Things Mothers throw out

tedwca

tedwca

Joined
Dec 10, 2005
Messages
3,410
Found this in some stuff my mother was getting rid of. :eek: She didn't think anyone would want it since it is slightly smaller than modern business cards. I even have a stack of the gentleman's cards that were designed to go in it for networking at socials.

It was given to my grandfather in 1930 by his mother. I believe it was my great grandfather’s and he acquired it while in Japan in 1900. It is ivory with gold overlays.

IMG_8040.jpg


IMG_8041.jpg


IMG_8042.jpg


IMG_8043.jpg


IMG_8044.jpg


I have a few other things to photograph as well. There was a sold gold tie pin in the shape of a calvary sword, and a bunch of $5, $10, $20 Gold pieces from 1906 - 1909 that she thought were fakes. :confused: They were real and worth a lot.

NEVER LET YOUR MOTHER THROW ANYTHING AWAY WITHOUT CHECKING IT OUT 1st!!!!!!!!!
 
Just super detail. Sure would like to the garbageman on your route. By the way how thin would the knife have to be, to fit in that case?
 
DaveinNY said:
Just super detail. Sure would like to the garbageman on your route. By the way how thin would the knife have to be, to fit in that case?
Click to expand...

It'd have to be pretty small as normal 2"x3.5" Business cards are about the same size as the case. It would hold maybe 10 or so cards without stuffing them in. The pictures are about 3x bigger than the actual case.(at least on my screen 1280x1024)

Razor blades would work though.:D
 
You might think about getting it appraised at a high end antique shop. Someone that deals in orental art pieces. It may have makers signature on it, if it dose, I can see lots of custom knives in you future.
 
Ah yes that is a faux ivory, golden crane cigarette case. :confused:

Commonly given away in breakfast cereals. ;)

Its only worth about five dollars. :rolleyes:

Send it to me and I,ll give you six. A clear profit. :cool:
 
don't forget he lives in canada, so those are canadian dollars, i'll up that offer to 620.00 yen if you throw in free shipping.
 
arhhh! if me remembers correct, las time we shipped 'im on the duckie, he complained the whole time about his cabin bein' damp, an' after we gives him the best space we had between the frames down in the bilges. we hads ter offload him on thet sandbar when we gots tired of listenin rather than keelhaul him, 'cus he was a payin' passenger.
 
that is really pretty. As you sure it is a card case? It looks like a case for holding matches. Metal ones have a striker, ivory ones don't.
 
Rich Yuppies in the city of london often buy these to keep thier condoms in when out & about.

Looks classier I guess than a cardboard box.:D

They do well in auctions.

Lovely find!

Spiral
 
Man that thing is beautiful. Great thread.
 
Holy cow! She was gonna throw that out?!


My father in law grew up across the street from the base of Monk's Mound at Cahokia Mounds. This was in the days before they restored the site, and erosion was chewing the mounds away. He and his brother had a whole cigar box full of arrowheads & such they picked up from the bottoms of gulleys, which their mother threw out at some point. :grumpy:
 
Andrew Taylor said:
that is really pretty. As you sure it is a card case? It looks like a case for holding matches. Metal ones have a striker, ivory ones don't.
Click to expand...

Matches? or, perhaps paper (to roll your own). I would consider tossing it on ebay with a high reserve just to see what kind of feed back comes in. That looks like extremely fine work. Perhaps the kind of thing that would buy you a sack full of custom knives.

n2s
 
My father left behind a lot of 'stuff' when he passed away ten years ago - most of it is probably of limited worth. My mom, for reasons known only to her, has not thrown away much of it at all (even obviously worthless items). I will be at her home over the Thanksgiving weekend and will go through some of it, just to make sure items with some potential value, either personal or monetary, do not end up in the wrong pile.

Eric
 
My Uncle sold a lot of Grandpa's stuff after he died, in a garage sale. There were a couple Nikormat cameras. I called to stop the sale; he'd almost sold one but it hadn't worked. Send it to me anyway, I told him.
I checked it out when it arrived; worked fine. Sometimes it goes on the blink for a few seconds is all. Lucky.

As for mothers, mine threw out nearly all of my jr high and hi school writings.
Wish I could see them today.


munk
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top