tnernie
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posted on November 5, 2003 11:58:32 AM new
Okay...I'm back again to ask for more help. 
I have this set of Scales which has a small gold & green sticker on them that says .... "Fine marble base made in Italy". There are no other markings beside this. Excluding the base, it appears to be made of brass.
I'm not sure if the "prisms" are made of glass/crystal or plastic. They feel heavier than a plastic, but I'm just not sure and would hate to list it without knowing. Is there a way to tell?
Also, it has some spots on it which I'm not sure if I should clean them and if so, how to go about it. (mostly on the base...the whitish looking spots).
As usual any help, at all is GREATLY appreciated!!
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wgm
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posted on November 5, 2003 12:05:54 PM new
This isn't much help - but you brought back some memories for me! My mother had a pair just like that! She bought the scales at Williamsburg Pottery when we lived in VA - approximately 32 years ago. Her's was crystal.
A recall of what decorating was like then - she had artifical fruit on the scales!
"I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it." - A Few Good Men
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toasted36
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posted on November 5, 2003 12:10:07 PM new
lol wgm my mom had a set too ...they also had fruit on them ....heres one at ebay kinda like it...it will give you an idea of what it's worth,but I think yours is from the 60's 70's era
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3250795900&category=3630
[ edited by toasted36 on Nov 5, 2003 12:12 PM ]
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tnernie
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posted on November 5, 2003 12:12:09 PM new
wgm - These are at least 38 years old according to my "spouse-shaped object". She says her grandmother bought them for her father when he graduated law school. Evidently, granny thought they looked like the "Scales of Justice", but her Dad always hated them! LOL
I can just picture these with fruit in them!
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wgm
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posted on November 5, 2003 12:23:46 PM new
LOL toasted! I bet our mother's were the envy of all their friends! I can picture it just like it was yesterday
"I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it." - A Few Good Men
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toasted36
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posted on November 5, 2003 12:32:21 PM new
I'm sure they thought they were anyway being so in style lol...She also had a bowl on the dinning room table that had fake fruit covered in stick pins and beads the color the fruit should be...I think those were some kind of kit you bought of the plastic fruit,beads,pins and all came with it and you put them together yourself...man it does feel just like yesterday
edited to add just like these lol !
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2356002132&category=36018
[ edited by toasted36 on Nov 5, 2003 12:36 PM ]
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CBlev65252
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posted on November 5, 2003 12:38:12 PM new
Oh, I remember the plastic fruit! My grandmother always had a bowl of it on the dining room table. They weren't the beaded kind, though. I remember the wax bananas! My brother when he was about three tried to eat one. She left it that way in the bowl. Sure wish I had it now. He'd get it for Christmas. LOL!
Cheryl
http://tinyurl.com/tkz3
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wgm
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posted on November 5, 2003 12:39:07 PM new
oh I remember those!! The scales with the fruit were on a buffet in dining room - and on each side of the buffet were huge metal ladles from Home Interiors with bunches of grapes in them! Oh what a blast from the past!
Sorry I don't know anymore about the scales tnernie, but thank you for a walk down memory lane
"I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it." - A Few Good Men
[ edited by wgm on Nov 5, 2003 12:43 PM ]
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toasted36
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posted on November 5, 2003 12:41:23 PM new
rofl Cheryl ...I'd like to see his face if you did have it ! God sounds like something I'd do 
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tnernie
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posted on November 5, 2003 12:44:39 PM new
toasted It amazes me how you can always find these auctions so quick!
Maybe we should just buy some fruit and forget selling the scales. LOL
It would definitely be a conversation piece, but I'm just not sure how it would look with our "country" style decor. LOL
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rarriffle
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posted on November 5, 2003 01:15:28 PM new
My bowl of the beaded fruit was one of my early ebay sales...got $173.00 from a dealer in New York for 14 pieces of fruit.
My mother used to have Stanley Home Products parties...she earned this set of scales and a pair of matching lamps with her sales bonuses. How stylish was she???? 
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wgm
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posted on November 5, 2003 01:18:57 PM new
ooohhhhh, matching lamps huh? LOL rarriffle! She was a trendsetter!
This is nice for a change - a fun thread!
tnernie - who knows, you may start a fruit trend all over again!!
"I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it." - A Few Good Men
[ edited by wgm on Nov 5, 2003 01:19 PM ]
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tnernie
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posted on November 5, 2003 01:24:47 PM new
Hey...we NEVER thought we'd see bellbottom jeans again...
So who knows, there may be hope for the fruits. LOL
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tnernie
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posted on November 5, 2003 03:01:02 PM new
Hey wgm...look what I found on eBay, complete with grapes! LOL
http://tinyurl.com/ttcq
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wgm
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posted on November 5, 2003 03:04:27 PM new
ROFL!! That is too funny!!!
"I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it." - A Few Good Men
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Roadsmith
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posted on November 5, 2003 10:34:56 PM new
Speaking of fake fruit: We have a whole box full of glass fruit (from Italy), gorgeous stuff, from a dead relative. I've been following glass fruit on ebay for a couple of years, and it did nothing, but I finally decided to throw 4 pieces into an auction just to start, even though I had no confidence in a sale. Well, they got a bid the first day of the auction, and I'll be interested to see where it goes by Sunday night.
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[ edited by Roadsmith on Nov 5, 2003 10:38 PM ]
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