Antiques Chatroom Board

No posts in 4 months? Damn shame.

@ madferu: Nina. I just found your ? from a long time ago. If your item doesn't attract a magnet all that means is that it contains no iron or steel. You might have plated spelter (a non-silver alloy) or plated brass. My bet's on brass.

Hey, beetique. Not that often, it seems. This board isn't as active as the bookies. How are you?

Whoops, I was up late watching a football game and forgot about this. Reset everything this morning.

And now it's September, nearly 2 months since I posted last. Mim, glad to hear about the handy-dandy ramp, but sorry it's necessary now. Please take good care of yourself, y'hear? My beginner garden did pretty well this summer. Am almost ready to retire the tomato plants (stellar!) and the zucchini (finally fell victim to blossom end rot), but the okra continue to produce and will until first frost. Have learned much and look forward to next season. 🙂

I just sorted out my closet and packed up about 20 pairs of clean jeans that are too big for me now. They're off to Goodwill tomorrow. Years ago I discovered I could buy men's jeans that fit well and saved a lotta buckos. They're better made than women's jeans and just last longer. Now I've lost weight and don't need these.

Hi, Jean and welcome. I can't get your link to open for some reason to see your item. Says the content is unavailable.

All right, this board needs a jumpstart. Here goes. My neighbor is always up to something in her yard. Today she started tearing out a wooden ramp she'd built several years ago leading to a storage shed, and when she pried off a board there was a momma possum looking back at her with a bunch of babies. Animal Control won't respond to incidents involving possums, raccoons, or skunks, and so she asked for some help. She's kind-hearted, so we enlisted the assistance of another neighbor who fashioned a noose out of PVC and electrical cord. Managed to get Momma caught and in a cage, then removed the other boards and lifted out all 8 (counted 'em) babies and got those in a bucket. We just got back from releasing them all on the arsenal near the old rock quarry. They'll be fine there. The babies were all colors and cute as buttons, and they don't yet know how to bite. We just cornered them, lifted them out by their tails and dropped them in the bucket. She wouldn't let me go get the camera so we just zipped them off as quickly as we could. She'd mentioned her little yap-yap dogs would go nuts in that area and she didn't know why.

Sounds like a house wren, mim. They're fun to watch, with their upturned tails. I have a couple of nuthatches that also wander around head down on tree trunks, but those are mostly blue and white.

I listened to a glorious mockingbird today, singing his heart out. I counted 9 different calls before he repeated himself. Hope they make a nest hereabouts.

Helen, thank you. It's hard enough to lose your parents, but then to see their siblings go too, one by one, that's hard but it's part of life. We have cousins galore, though. They learned how to do something well. lol

The last of my parents generation passed away last night. Aunt Lorene (Dad's youngest sister) had been in a nursing home after a stroke some years ago that robbed her of the ability to communicate. Her own children couldn't be bothered to go see her except infrequently. I remember her as tons of fun and will miss her. She and Daddy and her sisters are up there now playing cards and dominoes, I know this.

mim - You haven't "chased" anyone off. Personally I found that this board is not as viable as the old eBay board used to be and as the new book board tends to be and so I sorta wander off. But I do check in from time to time.

mim - That's always been the trouble with furniture, antique or not. The cost of shipping can easily match what your bidder paid. Most won't accept that so you're sorta stuck with local pickup or consigning it. If the piece isn't huge you might look at Greyhound. If it fits in the baggage bay it will go, but then your buyer would need to get to the station to pick it up.

That's beautiful, Mim. 🙂

Nina - Can you post a larger picture of the marks on your silver? That maker may also be Holmes, Booth & Haydens, but it's too little to be sure. Current position is still polish stuff, it will photo better at the very least.

mim - You're not an antique yet, but some of your things surely are. The accepted definition for "antique" is still 100+ years old, everthing else is "vintage" to the era they were made. I don't go to auctions and sales because I'm not much of a reseller, although I am listing a few items that were hanging around the house.

mim - Yes, but tablecloths are notoriously hard to train. Heh

mim - I'd love to see some pics of young Jim. Today one of the female ferals the neighbor is feeding (we have plans to trap them both for spaying and shots and SOON) crept up all the way to the sliding door on the deck (it was warm today so the heat is off and screens are open) to chat with Howard the Immaculatum. They meowed at each other through the screen door. Howard isn't at all upset that there are 2 new cats hanging out on my deck. They want to catch squirrels, not to kill them but just to play with them, I think. They've been eyeball to eyeball with several and the squirrels just say Neener Neener and go about their business.

xyste - I know we don't have a link there to restoring old trunks. Never found one that was comprehensive enough to help. Would love to see what you have, though.

Hi, Nancy...was just checking to see if this board was still here, couldn't believe no posts in nearly 2 weeks. I'm not here much, so I'm as much to blame as anyone.

Hello?

Merry Christmas, everyone. And have marvelous New Year celebration.

Poor Howard the Immaculatum (he's the orange tabby in my avatar) was at the vet undergoing a fix-the-blockage catherization at the time and they had to complete that by flashlight because they lost power when everyone else did.

judy - While we had storm damage (holes in roofs, huge trees down across roofs, power lines down, etc..my front porch was crushed by huge oak limbs but the tree is still there) what caused the major outage across the entire northern half of the state was that all 8 TVA power transformers feeding to this area were destroyed. It was a fluke. TVA practices power outage responses, but they'd never done one where EVERYTHING was gone. Some parts of the city had power back after 4 days...but because they had to rebuild our power lines it took a week. Thank goodness for friends who had gas water heaters and could offer a hot shower. 😉 Makes you very humble and respectful of nature's power.

WE = We

judy - After our April tornado, the only things that worked in my house for a week were my landline telephone and my battery radio. We cooked on propane grills until our collective gas supplies ran out. You get to know your neighbors really well. WE rescued many things that would have been lost in freezers.

Helen, that's funny in a strange sorta way. I'm in the Deep South and have never thought of St. Louis as being a southern town. Maybe a border town.

Here in the south people with both toilets and cats don't run out of either paper or litter. Batteries are good to stock up on, and bottled water. That tornado back in April made ice a special commodity, but the community managed.

No posts for 5 days? We almost had a snow event here, way early in the Deep South for accumulation because the ground is still warmish, but the S word immediately causes a kneejerk and the grocery stores sell all the bread and milk they have on the shelves. Have always wondered what folks DO with all that bread and milk...make milk sandwiches?

Lost internet for several days. Back now. Still checking in occasionally. Wanted to wish all a very happy Thanksgiving. Eat lots, save some, make sammiches.
🙂

Hi, Mim...I check in occasionally too. The thing is, many of us who were close on the old board have formed a private group on Facebook for general chatting. If all this board gets is ?s about antiques, that's fine, too. Thanksgiving for me will be with friends at a nice restaurant. No dirty dishes, no sweat. I have no family nearby so some other friends (widows, divorcees, singletons) and I will just do it that way and call it a holiday. I don't know a soul who deliberately ramps up for Black Friday, certainly I don't. Hope you have a lovely day with your family. 🙂

Well, what are the screws you have? Robertsn's sscrews didn't hit the mainstream until the 1930's. I hope this item is as old as you'd like it to be. Robertson's screws are a little iffy and you'll need pics on the threaded board. Please make your pics really small or you'll get hand-smacked by afantiques.

I guess a slotted screw could be shown like this: (-)

Hi xyste - Normally that question is asked the other way around, as in when did Phillips head screws (+) come into general use. That was in the 1930's. If your piece has slotted screws that appear original, the item is probably older than that.

jersey - Did those brides have any clue?

11-11-11-11-11-11 today I was picking out bananas at the store. I'll be sleeping probably when that happens again. I feel for numerologists who live for this stuff.

You're very welcome. 🙂

patC - That's one mark used by E. G. Webster & Son (E G W & S), New York and Brooklyn.

xyste - Not a new site on eBay, just playing around on the threaded boards there.

Have been sidelined with flu for the last 4 days. Think I finally turned the corner and will survive. Felt well enough today (still chilled but no fever) to make it to the grocery store. I'm certain the cats will appreciate their new litter. 😉

Hey there, Reen, and welcome. *gasp* a legit ? Your springerle rolling pin with only two images might be legitimately be called hard to find, but I've seen them with as few as one carved image. I think it depends on the dough and the mold and what the plan was for using it. Avatars here take some work.

Little black dots on sterling are silver sulfide. You can try a variety of ways to remove them, but be careful.

http://www.sterlingsource.com/silvercare.htm

Welcome xyste! Glad you found us. With luck, more users with ? about antiques will also.

I need to go split some wood. Have a great evening!

http://www.gocomics.com/patoliphant/2011/09/02

This one. I found it very truthful and was surprised it disappeared. If I am mistaken that you didn't remove it as the moderator, I'll ask to rejoin. Thought y'all could appreciate it. Pat Oliphant got it spot on.

homechick, you can try grated apples. I'm not certain how that will work with the pineapple already in it or how it would taste, though. Zippy bread is zippy bread. 😉

Greetings, all. Guess this is it now. I too saw that the side door has been closed. Hope we posted this location enough that people with questions can find us.

Had a very good experience today with a seller. I broke a FireKing 7" spiral bowl and found one at a good price. Thing was, he wanted to send it at that expensive rate that almost equalled the price of the item. I asked if he'd just sent it parcel post, and while he agreed and was checking on that, I realized I'd be away when he'd expect payment, so I went ahead and paid full rate for it. When I got back and checked email, he'd already refunded the difference in rates via PayPal. And I got the bowl today...it's beautiful. Nice guy.

I don't worry about that, ginny - trolls and wackos always seem to find a place.

Looks like the old boards are >finally< gone. Click on an old link now and you're redirected to the threaded board for that topic.

Dolores, hi and welcome. Saw your ? elsewhere. No, these boards are not associated with eBay at all and so your feedback will not appear here. If you use the remaining threaded eBay boards it will.

That sounds good, mim. I seldom make chili unless it's to share for some gathering, but I think I do have about 1.3 pounds of coarse ground beef in the freezer to use for chili. I'll wait until first frost, though.

I'm still iffy about my old tax returns. I still have a copy of the first one I ever filed.

mim - http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/paper-records-what-to-toss-what-to-keep.html

You can shred lots of stuff we used to be told to keep forever.

Just use html for links, mim, and all will be well. Clink the link, see the photo.

mim - It's to prevent picture hogs shoving images down your throat unasked. I've seen enough crummy breakfast images to last a lifetime.

mim - The webmaster has for now disabled the ability to post direct images (photos) and instead requires the use of links. Click the link, see the image. That may change in the future.

Oh, I forgot direct links are not permitted now and that's OK by me.

I need to find out how posting pics or links to pics works here so we can advise newcomers after the old board is defunct. Lemme see.
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All the outside chores are still on me and I'm fit enough for that still. And it's enjoyable.

Notice is now appearing at the top of the old chat boards that the new drop dead date is on or about October 14.

mim - When I retired I made certain I could still afford the services of my dear friend Bev, who comes to wrestle the vacuuming and the bathrooms every two weeks.

I heard on another board that the delay in killing the chats is because of recently found glitches in the search system. Apparently all the programmers worth anything are busy working on that instead of pulling chat board plugs.

I've been trying to get back to the old glass board to thank them for being there and everytime I try my whole browser locks up. Can anyone offer a suggestion?

Something came up and I didn't bake today, but for sure tomorrow.

OK, tomorrow is baking day. Y'all have twisted my arm.

jred - I'll need to send your momma some more. She loved it.

Hell, it might even cure him immediately, but I'm not certain of that.

I will make one for my former boss, who's on disability now with cancer and undergoing treatment. So far he's had fudge and blueberry muffins and zippy bread...but I haven't sent key lime poundcake. That will make his next several chemo sessions more bearable, I'm certain.

ginny - thankyouthankyou! I just thawed out and juiced those wonderful keylimes you sent from South Florida and got 2.5 cups of juice. That's in ice cube trays now, freezing. Since my fave key lime poundcake recipe calls for 1/4 cup + 2 tbs juice I can make lots and lots. YUM!

Hotc!! Welcome. This board will take off soon, I feel certain of that. The old board has but a few days left.

We're almost at a milestone we can all be proud of. I just ran the links on the clickpost, found 3 that were defunct, but rebuilt them (and Curt, that link in your sidebar already shows the updates). 100,000 clicks to info about antiques. Whew! I turned that link into a ME page on eBay and will keep it updated there as well as on my homepage.

Suzy - I saw you got your information at the old chat board. For some reason this new board isn't as popular yet for questions about antiques, but we've posted this link there for future use lots of times. Maybe it will get more action after the chats are gone. For socializing, we have a closed group on Facebook that most of the regs use for chatting.

C'mon. Are we still going to use this site or not? Lori just got adopted by a stray kitten so she's once again Staff.

ginnyrose - The weather here after all that rain has been delightful. Low humidity and comfortable temps. Makes me think it's time to dig up some monkey grass and replant it in that vacant front bed that right now makes the whole house look nekkid. We'll study on it.

ginnyrose - That's when I found the boards too...most were already in place by the time I found them.

You're just vintage, mim...antiques are still considered to be 100 years old.

It also might be a little off-putting to ask routine questioners with things they need info about to register for these boards before they can post a ? I realize that's the way it needs to be now, but maybe Curt can rethink some parts of it at a later date.

Yikes...now the forecast is for at least 6 inches of the wet stuff here for Monday. Hooray! The ground is so dry that much water at once won't cause flooding issues (at least I hope it won't) so we are really looking forward to it. jred - you wouldn't be just a wee bit prejudiced about that, would you? Darn good fishing in Florida and SC too.

We may not get any rain until Monday, from that mess heading into the Gulf Coast. And it's so dry here...been weeks since we've had any and the farmers are worried about corn and soybeans.

I think what's happened, homechick, is that most of the regulars meet on FB to chat. Our bread and butter on the old board was answering questions about antiques posted by people who found that board and asked about things. They haven't found this place yet for questions, so the old board is pretty much deserted. I'll check it regularly until it goes away, though, and will post the link to this location as often as I can.

Plume - Faun-Marie is fine. Lots of local roads washed out but they are fine and the farm is fine. She posted on FB earlier today.

Oh, now I did. Looks like local rivers and streams are at or over flood stage in her area. Hope the dairy herd is okay and that the milk trucks can get to them. Would be a darn shame to lose all that product.

Has anyone heard anything from vtfarmer? She's in Island Pond, VT and I haven't found any news of flooding there.

I hope all the east coast members will evacuate if that's necessary and get out of harm's way. Have never understood why some will stay in the path when you can see it coming for days and get out. Tornados (we get those) are not predictable.

homechick - Yes, I saw that recipe for applesauce in SL...I puree mine after the slices have cooked so it's not as chunky. Wonderful stuff. And they got it right about using a variety of apples, makes it much more interesting.

OnTuesday I will be going off again with my friend to hunt furniture for her new house. This time we will be going with her daughter Sarah and Ethan the grandbaby. Will be my first time with him for any extended period. I understand he has two lower front teeth and now knows how to roll over.

I think we got 3...no, 4 little drops of rain today. ginny, please steer your storm northwest, would you? Thank you kindly.

Greetings and g'night, y'all. lol I'll be here tomorrow.

I wish more of the regulars would post here (and I'm including myself). The old AB is a ghost town, and probably will stay that way until the farewell party later. I'm not such a fan of Facebook but that's where everyone is. In my book the new threaded boards are a bust and a half.

giny - It's all about the bottom line. Lovely link to religious crosses you posted on the old board. Very intersting. I'm thinking of a new antiques lesson for here, but with tree issues and tradesmen coming it might take a week or so to get it organized.

these = the chat boards. Heck of a shame we were all so helpful yet so redundant.

Earlier today I explored the new format on the threaded boards...and it's ugly and hard to read. It's already being vilified by the majority of posters, but I suppose in eBay's vernacular "hate-it hate it" translates to "Well-liked." They didn't improve anything and lost lots of good things that were there. There's a lot of white space that I am almost certain one day will be filled with ads. I am not impressed, and sorry that's all that will be left once these chat boards are retired. Another bad call by eBay.

Welcome, billie!

homechick, you said a mouthful. We will never make a lasting difference in that part of the world. Bring them all home.

I just realized I am an equal opportunity appliance owner. The stove is a GE, the fridge is a Kitchen-Aid, the dishwasher is a Kenmore, the washer is a Maytag and the dryer is a Whirlpool. Apropos of nothing special.

Will someone smack me on the head and remind me WHY our troops are still in Iraq?
http://news.yahoo.com/bombs-tear-17-iraqi-cities-63-killed-182551119.html

If you mean you'd be a pariah from eBay's kicking you out of the chats and still need a place to ask ?? about antiques then you'll fit right in.

and t-gal - You owe me. I found the answer for today's WWII ? on the old board but hate it when you put me on the spot like that. tsk.

wait a sec...pariahs are ok... aren't they?

Welcome to newbies! No, we did have the snap to set some parameters so that pariahs would be excluded. 😉 And we do love discussing out favorite fur-butts.

And I also read somewhere that people are claiming these boards are eBay's new replacement chats, created by and sponsored by eBay. Idjits abound.

Guess things will never change until the old boards are totally and forever defunct. Somebody is out there claiming these new boards are scams, out to steal people's money and information. Hoooboy.