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The large pitcher that you had gotten down from the top of the kitchen cabinets, goes to a washing set. back in the early to even late 1800's they had them, came with a large bowl [ or weshing basin, ] and the matching large pitchure to hold the water, that you would pour into the basin, wash up, and then add water to rinse..be VERY careful not to break it any more than what it is.The stamp on the bottom means it is englishware, due to the royal english ware stamp on it, Love these cleaning videos, things are shaping up, Great Job Robert!
That stamp and verifications of it were used by many bands. It doesn't mean it's English. They just wanted to make you think it was so you felt you were getting something fancy, lol. I think this piece was made by a company named Vodry and Brothers. Late 1800's.
That is a beautiful pitcher. I don't know if it's very old, but it looks like it could be. That will be a very appropriate showpiece for the OBF. Great job, Robert. I like seeing what's in those old cupboards. One was like an old candy dish my grandmother had.
Robert your ironstone pitcher is late 19th century made in England . Even with the minor damage it's value is $150 - $175. Keep an eye out for a large matching bowl (if it exists the value would be $300-$400.) Sweet find 😀
Love the clean ups and digging through the cabinets/furniture!! That's most definitely an old pitcher and would match up with a wash basin, used before showering/bathing was a daily occurrence.
I hope you find the matching wash bowl to your pitcher. These old relics of pre- indoor plumbing also had matching tooth brush holders, shaving mugs and chamber pot. Very cool finds. Nice progress on the kitchen cleanup!
Should of kept that coffee pot and all the other antiques you threw away. Does it fill like sometimes and ask yourself is this worth saving? Maybe you need to contact This Old House. Looking forward to your next videos.
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Hi Robert 👋 👋 👋 the old pitcher is a British made looks Victoriana 👌 I wish I could see the coat of arms on the bottom it could be a royal appointment looks late Victoriana or early Edward the 7th l901 it would be interesting to see what else you will find Robert all the best Andrew south wales uk 👍 👌 😀 🇬🇧
Maybe make a pile of stuff to go through things later. I think you may be trashing valuables. Or may find matching things later in another cabinet. But i am sure the job is sooo huge. Love your show!
The bottle youve got there looks to be a H&A Gilby Gin bottle. Gilbys is an English company, & I think there still going today. I dont think that this bottle is particulary rare, but it is still a good looking early bottle. They date about 1880-1900.
I agree with the comment that your pitcher is part of a wash bowl/pitcher combination. The age is not clear to me, but a person could try looking up the stamp on the bottom.
That’s an old wash basin pitcher. Before indoor plumbing, such a pitcher and wash basin (bowl) would be on a washstand in a bedroom for hand and face washing.
I think the jar with the stars along the rim is a chipped beef jar. My father was in the military and he liked a dish from the mess hall called "shit on a shingle," which was chipped beef rehydrated in a white sauce, served on toast. Our mom reused the chipped beef jars as juice glasses. Though it was a quick and easy dish for a mother of 4 to prepare, after our dad's death our mom never cooked it again, nor did my siblings and I miss it.
Chipped beef on toast was a poor man's supper growing up in ND in the 50s, but I didn't know that until I was an adult, because I loved the stuff! Mom would occasionally make creamed peas on toast, I love peas so this was also a real treat.
Not long ago I asked the manager at the grocery store "Where is the chipped beef? He had no clue even when I said dried beef he still didn't know😊 I guess young people have never ate chipped beef and gravy.
My heart stopped around 6:27. That little sugar bowl is Iris and Herringbone depression glass, which can be very hard to find, especially in the clear glass! If nothing else, you should definitely make that into a lidded candle!
That pitcher is gorgeous. IT LOOKS old. IRONSTONE China was started in 1813. It would have sit on a washstand with a matching bowl. HOPE you keep it and try to find the bowl.
Love the washing pitcher you found, which I'm guessing is late 19th, possibly early 20th century. Next time you find any kind pottery, give us a closeup of the backstamp. That's the best way to ID and date such things. I love that someone who lived in the OBF house probably used that very pitcher on the daily to perform morning and evening ablutions. Hard to imagine not having a water tap handy with hot and cold running water to wash your face, shave, slick down your hair and brush your teeth. Here's a little info I found on Warranted Ironstone China: This company was founded in 1863 by William Bloor following earlier efforts in Trenton and East Liverpool. In 1865, it was known as Bloor, Ott & Brewer. Bloor remained the senior member of the firm until 1871. Upon his departure, the firm 'was renamed Ott & Brewer. In an attempt to capitalise on the popularity of English ironstone and earthenware Bloor (and his successors) named their factory "Etruria Works" (after the Etruria Works of Josiah Wedgwood in Stoke-on-Trent, England) They also used various style of the British Royal Arms. They were succeeded by The Cook Pottery Company who retained the name 'Etruria'. www.thepotteries.org/mark/arms/american.htm
A tip when opening a container with unknown contents. Remove the top & let any fumes escape then waft/wave the fumes/odour to you then sniff ! I did not do that at a woodworking factory once and inhaled a loft of ammonia fumes. They went right to the back / top of my nostrils! I had very clear sinuses for quite awhile!
Over time I have watched you throw “many” collectibles away!!! Wish I could have been there and went through the kitchen from “day 1”!!! I sell in a thrift/collectible store. Many things would have sold for you:(
Agreed. Even the “Tupperware “ type of items. I’m a site clearance auctioneer and I train my team to 1) extract 2) separate 3) collate before deciding what to catalogue for auction. Even the miscellaneous unconnected /incomplete items have some value as recyclable or reusable as now found missing parts to something!
Robert have you found any silverware? Maybe big spoons that older cooks used to have to mix or stir things and they would always have one laying on stove near a pot of beans or stew to stir things up, my grandmother and mother them stirring spoons so I do the same today,
I agree with other people. That pitcher looks like part of a set. Think they may have been used by people to wash their face, hands, or teeth and might have been kept in the bathroom or bedroom. The other piece was called a wash basin. It is pretty.
Coffee used to be sold in qt jars like the one with the small squares all over it. Also sold in jars like that was a product kinda like silly puddy used to clean wallpaper after you kneed it & rubbed it on dirty wallpaper
Back in the day you had cardboard cans of oil w/ metal lid that you had to put a pour spout through. Prob why oil was put into a pourable glass bottle! Funny every cupboard has the plastic lids but no bowls!!
Robert, I have a pitcher very similar to yours. It came with a bowl. They are both edged in gold, but no information on the bottom of either. My pitcher has a similar broken part, but it is hardly noticeable because it follows the natural curve of the edge. I got it at the end of an auction some 60 years ago, paid 50 cents. Auctioneer said it was broken and no one else bid. I don't know the age of it. The auctioneer happened to be a square dance caller that I recognized.
In the United States, ironstone ware was being manufactured from the 1850s onward. The earliest American ironstone potters were in operation around Trenton, New Jersey.[13] Before this, white ironstone ware was imported to the United States from England, beginning in the 1840s. Undecorated tableware was most popular in the United States, and British potteries produced white ironstone ware, known as "White Ironstone" or "White Granite" ware, for the American market. During the mid-19th century it was the largest export market for Staffordshire's potteries.[20] In the 1860s, British manufacturers began adding agricultural motifs, such as wheat, to their products to appeal to the American market. These patterns became known as "farmers' china" or "threshers' china". Plain white ironstone ware was widely marketed in the United States until the end of the 19th century.[21] Notable 19th-century ironstone manufacturers in the United States include: Empire Pottery Onondaga Pottery, Syracuse China Walter Scott Lenox Homer Laughlin this according to wikipedia
Don't throw out the coffee pot Robert , plunge it into boiling water for 5 minutes , then wash in the sink as normal , you can use it on a butane stove as a "billy" for boiling water for a cup of your fave beverage! P.s if any container is made of glass , aluminium or stainless steel , it will not contaminate and can be boiled and re-washed and then repurposed. ..pottery can be boiled as well but being porous , do not re- user for food storage or liquid foods
Yes, Ironstone can be worth something. Of course the damage may detract from monetary value but as an OBF relic it's priceless. Now I have to see what I can find on the interwebs about it....
All ironstone is worth something but the amount depends on the maker. The better makers of those pitchers are getting at least $200 for them. Can we see a close up of the stamp on the bottom?
ohhhhhh did you find the innards that belonged to that old coffee pot...I am so looking for the lid that sites ontop of the container that holds the coffee grounds. The kitchen is coming along, great work!
I believe the pitcher is old. Looks like part of a set that would have had a a large bowl and chamber pot. They were keep in a 'dry sink' usually found in bedrooms before indoor plumming. The pitcher and bowl were for washing/bathing.
Robert I'm worse than you saving things. Don't throw out that coffee pot. It makes great tea. And keep the jar with the flag. I would use it on the 4th of July. I know you can't keep everything but have a garage sale. 😂
Brothers Walter and Alfred founded W&A Gilbey in 1857, which started out as a wine and spirits merchant specialising in wines from the South African Cape. Located on the edge of Oxford Street in London, the brothers soon expanded into producing spirits - particularly London dry gin.
Looking at the cabinets they are from SEARS went they sold home's. If you can get in the attic check the rafters for a SEARS label. That well date the farm.
Your pitcher is 1800's and should have a huge bowl that it sits in when not in use. It always sat on the commode to wash yourself.. Pitcher had water to use in the bowl. I have a set in my bathroom that was my great aunts on a farm in Illinois.
Oh man, if you sell that pitcher let us know. LOVE IT. Also the stack of plates you moved on the bottom shelf, it looked like there some antique collectables there. I would love to buy the pitcher.
We always had Watertown dishes, I still have some in a box in my garage, & we use them exclusively at the ND farmstead. I did wonder at what was on the bottom, but the ones he tipped into the bag didn't quite look substantial enough to be Watertown.
A few of the jars that got tossed were worth a tiny bit, but also a pain in the arse to deal with, the 64 oz Tropicana had a nice clear intact silk screen would have been about $30 or so. The 1776 was a Tang jar, worth about $15 if cleaned up nice. Some of the ones you saved are worth less actually. The Gilley gin bottle is a rare-ish variant, can be worth up to $50 or more. I'd guess that was cooking oil inside that had turned with age.
A coupla things: For one, I never realized how much easier it would be to clean out my bottom kitchen cupboards if I just removed the floor first. I'll mention that to my husband and see what he says. For the other, I remember my dad instructing me to use cylinder oil to treat some kind of gnarly infestation my calf had in its hide along its spine. The critters embedded themselves into the skin just leaving a tiny breathing hole to show where they were. Its probably where some politicians got the idea. The oil suffocated and killed them. I'll mention that to my husband too and see what he says.
You may have a McCoy in the upper cabinet ,brown in color with a drip glaze in a lighter color around the top . The iron stone if there is no date on the piece is old . Thank you .
