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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: debodun on October 04, 2012, 07:27:12 AM
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A one-gallon jug embossed with two marks. It has some small chips on the top edge. Any idea as to its age or value?
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Beautiful jug! It could be worth $$$.
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While I can't help you with age and value I thought you might find this interesting. Here's some info on James Scott Army Navy Depot.........which was in my old hometown of Halifax, NS.
Taken from HALIFAX AND ITS BUSINESS, Historical Sketch, by the Halifax Nova Scotia Printing Company, 1876
http://archive.org/stream/cihm_25690#page/n143/mode/2up
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Really cool, especially if it withstood the great explosion in Halifax in 1917! If that jug could only talk!
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mma/atoz/HalExpl.html
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Thanks for that great info, Sapphire!
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Hope this helps. I'm a horrble photographer, lol.
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Beautiful jug! It could be worth $$$.
Over here,there not worth that much...apart from the Port Dundas pottery mark...that one i got the other day...cost £6...and i got a big acid carboy....for £7.50...i,ll post a pic tomorrow.....
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Really cool, especially if it withstood the great explosion in Halifax in 1917! If that jug could only talk!
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mma/atoz/HalExpl.html
Off topic (as usual ;) )........if you've ever seen or heard of the huge Christmas Tree that is erected on the Boston Common and celebrated with a tree lighting ceremony, that is a yearly gift from Halifax to Boston as a perpetual thank you for the aid and humanity shown to the people of Halifax by the people of Boston through the train full of relief supplies and medical assistance that braved a Maritime blizzard to bring much needed help to all those affected by the explosion.
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I just read about it. History I've never heard thank you for the history lesson. It was interesting.
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Really cool, especially if it withstood the great explosion in Halifax in 1917! If that jug could only talk!
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mma/atoz/HalExpl.html
Off topic (as usual ;) )........if you've ever seen or heard of the huge Christmas Tree that is erected on the Boston Common and celebrated with a tree lighting ceremony, that is a yearly gift from Halifax to Boston as a perpetual thank you for the aid and humanity shown to the people of Halifax by the people of Boston through the train full of relief supplies and medical assistance that braved a Maritime blizzard to bring much needed help to all those affected by the explosion.
That,s one of the joy,s of this forum...we can drift off topic...have discussions...meand er our way through many different subjects....and before we know it...there,can be 3/4 pages...far removed from the original post....this to me is what makes this forum what it is....a meeting place...of like minded people...who enjoy being here....and sharing their knowledge...and more often than not....they bring a huge grin to my face.... :) :) :) :) :)
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True! ;)
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greenacres, I couldn't read the info on the photographed pages, but thanks for trying.
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I found record of a picture of James Scott's Army & Navy Depot from 1900.......but as it was sold there was no other info available.
Here is an ad from Belcher's Farmer's Almanack from 1885 ;) Still trying to find out when he was last in business.
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This is great!
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I found record of a picture of James Scott's Army & Navy Depot from 1900.......but as it was sold there was no other info available.
Here is an ad from Belcher's Farmer's Almanack from 1885 ;) Still trying to find out when he was last in business.
I just did some snooping on a map and found that James Scott's was only about 4 miles (as the crow flies) from the explosion! (Sorry. . . sometimes I get so interesting in the story, I let me little mind/imagination run away - off leash ;D)
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I found record of a picture of James Scott's Army & Navy Depot from 1900.......but as it was sold there was no other info available.
Here is an ad from Belcher's Farmer's Almanack from 1885 ;) Still trying to find out when he was last in business.
I just did some snooping on a map and found that James Scott's was only about 4 miles (as the crow flies) from the explosion! (Sorry. . . sometimes I get so interesting in the story, I let me little mind/imagination run away - off leash ;D)
Kimmienemo, it's actually only about 2 miles. 'A' is the approx. location of the Army & Navy Depot and 'B' is where the explosion took place. My mother was living in Georgetown, PEI at the time, about 150 miles away (on an island).......pictures and windows rattled and dishes fell off shelves. Her family moved to Halifax in 1918, as the city was just beginning to rebuild the devastated area.
(would have been a good idea to include the map.......duh!)
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I found record of a picture of James Scott's Army & Navy Depot from 1900.......but as it was sold there was no other info available.
Here is an ad from Belcher's Farmer's Almanack from 1885 ;) Still trying to find out when he was last in business.
I just did some snooping on a map and found that James Scott's was only about 4 miles (as the crow flies) from the explosion! (Sorry. . . sometimes I get so interesting in the story, I let me little mind/imagination run away - off leash ;D)
Kimmienemo, it's actually only about 2 miles. 'A' is the approx. location of the Army & Navy Depot and 'B' is where the explosion took place. My mother was living in Georgetown, PEI at the time, about 150 miles away (on an island).......pictures and windows rattled and dishes fell off shelves. Her family moved to Halifax in 1918, as the city was just beginning to rebuild the devastated area.
(would have been a good idea to include the map.......duh!)
That,s what all that caffeine does for you.....iddle/addle.....brain cells gone for a paddle..... ;D ;D
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Debodun, you might want to send inquiries to the Museum of Natural History (they do have exhibits of local furniture and products) as well as the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, which specializes in the close ties with the sea and the navy. One of these may be able to help with dating the jug.......at least with finding dates for the existence of Scott's Army & Navy, possibly any roll he played in supplying ships, etc. with the 'good stuff'.
Actually you could cover all bases or be directed the the exact one to contact buy messaging the Nova Scotia Museum, which is the 'parent' of the 27 museums in the province.
Museum of Natural History
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mnhnew/en/home/default.aspx
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mmanew/en/home/default.aspx
Nova Scotia Museum (contact link at bottom of page)
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/en/home/default.aspx
I could see that jug going for sale/auction here and creating a huge interest, especially with it's local, historical connection.
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Good suggestions, sapphire. Thanks.