Tuesday Treasures - October 29, 2024
This c1950s floral oil painting (done with a pallet knife) signed E. Lewis is from St. Vincent de Paul. I didn't photograph it off center, it's painted off center! It was in a frame that would have done fine, except... you guessed it, the price sticker pulled off the finish! No worries, I've plenty of spare frames. 5" x 7"
I also got these advertising trade cards for J. Hofflin & Co. The only information I can find on this company is a mention in a 1900 newspaper from Winston-Salem, N.C., which reads, "...CONCERNING THE CLOTHING HOUSE " OF J. HOFFLIN CO."
There are those tell-tale color lithograph dots of color!
Something I've been forgetting to squeeze into a Tuesday Treasure is this...
I've often said (maybe not written here, but I have said it) that eventually I expected to find money in a Goodwill Bins book. I did!
That's one thing I worry about--forgetting cash in something I donate. Although, I don't generally stash cash away. I'm sure you'll find a larger bill one of these days.
ReplyDeleteFor a while my mother kept a few $100 bills in books in case there was an earthquake. Then she realized if there was one bad enough she couldn't get to the bank, she wouldn't be able to get to the store to spend them! Maybe we'll find a donated book like that! My grandmother (my mother's mother) hid money around instead of the bank (she was old enough to remember banks failing). She even buried some in baby food jars. Tops rusted, money got ruined, but my mother didn't know all you need is 51% for the banks to accept them. Then, she and her brother found $250 cash under the last rug they rolled up. They just divided it instead of going to the trouble of redoing all the estate accounting on paper! If I have cash I don't stash it, I don't have enough extra to do that!
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