Yard Sale/Bake Sale in Alexandria

There will be a Yard Sale/Bake Sale at Valley Antiques and Collectibles — this Saturday (may 19th) .

Tasty snacks, and many unique treasures will be on sale.

Move From Piedmont Near Completion

For those who have been patrons to The Little Curiosity Shoppe while it has been located in Piedmont — Thank You!

For those who may not have known about our small store full of oddities, collectibles, and too much to list — we will be storing much of the excess items at the farm for the time being.

Our better items/inventory will be on display in our booth(s) at one of two locations –
1) “Valley Antiques and Collectables”, located on 231 in Alexandria, Alabama OR
2) “The Treasure Chest” located on Highway 78, a few miles east of Pell City, Alabama

If you need further details – email or message me.

– Cathy Ann Abernathy (weavercat@gmail.com)

EXCERPT:

“RN-T.com – Bargain hunters look for yard sale treasures

Multiple miles of yard sales and hot and sunny weather are the perfect combination for a good shopping experience, as long as a cold glass of lemonade is thrown into the mix.

“We love the yard sales. We come every year,” said Lyn Thacker from Taylors­ville. “We’ll probably even come back tomorrow and Sunday.”

Thacker was looking for bargains Friday in Adairs­ville.

The annual Dixie Highway 90-Mile Yard Sale will continue through Sunday from 7 a.m. until dusk.

Yard sales will run in communities along Old Highway 41, including Ringgold, Tunnel Hill, Rocky Face, Dalton, Resaca, Calhoun, Adairsville, Cassville, Cartersville, Emerson, Acworth, Kennesaw and Marietta.[...]” <– click through for complete article

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Mark your calendar for next year!

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Collecting Grape Pattern Milk Glass
inVintage Collectibles
March 26, 2008 – 6:10am
Many collectors of white milk glass love the pieces covered in grapes. These pieces frequently have full bunches of grapes dangling from vines with leaves. There are several different popular patterns in this theme, made by different companies. They are similar enough that some collectors will mix and match to get all the pieces they want, while other collectors will only acquire specific patterns or manufacturers. If this is an area of interest for you, it is important to learn to recognize and identify the patterns by sight, as many sellers get them confused. Thankfully, once you have learned the characteristics of each pattern, it is not hard to get them right with a high degree of accuracy.

Probably the single most popular pattern is Westmoreland’s ‘Paneled Grape’…
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Reference for “Paneled Grape”, “Harvest Grape”, and Vintage Grapes”.

– Cathy

Congressional serial set – US Government Printing Office

“Congressional serial set” by the United States Government Printing Office (1904)

 

PATENTS ISSUED – 1904

 

[ CLICK HERE for original image.]

IMPERIAL’S ART GLASS GAMBLE
by: Cliff McCaslin

The story of Imperial Glass begins in 1901 on the banks of the Ohio River in the town of Bellaire, Ohio. Originally established as a crystal tableware and utilitarian glassware manufactory, Imperial’s new lines were designed to appeal to a full spectrum of the buying public’s interests. From utility ware such as bottles, tumblers and jelly jars, to electric and gas lamp shades, to 15 full lines of tableware all of original design. Several lines were intricate, press-moulded patterns designed to imitate the very popular hand-cut crystal glassware.

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Reference for Imperial Glass.

– Cathy

Hot Day

7 July 2010
One very hot day.
Dave and I delivered groceries to Mom; then headed back home.
Stopped at a few thrift/antique stores along the way.
Since getting in the AC, and starting to cool off, have been reading messages, and adding/correcting more items on my websites (somewhat set in havoc by my previous computer dying); as well as blogs, and misc. stuff.
Need to get things sorted out with this new laptop, get it behaving the way I want it; so I will be able to create a backup set of RECOVERY disks — then get Dave to set it for dual-boot (Windows 7 and Linux).
My head is pounding, so I won’t do much more for now.
How has your week been?
Would love to hear from my readers.
– Cathy

Death of a computer…a new beginning

(Take two…)
Attempted this post just but a few minutes ago — stepped away from the keyboard — came back the automatic Windows 7 update had re-started my computer. [growl!]
I lost all the text I had written (now have settings a bit different, to prevent this problem from occurring again) — I hate having to re-write things when software/OS updates cause me to lose them.
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Now, where was I?
Ahhh, heck — I think I’ll do something else and come back to this post. There are things needing to be added, set-up; and yet to be test-driven on this computer.
I promise to return – soon.
“And to continue…”
– Cathy

Disturb them no more: New law good for Alabama

Anniston Star – Disturb them no more New law good for Alabama

But when it came to Native American burial sites, no such protection has existed.

Thus, any mound, shell monument or place suspected of containing Indian remains could be — and often was — invaded by relic hunters or the curious. They often dug down, cast remains aside, and made off with pots and other artifacts that ended up in private collections or the black market.

Not only did they desecrate a grave, they also destroyed valuable archaeological evidence that might have told researchers more about the people who first lived in Alabama.

William Reese Owsley III – Obituary | Anniston Star – Monday, 3 May 2010

William Reese Owsley III Obituary: View William Owsley’s Obituary by The Anniston Star

William Reese Owsley III
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Funeral services for William Reese Owsley III, 44, of Franklin, Tenn., formerly of Anniston, will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday, May 4, 2010, at Parker Memorial Baptist Church with the Rev. Dr. Mack Amis, the Rev. Kevin Garrett and the Rev. Jim Thomas officiating. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery with K. L. Brown Memory Chapel directing services.

J & P Coats Six-Strand Embroidery Floss – How Many Different Colors?

J & P Coats Six-Strand Embroidery Floss

Name:
J & P Coats six-strand embroidery floss, a product of Coats & Clark, is also known as Article C 11. The product is sold in nine yard skeins.
Composition:
Six-strand J & P Coats embroidery floss is made up of 100% Mercerized Cotton.
Colors:
There are 131 solid and 11 variegated colors of J & P Coats six-strand embroidery floss.
Characteristics :
J & P Coats Floss is washable, dry-cleanable, and colorfast.
Tips for Working with J & P Coats Six-Strand Embroid