.com/qo3DX.jpg

And this "Reference Guide for Nurses by Amanda K Beck" 1909, amazing shape:
http://imgur.com/Q9PZb.jpg
http://imgur.com/jJrZC.jpg
http://imgur.com/6bSlW.jpg

The coasters might not be antique at all, but does anybody have tips for cleaning them? I would like to use them if they aren't worth much. If anybody knows what they or the other two are worth, it would be much appreciated. She also had many paintings, for $10-20, but I have even less idea of what they would be worth. A couple more decanters were there, both they were plain glass. I picked up a bin full of early 1900s books for $10, going through it...