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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 609882" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I have so many "collections" that I need a bigger house! I have lots of Boston Terrier items, figurines, pictures, etc. because I've had Bostons for 20 years ... currently have three of them. My favorite is a set of antique Boston Terrier bookends, painted metal, very old, VERY heavy. I paid a whole $3 for them! I found them quite by accident one day when I went to the bank and saw that the church by the bank was having a rummage sale. I saw the four little pointy black ears sticking up from behind a lot of other things. I love them!</p><p></p><p>I also collect all kinds of souvenirs and memorabilia from the 1904 St. Louis Worlds Fair. I was born and raised in St. Louis and my grandparents met at the Fair when they were both 19, married four years later in 1908. I have all kinds of things - little metal trays, dishes, spoons, post cards, books, metal cigar boxes, tons of stuff. But my favorite is a 1904 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine (believe it or not, used to be more like Newsweek!) that has a big pictorial article about the Fair. The stories and pictures are wonderful, but the ADS in it are fascinating! I've spent hours going through it! You could buy whole houses by mail order, patent medicines that claimed to cure everything, and who knew they used to make asparagus flavored Jello! Very healthy to feed your children!</p><p></p><p>But my favorite is a huge collection of antique glassware ... Victorian, carnival glass, Depression glass, etc. I ran out of shelf space! I started out with candy dishes, then branched out to wine glasses and pitchers, cake plates, cut glass decanters, all kinds of things. I have two bookcases full in my living room and more in my dining room. Goes perfectly in my little pre-1850 house. And I have a shelf that goes the whole length of my long narrow kitchen full of antique kitchen items - more pitchers, cookie jars, painted bread trays, etc. But my favorite thing is a very old, slightly rusty pipe tobacco can, the familiar red, white and green "Half and Half" cans. I found it on a dusty neglected shelf in the back of an antique store. My grandfather smoked a pipe and there was a can exactly like this sitting on the table next to him as far back as we can remember. Every time I look at that old rusty can, I can just see my grandfather sitting in his easy chair, smoking his pipe and listening to his St. Louis Cardinals game on his old console radio! And it had the same affect on my brother the first time he saw it ... he got all misty-eyed and started talking about the memories it brought back of my grandfather!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 609882, member: 1883"] I have so many "collections" that I need a bigger house! I have lots of Boston Terrier items, figurines, pictures, etc. because I've had Bostons for 20 years ... currently have three of them. My favorite is a set of antique Boston Terrier bookends, painted metal, very old, VERY heavy. I paid a whole $3 for them! I found them quite by accident one day when I went to the bank and saw that the church by the bank was having a rummage sale. I saw the four little pointy black ears sticking up from behind a lot of other things. I love them! I also collect all kinds of souvenirs and memorabilia from the 1904 St. Louis Worlds Fair. I was born and raised in St. Louis and my grandparents met at the Fair when they were both 19, married four years later in 1908. I have all kinds of things - little metal trays, dishes, spoons, post cards, books, metal cigar boxes, tons of stuff. But my favorite is a 1904 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine (believe it or not, used to be more like Newsweek!) that has a big pictorial article about the Fair. The stories and pictures are wonderful, but the ADS in it are fascinating! I've spent hours going through it! You could buy whole houses by mail order, patent medicines that claimed to cure everything, and who knew they used to make asparagus flavored Jello! Very healthy to feed your children! But my favorite is a huge collection of antique glassware ... Victorian, carnival glass, Depression glass, etc. I ran out of shelf space! I started out with candy dishes, then branched out to wine glasses and pitchers, cake plates, cut glass decanters, all kinds of things. I have two bookcases full in my living room and more in my dining room. Goes perfectly in my little pre-1850 house. And I have a shelf that goes the whole length of my long narrow kitchen full of antique kitchen items - more pitchers, cookie jars, painted bread trays, etc. But my favorite thing is a very old, slightly rusty pipe tobacco can, the familiar red, white and green "Half and Half" cans. I found it on a dusty neglected shelf in the back of an antique store. My grandfather smoked a pipe and there was a can exactly like this sitting on the table next to him as far back as we can remember. Every time I look at that old rusty can, I can just see my grandfather sitting in his easy chair, smoking his pipe and listening to his St. Louis Cardinals game on his old console radio! And it had the same affect on my brother the first time he saw it ... he got all misty-eyed and started talking about the memories it brought back of my grandfather! [/QUOTE]
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