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.
2 comments:
same here baby! in college, I'd go down on fulton street and browse and browse... I bet that looks very pretty in your bathroom!
we should make a day of it!!!
Uh-oh! I can just see toddlers in an antique shop...maybe similar to that cliche about an elephant in a china shop!?
Seriously, though...in our world of technology and buttons and instant gratification, there is something romantic about the time and care that went into making some of the "antique" items. Definitely treasures.
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