Posted 8 years ago
SpiritBear
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These are all 1910s advertising plates.
The first one (photo 1 and 2) was one of my favourite plates in my collection. It was from a furniture company here in my town, and it featured a decal of Yellow Stone Park with a border of a colourful calendar around it.
Last week, I had just arrived home from college and opened my bedroom door, and suddenly this plate came crashing down off the wall.
Temporarily, I had several porcelain mugs sitting just beneath the plates on my wall as those were waiting for a place to display (or pricing to sell as they're all just as old as the plates).
This plate struck the mugs and shattered, with the mugs all remaining intact.
This plate was my second or third favourite plate. I have only 5 plates hanging.
I'm glad it wasn't the two plates above it (not photographed), but I really wish this plate hadn't exploded.
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Last night at work I was crouched down stocking a bottom shelf when I suddenly heard a shifting above me. Almost immediately I realised what was about to happen, and as I began reacting (motioning my hands upward to protect my head as I ducked down lower) a box came crashing down from over 11 feet up and struck me in the side of the head next to the temple.
Similarities!
I'm not sure why either came down, as greater vibration has occurred to both without anything ever falling.
The other two are just random recent charity shop finds.
Ouch on two counts, good to see a new post from ya but gezzz ya didn't have to brake plates and heads to do it, a 11 foot fall can hurt or worse
The shelf is 10 feet off the ground, but the box was atop a few other boxes and somehow slid off. I put in an accident report, but I'm not sure what the cameras will show as the cause. I wasn't even touching the shelf. I was getting more product out of the box. LOL.
Soon college will be over and I can post more and do some restoration projects. There is a 1920s fan that needs a heavy overhaul, which I'd like to do.
Lucky your okay, look forward to seeing the fan, Did you get before pics?
I have a before pic, yes.
I'm gonna alter it from original, though. It has steel blades, but I like brass. So, I will spray them.
Usually I don't like the 'like factory new' 'restorations', but I want shiny brass blades, so I have to make a shiny black coat on the body/cage, and then I'll highlight the name in gold.
Sounds like a plan
Watch out SpiritBear, they come in 3s! :^O If you're superstitious! :^) Good Luck!!!
I like those old advertising calendar plates, and buy them when I can. I donated one to the Pittsburg, Ca. Historical Museum, it was from a market in that town in 1903, They've displayed it for about 10yrs. now, but could never find a record of the store, yet!
Are you going to try and fix the plate, or is it too far gone? :^(
I wonder if that was the year, 1913 that Yellowstone was made a National Park? Or just for a pretty picture on the plate, of somewhere to visit.
No! First National Park by U.S. Grant in 1872! :^)
Superstition is nonsense. LOL.
I've left it in a pile where it fell and will leave it there till I buy Super Glue, and then well see how it comes out. LOL. It will never, though, go back on the wall.
It was a popular park. Lots of photography of it at the time. It was meant only to be a pretty picture.