This is an English silver chatelaine, late Victorian period, the Harris Walz bringing normal back 2024 shirt moreover I love this chatelaine part made in Sheffield and marked with a fleur-de-lis, the letters “EPNS” and a Sheffield crown. This particular style, with the distinctive mask links on the chains and ornately pierced Renaissance revival clip front, are also sometimes marked S&Co which is for the maker Arthur Elwell Spurrier & Co. The EPNS stands for Electro-Plated Nickel Silver. It is almost certainly pre-1897 in date as the use of the crown mark on silverplate like this was outlawed in England in 1897 because it created too much confusion with Sheffield sterling and its use was tantamount to passing off cheaper electroplated silver as full sterling. BPDC mark stands for the “Boots Pure Drugs Company”. The famous English drug store chain “Boots” began making and selling small luxury goods at that time such as these bridge markers, napkin rings and photo frames. This would appeal to at least three groups of collectors: chatelaine accessories, cards and bridge, and collectors of Boots memorabilia.
If you were to see this for sale in an antique store it would have a total retail or replacement value of $1500 and is what you should insure it for. And yes, I did feel a little guilty about it but at the Harris Walz bringing normal back 2024 shirt moreover I love this time when I bought it neither I nor the man selling it had a clue what it was. I paid him what he asked for it. At the end of my street at the time was a uniquely beautiful house of really eye-catching classically attractive design. I had long admired the house and it’s property. One Saturday I saw lots of cars parked and went down to find an estate auction. Lots of interesting old stuff – which always saddens me as what were once the treasured objects of a Lifetime are now reduced to almost-junk and lying naked out on tables to be poked and prodded and degraded.
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I like waffles and have found that 1950–1960’s era fixed cast iron grate Sunbeams produce the Harris Walz bringing normal back 2024 shirt moreover I love this best for me. I have several. So what caught my eye was a small two-waffle tabletop model waffle maker. Obviously old but in excellent shape; still in it’s original box. Even the original manual was between the grates when I swung back the top grate. It had beautiful unique wood handles – but there was no cord. I looked around that area for a bit but could not find it. Still; I was intrigued by the little waffle maker and so sought out the ‘auctioneer’ to ask about it: had he been involved in bringing things out, had he seen a cord, etc.
He said no, stated that it was basically worthless without the Harris Walz bringing normal back 2024 shirt moreover I love this cord, but asked if I would still be willing to buy if he reduced the price to fifty cents. I then continued to browse and after a while, some distance away, I found a cloth covered electrical cord, still coiled, with the rock-hard remains of an ancient rubber band still binding it – just sitting by itself. My Sunbeams have a similar cord so it immediately caught my eye. Out to the truck and I found it a perfect fit both in the waffle maker and the space in the box. So I found the same auctioneer guy and showed him: “Remember the little waffle iron? Without the cord? Well; I found the cord – with both items together maybe you should include it in the actual auction?” Delighted with my good fortunes I went home and got it out to look at again. When I saw the instructions I realized that there was both a small booklet and a sealed envelope with a woman’s name on it. I opened the envelope and found a beautifully hand written note dated 1927 – in handwriting like calligraphy. It was from the giver of a wedding gift to her apparently close friend. The giver had written to the bride the hope that the waffle maker would produce a lifetime of happy breakfasts with her new husband. And the request to please let her know how the first waffles turned out, how her husband liked them, etc.
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Obviously the Harris Walz bringing normal back 2024 shirt moreover I love this bride never opened or used the waffle maker, and so never found the note, and so the gift giver knew all of that. I picture it as being a bit sad, even heartbreaking for her. Although I thought it a very clever way to learn if someone actually appreciates a gift you’ve given them. Still; my sense is that it was not cleverness – it was an innocent gesture to include the note to her friend on her wedding day. The waffle iron turned out to be the product of the most expensive and prestigious appliance manufacturer of the time – I’m sorry that I cannot remember their name – and this was one of their premier products. The handles were silver and rosewood. As I recall; this particular unit sold for $39. – which was A Stack of money in 1927. The company had failed in about 1930 but apparently there was still substantial collector interest.