Antiques "Roadshow"

Yesterday was our Portland Women's Forum meeting and our program was "Antiques Roadshow", in other words, members bring their own antiques to show and tell about them.  It's always fun and enlightening!  I brought an old print I found years ago in Florence, Oregon.  I paid $10 for it!  I had it framed when I brought it home.  It's like an etching of Multnomah Falls long ago before the white man came here, there is a couple of teepees there and a wooden dugout canoe going past with local Native people in it.  Published in William Cullen Bryant's edited volume 'Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In', 1872. After googling it I find it's very rare.  

I also took my little vintage Violet perfume bottle.

I have collected 4 of these I think, most come without the original stopper which this one still has.  This also has the original purple silk ribbon that it came with.  I love these little bottles, they are hand turned on a potters wheel, glazed and the words are etched through the glaze to expose the red clay before it's fired.  :-)  Our violets are in bloom and I will fill a few of these with them and show you on my next blog post.  They make the room smell divine!

Georgia brought a milk bottle from her childhood.  Her family had 80 milk cows which provided the milk for the dairy next to them.  

Here is the original paper stopper with tab.

I love the graphic on the bottle of the cow shaking hands with the milkman!!

Chris brought some old framed photos from over 100 years ago of our area.  This is Mitchell Point Tunnel that was unfortunately blasted away so they could use the rock for the "modern" highway built in the mid-50s.  Such a loss.

An old photo of the falls a century ago.

Gayle brought in a vintage pear peeler which also cores the seeds out, too!

Another image of a Native man in a birchbark canoe on a plate.

Shirley brought an antique mug she found and paid $34 for and found later it was valued at $800 due to it's rarity!

When I took Diane home after the meeting she said her son was selling some Vaseline glass wine goblets so I bought them without knowing much about them.  After googling, I found that they are Fenton Daisy & Button goblets made by LG Wright.  

Aren't they cute?

I shone my blacklight on them and was amazed at how they glowed!

Aren't they amazing?

The Christmas Cactus that I rescued from my mom's room in her room at the Alzheimer's unit shortly before she passed away, has bloomed and this flower is right above my head in my easy chair.  Hi MOM!  I can't help but think she's looking out for me.

Isn't this a fabulous bloom?

I took this photo yesterday as the sun was shining on my daffodils.  Sweet.

We're off to run an errand or two and treat ourselves to lunch out.  We're stocking up on things here in case the Covid-19 virus gets worse.  The death toll has climbed to 14 in the USA - with 12 of them in the state right above us, Washington.  We're preparing for staying home and out of big crowds.  And washing our hands.  Take care, my friends.
((hugs)), Teresa :-)