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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Pitcher and Glass set

« on: March 11, 2013, 12:51:50 pm »

No marks that I can find.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Pitcher and Glass set

« on: March 10, 2013, 08:38:37 pm »

Thanks everyone for the great information.  I''m pretty sure this is not repro since I remember it being in my grandparents house in the 60's.  I wouldn't consider it mint but close, few scuff marks on the base which might clean up but I wouldn't tackle that myself.

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Antique Questions Forum / Pitcher and Glass set

« on: March 09, 2013, 02:23:06 pm »

I'm hoping to get more information on this set. Anything on what it is and the value would be greatly appreciated.

The only clue I have is a card in the bottom of the pitcher, it looks like brushwork, that says "Wedding Gift to Mamie Stone Apr. 12, 1894."

The wheat pattern appears to be tiny balls of glass fused together on the outside of the glass.  The base kinda looks like silver but I can't find a mark on it anywhere.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Two items that I'm hoping someone can help with more information

« on: February 24, 2013, 09:07:55 pm »

Thanks so much for the wealth of information so far.  I will try to get some better pictures of the stones with my not that great camera.  I don't know of jewely that my grandfather did but I have some pretty nice woodburnings that he did so I thought the stones would be in that same craft working arena.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Two items that I'm hoping someone can help with more information

« on: February 24, 2013, 07:00:30 pm »

Here's the back of the coat rack. The two screws that are holding the wire loops are a bit rusted but fairly modern and the screw part of the hooks are poking through the back and are shiny. No marks or signatures I can find.

Just FYI the picture is upside down.

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Antique Questions Forum / Two items that I'm hoping someone can help with more information

« on: February 24, 2013, 04:35:12 pm »

I'm finally getting around to working through some of the things that I got from the house that my parents and grandparents lived in and there are a couple things that I'm hoping someone could help give me more information on so I'll be able to figure out what to do with them.

The first thing is a collection of stones? that I found in a Pharmacy Box labeled Lillys Mandelic Acid Tabs and the phone number on the box is "Phones 12 & 13".  I'm guessing that they were my grandfathers, he seemed to have hobbies like this.  Each group of stones was wrapped in a folded piece of paper and two of them had writing on them which you can see in the picture.  The colors on the picture are a little off, they're pretty shiny and hard to photograph.



The second item is a coat hanger? I'm guessing since there are two hooks on the bottom.  It's a sheet of metal (copper?) with the image you see in relief on the front and then on the back the edges are folded around a piece of wood which is around 3/8' of an inch thick.  The mirror has scallops on the edges and you can see that there's a chip on one side.  The whole thing is around 20 x 12 1/2 inches and is pretty dirty and it even looks like there's polish in the crevices of the relief but I don't want to try and clean it and then damage it. 



Any information that would help me understand these pieces would be greatly appreciated.