Featured Finds Thread

Makes you wonder what the church stuff belongs/belonged to. Did she take them home "to clean them" and then never bring them back? They probably wouldn't want to even hear about the paper.

 

All this sounds like a homey hole to me Davey!

 

Oh Davey how I want your job ! When I managed apartments and motels at different times,I never found one thing worth keeping when I had to evict people. A few trinkets I picked up lately,pickings have been slim around here.
Art glass vase,havent found the maker yet,4 inches tall.



WMF sliver plate sugar and creamer,I am genetically incapable of not buying anything marked $1 !


mid century copper and enamel covered dish



Silver(?) spoon marked 10-15 (loth?) the names just tickled me!

 

You don't give a size on the spoon, looks like it might be a sugar sifter - it's mid 19th century Baltimore silver, .896 fineness.

~Cheryl


edit - Here is more information: https://sterlingflatwarefashions.com/Msc/BaltimoreAssayMks.html

 

I think you scored on the spoon. But ... Botsford as a given name? And we thought Cadence was bad.

 

You are a gem. Thank you so very much ! The spoon is 7 inches long. I am so thrilled to know about it.

 

looks like that is a Craig Zweifel for the sweet vase

 

I found a person named Augusta Botsford

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18327150/augusta-betsey-botsford#view-photo=123269634

 

Well done Suzy60us!

 

Oh wow,yall are on fire ! Thank you so much ! Id have never figured that out. Of course Im mad for it,so now I have 101 vases.

 

Poor thing died young! Well,young to us these days. Utterly fascinating,I wonder how her sugar sifter ended up in a thrift for $1.95 ?

 

I don't think it's been proven that it's the same person! It appears that Botsford on the spoon is somebody's first name. Of course it might not be, but that is how it appears.

 

Perhaps young Mr. Botsford's surname was 'used' as a nickname?

@Johnnycbo9 - are you anywhere near Connecticut where the grave-site is?

 

Guessing mother's maiden name.

 

Inscription on the spoon says "Botsford to Augusta." Lots of ways to guess on that. I don't mind theories, of course.

Generally I don't make many comments in the Finds thread. I just admire the finds! My genealogical research training carried me away for a few minutes.

 

It might have been a wedding gift to the lady whose grave someone found. Lots of guys still get called by their last names if they hate the first one for some reason. Some just used it because it was a custom of the day. Augusta wasn't a rare first name, I had a slew of great and great-great (or whatever) aunt Gussies, but the combination is suggestive.

 

Nope,Im literally at the bottom of the country,also known as Florida.

 

Nice glass beads, 9ct chain weighs in at £95, marcasite poodle is a bit bent and metal is fractured so will need a bit of tlc. The pot metal bracelet has glass stones. Paid £5.50 for all.

 

Nice haul!!!