Tag Archives: antiques

Photo A Day Challenge: Start With ‘V’…

Thomas Edison’s victrola.  Thomas Edison National Historical Park. West Orange, New Jersey

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Violin from the John & Priscilla Alden house in Duxbury, Ma. circa 1600’s.

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Sunday Stills: Objects Over 100 Years Old…

This is my maternal grandfather Charles’s pocket watch. He died in 1910 and I’m not sure how long he had this pocket watch but it’s safe to say it’s over 100 years old.  My mother was only 3 years old when her father died so she really didn’t have many memories of him.  In researching our ancestors my daughter Deb came across a heart breaking story about Charles.  At the age of 10, Charles’s father, Charles’s mother and his 3 older siblings died within months of one another leaving Charles the oldest of the 4 remaining siblings.  This watch might have been the only thing my mother had that was her father’s and now it belongs to my daughter Deb, Charles’s great granddaughter.  I like that.

 

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A close up of the intricate pictures on the front and back.

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For many years the watch sat in my jewelry box untouched. I took it out and wound it and it began ticking… it was missing hands though. New hands, new pocket watch chain, thorough cleaning and the watch is keeping time once again. Actually that’s not entirely true, Charles the watch doesn’t always keep the correct time every day… seems Charles is having a bit of a good time teasing us.

 

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Photo A Day Challenge…

August 1st – welcome August… for me the biggest event in August is Illumination Night on Martha’s Vineyard

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August 2nd – play… a ‘play’ on words with this picture of the play I saw in NYC in March.

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Aug 3rd – start with “A”… the Auburn at a classic car show.

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Photo Challenge: Shadow…

*Just a note to let you know that I will not be doing Through Jersey Eyes blog anymore beginning in March.   Please follow me on my other blog .. MV Obsession.. https://mvobsession.com/  Thank you to all who have followed me here. 

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The prompt this week is to show shadows…

The sun streaming thru this store window and the words on the outside of the window were shadowed on the frame inside the store.

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Mirrored Table With Flowers …

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Autumn Night Light …

Gay Head Lighthouse – Martha’s Vineyard

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Classics …

Roadster
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Diner

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Coffee And Shopping Day …

Every Saturday my daughter Deb and I go out for coffee and sometimes shopping as well.  Her best friend Dawn often joins us and we always have a good time… lots of laughing is involved.

This past Saturday we went to the pretty and charming small town of Lafayette, New Jersey which is set in the rolling hills of Sussex County.   There are a lot of antique stores and although antiques are not quite my thing it’s fun to poke around in the shops and discover that some of the antiques are things that my parents actually had when I was a child.

Our first stop was a Cloveberry, a charming coffee/food/bakery cafe.  We will definitely be going back.  The coffee was superb and the mixed berry scone I had was not only massive but de-lic-ious.

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100_8060After our caffeine fix and calorie overload off we went to explore.

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It was in the last shop, Sweet P.E.A.’s that we spent the most time… and yes, it was sweet.  Somehow I got into one of the pictures !

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From the window you can see and hear water rushing past…

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When we went outside we saw this building…

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… nice view from inside.

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It was a lovely day and I’m sure we’ll go back.

These aren’t signs of spring but signs that made me smile..

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Flowers On Cash Register …

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Do You Know What These Are …

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6.

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Extra credit if you know what #6 is :)

Come back on Friday for the answers :)

UPDATE:  the answers

1-cash register 2-washing machine wringer 3-Ouija board 4-typewriter 5-Polaroid Land camera 6- spinning wheel fly wheel/bobbin

- by Joan -

(www.throughjerseyeyes.com)