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Across the Fence:  Children's Blocks from 1901  |
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
9093 Posts
Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
9093 Posts |
 Posted - Mar 14 2011 : 07:24:16 AM
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I found these on an etsy site. Gotta wonder what little hands played with them. The girl said they were from an estate on the Mississippi.
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Mar 14 2011 : 07:54:03 AM
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They're wonderful, Nancy. I love old blocks--the pictures, the carving, especially the grammar of the days passed is particularly poignant. Words for animals that noone thinks of any more.
I have some really lovely ones that I bought from Miss Wilma before Violet was born. They are German, and are about 6 inches long, and are wrapped with a story that seems to be Old Mother Hubbard.
Janice gave Violet a whole bunch of vintage wooden blocks and they are her favorite thing to play with. She stacks them, knocks them down, stacks them up and yells out (mostly) correct letters and numbers 
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
9093 Posts
Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
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Posted - Mar 14 2011 : 08:14:49 AM
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Jonnie,
How nice that Miss Wilma and Janice gave those blocks to Violet. What a nice keepsake! FUNNY YOU SHOULD MENTION mISS wILMA, I e'mailed her not long ago asking if she had any Blocks she wanted to sell, but didn't hear from her. Maybe I had the e'mail wrong. Hope all is well with her. Look some caps, not yelling.
Nancy Jo
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ceejay48
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm/Sharpshooter
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CeeJay (CJ)
Dolores
Colorado
USA
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Posted - Mar 15 2011 : 06:00:00 AM
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Nancy,
I have ONE block like that. I found it at an antique shop in Corpus Christi, Texas. They had just a few and were SOOOOOOOO expensive I felt I could only get one. It has a "G" on one side and "W" on the other. The little pictures on two other sides. I bought it for the "G" for my maiden name "Gardner" . . .and I probably had blocks like that when I was little. There was one with an "A" and I wanted it to for my married name, but . .
Memories!
CJ
..from the barefoot farmgirl in SW Colorado...sister chick #665
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
9093 Posts
Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
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Posted - Mar 15 2011 : 08:19:42 AM
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Yes CJ,I was surprised at the prices myself. I found my really old ones on esty, I think they were about 20.00, so it isn't something you can order every time you get a bee on your bonnet.
Nancy Jo
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electricdunce
True Blue Farmgirl
2544 Posts
Karin
Belmont
ME
USA
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Posted - Mar 15 2011 : 09:33:04 AM
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They made me smile when I saw them, and your flower frog pen holder is brilliant! Now I just have to find a flower frog, I know I bought a few years ago, but where they are is a blank. We got five days of rain to wash away the snow and now I have a carpet of snowdrops in front of my house. And mud. Lots and lots of mud. That means spring is just a few short months away....
Karin
Farmgirl Sister #153
"Give me shelter from the storm" - Bob Dylan
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
9093 Posts
Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
9093 Posts |
Posted - Mar 15 2011 : 09:52:45 AM
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Hi Karen,
Oh Boy spring, hurry up! I love the vidio on your blog of the little owl. So funny and cute.
Nancy Jo
www.Nancy-Jo.blogspot.com |
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pnickols
True Blue Farmgirl
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Patricia
Parma
Ohio
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Posted - Mar 16 2011 : 05:14:43 AM
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| Nancy, I would soo love to go to your thrift store with you you find such awesome things |
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Children's Blocks from 1901
