~patches~ wrote:
I love them anywhere from jars, to crocks, to appliances, to serveware,
to cookware. What about everyone else? Do you use your antiques or
keep them just on display?

~patches~ -- serving salad in an antique lead glass cutware bowl and
pickles in an antique depression dish tonight

I both live with and sell antiques. My kitchen is brimming with
antiques, and not yet antique (1950's and earlier) stuff. My kitchen
table c.1925 is in the refinishing shop now, enemel top with sliding
leaves and under the ugly white paint, quarter sawn oak. Can't wait to
finish it and give the current table away! Otherwise my home kitchen
sports a lot of yellowware, blue & white crockery, fiestaware, flint &
non-flint pattern glass, wooden butter molds, glass leftover dishes,
brilliant cut glass dressing bottles, a few too many cocktail shakers &
ice buckets 1880-1950, red painted wooden handled utensils, a couple
sets of s&p shakers from the 30s, a 1940s pressure cooker, primary
colored pyrex bowls, covered dishes & pie plates, Wagner, Griswald,
Portland Stove Foundry & Dru Ware CI, assorted drinking glasses from
1900-1940, Portland Glass salt cellars, more 1910 and earlier china
patterns than I could name....and yes I use it all. The butter molds
don't see much use though.

The kitchen at the summer home on Golden Pond is nearly as it was when
the place was built in 1901 with some additions from the 40s, 50s &
late 80s. I have a call button for the maid and cook, no matter how
many times I press it no one arrives. CI cookstove, enamel sink &
drainboard, circa 1950 Frigidare that still works, the ice box got
moved to the boat house to make room for a dishwasher, nil for counter
space, a back kitchen for storage and the upright freezer, Wagner
ovenware, Griswald frying pans, an original Sunbeam electric mixer,
glass leftover dishes, spatterware jugs & pie plates, a ton of red &
white enemelware, yellowware mixing bowls, crocks, more but I can't
think of it all off the top of my head.

Jessica

"Dave W." wrote in message
...

This was my kitchen 2 1/2 years ago ......

http://tinypic.com/view/?pic=jzyvf5


That is a fabulous cooker I can see why you don't want to get rid of
it. Have you thought of offering it to a museum?

O

Yes, I have thought about that ... but I don't know of a museum that
displays antique stoves. I should add that my wife wants me to keep it
in hopes that we can use it again some day. I do think it would be neat
in a "summer kitchen" ... I think that's what they call an outdoor
kitchen. A number of older homes had them for use in hot weather, before
the advent of air conditioning.

Regards,
Dave W.



Listen to your wife. That is a wonderful stove. There is a show on HGTV and
they showed a kitchen with a stove just like that oneThey had a newer one
that they cooked on but this was kept as display. If you get rid of it I bet
you will regret it someday.

On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 00:56:32 GMT, "Michael \"Dog3\" Lonergan"
connected the dots and wrote:

~~patches~ looking for trouble wrote in
:
~
~ I love them anywhere from jars, to crocks, to appliances, to
serveware,
~ to cookware. What about everyone else? Do you use your antiques
or
~ keep them just on display?
~
~ ~patches~ -- serving salad in an antique lead glass cutware bowl
and
~ pickles in an antique depression dish tonight
~
~
~I don't have many antiques in the kitchen but I do throughout the
house.
~If I have an antique sitting out, I expect it to be used. That goes
for the
~vases, chairs and ashtrays (ya' gotta smoke in the garage tho'
~
~Michael

Let's see: my grandmother's cast iron, my great aunt's KA mixer and
Sunbeam coffee grinder, and Mom's china, altho it'll cost me $160 to
replace the lid to the teapot....

Anything else over 50 years? A few cookbooks from the 40's, and me.

maxine in ri

Dave W. wrote:
In article ,
~patches~ wrote:

I love them anywhere from jars, to crocks, to appliances, to serveware,
to cookware. What about everyone else? Do you use your antiques or
keep them just on display?

~patches~ -- serving salad in an antique lead glass cutware bowl and
pickles in an antique depression dish tonight

This was my kitchen 2 1/2 years ago ......

http://tinypic.com/view/?pic=jzyvf5

The stove is now out in the garage ... can't bring myself to get rid of
it!

I used that stove for over 20 years. It was made around 1927 or so.

My pressure cooker is from the '40s .... its almost as old as I am.

Regards,
Dave W.

--
Living in the Ozarks
For email, edu will do.

Regardless of what doesn't happen, there's always someone who knew it wouldn't.
R. Henry

That is a great stove. A house I looked at had the same stove but the
six burner model, sadly the stove and the barn were the best features
in the home. Damn I wanted that house, I mean stove.

Jessica

Wayne Boatwright wrote:
On Sun 08 Jan 2006 10:10:31p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it ms. tonya?

(~patches~)WROTE:
I love them anywhere from jars, to crocks, to appliances, to serveware,
to cookware. What about everyone else? Do you use your antiques or keep
them just on display?
~patches~ -- serving salad in an antique lead glass cutware bowl and
pickles in an antique depression dish tonight
----------------------------------------------------
MY RESPONSE: I have a few general electric & westinghouse glass fridge
water bottles from the 40's, 1 civil war bottle, few glass fridge
storage containers from 50's all on top of my fridge.
Last an old hamburger shape cake pan hanging on wall.

I love those old glass fridge storage containers. I've started collecting
them and *using* them. I find they also work in the microwave.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*

I just found a green glass rectangular dish with a clear glass top.
The top has some fruits and vegetables intaglio, and probably both were
part of a pair. The top of the dish is a little chipped, so I probalby
will _not_ use it in the nuke, but it should be nice for storing salad
incidentals like olives or scallions.

maxine in ri

On Tue 10 Jan 2006 07:33:18a, maxine in ri wrote in rec.food.cooking:


Wayne Boatwright wrote:
On Sun 08 Jan 2006 10:10:31p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it ms.
tonya?

(~patches~)WROTE:
I love them anywhere from jars, to crocks, to appliances, to
serveware, to cookware. What about everyone else? Do you use your
antiques or keep them just on display?
~patches~ -- serving salad in an antique lead glass cutware bowl and
pickles in an antique depression dish tonight
----------------------------------------------------
MY RESPONSE: I have a few general electric & westinghouse glass
fridge water bottles from the 40's, 1 civil war bottle, few glass
fridge storage containers from 50's all on top of my fridge.
Last an old hamburger shape cake pan hanging on wall.

I love those old glass fridge storage containers. I've started
collecting them and *using* them. I find they also work in the
microwave.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*

I just found a green glass rectangular dish with a clear glass top.
The top has some fruits and vegetables intaglio, and probably both were
part of a pair. The top of the dish is a little chipped, so I probalby
will _not_ use it in the nuke, but it should be nice for storing salad
incidentals like olives or scallions.

maxine in ri



Sounds nice! I have about a dozen pieces, but all are either clear or
white. The clear pieces have the intaglio tops like yours. So far, I
haven't found any colored glass.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
____________________________________________

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974

"~patches~" wrote in message
...
I love them anywhere from jars, to crocks, to appliances, to serveware,
to cookware. What about everyone else? Do you use your antiques or
keep them just on display?

I have a wooden spoon which belonged to my father's mother. I still use it
but I keep thinking of mounting it on the wall.

"rox formerly rmg" wrote in message
. com...

"~patches~" wrote in message
...
I love them anywhere from jars, to crocks, to appliances, to serveware,
to cookware. What about everyone else? Do you use your antiques or
keep them just on display?

I have a wooden spoon which belonged to my father's mother. I still use it
but I keep thinking of mounting it on the wall.

Take a picture of it, be sure to keep extra copies no matter what format you
choose. There are items on one side of my family that they have brought
from Germany that one cannot see because they are in someone's home, or they
will not allow pictures to be taken, nor will they share with others in any
way details. (Not all are like this, believe me.) There will be someone who
will be doing genealogy who will love to see anything belonging to your
family. Document, document, document. It will be a treasure.

I was offered a serving bowl of a cousin's great-grandmother; the only thing
she had. I couldn't take it, it was too dear. She isn't computer
literature enough to take a picture of it and lives several thousand miles
from me. Perhaps someday my cousin will be able to take a picture of this
for records for others to enjoy as well.
Dee Dee

Dee Randall wrote:

"rox formerly rmg" wrote in message
. com...

"~patches~" wrote in message
...

I love them anywhere from jars, to crocks, to appliances, to serveware,
to cookware. What about everyone else? Do you use your antiques or
keep them just on display?

I have a wooden spoon which belonged to my father's mother. I still use it
but I keep thinking of mounting it on the wall.


Take a picture of it, be sure to keep extra copies no matter what format you
choose. There are items on one side of my family that they have brought
from Germany that one cannot see because they are in someone's home, or they
will not allow pictures to be taken, nor will they share with others in any
way details. (Not all are like this, believe me.) There will be someone who
will be doing genealogy who will love to see anything belonging to your
family. Document, document, document. It will be a treasure.

I'll second this one and document not only on premises but off premises
as in keeping the images in a safety deposit box. Your ancestors and
others relatives searching for information will honestly thank you in
years to come.

BTW, my FM loved to cook but not from recipes so perhaps that is where I
got it from. Back when we first got married, I started a recipe book in
a 3 ring binder. A few years back DD said she wanted a copy and I said
I would type the recipes out for her but she wanted copies of all the
hand written pages. A digital camera helps to preserve these recipes as
well as the pics

I was offered a serving bowl of a cousin's great-grandmother; the only thing
she had. I couldn't take it, it was too dear. She isn't computer
literature enough to take a picture of it and lives several thousand miles
from me. Perhaps someday my cousin will be able to take a picture of this
for records for others to enjoy as well.
Dee Dee

~patches~ wrote:

Well now as long as you aren't collecting Depression glass or
fiestaware you should be ok.

Are you not the least bit interested in
why you shouldn't eat off of pre-war red
Fiestaware? (The other colors are okay.)

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 12:49:01 -0800, Mark Thorson
wrote:

~patches~ wrote:

Well now as long as you aren't collecting Depression glass or
fiestaware you should be ok.

Are you not the least bit interested in
why you shouldn't eat off of pre-war red
Fiestaware? (The other colors are okay.)

It contains uranium in the glaze.
http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/rglass.html

On a related note, my ceramist friends in grad school used to say you
saved money on sugar if you used the right glaze for your coffee cups.
Lead tastes sweet.

modom

Mark Thorson wrote:

~patches~ wrote:

Well now as long as you aren't collecting Depression glass or
fiestaware you should be ok.


Are you not the least bit interested in
why you shouldn't eat off of pre-war red
Fiestaware? (The other colors are okay.)

Mark, as a collector, I'm well aware as to why you shouldn't. I've seen
your other posts and really just don't want to get into it with you.
Thanks for your concern.

"~patches~" wrote in message
...
Mark Thorson wrote:

~patches~ wrote:

Well now as long as you aren't collecting Depression glass or
fiestaware you should be ok.


Are you not the least bit interested in
why you shouldn't eat off of pre-war red
Fiestaware? (The other colors are okay.)

Mark, as a collector, I'm well aware as to why you shouldn't. I've seen
your other posts and really just don't want to get into it with you.
Thanks for your concern.

Before anyone else gets overly-in-a-state-of-twisted-knickers
re this, please read:

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_099.html

Bob M,