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What is this deal? - 6/22/2005 8:13:02 PM    Pettydigger Posts: 189 Joined: 1/2/2005 From: Southern Iowa Status: offline I dug this in a turn of century dump a few years ago. It is made of concrete, I think it is flat on the bottom and has several different colors of crunched up glass embedded in it.Size is about 7 inhes wide and 3 inches tall. Has anyone got an idea? I have it as a part of my rock garden, I thought it was worth bringing home. Any thoughts would be great. Thanks. Pettydigger Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: What is this deal? - 6/22/2005 9:50:20 PM    ronvae Posts: 253 Joined: 8/14/2004 Status: offline I think you are putting it to its intended use. I have made garden decorations like that with little kids: You get a disposable tin of some sort, line the bottom with broken glass, or mirrors, or shells, then pour quik-crete in, leave it sit for a couple of days, & pop it out. I'm sure they had something along the lines of a quik-crete recipe at the turn of the century, & somebody wanted to design their own rock-garden accents, and with your impeccable taste, you instinctively knew where to put it a hundred years later. (in reply to Pettydigger) Post #: 2

RE: What is this deal? - 6/22/2005 11:03:54 PM    flasherr Posts: 538 Joined: 5/7/2004 From: Abilene Texas Status: offline It looks like they might have taken an old cake pan/mold and stretched it out and used it as a mold. Could it be a paperweight? or maybe used in an old rock garden. Brian _____________________________ Know anyone around Abilene Texas that digs? (in reply to Pettydigger) Post #: 3

RE: What is this deal? - 6/22/2005 11:22:42 PM    Trying not to break it Posts: 2308 Joined: 12/18/2004 From: balt. md. Status: offline hi pettydigger, on my mother's house the blocks that are on the porch and colum's have pieces of colored glass on it. i think her house was built in the 30's. your find was made by some one very creative. nice, rhona (in reply to Pettydigger) Post #: 4

RE: What is this deal? - 6/23/2005 6:41:52 PM    Pettydigger Posts: 189 Joined: 1/2/2005 From: Southern Iowa Status: offline Thanks for the replys all, I was thinking like an ornament for the yard or garden but it was hard for me to imagine a family back then having such a decorative thing for their yard. Does anyone else think it would be really neat to go back in time to around 1890 and live? I can just picture the stores with the bottles and crockery, the horse drawn buggies and.....O.K. I'm rambling people, sorry Anyway it does add a nice touch to my modern day rock garden, alot of people ask me what it is when they see it. Pettydigger (in reply to Pettydigger) Post #: 5

RE: What is this deal? - 7/28/2005 10:36:43 PM    hope4   Posts: 23 Joined: 7/24/2005 From: Up State New York Status: offline It looks like my mother-in-laws cooking. (in reply to Pettydigger) Post #: 6

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