Message #49665

[Rube]

Toni-Lee,

Thanks so much for your kind interest.  I feel very fortunate to have such a legacy connected to this collection.
It's a blessing and a curse.  (My wife thinks it's a curse.)  Their generation, having lived through the Great Depression,
saved EVERYTHING!  And, of course, everything has a story attached to it, so, there's no way you can possibly get rid of
anything.  Especially things that have been saved for many generations. I'm experiencing this currently, as I'm on the tail end of a move, and really should streamline a bit.  It's one reason why I've been focusing so much on these bottles of late, because they're small, and don't take up much space.  So, i've been trading other family heirlooms with my siblings for some of these bottles, as a means of consolidation. But regarding this particular question,  I wish that I'd asked more questions when I had the chance.  But, thanks to this Forum, I've learned a lot, which is quite a blessing!  I've stated in the past that my intent is to catalogue my grandmother's collection in it's entirety, as no bottles have been sold, just dispersed amongst family.  And i'll present this to my aunts upon completion.  It's my hope to put this in some kind of historical family narrative, but I haven't worked out the framework as of yet.  I'm still in the process of photographing the bottles.

Cheers,

Rube.

Cheers,