Posted 2 years ago
Vestaswind
(46 items)
Hopefully this week I can gather up the rest and organize them in one place. I need some more energy!
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The Killer Mobile Device for Victorian Women
Adrift in a sea of digital apps for every imaginable function, we often feel our needs are met better today than in any previous era. But consider the chatelaine, a device popularized in the 18th century that attached to the waist of a wo…
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If These Shirts Could Talk: The Tantalizing Tales Behind Used Clothes
The mysterious packages kept arriving, some from eBay, others from the Home …
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Gloriously Grotesque 19th-Century Pipes
The meerschaum pipes carved in Eastern Europe at the end of the 19th century are among the most bizarre and improbable concoctions in decorative art. Some feature …
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In the Hot Seat: Is Your Antique Windsor a Fake?
While researching her book, "Killer Stuff and Tons of Money," Maureen Stanton came across all sorts of characters. For years, she shadowed her antiques-dealer friend …
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Bizarro Beauty Products, from 1889 to Now
We tend to think of the union of vanity and technology as a particularly modern affliction. It's only recently that science brought the world botox and collagen injections, skin peels, liposucti…
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Love at First Kite: How Pizza and Pente Led to One Oklahoman's High-Flying Obsession
Vintage kites from all over the world hang from the ceiling and walls of Richard Dermer’s popula…
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Pin-Up Queens: Three Female Artists Who Shaped the American Dream Girl
It’s easy to think of pin-up art as a charming relic of the old boys’ club—images that might line the walls …
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Say Ahhh: An Oral Surgeon's Quest to Reimagine the Garage-Band Guitar
It’s not unusual for men of a certain age to have a soft spot in their hearts for the look of vintage guitars and the sound…
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Collectibles
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Tokens for Sweethearts, in Times of War
A keepsake, an item that recognizes a loved one, strikes a deep, sentimental chord in each of us—particularly that of a sweetheart. The popularity of keepsakes grew in the United States during the period from 1917 to 1919 as our country ent…
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American Picker Dream, Part I: Mike Wolfe On His Love Affair With Bikes
I was walking to school one day and saw all these bikes in the garbage. I was just amazed because I didn't have one and I found it incredible that anyone was throwing them out. So I gathered…
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PinbacksCelluloid pinbacks, a type of button, were popular from the 1890s to the 19…
Those look like some nice Political pins Vestawind,nice job.
Actually these are the the kinda the bottom of the barrel of what she used to have. The best of them are gone now.
People that love this stuff would love the end tails of her collection. She was 82 when she passed in 2004 and collected pins from when she was little. Our whole family being pack rats gave her ton's of stuff. I try to hold on to the things I know were family pieces, or give them to family memebers that will love them. With most it's hard to say where they came from.
The Reagan election was exciting for me because it's was the first election I was old enough to vote. I have lots of Reagan stuff I didn't show. Really too new for most people to find interesting.
My Dad was a federal employee union president for our local Air Force base. It was the first time he ever admitted to voting for a republican, my mother made sure everyone knew it too. Our family came from a huge family of GOP politicians haha
I looked where you told me too but there were no markings on her back or by the hairline.
AWESOME COLLECTION!
I am so jealous
You guys are showing our age by liking this group instead of the older ones I posted :P
Thanks!