Tuesday......

 

Stuffing and stowing things is another obsession of mine. I like to view my old things and a good box with shelves makes it fun.  The pottery piece with painted Indian  designs is old. It belonged to my late wife's family home where a distant cousin would send them things from New Mexico. I can't say it is along lost valuable antique even though it is old  It looks like it was a tourist trap item sold along the highways in the West. I think it is actually made from plaster. The other possibility is that it is unfired clay. 

The sleigh bell is antique for sure as it was one that would be attached to horses on straps and mounted to the sides of horses harness. The sound would be wonderful with many bells clanging. The carved bird isn't so old but one that was made in Mexico for novelty shops her in the US. Medicines were dispersed in bottles with a cork on it. I use to find them in people's burn piles. Some of these came from my father-in-law's farm burn pile that was used by two generations of owners of the farm. I have many blue Vick's jars but just don't have them displayed.

My mom had two of these glass pieces that she kept in her trunk.  I would ask her about them and she would say she got them as a kid and they were filled with small balls of candy. Her two were the phone and the car. The phone had a wooden piece that was attached by a string. It was the mouth piece to us to talk on the phone. The glass dog was given to me from my wife's cousin. We helped with the sale of her aunt's home and I hesitantly asked for it and she was so glad that I wanted it. It reminded the family of the dog that one of the Presidents of the US during his term as president. 

The train is one that I most recently acquired from the attic of my wife's family home. We were clearing the attic of any thing of valuable. It was a mess and I stepped on it among a bunch of papers and cardboard. I was so surprised to find it. Looters had already hit the attic for brass beds and who knows what else. Their is a glass airplane in the collection that I have but it doesn't fit in my display box so I didn't get it photographed. 

We went to Hobby Lobby today in our very own town's store. It opened in March and is only four miles away from where we live. My wife walked the place with great glee. It was her first venture out since being hospitalized and rehabbed in these past ten months. I bet we will be going back in a few weeks.  We hit the lower 50s F. this afternoon and it was wonderful. 

Thanks for stopping by today.