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<p>[QUOTE="bluumz, post: 401445, member: 649"]Thanks! I've been reading that being out of round indicates age... but how much age, I don't know.</p><p>I live in Michigan and there was a company in <a href="https://www.algercounty.com/woodenware/mwpbrands.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.algercounty.com/woodenware/mwpbrands.html" rel="nofollow">Munising</a>, MI that made bowls as well as other wooden products, from 1911-55. Munising (pronounced MEW-niss-ing) often worked in bird's eye maple and the earliest bowls (1910s) were not marked. However, I can't find any of their examples that had a rim as mine does.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: I just found a smaller Munising bowl with a rim <a href="https://fanaticscountryattic.com/products/old-primitive-bowl-marked-munising-with-well-defined-rim-lip" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://fanaticscountryattic.com/products/old-primitive-bowl-marked-munising-with-well-defined-rim-lip" rel="nofollow">here</a>! It has the straight block lettering brand that the company used in the 1920s when they first started marking their items. A slanted script brand was used from approximately mid-30s. I suppose I'll never be sure, but it does seem possible that my bowl could be a 1910s Munising bowl, or possibly by its predecessor in Kalkaska, MI, the <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ljkaAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA720&lpg=PA720&dq=freeman+manufacturing+%22kalkaska%22&source=bl&ots=CD12VU4IqL&sig=WAjpIv_sKRl0Qcrw1sj-KXeDDiw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiT-PH-krPdAhUFw4MKHQqXBxEQ6AEwA3oECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=freeman%20manufacturing%20%22kalkaska%22&f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ljkaAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA720&lpg=PA720&dq=freeman+manufacturing+%22kalkaska%22&source=bl&ots=CD12VU4IqL&sig=WAjpIv_sKRl0Qcrw1sj-KXeDDiw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiT-PH-krPdAhUFw4MKHQqXBxEQ6AEwA3oECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=freeman%20manufacturing%20%22kalkaska%22&f=false" rel="nofollow">Freeman Manufacturing Co</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bluumz, post: 401445, member: 649"]Thanks! I've been reading that being out of round indicates age... but how much age, I don't know. I live in Michigan and there was a company in [URL='https://www.algercounty.com/woodenware/mwpbrands.html']Munising[/URL], MI that made bowls as well as other wooden products, from 1911-55. Munising (pronounced MEW-niss-ing) often worked in bird's eye maple and the earliest bowls (1910s) were not marked. However, I can't find any of their examples that had a rim as mine does. Edit: I just found a smaller Munising bowl with a rim [URL='https://fanaticscountryattic.com/products/old-primitive-bowl-marked-munising-with-well-defined-rim-lip']here[/URL]! It has the straight block lettering brand that the company used in the 1920s when they first started marking their items. A slanted script brand was used from approximately mid-30s. I suppose I'll never be sure, but it does seem possible that my bowl could be a 1910s Munising bowl, or possibly by its predecessor in Kalkaska, MI, the [URL='https://books.google.com/books?id=ljkaAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA720&lpg=PA720&dq=freeman+manufacturing+%22kalkaska%22&source=bl&ots=CD12VU4IqL&sig=WAjpIv_sKRl0Qcrw1sj-KXeDDiw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiT-PH-krPdAhUFw4MKHQqXBxEQ6AEwA3oECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=freeman%20manufacturing%20%22kalkaska%22&f=false']Freeman Manufacturing Co[/URL].[/QUOTE]
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