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Comments (20)Tricia, do share pictures of your cupboards!! They sound positively wonderful! This is the cliff notes version of the history of the house and its contents. It was built circa 1880-1885 by one of the more prominent families in the town (not the Rockefellers by any stretch but they seemed to have done OK...the house is very high-quality in its construction). Since then, five generations of that family have lived there. The most recent resident passed away after a fairly long illness--for years prior to this, the house had been used mostly as a summer home. Her son and DIL live in Florida and went through the house after she passed away, but they took only items of sentimental value. He is the one who sold it to us, and he said at the time that they left this all behind for two main reasons: they've already got a fully furnished house and so would end up auctioning many pieces off, and they wanted it to stay with the house to the extent possible. Admirable, because the conservative auction estimate from the estate appraiser was in the tens of thousands. He certainly let us have it for far less than that, just because he wanted to see it cared for (which we do!). They're extremely nice people!! Linda C, the planks on the back are wide and do not have circular saw marks. The piece is now being used in our kitchen as a pantry of sorts, so I can't get pictures of the back, but I can tell you that the joinery is very nicely done. No big suprise, since the family apparently knew and employed fine craftsmen to build the house--it's my guess that one of them may have built this as well. I had hoped to find someone's name scribbled in it somewhere....a "Kilroy was here" type of ID. No such luck, at least not that I can find. More pictures will be coming as soon as I can upload them to my hosting service. :)...See MoreDo people still buy china cabinets and if yes, from where?
Comments (36)I like China cabinets - my parents had one and I don't remember it ever looking denuded when they used the good China. Probably because I doubt they ever used all the place settings. My brother got the cabinet when they downsized to an apartment - I didn't have the space. Just as well. Knowing me, I'd fill it... nature abhorring a vacuum and all. I do have a nice corner cabinet which could serve as a small variant of a China cabinet. It is currently in my dining nook (and will move to a corner in my future LR when I move). While I keep China in the bottom unseen half, I display keepsakes like a few Hummel figurines, a hand-painted plate I made years ago, and various other keepsakes behind the upper glass. In other words, no dining China is on display. Just momentos I like that I fear the cats might like - in the wrong way - too....See MoreOh Great...Even the Estate Sale People Don't Want Our Stuff :(
Comments (16)"I just know it's probably from the 1940's & most likely costume jewelry." You may be able to get big bucks for the stuff. Bakelite and Lucite vintage jewelry is quite collectible. Certain styles of the era are popular even it it is not true Bakelite. Google some of the places that sell it online and contact them. I would try to get another estate sale company in to go through things and see if there are any items worth it to be put up for auction. Do not rely on just that one estate sale company to give you advice. Way back when..........when my grandfather died, my mother did a bunch of rummage sales. It barely put a dent in the amount of stuff my grandfather had saved like a packrat. (Depression Era guy.) Then, my mom had someone come in to look at the stuff. This auction woman pawed through the stuff and found some valuable stuff that had gone unrecognized. For instance, my grandfather had a shoebox full of pens he had saved. My mom had put 50 cents on it for the rummage sales. No one bought it. The auction woman found a pen in there called *Big Red* from the late '20s and it sold at auction for a LOT of money. (This was before they reissued the reproductions) A little plastic box turned out to be an Art Deco celluloid cigarette holder. $$$$. A can opener was vintage Harley Davidson issue. It was sent to a store out East on consignment and fetched a pretty penny. I could go on and on. My point being that you could have treasure trove of collectibles. If you do not have the time or the knowledge of collectibles, have someone come in to look over the stuff again. There are places who will list things on eBay for you for a percentage of what it sells for. One persons junk is another man's treasure. My one cousin is always on the lookout at sale for old rusty, vintage tools she uses for decoration. She just cringes when at estate sales she is told "Oh yeah, we had a lot of old tools. They were all rusty and beat up, so we threw them out before the sale." Some things are only valuable to certain individuals. When my uncle died, there was an old, floor model radio in nice wood cabinet. My brother removed the guts from it and was going to use the nice Art Decor cabinet. Another cousin (who is into vintage radios) went ballistic finding this out, as it turns out the vacuum tubes that were tossed out and hauled away in the dumpster, were valuable to collectors who use them to recondition old radios, and worth waaaaay more that that crappy cabinet was. BTW, if there is a lot of stuff Goodwill and similar organizations will come to your house to pick everything up. They will give you a receipt for taxes....See MoreWhat is Your Everyday China?
Comments (93)Theclose - I just came over here from the Replacements site, where I was looking at the pink Memory Lane, which I love! I inherited Johnson Bros Colonial America from my mother and am thinking that Memory Lane might be a nice addition. That pattern brings a smile to my face. Regarding the problem of being manufactured in China, Replacements lists the country of origin on its transferware, either Britain or China. Items from Britain are still available, TG, because posters on the site are complaining about the inferior quality of transferware coming from China. I wish that my mother could see this thread. She would be amazed to learn that simple things she treasured 80 years ago are still going strong!...See Moremtnrdredux_gw
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