Posted 2 years ago
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No idea who Agnes Fisher was, but apparently this was the top of her glass dresser box (ring box, ??) in 1907 or so. A small thing, it is otherwise reasonably thick glass with the name and date cut into its top ruby red colored center. It looks to me like the lettering was also either filled in or accented (dark, like the oval dot ring around the red) and remains of gold decoration are still in the patterning around its edges.
Surprisingly it doesn't seem to be chipped up at all -- I say that because this piece is actually something I once found literally "buried in the dirt" someplace. Probably from under somebody's house, I don't really recall that part, just that it has been banging around here in a box or drawer full of other stuff ever since...?
I think you should give this a bit of a brush up just like you did with the bakelite buckle! Could leave it out of the box for a while, all prettied up like.
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Ummm Gillian...I actually *did* clean it up -- y'all should have seen it as-found -- thus all the more my own amazement that it remains in as good a shape as it is?!!
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My apologies Anything - meant no offence.
No apology necessary Gillian?!! Its certainly easy enough to 'see' what looks like dirt still on it, especially in cracks and crevices, but I kinda think the majority of what's now on it is actually supposed to be there. The dark accents within the cut lettering are especially what I first thought was just more stubborn crud -- they were mostly completely filled-in looking when I found it, but the toothbrush treatment removed most of that easily and what's left doesn't seem 'wrong'...? Kinda likewise around the edges, I didn't want to scrub too hard once it became apparent that there *had* been gold colored decoration on it.
And YES, I agree it deserves a better place to live than semi-lost in a drawer. Gonna look for a little spot on a windowsill for it, so maybe it'll catch a sun ray every so often?? :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)