Good weekend? I did some out and about finding new items to feature on my site—SOON.
In addition to my own work I’ve been assisting a friend who does estate sales. I’ve been researching some Nickel Silver/plated that she has. Some of her piece are signed Oneida and when I did some research on it I found out some interesting facts.
Oneida started as a religious commune in 1848 in Oneida, New York. They believed that Jesus had already had his second coming in AD 70 and that you could now become free of sin and perfect on this earth, not just heaven (Perfectionism). All community members were expected to work; their beliefs included free love (with older members introducing younger into sexuality), shared property, with the group family taking the place of the smaller family unit. They canned fruits and vegetables, made traps and chains, traveling bags, straw hats,mop stick and sewing silk. They also found out how to make knives, forks and spoons. They began to thrive and by 1870 were a major employer in the Oneida area. There were branch communities in New York, New Jersey and Vermont. By 1878 there were over 300 members and all the outlying communities were closed. The Community dissolved in 1881, and eventually became the giant silverware company Oneida Limited (INFO from Wikipedia and Oneida site) For more information: www.oneidacommunity.org
I have no Oneida myself, but a do have some other silver plated items (mostly spoons and ladles). The estate sale has a very nice coffee pot, creamer and sugar bowl with tray.
There’s a lot of Oneida on line with prices ranging from $8 (2 forks) to $20 (large set of silverware)for flatware
There’s candy bowls ($28)
Large trays ($45-$50)
and punch bowls with multiple cups and trays ($45-$110)
as to really good Oneida find: Oneida Fruit Stand, 13″W x 24″H, Revolving Spiral, Chrome, Large ($920 – $1,331)
If you have some silver appearing pieces check the bottom to find if it’s silver or plate or nickel and if its signed (will have name or trade mark on bottom.) Don’t know–take a picture and send it to me and I’ll see what I can find out.
So another 500 over (finally)–congratulation to Little E and sympathy to my driver Tony Stewart on the death of his car.
Have a great day, I AM going to!!!
You don’t have to embrace their life style to accept the person–tolerance is one of the surest signs of maturity.
Peace.
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