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A Few of Our Favorite Things
Kerry:
Ooh, I like this thread! I will definitely be contributing here. Alas, however, it is almost midnight and I'll soon be off to bed. I'll look around for some things to photograph tomorrow, and see what I can come up with.
My favorites so far are the stunning blue glass and the pretty ribbons. :D
injest:
David, you make sure you dont' throw or give away this stuff without checking first! I bet those toy blocks are worth quite a bit of money!
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: injest on April 23, 2009, 07:05:25 pm ---David, you make sure you dont' throw or give away this stuff without checking first! I bet those toy blocks are worth quite a bit of money!
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Oh I'm not planning on getting rid of anything Jess. I will be keeping all of those things. And then hand them down to my niece and nephew when I die. :)
I'm not sure how much those toy blocks are worth. A couple of them are damaged- a small chip off the corner of them. But only a couple. The rest of them are in perfect condition. They are very old and very unusual. I had a lot of fun playing with them when I was little. Between the two boxes there's enough blocks to build a very impressive castle!
Did you notice the house those two kids are building in the picture? I wonder how many blocks THAT would take?!!
--- Quote from: Kerry on April 23, 2009, 09:41:23 am ---Ooh, I like this thread! I will definitely be contributing here. Alas, however, it is almost midnight and I'll soon be off to bed. I'll look around for some things to photograph tomorrow, and see what I can come up with.
My favorites so far are the stunning blue glass and the pretty ribbons. :D
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I can't wait to see your pictures Kerry! I'm looking forward to seeing them. :)
David In Indy:
These were my Grandfather's figurines. He kept them in the hutch in the guest bedroom. My sister and I often played with them when we were visiting in Cincinnati. They went to Mom after Grandpa died. There used to be one more figurine in the collection but I chewed its head off and I guess he threw it away. I was only 5 or 6 when I did it! :laugh:
If you notice the figurine over towards the right, you will see he is missing part of his foot. I think I chewed that off too. :P
These figurines are very light. They feel like they were carved out of balsa wood, or some other very light type of wood. Maybe drift wood. I'm not sure.
Here's what Grandpa wrote on the bottom of one of the figurines...
In case you can't read his hand writing, it says "Hand Carved Rustic Art Shop Quebec"
Another one has a number written on the bottom of it. It says 18.50, with a line drawn under the number 50. I can't imagine that would have been the price of the figurine because he bought them back in the 1930s or early 1940s.
David In Indy:
Grandma and Grandpa always put this angel out at Christmas. She sat on their coffee table in the living room. She plays Silent Night when you wind her up.
She is now at Dad's house and he leaves her out all year long. She's made of porcelain and she is about 8 inches tall. When we visited Grandma and Grandpa in Cincinnati my sister and I slept upstairs in the attic. It was a very nice attic, it was carpeted, the walls were painted and it had a big comfortable bed up there, but it was very hot most of the time. They didn't have airconditioning. So sometimes Mom would pull that angel out from the stored Christmas decorations, wind it up and the music would help me go to sleep.
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