I was just given this Indiana War of 1812 relic....

[snorko]

This thread has me thinking about old stuff I have and what it means. Example: I have a pewter plate that dates back to around 1770. It is a simple plain dinner plate, the type you would find in a tavern or inn. It could easily have carried a founding father's dinner or a Hessian soldier's lunch. I realize that is unlikely but who knows.

 

[indiucky]

Example: I have a pewter plate that dates back to around 1770. It is a simple plain dinner plate, the type you would find in a tavern or inn. It could easily have carried a founding father's dinner or a Hessian soldier's lunch. I realize that is unlikely but who knows.

Have Churchmouse take a look at it.....He may be able to at least tell you whether it was used at any taverns he frequented back then...


(I too have a couple of 18th century pewter plates...They don't go for that much money so I used the one I had at reenactments.....It was cool eating off a plate that the person I was pretending to be may have eaten off of.....)

 

[Thor]

I love objects with history, they speak to me. When in Italy I picked up a bronze age dagger, in Turkey I went to an archeological dig and scored some crusade era coins, I have a lot of books in my library from before the civil war and a first printing of the photographic history of the civil war (in a bunch of volumes). My oldest pewter mug is dated 1630. It has an 'odd' metallic taste when charged with alcohol so I don't use it much...I prefer my drinking horn anyway.

I recently finished reading "The Campfires of Napoleon" ~1856 which probably inspired some young man to go get involved in the whole war between the states thing. It's written not as a history of his battles but the stories his soldiers told around the campfires after the battles.

Anyway, history and historic things; I'm a fan.

 

[woowoo2]

And I have a reason to visit again.

To see the button you lost as a young man?

 

[red_zr24x4]

I think I figured it out, CM is a highlander, immortal. ....

 

[Thor]

I think I figured it out, CM is a highlander, immortal. ....

Puny mortal.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

To see the button you lost as a young man?

Young? In 1800s?

Hahahahaha...

 

[mammynun]

I have seen and held the button, and it's very cool... as is the story behind it being found and how it arrived at Falls City.

 

[actaeon277]

Someday I'm going to have to visit your shop

 

[actaeon277]

I think I figured it out, CM is a highlander, immortal. ....

There can be only one.

 

[jamil]

I have to wonder if the future will care for the relics we make like we care for the past's.

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

I have to wonder if the future will care for the relics we make like we care for the past's.

Well, they do say that plastic lasts forever....

 

[mammynun]

I have to wonder if the future will care for the relics we make like we care for the past's.

We already have "Classic Rock" radio stations, and Rap will not be missed.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

You never know who you'll meet or what things you'll see when you stop by Indi's museum and gift shop. Sometimes it's a cool relic, sometimes a famous writer, and sometimes other INGOers.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

You never know who you'll meet or what things you'll see when you stop by Indi's museum and gift shop. Sometimes it's a cool relic, sometimes a famous writer, and sometimes other INGOers.

And if you happen to go when Churchmouse is there, you can see both a cool relic and another INGOer, all in one.

 

[jamil]

I don't know about all this agism I'm seeing against Churchmouse. I mean. C'mon. Imagine when you're that old. Think how you would feel with a bunch of relatively whippersnapper aged youn punkz poking fun at your age!

Well. Theoretically imagine you're that old.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I don't know about all this agism I'm seeing against Churchmouse. I mean. C'mon. Imagine when you're that old. Think how you would feel with a bunch of relatively whippersnapper aged youn punkz poking fun at your age!

Well. Theoretically imagine you're that old.

All in good fun of course. Actually I fall between CM and Indiucky in age, so if they're both "old", I reckon I must be too.

 

[jamil]

All in good fun of course. Actually I fall between CM and Indiucky in age, so if they're both "old", I reckon I must be too.

I don't think I like your logic. I'm older than Indiucky.

 

[indiucky]

I don't think I like your logic. I'm older than Indiucky.

But you act younger....

 

[chocktaw2]

Someday I'm going to have to visit your shop

Yes, you must do this.