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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Little Chair

« on: September 16, 2010, 08:51:32 pm »

Thanks guys.  Have yet to check it out, but will.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Know Oil LampS?

« on: September 16, 2010, 08:50:09 pm »

Thanks for all of the info.  Haven't been on for a while. . .

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Little Cannon

« on: September 11, 2010, 11:01:32 pm »

Interesting. When were those made?

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Know Oil LampS?

« on: September 11, 2010, 07:33:14 pm »

Thanks for the help, Sapphire.  Am I missing where it might be that No 1 or No 2 would be found?  I can't easily take the metal part (burner?) off of the base and I don't want to damage it in any way. 

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Know Oil LampS?

« on: September 11, 2010, 05:47:35 pm »

I've noticed after just a little research that there are lots marked with No. 1 or No. 2 online.  Mine doesn't have a number.  Is it an earlier or later one?

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Antique Questions Forum / Know Oil LampS?

« on: September 11, 2010, 05:42:48 pm »

Acquired this oil lamp today.  Still have to clean it up a bit.  I believe its the original chimney. 

The base reads:  Q U E E N   A N N E.  It also has:  S C O V I L L  M F G  C O        Made in USA. 

Anyone have any knowledge of these?  A date?  A value?

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Antique Questions Forum / Little Chair

« on: September 11, 2010, 05:36:34 pm »

This little chair is interesting but I know nothing about it. . . thus, the post.  Any ideas on a date, maker, origin or value?

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Antique Questions Forum / Little Cannon

« on: September 11, 2010, 05:34:47 pm »

So, I know nothing about this little cannon.  No makers marks.  Anyone seen one before?  Date?  Origin?  Value?

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: History Book for the classroom from the 1820's

« on: September 06, 2010, 09:32:15 pm »

Thanks for the thoughts, folks.  Still learning lots and the commentary helps put things in perspective.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: History Book for the classroom from the 1820's

« on: September 06, 2010, 10:58:47 am »

Never really did any research on it before but found it at Tia's.

http://www.tias.com/13712/PictPage/3923473436.html

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Antique Questions Forum / History Book for the classroom from the 1820's

« on: September 05, 2010, 09:44:15 pm »

So, recently I've inherited a few items.  It made me go back and look at a few other things that were in my possession before that and this is one of those.

It's titled, although only able to be read from the inside title page, as the outside is quite worn:

A History of the United States of America On a Plan Adapted to the Capacity of Youths and Designed to Aid the Memory by Systematic Arrangement and Interesting Associations

It was written by Rev. Charles A. Goodrich and published by Richardson Lord  & Holbrook.  It is the 35th edition and although it doesn't have a date that it was published easily found, it does make this reference:

"Be it remembered , that on the twenty-ninth day of April, in the forty-sixth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Charles A. Goodrich, of said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a book. . . "

This means that, if my math is correct, it was published in 1822.  On top of that, it's history within ends during Monroe's second term, which he ran for unopposed in 1820.

So, I think that this item is interesting for a few reasons:

• I teach 8th Grade Social Studies so this is "teacher-nerd" cool.
• It includes a map that somehow, almost 200 years later, is still contained inside the book.  It's a separate sheet of paper and nobody lost it.  Not a student who read it and not me!  Also, this map shows so little of what is now the United States.
• The students who used it, signed the inside like many still do in today's classrooms.
• It includes a "questions section" in the back.  The questions are quite basic and what one might refer to as "level one questions."  They aren't very deep and seem to be there for the purpose of memorization of information.
• In a part of the book subtitled "Remarks on Using This Work" it reads:  "It is reccommended to the teachers not to make a severe examination of a pupil, until the second or third time going through the book.  This should be particularly observed in regard to young and backward pupils."  Man, times have changed.

Check out some pictures. . .

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Clock # 2

« on: September 05, 2010, 08:09:42 pm »

Found this clock on eBay.  Different scene on the door, but very similar case.

http://cgi.ebay.com/E-N-WELCH-GINGERBREAD-MANTLE-CLOCK-CHIMES-KNIGHTS-CREST-/160475183604?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item255d10f9f4

Maybe its an E.N. Welch?  Also, what's a Gingerbread Clock?  This eBay listing is a little vague, but a start and the most info I've come across so far.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Wooden Boxes my Great Uncle made

« on: September 05, 2010, 07:22:57 pm »

Make that my Great, Great, Great Uncle.  His name was Charles Mallison.  I'm not sure in what year he was born, but his wife, Bertha, was born in 1888.  I suppose that they could be from around the 1920's give or take a few years but it depends on if he made them when he was younger or older.  I have some things that were his fathers as well and he fought in the Civil War.  Dwight D. Mallison (the father), according to his obituary, was in just about every battle of the Civil War that you can think of including Gettysburg and was, apparently quite a local hero.  The Obit. lists them all.  I'm not sure how he survived so many unless he spent all of his time hiding.  Good luck?  A quality soldier?  Inaccurate military technology of the day?  Who knows, but its interesting to think about.  I have his Civil War footlocker (I think that's what it's called) in my possession.  I remember Aunt Bertha from when I was a kid, but don't really remember speaking with her.  I just remember that she was an old, white-haied woman who lived with my Grandparents at one point.  I wish I had known enough then to have asked her about Charles or Dwight. . .

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Beverage dispenser valves?

« on: September 05, 2010, 07:10:51 pm »

These bad boys are pretty cool.  Man, I wish I lived in the days when a beverage was called "Blue Lick."  Then again, I'm sure there are some of today's beverages that people from the 1850's would find strange, but they sound common to us nowadays.  What's the strangest modern name for a beverage that anyone can think of?

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Clock # 2

« on: September 05, 2010, 07:05:50 pm »

Thanks for the direction KC.  Have you or anyone else had any luck with this site before?  I submitted my clock but it seems to take a few minutes before it actually posts.