Well, I got all excited this afternoon. I was doing some cleaning and I picked up an old metal tray I had found at a garage sale four or five years go. I hope you didn't think I got excited about cleaning. Not on your life! I digress.
I looked at it and something clicked in my brain. I remembered something from Antiques Roadshow the other day about Norman Rockwell trays. I immediately walked up the hallway and found tool man in his chair,(he's not difficult to find) and reminded him of the show.
I proudly flipped my treasure around and he said, "Where the H_ _ _ did you get that?"
I explained I paid a quarter or a dollar at a garage sale and proceeded to ask him what kind of trays were missing from the collection on the show. He didn't know, so I googled it on the computer.
"Who's Having More Fun"
That's the title and down in the right hand corner it has Norman Rockwell's name. I believe it's below the title line also, but on to my results.
Every heading that popped up had the title of the tray. I thought, "Wow, it must really be coveted to have so much information about it online". I was thinking I was going to be Rich, I say, Rich!!!!!!
The picture was a creation of Norman Rockwell for Niblet Corn in 1938. I never found out when the tray was made, but on the back of mine someone has written, "July 1953" in red fingernail polish.
Poor ole thing, battered and beaten with age
I continued on and saw one on Ebay for ten bucks, so my dream shattered right then and there. I hollered at tool man and told him not to buy the tickets for that vacation cause we're not goin anywhere.
Closer view so you can see the scars on my treasure
The one for ten bucks wasn't scarred, so I think I got
fair value for my money.
Tool man ask me if I was selling it at the garage sale Saturday. I told him I wasn't cause it's one of my little feel good pieces. So I took it and put it back in its place among my tacky little treasures.
Some things are worth more to us for the feelings they invoke than for their monetary value. Of course maybe that's because they aren't worth a fortune.
Until Later,
Okie Girl @ Home
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