This is a neat old photo of a little Victorian era boy who has a cleft palate. It’s always nice to find interesting photos instead of just glum looking Victorians in awkwardly rigid poses in a studio. This item has been sold.
Awhile back Black Market Antiques came across a good sized collection of paper, notes, diaries and other ephemera from the Lawson and Bain families from Lawsonham, Clarion County. We offered much of the collection in one big lot (you can view much of the collection here). We recently found additional items that pertain to this collection.
In all there’s now two decent sized boxes of items in this collection, much of it ephemera. The newly found items include an old ledger from the store in Lawsonham, which was run for a time by J.C. Bain (pictured at the left), old photos, diaries, scrapbooks, autograph book, letters…and other assorted paper items.
The price of gold now seems to be hitting new record highs each day. Before the markets opened this morning the spot price of gold had hit the $1715 level in foreign trading. Currently the price is $1704. Silver on the other hand is still under the $40 mark.
If you’re looking for a nice simply precious metal value calculator, try this one from Dendritics. Fully customizable on one page with constantly updating prices. The nice thing about this calculator is that it works fine on a smartphone in a browser without downloading any apps, just bookmark the page.
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