c. 1900 Armour’s Beef Tea Chicago Restaurant Porcelain Mug antique glass negative ) took each of these

) took each of these wounded Erzgebirge animals and gave them new life by gluing their feet to plinths and

one might guess somewhere in Maine

Mendell who kept it was a kindred spirit--a terrible note-taker it looks to me

This is an old wood--I think perhaps beech--and forged iron spokeshave

There are a range of different nails

c. 1900 Armour’s Beef Tea Chicago Restaurant Porcelain Mug antique glass negative ) took each of theseIn recent years we've see a renewed espousing of the benefits of beef tea or bone broth, but Armour's Chicago was making it and distributing it widely at the very beginning of the 1900s in ohotos I've including an ad for it c. 1902. Philip D. Armour, a native of New York State, made a substantial fortune in the pork packing business in Milwaukee in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, then In 1875 moved to Chicago to take charge of Armour & Co.