While I was in the Traverse City area this past weekend I spent some time visiting a few antique shops in the area. I really enjoyed taking my time browsing through booth after booth filled with an array of knick knacks. Many times I found myself having to read the tag to decipher the purpose of certain items and in doing that I learned how to identify sugar molds, toast racks, european bread pans... the list goes on and on. I spent a lot of time admiring the shelves of glassware found in all the stores, so many shapes and colors in the collections. And it's funny cause I was initially less than a fan of the glasswhere, I first thought of it as kind of "grandma-ish" and gaudy, but after taking a closer look by actually holding the pieces and doing some research online I really gained an appreciation of what was before me. I even found some glassware collections I really liked. So I set out to make my first glassware purchase and it was a definite success.
I first bought some items from the Anchor Hocking Early American Prescut collection, one of which is shown in this picture. It's technically a candy jar but I'm using it as a cottonball canister for my bathroom.
So needless to say I think I'm hooked on antiquing, there's a whole world of vintage treasures sitting on shelves waiting to be discovered.
