r/Antiques • u/SommerGraves ✓ • Sep 15 '23
When the grandkids come over… can I cry now? Show and Tell
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u/Worried_Ad7041 ✓ Sep 15 '23
Not all is lost. You might be able to hunt down the glass portion of this lamp and replace it.
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u/AngelOfHeaven3 ✓ Sep 15 '23
This is quite literally what I am good at- If OP can give me all the information they have for this lamp I SHOULD be able to find one in a matter of 10mins - 1day. Providing up to 3 different pictures for the search engine will help speed things up along with any stamps, makers makings or lables on the product.
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u/RadientPinecone ✓ Sep 15 '23
I need an update later, sounds like you have a super power
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u/AngelOfHeaven3 ✓ Sep 15 '23 edited Sep 15 '23
I have a very strong obsession with Antique & Vintage items. Apart of my last job was figuring out what the old products were and how much they go for.
Searching or finding parts, old antiques, or identifying them is a big part of a Collectors arcinal.
No one wants to get ripped off & everyone wants a great deal - All understandable.
Edit: Being a big collector myself, It tends to come naturally with the territory for me. I always loved the idea that it had history like very old English sterling silver spoons from valuable sets or even trinkets like Victorian Crystal snuff or perfume bottles.
Edit2: Sorry, I absolutely will! I planned to add a link to the found product in the comments. So far with the picture she posted I couldn't find an exact match but I found a similar replacement lamp for around 150$ - They seemed to have a rather pricey lamp from what I am gathering and this piece just might be a one of a kind which if this is the case? She will HAVE to have a custom replacement piece made unfortunately- BUT I can also help with that as well luckily!
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u/gremlinjas ✓ Sep 15 '23
If you don’t mind may I send you a dm? I’ve been having trouble trying to find these dragon bookends
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u/AngelOfHeaven3 ✓ Sep 15 '23
Sure
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u/Angel_0997 ✓ Sep 19 '23
I don’t have anything that needs finding but I just wanted to thank you for your service. It’s so nice of you to help strangers find stuff they need!
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u/Netflxnschill ✓ Sep 15 '23
I wish I could make a business out of this but it would be so few and far between I couldn’t make a living off it.
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u/NoOnesThere991 ✓ Sep 16 '23
Just curious, does anyone have any interest in very old medicine bottles? I inherited a bunch and don’t feel right just throwing them away!
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u/flowr12 ✓ Sep 16 '23
I love old medicine bottles!!
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u/NoOnesThere991 ✓ Sep 17 '23
I will absolutely update you when I get a chance to here in the next few days ☺️
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u/skeletoorr ✓ Sep 15 '23
What about the stand to an vintage “eye” table lamp? Is that something you can find?
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u/AngelOfHeaven3 ✓ Sep 16 '23
I haven't herd of that one but if you send some pictures I might be able to!
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u/TimeWandrer ✓ Sep 15 '23
Really? Could I potentially ask you about a lamp piece I’ve been having trouble with for years?
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u/AngelOfHeaven3 ✓ Sep 15 '23
Sure, By all means! Go ahead and send me what you can within a DM & I can get to work.
Please note I did plan to leave the house here shortly so responses will be slow until I get back.
Ironically I am heading out to an antique hall with a friend!
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u/Anxietylife4 ✓ Sep 15 '23
Ooh! I have a few things I’d like help on. Could I am you pics? (If it’s not too much trouble for you)
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u/AngelOfHeaven3 ✓ Sep 15 '23
Absolutely, I don't mind at all. Just send me all that you can & I will do my best to help. Any stamps, markings or labels are very important to incorporate!
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u/AngelOfHeaven3 ✓ Sep 15 '23
Any tips are absolutely appreciated, And of course. I sent a reply message but I am not sure if the bot removed it because it was me posting the email everyone could send their stuff to for help.
P.s - First come, first served!
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u/TimeWandrer ✓ Sep 15 '23
Thank you, I will! And have a blast at the fair
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u/AngelOfHeaven3 ✓ Sep 15 '23
Thanks- She tends to back out at the last minute on things so I might be home.
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u/Funkyfreshturkey ✓ Sep 16 '23
I have a question for you too about a piece I purchased but can’t seem to find any matching pieces.
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u/Addicted-2Diving ✓ Sep 15 '23
Do you have any tips for someone on how to get good at finding items like you have? New to collecting and always looking to learn any tips I can.
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u/AngelOfHeaven3 ✓ Sep 15 '23 edited Sep 16 '23
1 really good way to start is to pick 1 particular item your after at the time, find it or something similar, Search around the internet & educate yourself with different websites for the particular antique type.
Example: Sterling Silver Spoons. If you want an old one from England you will need to learn all the different stamps & markings to know if it's real or not, along with its age.
Some markings are tricky like 1A/1S which normally means the item is not solid sterling and its been plated. A very common misconception is when people confused the company with it being silver like "International Silver Co" - this company actually did a lot of sterling plating rather than solid.
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u/DawnSol018 ✓ Sep 16 '23
I repair lighting and would be happy to do the work for free! (Sorry but I cannot pay for shipping) Be sure to provide the diameter of the openings on the glass as that will be integral to ensuring the existing hardware fits. I can do slight modifications if things are alrighty off. DM me if you’re interested!
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u/Knichols2176 ✓ Sep 16 '23
You should start a whole new sub for your talent! I’d join! I’d love to see this hunting in action! So many people getting things fixed or replaced! That’s a major talent!
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u/Lordofravioli ✓ Sep 19 '23
damn, I gotta save your info for future purposes that I hope I never need
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u/dollyacorn ✓ Sep 15 '23
It’s sad, but might be a formative be careful moment in the kids life and a net positive.
Signed, the kid who barfed on grandma’s new white rug after eating bright red strawberry shortcake cereal in 1984, and who hasn’t barfed on a rug since.
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u/Only_Chick_Who ✓ Sep 15 '23 edited Sep 15 '23
Meanwhile there's my grandma whose daughters wife spilled red wine on her white sectional couch, liked the color and got it dyed to match. We still have it like 20 years later.
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u/maralagotohell ✓ Sep 15 '23
Your grandma sounds fun!
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u/Only_Chick_Who ✓ Sep 15 '23
She was a vibe. Her only flaw was not wanting to go to Friendlys (An ice cream diner for kids in new England) with us cause she couldn't order a Bloody Mary and doing a hit and run in a liquor store parking lot (she backed into a car, we took her keys after that)
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u/Curious_Health_226 ✓ Sep 17 '23
Would love to imagine that both of these things happened back to back
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u/Only_Chick_Who ✓ Sep 17 '23
Her hatred for Friendlys was life long. Her liquor store hit and run was pass our Friendly days.
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u/Shy-Watermelon ✓ Sep 16 '23
Lol this reminds me of my dad and mom and I being in my dad’s brand new car, literally driving it off the lot, and we stopped at McDonald’s and I got a strawberry milkshake. I did not finish that milkshake because less than 5 minutes later there was milkshake all over the car/car rugs 🫣
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u/christiemarsh88 ✓ Sep 17 '23
Co-signed, the kid who slammed a door at my grandma’s house and broke the full-length mirror that was hanging on the back. I never slam doors now and haven’t broken another mirror since!
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u/jessbrid ✓ Sep 19 '23
I’m the kid that tried to pick up a paint can and throw it at my brother. Of course I was too little to lift the thing and it busted all over my parents brand new carpet in their brand new house.
I never ran away so fast in my life. My dad was was so pissed. But I never dared do something so dumb again.
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u/Acetylene_Queen1 ✓ Sep 15 '23
This is really sad, my grandma had antiques at her condo. We had very strict rules while visiting. I'd have been devastated as a kid knowing I'd upset her...
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u/SilverMorningMoon163 ✓ Sep 15 '23
When I was little I broke a (I guess favorite figurine) of my Grandmothers, who had passed away. My Grandfather kept it,un repaired, in a shoe box. He would show it to me now and again. He was really mad and I guess hurt. He had probably told me to quit running around and I didn’t. I feel like he never forgave me. He was a very stern man.
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u/PorcupineWarriorGod ✓ Sep 15 '23
He was a very stern man.
sounds like he was carrying a lot of hurt over the loss of your Grandmother.
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u/SilverMorningMoon163 ✓ Sep 15 '23
Now that I am an adult I see that. Sad, he was a brilliant man! Born way to far before his time! So intelligent! He was a cornerstone of HP. I remember when personal computers started to be a thing the minute anything new “ came out” he bought it and learned it immediately! I would have loved to see him acquire a cell phone but he passed before they were brought about!
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u/jellyschoomarm ✓ Sep 15 '23
My grandma had a shopping list on the fridge that was the last thing my grandpa wrote. When I was 4 or 5 I drew a flower on the bottom of the paper. I never felt like she forgave me for that.
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u/bus214 ✓ Sep 15 '23
My grandpa wrote a list of instructions on how to use their overly complicated TV (this was 2003?) and I always said I wanted to keep it to remember him. My grandma threw it out when she moved and I’ve never been so sad to lose a list before.
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u/wondrousalice ✓ May 03 '24
That is so beautiful though. It shows how time stops for no one and how we should beautify the mundane.
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u/SommerGraves ✓ Sep 15 '23
I’m so sorry that you had to experience that. I’m definitely not mad at the grands, more so myself. I know better!!! I’m actually extremely grateful they were injured! I hope that’s the case for your gramps as well.
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u/joeblow1234567891011 ✓ Sep 15 '23
Sorry about the lamp but being grateful that they WERE injured seems a little harsh ;)
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u/stalwartlucretia ✓ Sep 15 '23
I accidentally broke a ceramic lamp at my grandparents’ house when I was about 7. They were able to repair it with glue and it was right back in its place soon after. But my narcissistic grandmother never let anyone forget about it.
She brought up the lamp story to a table full of friends and family at my high school graduation dinner. Then, she left the lamp to me specifically in her will. (That is, until I went no contact with her and got cut out of the will completely.)
By no means am I suggesting that OP is going to act like this. But this really brought back a memory.
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u/kniki217 ✓ Sep 16 '23
I would have specifically asked for the lamp when she died so you could smash it
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u/stalwartlucretia ✓ Sep 16 '23
Seriously considered it, but I also kind of like the idea of it being auctioned off in the estate sale and being appreciated by someone who has no idea of the history. She never wanted anyone to forget what I did, but the fact is that no one else will care.
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u/XODaddylonglegs ✓ Sep 16 '23
I once broke a to go plastic spoon (that she had in her drawer and used) in ice cream at my grandmothers house, to which she was so upset with me that she made my whole family leave.
She grew up in the depression erra, and made me too.
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u/stalwartlucretia ✓ Sep 16 '23
There’s depression era frugal, and then there’s nuts. I know which side this one lands on.
Sorry you had to go through that.
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u/MichiganMedium ✓ Sep 16 '23
This was guilt.
Your grandfather guilted you for a blind mistake you made, now you’re still saying you feel bad.2
u/SilverMorningMoon163 ✓ Sep 17 '23
I think you are correct and I was little! Maybe 5 or 6. But he was who he was and I think it was he who had some guilt after my grandmother passed!
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u/Holiday-Horse-427 ✓ Sep 15 '23
He sounds like a jerk. It's a lamp. Keeping it in a box and showing you repeatedly? Messed up.
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u/SilverMorningMoon163 ✓ Sep 15 '23
Mine that I broke was a figurine of some sort. I was always puzzled as to why he would keep it in a shoebox and not repair it or have it repaired! It was not shattered or anything
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u/eyeohe ✓ Sep 15 '23
Not sure how I feel about this lol.
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u/SilverMorningMoon163 ✓ Sep 15 '23
Me?
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u/eyeohe ✓ Sep 15 '23
How your grandfather treated you.
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u/SilverMorningMoon163 ✓ Sep 15 '23
Thank you. I wonder if anyone came across it when he passed away and the house was cleared out
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u/eyeohe ✓ Sep 15 '23
I’d imagine so. Accidents happen though, so I hope you’re not beating yourself up over it.
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u/remiwrites2003 ✓ Sep 19 '23
While going through my late grandmother's storage, I accidentally dropped one of her Precious Moments figures and absolutely bawled while my mom assured me it was okay. She was able to fix it but god, I felt so awful
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u/iiiBansheeiii ✓ Sep 15 '23
My grandmother always said, "There's nothing that I own that's worth a child's tears." She had tea parties with us and we drank from her eggshell china, she gave us her very pretty stemware to drink from. We were careful, but we were also children, and things broke. She was never angry with us, although our parents were. I did the same for my nephews and nieces. Some of my fondest memories involve them holding very fragile things.
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u/flying_goldfish_tier ✓ Sep 15 '23
My mom taught me about fragile things by sitting me in the floor and letting me handle them on the floor. I don’t remember ever breaking anything! :)
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u/Significant_Meet4846 ✓ Sep 15 '23
I thought my cats were destructive. Do cry.
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u/themagicmagikarp ✓ Sep 15 '23
I've certainly lost a lot to my cats 😭😭.
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u/PhatRyde ✓ Sep 16 '23
I lost a lamp very similar to this to my orange boy.
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u/ShatteredInk ✓ Sep 19 '23
Lol, of course he was an orange.
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u/PhatRyde ✓ Sep 19 '23
Lol yes! That’s why when it happened, i excused him. He gets off easy on many things because of his condition.
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u/pierrrecherrry ✓ Sep 15 '23
Great opportunity to ask a local glasswork artisan to make you a new globe
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u/shavemejesus ✓ Sep 15 '23
We have certain decorative items around our home that our friends with kids have never seen, because I put them away in closets before they visit.
Not taking any chances.
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u/NefariousnessLess307 ✓ Sep 15 '23
Get some “earthquake tape” or floral clay. All my Italian pottery, vases, lamp bases, etc., anything pets, children or my husband could knock over gets a dose. I clean around the items, so I never move them. I’ve learned the hard way, like you. I still miss my grandmothers crystal cake plate.
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u/vtmosaic ✓ Sep 15 '23
I'm sorry for your loss. But when I look at that picture, it seems like it was already trying to fall over without any help. That lamp is awfully tall and kinda top heavy on a little pedestal table.
Maybe put away your fancy breakables and enjoy those grandkids! They're only little for a short time.
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u/SantaBaby22 ✓ Sep 15 '23
I definitely feel for this person, but this was an accident waiting to happen since the start. It was 100% top heavy, and very off balance if it wasn’t perfectly centered on the table. Plus if the base of the table is smaller than the top, like that one, it makes it harder to balance too. Putting it in the middle of what looks like a living room probably wasn’t wise either.
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u/Oemiewoemie ✓ Sep 15 '23
Look at the bright side, you have every reason to go hunt for a new treasure now!
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u/k_a_scheffer ✓ Sep 15 '23
My parents were strict about me and my cousins not running around or roughhousing in my grandparents house, and they didn't even have much breakable/antique stuff. We took that shut outside. Time to kick the kids out until they're old enough to learn the rules.
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u/0D2kv7wwmd ✓ Sep 15 '23
Accidents happen even with strict parents and I doubt this was malicious.
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u/k_a_scheffer ✓ Sep 15 '23
True, but some kids are physically incapable of being gentle and calm until they're older.
Source: I was some kids.
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u/SmutWithClass ✓ Sep 16 '23
Or time for grandma to visit the grandkids at their childproofed home, instead of expecting everyone to come to them.
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u/shiddyfiddy ✓ Sep 15 '23
Worth talking to a glass blower to see about a replacement, in my opinion! (in case antique hunting for a replacement is a bust)
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u/roseyyz ✓ Sep 15 '23
So sorry for this. I broke a big BIG Lladró when I was about 6 years old, my mom STILL talks about it.. now that I’m a mon I kept these valuables away of my own rascals, hard lesson learned.
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u/noproblemswhatsoever ✓ Sep 15 '23
I’m sorry you lost a loved lamp and I’m sorry that your grand babies were the cause. But in the greater scheme of things the lamp is just stuff. The old widower man who held on to the loss of his wife figurines lost even more by not letting go of stuff. I had a dear friend who lost generations of valuable family heirlooms in the Oakland hills fire years ago. She and her children escaped with just the clothes on their backs. She never looked back or bemoaned the loss of “stuff”. She remains the most content, happy and peaceful person I know. I learned much from her.
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Sep 15 '23
If you had a clearer photo you could do a reverse image search in google and perhaps find a matching one on eBay.
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u/maisygoatsivy ✓ Sep 15 '23
Use Museum putty for next time. Its cheap and works for everything, even brawling grandkids.
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u/Sunmingo ✓ Sep 15 '23
I know a glass expert who can perfectly copy the broken glass you won’t be able to tell the difference
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u/refugefirstmate ✓✓ Mod Sep 15 '23
This is not antique. It's mid-late 1960s, outside the extremely generous limit of this subreddit.
It was extremely unwise to put that huge, top-heavy lamp on that wobbly little pedestal.
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u/for2fly ✓ Sep 15 '23 edited May 05 '24
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u/davelikesplants ✓ Sep 16 '23
Thank you for having the cojones (ovaries) for telling it like it is. We don't want to hurt anyone's feelings but ... just get a new one at any thrift store (or Mar-a-Lago.) If it was grandma's lamp, etc., pretend the new one was grandma's.
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u/ConcentricGroove ✓ Sep 15 '23
I bet the glass part was a generic piece used in several different lamps. You should be able to find another lamp with an in-tact globe and swap it out. Disassemble the original, get rid of the broken glass and start looking for the replacement piece.
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u/DogBreathologist ✓ Sep 15 '23
You may also be able to have a replacement made, there are some amazing artisanal glass blowers out there who may be able to make you a replica if you can’t hunt down an original.
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u/Umph0214 ✓ Sep 16 '23
I am so sorry. This feels like a good place to impart some wisdom that my grandparents (antique people) used for me as a kid. When I was little and we would go antiquing or stay at my grandparents house, we had what was called a “pat-pat” rule. So, if we went into a store that was mostly breakable or a stately home my parents/grandparents would always say “baby, this is a “pat-pat” place. Behave yourself”. What “pat-pat” meant to me as a kid was that the items I would be around were super fragile and meant to be handled with care. That, if I absolutely HAD to touch something, I was to tell my adult and they would supervise me as I “patted” (gently touched twice with two fingers) whatever it was that I had to touch. This really stuck with me and was easy for my baby brain to understand. Could be worth implementing with family/friends in the future
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u/kniki217 ✓ Sep 16 '23
Who needs grandkids to break stuff? I break my own stuff. I knocked over and broke the base on my Hummel lamp a couple weeks ago. I know they don't go for much anymore so I could probably find a replacement cheap but I got mine from my dad so it wouldn't be the same.
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u/SommerGraves ✓ Sep 18 '23
I’m so sorry! 🥺 Mine was a wedding gift my grandmother received (so I’m told) back in the the late 1920’s, passed down to my father, and finally to me. I am feeling your pain! Sending you lots of love! ❤️
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u/Dominuspax1978 ✓ Sep 17 '23
It’s because you were being a soft grand parent and didn’t tell them to sit their butts down at the first sign of rough housing. Everyone knows this!
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u/ImpossibleLeek7908 ✓ Sep 15 '23 edited Sep 15 '23
Yes, I'll cry with you. I'm so sorry it happened.
My granny wanted to hang her antique glass ornaments from her mother on the tree the year my grandpa died. She asked me to do it, which I did, but our cats knocked the tree down the next day and shattered almost all of them; they were older cats and had never done something like that before. She cried hard that day and just remembering it makes me want to cry, too.
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u/travelingtutor ✓ Sep 16 '23
Is it ugly? Absolutely.
Should you be miffed? You bet your sweet bippy.
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u/holyembalmer ✓ Sep 17 '23
My brother and I broke my grandmother's mother's lamp. It was a valuable lesson for us. We made my grandmother cry and I could never forgive myself. We stopped wrestling around in the house that day. I'm still sorry!
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u/Glass_Bar_9956 ✓ Sep 18 '23
As a mom with a toddler, and brother has two toddlers. Please just come to our houses. Where its a kid friendly environment.
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u/Reatona ✓ Sep 19 '23
Over the years I've had enough stuff broken or stolen or lost that, with few exceptions, I realize "it's just stuff." The kid won't want it, so eventually everything I own will end up in someone else's house, a thrift shop, or the landfill.
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u/UpsideDownShovelFrog ✓ Sep 15 '23
Sorry to hear. Personally I’d use this as an excuse to replace the globe with clear glass and use it as a terrarium lamp. And maybe move it to a more sturdy table.
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u/attnbajoranworkers ✓ Sep 15 '23
I couldn't find one exactly identical to it with a quick Google Lens search, but there was one on Etsy rn that's pretty close so they must be out there.
Worst case scenario - even if you can't find the exact glass globe section matching yours, you can probably find two different matching lamps out there that are close enough to where you could exchange both globes and nobody would be the wiser. I used to be a professional glassmaker and one of my best colleague friends would thrift old vintage lamps just for the fun of replacing their pieces with his own custom glass sections. (So what I mean by that is that it's not impossible, or even that hard, to match the dimensions.)
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u/Solid-Ground475 ✓ Sep 15 '23
That lamp is taller than the table. It doesn’t look like it would taken much for it to fall.
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u/Ging67 ✓ Sep 15 '23
I don’t have kids or grandkids but our friends have kids. I have a grandfather clock and Lladro. Kids are not permitted in our house. Besides they love to torment my two kitties also. They wanted kids they can keep them at home.
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u/Belgeddes2022 ✓ Sep 15 '23
Are we calling this “antique” now? Does that word not mean anything anymore?
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u/noldshit ✓ Sep 15 '23
Did you give the parents the bill? If i did this as a kid, it would come out of my allowance.
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u/realmagpiehours ✓ Sep 15 '23
This right here is why I will NEVER allow children in my home/my space or allow them to handle my things
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u/SkootchDown ✓ Sep 16 '23
Can’t really blame the grandkids. That was a huge lamp to have on such a little table. 🤷♀️
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Sep 16 '23
You're own fault for no foresight. Was headed for a dollar garage sale or the trash when you die anyway.
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u/1963ALH ✓ Sep 15 '23
Yes you may. I'm going through the same thing. My pretties will not make through the grandkids. 😢😢
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Sep 15 '23
It could definitely be worse, my cousin and I accidentally ruined my grandmothers pool when we were kids and they had to get rid of it because pool liners are outrageously expensive. My grandma is still sour about it and I don’t blame her, after all these years I still feel like an asshole for doing that
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u/Gust_2012 ✓ Sep 15 '23
How did you & your cousin ruin a pool? I'm completely baffles by that!
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Sep 15 '23
Well we were dumbass kids that saw pole vaulting on tv and thought it looked fun so we decided to try it with my grandma’s pool net and the handle came off the net and poked about 4 holes in the pool liner before we realized
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u/TechsSandwich ✓ Sep 15 '23
Id you REALLY wanted to try and save the lamp you could attempt piecing it back together with maybe a touch of gold leaf to make it a “style”?
Honestly that looks like it still might not work tho, you have a lot a tiny pieces ;-;
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Sep 16 '23
The thing you need to do is never ever forgive the children of your children for this and make it the only thing they remember about you because things are always the most important part of existence. Plus that thing is hideous.
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u/ninecreekfarm ✓ Sep 16 '23
I’m pretty sure the rest of us are crying for you. We have a very similar lamp that was my grandmothers and cherish it dearly. Did yours have a light in the base also?
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u/TechnicalMagazine697 ✓ Sep 15 '23
These things happen, and this is what kids do. Get over it and move on. These are just things. It appears you value your "stuff" more than the grandchildren. I hope you didn't raise your children to value gaudy furniture higher than the kids.
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u/trcharles Museum/Preservation Professional Sep 15 '23 edited Sep 15 '23
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u/SommerGraves ✓ Sep 15 '23
Or comment. I replied to ONE and have yet to read more than 4!!!
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u/trcharles Museum/Preservation Professional Sep 15 '23
This is bananas. I apologize; I'll make a sticky note about this because people are out of control with the reporting.
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u/cherrycokelemon ✓ Sep 15 '23
My mother in law had a little doll that one of her girlfriends crocheted for her. It held an extra roll of toilet paper. She kept it in her bathroom. One of her grandchildren tore it apart. It had sat in her bathroom for years.
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u/Tess_Mac ✓ Sep 15 '23
I don't know if this has sentimental value for you but if you want to replace it I'd suggest trying Google Lens.
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u/AccordingAd1670 ✓ Sep 15 '23
I had this exact thing happen. My dog knocked over an antique, hand painted glass lampshade. Heartbreaking.
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u/ColaAndRum ✓ Sep 15 '23
Adding this to list of reasons I won’t have kids and potential grandkids
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u/LizzyLou4273 ✓ Sep 15 '23
Im so sorry to see that picture. I can relate to that feelings. I’m the same way, too. Kids nowadays need more discipline
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u/1GrouchyCat ✓ Sep 15 '23
Lol/ folks all you have to do is take a picture of what you’re looking for and use Google lens to search for it… you can also try TinEye but Google lens will give you links and dollar amounts…
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u/DAGanteakz ✓ Sep 16 '23
After my second child I just adopted the “Oh well, one thing I don’t have to dust” attitude. Helps clear the clutter without the heartbreak.
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u/SuspiciousJuice5825 ✓ Sep 16 '23
This is the reason I stopped buying antiques until my kids get older.
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u/jgeebaby ✓ Sep 16 '23
I guess you can cry. How long have they been dead?? Cuz I would have been realllll mad at them kids lol
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u/realdonaldtrumpsucks ✓ Sep 16 '23
Huge bummer
Here is my take, I assume they’re young. I have a “kid” box and it stays in an area of the LV that’s child “safe” — they can dump it or whatever, but it’s in the spot that is safe and they’ll usually hang out here to play, I also sit in front on the ground so they’re not wild and loose
But this is part of being a granny
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u/notsosaintly ✓ Sep 16 '23
Oh no.... Yes, cry freely. I know we all love our grandchildren. I truly hope this was an accident.
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u/larry69696969 ✓ Sep 16 '23
Save it as inheritance to the one who broke it and tell them it was worth 100 thousand dollars and it was their share in your will…….
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