Sunday, May 16, 2010

Wow-- excellent weekend for finding Hudson memorabilia at local rummage/garage sales!  I got all this stuff in the last 24 hours....


Antique made-in-Hudson Gifford Wood ice tongs refashioned into a candelabra:

(Gifford had foundry here that specialized in ice-harvesting tools....)


1985 Fire Alarm Locator/Calendar, courtesy Register-Star:


Flip side is a calendar with reprint of the first edition of the Hudson Weekly Gazette,
March 31, 1785.


Ca. 1940 Elmer Swanson silhouette advertising thermometer:



Chocolate brown size 44 man's suit from Kritzman-Maskin Men's store, 511
(?)Warren St:


And my favorite, a tiny pocket sewing kit from the Orchard Dress Shop: