Old Things

The Material Legacy

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Category: RANDOM — Family Branch: RANDOM

Trail's End bookends
	category household family_branch Cardinal_Alton_Beatrice provenance thought to be a gift to Alton and Beatrice Cardinal around 1947, household of Alton and Beatrice Cardinal prior to 1955, then household of Peter Cardinal maker_mark paper tags on the bottom read "Fashioned by RONSON" and "RONSON ALL METAL ART WARES" with the stamped number 11478 condition excellent disposition currently owned as of January 2014

Chamber pot
(no photo)	category household family_branch Cardinal_Alton_Beatrice provenance unknown notebook_reference OldThings.html#chamber_pot Chamber Pot Used by family of Alton Cardinal on trips, etc. 1950. [Johns Bros, England] disposition unknown

Kitchen Canister
	category household family_branch Cardinal_Gilbert provenance unknown maker_mark National Can Company - New York; Empeco disposition currently owned as of January 2014

Bedroom set dresser
	category household family_branch Cardinal_Gilbert provenance household of Gilbert and Lillie Cardinal from 1901, then household of Alton Cardinal, then household of Peter Cardinal notebook_reference OldThings.html#bedroom Bedroom Set The set – bed, dresser, comode – was new when my parents (Gilbert and Lillie Cardinal) were married in 1901. The bed no longer exists. The set is made of cherry wood. The dresser originally had a mirror in a frame so that the mirror could be tilted. My mother removed the frame and hung the mirror on the wall in the 1920's. The frame is gone, but the mirror was left in attic at 132 S. Oneida St. until Carl Sippel gave it to me in 1985. The bevel-edge mirror has a broken-out section which my mother concealled with picture post cards. disposition currently owned as of January 2014

Pitch fork
	category fieldtools family_branch Cardinal_Gilbert provenance tools of Gilbert Cardinal prior to 1920, then tools of Alton Cardinal, then tools of Peter Cardinal notebook_reference OldThings.html#field_tools Field Tools These tools belonged to my father, Gilbert Cardinal, prior to 1920. Most of them were probably in 1917 when we moved onto a farm at Oneida, Wisconsin. Double-bitted axe (handle replaced about 1965) Scythe Wooden hand hay rake (I turned replacement teeth in 1985) Garden spade Two three-tined pitch forks Corn knife Post hole digger Buck saw Lantern Short-handled square shovel (this was discarded by C&NW Ry in 1920's) disposition currently owned as of January 2014

Trail's End bookends

category: household
family_branch: Cardinal_Alton_Beatrice
provenance: thought to be a gift to Alton and Beatrice Cardinal around 1947, household of Alton and Beatrice Cardinal prior to 1955, then household of Peter Cardinal
maker_mark: paper tags on the bottom read "Fashioned by RONSON" and "RONSON ALL METAL ART WARES" with the stamped number 11478
condition: excellent
disposition: currently owned as of January 2014

Chamber pot

(no photo)

category: household
family_branch: Cardinal_Alton_Beatrice
provenance: unknown
notebook_reference: OldThings.html#chamber_pot

Chamber Pot

Used by family of Alton Cardinal on trips, etc. 1950. [Johns Bros, England]
disposition: unknown

Kitchen Canister

category: household
family_branch: Cardinal_Gilbert
provenance: unknown
maker_mark: National Can Company - New York; Empeco
disposition: currently owned as of January 2014

Bedroom set dresser

category: household
family_branch: Cardinal_Gilbert
provenance: household of Gilbert and Lillie Cardinal from 1901, then household of Alton Cardinal, then household of Peter Cardinal
notebook_reference: OldThings.html#bedroom

Bedroom Set

The set – bed, dresser, comode – was new when my parents (Gilbert and Lillie Cardinal) were married in 1901. The bed no longer exists. The set is made of cherry wood. The dresser originally had a mirror in a frame so that the mirror could be tilted. My mother removed the frame and hung the mirror on the wall in the 1920's. The frame is gone, but the mirror was left in attic at 132 S. Oneida St. until Carl Sippel gave it to me in 1985. The bevel-edge mirror has a broken-out section which my mother concealled with picture post cards.
disposition: currently owned as of January 2014

Pitch fork

category

fieldtools

family_branch

Cardinal_Gilbert

provenance

tools of Gilbert Cardinal prior to 1920, then tools of Alton Cardinal, then tools of Peter Cardinal

notebook_reference

OldThings.html#field_tools

Field Tools

These tools belonged to my father, Gilbert Cardinal, prior to 1920. Most of them were probably in 1917 when we moved onto a farm at Oneida, Wisconsin.