Are you into antiques?

The winter of 1947, I was 10 years old and there was still devastation in towns and cities after the war ending, it was severely cold, neighbours were breaking up all kinds of furniture (a lot of it antique) for fuel for their fires.
Kids like me made trucks from old prams and we went far and wide looking for wood for the fires at home.
Yeh, lots and lots of antique stuff kept UK families warm in 1947. 😊
 
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Years ago when I walked into a Berkeley antique shop, there was a woebegone carousel horse, painted white with huge wooden arcs bolted on legs on both sides turning it into a huge rocking horse. I did a little research and for sure it was a C W Dare carousel horse dating from the late 1890’s. I rented a garage near the bus stop where I got off from work, bought the horse, and a friend helped me move it into the garage, where I worked on mounting it, removing the paint and the arcs, and patching cracks.

In an antique shop in town I found a carousel painter and she painted it for me. Today it is on display in our house and beautiful!
 

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This is a real school house clock from the one room school house my mom attended as a child. It is from circa 1890 and was manufactured by the Waterbury Clock Co. of Waterbury Connecticut. We know the approximate date of manufacture as the back of the clock shows the date of each clock cleaning every 5 years starting in 1895 up into the 1940's. It also has the name of the school house it was originally placed into service. It is unrestored and it still keeps good time. It is on the wall in our kitchen.

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Here is the same clock in an 1893 catalog from the Waterbury Clock Co. It is called a 12" pointed drop octagon. The cost is 1893 was $6.20. You could also purchase a optional half hour strike or a calendar but the one we have is the basic clock.
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timoc said:
The winter of 1947, I was 10 years old and there was still devastation in towns and cities after the war ending, it was severely cold, neighbours were breaking up all kinds of furniture (a lot of it antique) for fuel for their fires.
Kids like me made trucks from old prams and we went far and wide looking for wood for the fires at home.
Yeh, lots and lots of antique stuff kept UK families warm in 1947. 😊
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Many of our metal antiques and items of interest were scrapped in efforts to support the war.

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After tolling for 84 years, Syracuse’s City Hall bell was sacrificed to help win World War II
 
Tom52 said:
It is Center 11 School in Van Buren County Iowa. Below is a picture of the students attending the school in 1938. Looking at the picture, Mom is the girl in the second row just to the left of the first boy from left wearing bib overalls. She would have been 7 years old in 1938.
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isn't it lovely to have a picture of a parent as a child?.. I wish I'd seen pictures of mine as children...

Your mum was approx same age as mine ... mine would have been 4 years old in '38
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Supposedly, to be an "antique, the item has to be over 100 years old. When I was a kid, antiques were made in the 1850s. Today it's 1924. Somehow1924 doesn't sound so old.
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an Antique expert told me a few years ago, that the future antique will not be old style furniture etc.. it will be anything that today is ''disposable''.. they will be the valuable collectables of the future
 
When my kids were little we lived in a big old house and had many antiques. They fit the house well. When I divorced husband number two we each kept the ones that had been in our families and split up the others. Now being in a small condo I kept my dining room table and chairs, my grandparents small telephone table, a beautiful antique dresser , a buffet and a butter churn. My youngest son wants these items.
 
I have no true antiques, save for my late great-uncle’s pocket watch from the 1880’s. I had it appraised, and as its case is 18 carat gold, they offered me $1,000 for it. When I found out they’d melt it down for its gold content, I kept it. It’s the only thing from my great uncle still in the world, and I won’t have it destroyed but only go to a collector…
 
hollydolly said:
..and if you count towns I live in one too......first recorded in 670 AD...our oldest church still standing and still in use was built by the Normans in 1120 AD
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When I visited London, across the street was a little stone church, which was built in the 1200s. And the Brits were just walking by it, as though it didn't exist. In the US, anything from the 1700s is ancient.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
When I visited London, across the street was a little stone church, which was built in the 1200s. And the Brits were just walking by it, as though it didn't exist. In the US, anything from the 1700s is ancient.
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yes I know that about the US..we almost gave birth to you..lol.... but yes we have churches much older than 13th century.. we've lived with them all our lives as did our grandparents , and ancestors... :D
 

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