Did you stop by and visit us while at the Lycoming County Fair?
Well, at least one hundred eighty six people did! They all took a guess at what the mystery artifact was… and several got it right! The artifact was… a portable bar.
The winner of our $20 Gift Certificate was Diana Beishline of Bloomsburg!
As seen in the photographs, when the lid is lifted a small decanter and shot glasses are revealed. We would have also accepted the answer that it might have been used to serve communion wine by a minister to a shut-in parishioner. Other examples of this portable bar include religious symbols decorating the lid.
We also commend the following with their right answers: Traci Pawling, Glenn Thomas
Other fun guesses included:
- Spice container (possibly from western china/India/middle east
- Lantern
- Ash urn
- A small serving dish
- Kerosene candle lamp
- Candle
- Salt reservoir
- Salt / spice holder
- For spices
- Pumpkins
- Urn
- Chinese urn
- A glass urn
- Female royalty urn
- A Powder holder and perff
- Jewelry case
- Rich man’s shaving canister
- Women’s face powder holder
- Powder puff
- Wax perfume holder
- Music box
- Lamp
- Tobacco jar
- Lamp using oil or candles
- Candy dish
- Jelly Bean holder
- Queen Elizabeth’s candy jar
- Beauticia – dish to hold Bobby pins or something similar
- A boudware (boudoir?) vase for hair piece set
- A hair jar
- A container for hair after you brush your hair
- Ash tray
- Holy water container
- Coffee keeper – either beans or ground
- Incense burner
- Inkwell
- Bottle cap
- Used as a guiding lamp to light the way to UGRR safe house
- Mini bar
- A potpourri pot
- Bon Bon jar
- Spittoon
- A woman’s spittoon
- Make-up and mirror
- Baseball holder
- A ball holder
- Vase that holds dirt or something very important
- Dry tea container
- Tea holder
- Secret keep
- Jeanie bottle
- Holds bubble bath
- Cookie jar
- A humidor
- Candle holder
- Poetry
- Trinket box
- Candy bottle railroad
- Flower vase
- Flower pot
- Where you put candle ashes
- A pot
- For snuff
- Money bank
- Limoge box
- Medicine canister
- Antique container
- Compote dish
- Cat blood holder
- Apothary (apothecary?) jar
- Collection plate
- Vase
- Old compact
- Cigar holder
- Jardiniere
- Opium jar
- Toothbrush holder
- A piece they used for communion (bread)
- Container for bees wax
- A trophy
- Momento mori jar holds momentos of dead loved ones