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Title: Copper fireplace antique identification
Post by: Spededdy on October 11, 2012, 05:43:29 pm: Found it in my fathers junk collection he passed away. Can anyone tell me what that is and if it's worth anything?

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Title: Re: Copper fireplace antique identification
Post by: wendy177 on October 11, 2012, 05:49:54 pm: Sorry to hear of the loss of your father, Your piece Looks to be a bed warmer.
Title: Re: Copper fireplace antique identification
Post by: bigwull on October 11, 2012, 05:55:44 pm: It was filled with hot embers from the fire and placed under the blankets of your bed an hour or so before retiring
Title: Re: Copper fireplace antique identification
Post by: bigwull on October 11, 2012, 05:58:29 pm: Not a great deal of value over hear but nice decorative item

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LARGE-Early-VINTAGE-Antique-COPPER-Bed-Warmer-with-Wooden-Handle-Floral-PATTERN-/290787220104?pt=UK_Antiques_DecorativeAntiques_Collectables_EH&hash=item43b444da88
Title: Re: Copper fireplace antique identification
Post by: mart on October 11, 2012, 07:31:48 pm: Check ebay and see what they are selling for !! If copper it should do well !!
Title: Re: Copper fireplace antique identification
Post by: bigwull on October 11, 2012, 07:41:18 pm: Quote from: mart on October 11, 2012, 07:31:48 pm
Check ebay and see what they are selling for !! If copper it should do well !!
Whats that above your post ;D
Title: Re: Copper fireplace antique identification
Post by: ghopper1924 on October 12, 2012, 05:21:53 am: Good price on that one in the E-Bay link. I would have thought about $50.00.
Title: Re: Copper fireplace antique identification
Post by: bigwull on October 12, 2012, 06:33:03 am: Quote from: ghopper1924 on October 12, 2012, 05:21:53 am
Good price on that one in the E-Bay link. I would have thought about $50.00.
I,m confused again......14.95 British pounds sterling = $24.0052....which is half your $50....??
Title: Re: Copper fireplace antique identification
Post by: ghopper1924 on October 12, 2012, 07:00:06 am: Right! That's why I said the one in the link was such a good price. Around here I've seen them for $50.00.
Title: Re: Copper fireplace antique identification
Post by: bigwull on October 12, 2012, 07:09:31 am: Quote from: ghopper1924 on October 12, 2012, 07:00:06 am
Right! That's why I said the one in the link was such a good price. Around here I've seen them for $50.00.
confusion still reigns supreme...how can $24.oo52 be a good price..if $50 is what they sell for around you??
Title: Re: Copper fireplace antique identification
Post by: mart on October 12, 2012, 08:58:15 am: Bigwull that would be a good price if you are the buyer !! You would be paying less than the going rate here !!
Title: Re: Copper fireplace antique identification
Post by: KC on October 12, 2012, 09:12:16 am: Senior moments around here!!!
Title: Re: Copper fireplace antique identification
Post by: bigwull on October 12, 2012, 09:17:51 am: Sometime,s I wonder about me....i can be so quick on the uptake....then there are other times when..it takes a sack of pennies before one eventually drops....but on the other hand....had you said at the beginning, that from a buyers point...then...i would,nt have needed a sack of pennies.... ;D
Title: Re: Copper fireplace antique identification
Post by: ghopper1924 on October 12, 2012, 09:39:15 am: I guess I thought it was understood, you being so quick on the uptake...ah to be thick as a brick ;D
Title: Re: Copper fireplace antique identification
Post by: bigwull on October 12, 2012, 09:45:18 am: Quote from: ghopper1924 on October 12, 2012, 09:39:15 am
I guess I thought it was understood, you being so quick on the uptake...ah to be thick as a brick ;D
Jethro Tull....Brilliant!
Title: Re: Copper fireplace antique identification
Post by: mart on October 12, 2012, 09:54:49 am: LOL !! Do what I have started doing,, read the post at least twice,, have a cup of coffee and think about it a while,,go back and check one last time to make sure you read it right,, then post an answer !! I get brain fog occassionally !!
Title: Re: Copper fireplace antique identification
Post by: KC on October 12, 2012, 11:04:08 am: I think it is something in the air here Mart...me also!
Title: Re: Copper fireplace antique identification
Post by: mart on October 12, 2012, 11:48:04 am: You think there is something in the air floating with the ragweed pollen in Texas ?? Been sneezing for days !!
Title: Re: Copper fireplace antique identification
Post by: bigwull on October 12, 2012, 12:00:45 pm: Quote from: KC on October 12, 2012, 11:04:08 am
I think it is something in the air here Mart...me also!

But I have noticed ,with you KC..your fogged brain episodes...have maybe been brought on ..with my bastardized version..of English.... with,words like gugit...chalk & cheese...sleakit... .etc....and mines brought on by no unnerstannin...Amer ican English..... ;D
Title: Re: Copper fireplace antique identification
Post by: KC on October 12, 2012, 12:58:46 pm: I think your jargon, coupled with my Scottish roots and the high ragweed in TX cause a brain implosion! LOL
Title: Re: Copper fireplace antique identification
Post by: mart on October 12, 2012, 01:11:12 pm: Wish i could blame mine on something !! But the reason eludes me !! Other than age that is !!!
Title: Re: Copper fireplace antique identification
Post by: bigwull on October 12, 2012, 01:15:29 pm: Quote from: mart on October 12, 2012, 01:11:12 pm
Wish i could blame mine on something !! But the reason eludes me !! Other than age that is !!!
Weeeel, i have..my own thoughts about that.....suffice to say...small tight places could be putting pressure on equally confined bigger spaces..LOL!...