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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: JeanneCurt on January 27, 2014, 05:41:18 pm
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Hi!
Does anyone know what this folding rack or whatever was used for. It has a Greyhound sticker on it!
It measures 27" when folded up.
Thanks!
Jeanne
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First pic almost looks like a bike rack but that wouldn`t make sense !!
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What ever it is. it was considered to be important enough to ship by Grey Hound.
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Where is Rauville ?? He always knows all these odd and obscure items !! I have never ridden a bus except once in a Dallas city bus !!
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I think it might be a wall-mounted fold-away clothes drying rack. There are a lot of different styles, but I can't find one exactly like this. Does it have holes to mount it to a wall? Kinda like this but with the dowels running in the other direction:
(http://www.nwedible.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/P32616321.jpg)
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It's an antique beach chair. It's facing the wrong way. That's why it was on greyhound.
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http://www.icollect247.com/itempage.php?uniqueid=71723
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Where is Rauville ?? He always knows all these odd and obscure items !! I have never ridden a bus except once in a Dallas city bus !!
:D
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ANTIQUE-PRIMITIVE-WOODEN-FOLDING-GOUT-FOOT-STOOL-Pegged-/390657104219 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/ANTIQUE-PRIMITIVE-WOODEN-FOLDING-GOUT-FOOT-STOOL-Pegged-/390657104219)
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Your good Rauville! ;D Learn something new everyday.
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I learned something new as well! :)
Knew about gout...but not the foot stool!
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Must have been more people with gout than I would have imagined if Greyhound bus lines provided them for passengers !!
I knew you would get it Rauville !!
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Thanks all of you smart, wonderful, sharing people!! The gout foot stool is exactly like what I have. I never heard of that!
Jeanne
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Is that an Inventory tag or a Shipping tag?
I can't imagine unfolding that inbetween the seats of Greyhound bus. ;D ;D
Anyway, I wasa thinkin that lots of things were shipped by Greyhound Bus ..... before FedEx and UPS stole all their business.
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Shipping Tag.
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Don`t think its a shipping tag,, no destination !! Looks more like a property tag/stamp !!
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I have seen stools before (but not like this one) and they are actual known as a "gouty stool" which can change elevation. This one looks to be lightweight for travel for someone afflicted with it (and would make sense to have a bus tag on it.)
The ones I am more familiar with are solid or are the "scissor" mechanism ones.
Gout was very prevalent among the "well-to-do" and those with predominantly animal/meat/poultry diet, and most often in history for those that were over-weight (which isn't necessarily so these days but due to high acidity in the body and a predisposition to it). From history, Gout has been known as "The disease of Great Kings", "The disease of the Wealthy" and "The Rich Man's Disease" due to the fact they had more fat content due to their diets and lifestyles. Today it is referred to as a type of arthritis cause by high acidity levels in the body and can be controlled by diet and exercise! (Can you tell I have a family member that has experienced gout:!:!)
They not only made gouty stools of various forms they had "gouty chairs". As found in this mansion (A Harewood House Inventory, 1795) "Yet the Merlin’s Gouty Chair in the coffee room below may serve to remind us of how rich eighteenth-century diets played havoc with the body. "
(http://countryhousereader.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/gouty-chair1.jpg?w=500)