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Carl Curtis’ Victorian organette. Listen to it play!

Carl Curtis shows the bellows system of his organette to Jim Wilson and Ray Berg.

Mr. Curtis brought in this Victorian Singer sewing machine, as it was used as a power system for a second organette. The flywheel on the sewing machine would be linked to a drive wheel on the organette using a thin leather belt.

Carl Curtis shows Jim Wilson and Betty Cummings the second organette.

Sharon Curtis and Betty Cummings examine an advertiser’s map of Manchester Village printed in the mid-1990s. That’s 20 years ago, folks. Let that sink in.

School Geography Textbook, 1850, by S. Augustus Mitchell and J. H. Mather. This textbook belonged to Nancy Feldkamp’s ancestor when he attended school in Bridgewater.

Reno Reldkamp brought in a Feldkamp sheep stamp. The upper case ‘F’ was cast in iron, and then affixed to a corn cob handle. The ‘F’ would be dipped in paint, and then sheep would be marked with the painted letter.

The cast iron Feldkamp ‘F’.

A close up of the corncob handle.

This Victorian toy train came from Missouri.

This Meridan Silver fruit plate belonged to Laura Sutton’s family.

Doris Sutton brought in this Victorian children’s edition of fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, as well as this handmade doll cradle with clothes chest. Both were given to her when she was four years old by a neighbor. The neighbor was very old, and was being moved out of his house to a home by his daughter. When he was leaving, he came out with the book and the cradle and said, indicating Doris, that these should “go to Clarence’s girl”. The cherry wood cradle, according to Mrs. Sutton, is at least 115 years old.

This Victorian children’s edition of Grimm’s Fairy Tales was given to Doris Sutton when she was four.

A Spanish-American War service medal found in the old village dump off of Cass Street in a tin box.

A hand-made apple corer.

Sharon Curtis was nostalgic for vintage glass Christmas ornaments. Many of these came from Carl Curtis’ family Christmas tree. The made in Western Germany label shown here indicates their extreme antiquity (wink).