Antique Early 1900s Fraternal Knights Maccabees World Advertising Hand Mirror

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Antique Early 1900s Fraternal Knights Maccabees World Advertising Hand Mirror:
$11.99

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We went out east to the World’s Longest Yard Sale this week. Every year, I shop beautiful rural western Ohio. Boy, do I have a lot of work to do, now! I found incredible items; from oldold late 18th - early 19thc all the way up to mid-century 20th and everything in between. On the way home, I stop at an Amish farmer’s place in Indiana and he lets me buy from his stash in his barn. You don’t want to miss a thing – keep checking back as I will be listing for weeks!

Oh this one is really cool - I\'ve never seen another like it. It\'s a hand mirror, put out as a promotional advertising piece in the early 1900s for the Kights of the Maccabees of the World. It was a very popular organization in the late 1800s, and then in 1914, the Knights of the Maccabees of the World merged with the Maccabees of the World just to become known as the Maccabees, so this mirror pre-dates 1914, and from the attire of the woman in the image, it\'s clearly early 1900s. This is a small hand held mirror measuring 2 3/4\" by 1 3/4.\" It weighs less than an ounce. The frame appears to be made of tin, or steel - my gut says tin - a magnet sticks to it. It\'s then covered by the design of the mirror - do I call it an enamel? Is it Celluloid? I really don\'t know for sure - please see my photos and what you think. It shows wear and chipping as enamel would, the largest spot being a 1/2\" by 1/4\" chip on the upper left corner, and at the bottom front, you can see that it\'s dented out a little from the tin frame, making that bottom edge look (and is) as if it tilts down a little on the right - see photos 4 and 9. There\'s also chipping that can be seen to the red around the perimeter of the piece. The mirror is in really nice shape, with no chips or cracks that I can see. There\'s dome dark silver loss spots that you\'d expect with age - more around the perimeter than anywhere, and with very small ones on the face. The reflection is good - you could use the mirror, but it does need a good cleaning, though, it\'s really dirty, and I don\'t clean or mess with as found patina in any way. On the front is what sealed the deal for me, though. It\'s just a really cool picture of the day. The color red is still very vibrant and the writing and background color is white that has farkened with age. The images are in black. Although some of the lettering has chipped off of the top left, I can still understand what it says with those missing letters in ()\'s, \"(If your) husband or (F)ather in your home should die, would the family be provided for?\" Then you have the image of a woman feeding two small children with the caption to the left, \"The bread and butter question.\" Under that, is, \"Knights of the Maccabees of the World,\" along with their logo. There\'s some dark caramel colored stains/foxing marks on the white, but nothing other than the chips that mars the writing. I don\'t THINK it\'s Celluloid, as it doesn\'t have the cracks and crazing that I see with old Celluloid. What more can I tell you?!? I hop I look this good when I\'m well over 100!

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Many of my items come from local rural estate sales and sales. They are coming right from the barn or attic to you - dust, cobwebs and all! I do not clean and polish before I sell – they are in the condition found, as you see in my photos, and I leave the patina exactly as it was when I bought the item. I do my best to photo and describe all thoroughly.

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