Wedgwood Article Dating

If you have a Wedgwood piece and are uncertain as to what year it was made, here's a link to help you out (it's how I found out my necklace -- pictured below -- was made in the year 1900).

My mum bought me this necklace in Fenelon Falls, Ontario as a grad present. It's a cameo and I think that it's a fairy in the center.

http://www.thepotteries.org/mark/w/wedgwood-date.html

It's baby Joe's mother!!

Recall cute baby Joe with his hair parted down the middle, who I had posted about on January 19th? Well, this is his mother! My cousin bought this photograph and upon looking at the back, it says Joe's mother written on it in the exact same handwriting as Joe's name on my photograph of him. Interesting, isn't it? Perhaps the family gave these pictures away and they somehow ended up in the same town.

Anyways, I don't know her name, but I'm pretty sure that this was taken at the same time as Joe's photo. I can now date both pictures to about the late 1800s because of this woman's clothing. Case solved! Well, kind of. I wonder what her name is and where their family lived...

King Edward Hotel, Toronto

Miss E. George
Gelert(?) - P.V.
Ontario


July 21/10
Dear Etta
       Mother and I were going out there Saturday. I sent Flora H a card telling her and now I am not sure whether the trains will be running since the strike is on. If you see her tell her. Good bye. Lillie Sherman.


P.S. If I get there I will go and see you. Maybe you will be at the station Saturday night.
                                                                                                                     Lillian




Postage on the stamp was one cent. My, my, how times have changed. Also, the front of the postcard is a picture of the King Edward Hotel in Toronto, which is still there today! And perhaps the coal strike Lillian speaks of is in reference to the Westmoreland County Coal Strike of 1910-1911, considering coal was used to power trains of the time? If you're interested, there's an article you can look at regarding it on Wikipedia here, and also a (potentially) more reliable source with less to say about it here.

More Pictures! :)

Got both of these for $2 at that store in Fenelon Falls! Neither have anything written on the back, but the one of the little boy (holding the cat) looks to be from the 1920s, the one of the baby from 1890s or maybe early 1900s. :)

Am I jealous of whoever buys this!

I guess everyone is pretty interested in where I got so many of these antiques in Fenelon Falls, Ontario, Canada. The place I go to is called Grr8 Finds and you can click here to go to their website. :)

Whoever buys that gorgeous table they have features right now on the top left-hand corner of the page (which is over $3000, if I remember correctly, if not more), I AM EXTREMELY JEALOUS.

Happy shopping!

Little Joe

Like many of my other acquired photographs, I'm uncertain as to when this was taken as well as who took it and exactly how old the child in the image is. All I know is that his name is Joe. It had his name scrawled on the back of the card the photograph is attached to.

My mom actually picked this one out of a pile of pictures at the antique store the took me too (in Fenelon Falls). She loved it because of the little hair part he has in the middle of this head. Isn't it adorable? His expression is so cute, too! :)

Painting on Wood

I found this beautiful picture and bought it from an antique store in Fenelon Falls, Ontario. Like everything else, I'm uncertain of the woman depicted on it. I'm not sure if it's an original painting that's been coated in a gloss or if it's a print of the painting on the wood that's been glossed over. Regardless, it's a beautiful picture and I wanted to share it with you all. Let me know if you know anything about it! Thank you! :)