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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: greenacres on December 11, 2016, 03:09:14 pm
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Hi everyone! This is the antique foot stretcher. It is my mother in law's. it was her father's. they lived in Council Bluffs, Iowa at that time period. I says patented. I have to blow up the photo to read the company's name. My eyesight is bad even with glasses. Hope everyone has a happy holidays.
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more photos...
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I think you mean to say it's a SHOE stretcher.
At least, I hope you mean a shoe stretcher.
:o
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Yes, lol. I have had a horrible week and exhausted. Cleaning a lot of the things out of her condo. Overwhelming.
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I hope this fixes it.
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Well it good for a laugh and I needed one.
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Greenacres,
Are you looking for someone to read it? Asking for value or what? I see this style of shoe stretcher selling between $3 and $20 dollar on eBay but they are listed for as much as $50.
If you are looking for the manufacturer try covering the mark and rubbing with a pencil. I can't make out the left side of the mark at all. In the center, it looks like C then either an E Or an F, then a P or an R.
PeLady
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No, I don't need a value. It's not for sale. I'm looking more for history as to age.
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I believe it came from the George E. Belcher factory.
http://www.stoughtonhistory.com/gebelcher.htm (http://www.stoughtonhistory.com/gebelcher.htm)
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Thank you Rauville. I can always count on you!
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George was related to Henry the viii
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OMG!
I taught in Stoughton. This website is one I had on my webpage and used with my middle school students! http://www.stoughtonhistory.com/ Huge shoe and leather tanning area, Ames shovels
Rauville, how did you read George E. Belcher from that photo?
PeLady
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Hard to read but I can see the "GE Belch" but the "er" is gone !! Rauville knows everything !!
Hey Greenacres !! You sound like me !! Last month and a half I have been living under Murphy`s Law !! What ever can go wrong,, will go wrong !!
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Friday, I was trying to get in the shower. Phone rings and it's my mom. The dog is dying. I didn't get in yet phones ringing. It's the caregiver. Ugh! Woke up Tues. and thought it was Saturday. Then I was late, so I got a speeding ticket! Need I say more, lol.
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Good to see you again, Greenacres.!
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Friday, I was trying to get in the shower. Phone rings and it's my mom. The dog is dying. I didn't get in yet phones ringing. It's the caregiver. Ugh! Woke up Tues. and thought it was Saturday. Then I was late, so I got a speeding ticket! Need I say more, lol.
Sounds familiar !! We found out that because of a rain diverter hubby put on the roof to keep the rain from freezing in the heat/air window unit it caused the rain to hit the side of the house and run down which caused the siding, trim to rot !! Undermined the foundation and rotted the floor joists on one corner !!
Then the lights started flickering in the house and throwing the main breaker !! After three days the main breaker totally died at 3 am !! Lit the oil lamps and started trying to find an electrician about 8am !! Called the one we usually use and because the old breaker was put in sometime in the 70`s and was old could not find another one that fit in this town !! Electrician bailed on us so had to find another that wasn`t swamped with work !! Had to have the entire breaker box replaced !! That was not a bad thing since some of the wiring was so old that some didn`t even have any insulation left !!
Then three nights ago a 17 year old kid in a truck ran through our fence wiping out about 30 feet of it !! Neighbor stopped to tell us that all the horses were out and on the road !! This was at 2 am,, so I got up and checked the gate and it was still latched so shined the light along the fence and walked toward the garden !! Found truck parts scattered with the fence parts !! Keep in mind that this fence is made of 4 inch steel oil field pipe set in concrete and welded sucker rods !! Had the police out and luckily the front license plate from the truck was under the top pipe which was on the ground !!
Meanwhile horses walked across the road into a 200 acre hay field !!~ So I stayed up to keep checking on them and about 5:30 they all came back into the yard and wanted back in the pasture !! I opened the gate and let them in,, took an old extension cord and went to the damaged area and tied it across so they would get no more ideas of wondering around !!
It was already daylight by then so I just stayed up til about 8:30 pm and then I crashed into bed !! After a good stiff drink of course !! Has been a wild time lately !!
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"The Perils of Mart and Greenacres!!!" Coming to a theater near you!! ;D
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lol, god almighty! All this from a shoe stretcher!
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We have to complain somewhere !! ;D
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Thank you ghopper. I have been so busy I can't see straight.
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Wow...you two have had a time. So sorry to hear. Glad the group can be here...vent away!
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I don't know loosing your horses might beat me. Glad they're safe! I hope they caught that driver.
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The police knew the kid and went to talk to him !! Day and a half later his Grandmother brought him over and he is going to help repair the fence and get the pipe (hopefully) !! He said he and his girlfriend were in the truck and he fell asleep driving !! But I suspect he may have had a little liquor added to that situation !! He doesn`t know how lucky they are !! If that top pipe had went over the cab and windshield it likely would have killed them both !! Or have been skewered by the sucker rods !!
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Yep! They are soooo fortunate and too young/ignorant to realize how blessed they are! (I know that many adults walking around today did lots of really stupid stuff and lived to either tell about it or keep it from their kids/family! LOL)
Glad it is being fixed for you Mart!
I am still on crutches/scooter for 6 more weeks! So bummed....but glad I have a foot (even tho it hurts like heck!)
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I am still on crutches/scooter for 6 more weeks! So bummed....but glad I have a foot (even tho it hurts like heck!)
Good for you! It is indeed terrible to think of you as being footloose.
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Thanks for the giggle grasshopper1924!
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I am praying for your toes KC !! Hopefully you will be on them again soon !!