Dropping this off (why not) : My grandmother's lamps

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1. No wonder!

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2. My darling grandma crocheted the things (coverings) - am going to learn crocheting

to cover the danged MID WATCH thingy just as soon as you deliver (the pic)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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4. This 2 hrs. ago.

I'll engage further l8r today.

I need my beauty rest.

11!1¿

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3. Dear Laffy Katt, you mean a lot, thanks

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5. Duz I mean a lot also?¿

I voted for your thread. Also.

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10. Hah, didn't want to interrupt your beauty sleep, not that I take you for granted?!1 Or *do* I?!1

ON EDIT: I have no clue what "No wonder!" means!1

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11. 'No wonder' we have a mutual affinity.

My maternal grandparents had a floor lamp similar to your gram's.

We got several retro lamps from my in-laws. They don't make them styles anymore. She was gonna put them in one of our family yardsales. I said, "You are? I'll buy them from you!" She said goodness no. You're welcome to them!
My hub rewired them, we cleaned them off & bought new shades. First time she saw them, she was amazed. Then she wanted them back! Nooo--JK.

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12. Excellent story! - you're full of them! & glad to hear the mutual affinity, thanks.

My dear grandmother gave me the little one with her own hands and I got it re-wired, glad to see that I'm not the only one to keep things current. My mother and sister kept guard on the other two and the furniture and also tinkered with things - had the furniture reupholstered (me no like) and the table lamp shade re-covered. I had always heard from collectors that things shouldn't be re-done? That little table was left over from one of my grandfather's businesses (confectionary), besides saloons, and as a teen I stripped it to bare wood and refinished it.

My sister and I are the only ones left with a direct claim to these things and I have convinced her that after us they (furniture, lamps) will go to a local museum. The younger relatives never knew my grandparents and our cousins don't seem to be emotionally connected. The stuff is about 120 years old and the family were pioneers in our area. Besides that we were close to our grandparents.

By the bye, I don't have the lamps bunched up like that for daily use.

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14. Besides the lamps, I love that table! I had an old wooden seat/heart design wrought iron back

chair from an ice cream shop or mb as you say, a confectionery or saloon.
Na z'drovje!

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15. A similar table made me drive off the street, displayed for sale outside a hotel surplus store

Was super excited, and they had several, but just don't need stuff, am at the age of getting rid of stuff. Here:

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16. Cool! I like this one, too! You did make the purchase? 😉

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17. No, am getting rid of stuff, not piling in.

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6. Styles change with the time.

Some people stay current. Some don't.

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9. Well, let's see. The large table lamp was their 50th wedding anniversary from 70 years back.

The small one was made from chunks of marble by her brother. And she would change the upholstery on her furniture every few years. And in the mix of raising eleven kids she stayed current to her end at 94. I'm not clear on how memorializing her conflicts with staying current. Just thought some might like looking without my getting into details.

[Skittles]

13. ?

no need to "stay current", if you like, er, what was

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7. Nice pieces.

[mysteryowl]

8. Ha!