[BCMA] An object that can save lives!!! (and other objects available for transfer from the Vernon Museum and Archives)

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Hello, its day 5 of the Vernon Museum and Archive storage room reorganization! And today we have some more objects available for museum transfer.

As my grandma always told me, there is no point in having nice serving dishes if you don't show them off. So today we have a mid-Victorian mahogany sideboard available which is just perfect for the task. The top resembles a vanity, with a round mirror graced by carved flowers and leaves. Below is a large shelf lined in green velvet, just the right place for showing off that silver punch bowl which I just know your museum has. (989-109-102)

A nice, simple wall mirror. It's a rectangle supported by a warm brown frame, and it is ready to hang! The surface of the mirror has just a few discolored spots, giving it a hint of age but in the most charming way. (993.66.01)

We also have a second mirror, the long narrow kind for the inside of closet doors. It's from the 1940's, with a gold colored frame with some simple carvings. I didn't bother asking who is the fairest of them all because I already know its Ryan Reynolds. (05.16.3)

Have you read the news lately? If you are a smart museum you will be currently busy planning for the end of the world and boy do we have the perfect item for you!  An electric generator, gas powered made by Wico Electric Co., in Springsfield, Mess. It's about the size of a bread box, its PR Serial Number is 8125 and its patent dates are for 1919-20. It even comes with two flywheels and an outside pulley! It does not, however, work. It's probably missing a few parts. So maybe rethink that end of days plan.  (1969.014.001)

Are you even allowed to be a museum if you don't have a sewing machine? Make sure you are up to museum code and accept our sewing machine. Its treadle style, cast metal with black enamel finish w/ gold detail. It comes in an oak cabinet, and the top lifts to form a table. It dates to 1893. (2007.036.001)

An adding machine made by Burroughs. It's black, with white and black keys and a roll of paper already in it. Some of these bad boys are awful big, but this is perfect for your table top. As long as you have a good back you can even carry it around with you tucked under one arm. It's ideal because your visitors can play away on it.

Sometimes the biggest delight in visiting a museum is discovering an older version of something that's very familiar. Delight your visitors with our floor polisher. It's made by Johnsons, and its electric with a bristly brush on the end of a long black handle.

If you have a blacksmith display I bet you have tools floating loose all over the place. Organize your exhibit today with our handmade blacksmith tool holder. It's long and wide, but also shallow, with two sections and a handle on top. (05.36.1)

Remind your visitors that staying warm in winter wasn't always about Tim Hortons or cranking up the thermostat and accept our coal shovel. It's a bit rusty, but it would still work as a display piece. (996.2.135)

A pair of snow shoes that look roughly made. The frame is wood with the bark peeled off and it has been bent into a circle and held in place with a web of roughly cut leather. However, the story goes they were made by an 80 year old man as a quick example of how to make snow shoes if you are ever caught in a blizzard.  By accepting these snow shoes you are teaching your visitors survival skills they may one day need, so like, by saying yes to these shoes you are basically a hero!  See I told you we had an object that can save lives! (54-81-5)

We also have a second pair of snow shoes which are more professional looking. They are made of carved wood, with a fine woven center, and have festive red fuzzy spots up the sides.  They are probably useless in a real blizzard as there is no way to attach them to your feet. But they do look nice.

A large mangle iron. Its white, it's rectangular, it has two legs and comes on a wheeled metal stand. The idea is you can feed fabric through it and, get this, it can iron a shirt in just 4 ½ minutes!!! Ours even comes with wings to fold out to make a work surface. (2017.036.001) If you are really excited about this object then I have good news for you, we do in fact, have two! (1996.019.001)

I am happy to send photographs or more information.  If you wish to have one of the objects listed here today for your museum shipping costs will be your museums responsibility, and in some cases there will be an extra fee for shipping materials. If you are interested please contact: Carolyn.ben at vernonmuseum.ca<mailto:Carolyn.ben at vernonmuseum.ca>

Thanks and stay tuned for day 6!


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