Gothic Style Pickle Bottle with beautiful lead label
Next to the discovery of fire, some of the more important inventions to mankind were the development of techniques for the long-term preservation of food without rapid spoiling. One of the earliest distinct bottle styles strongly identified with foods were the...
Early train car lights – c. 1880’s to 1920’s
A great pair of antique railroad candle wall lights. These brass candle lamps likely hung on the walls of some passenger car back in the early days of the Great Western Railroad. These candle lamps made perfect night lights for passengers on a train trying to sleep as...
Sharpless Ice Cream Tray c. 1920s
Finding background information on Sharpless Ice Cream, the producers of “The Velvet Kind” turned out to be a little tougher than we had imagined. Others who have attempted seem to be stumped on whether or not there was actually a fellow who went by the name of...
Leather Fire Bucket c 1850
Before the invention of water pumps and hoses, fires were put out by throwing water from leather buckets. From the late 1600s to the early 1800s, hand-sewn leather fire buckets were standard equipment in most Canadian towns. Stores, businesses and warehouses all kept...
