Vintage Thingies Just Right For Thursday

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Thursday is the day when lots of folks like to share their vintage thingies in a lovely party hosted by our friend Coloradolady. If you want to join in, there's a link at the bottom of this post.

What I have to share today are not my things. I found them in our County Historical Museum and they caught my eye and my camera lens.


Just look at this unusual desk. It has some pretty neat vintage thingies (like stereopticons) on top of it, but right now I'm just interested in the desk itself.

When the two side "wings" are closed, as above, you really can't tell exactly WHAT kind of thingie it is. I just knew it was a thingie I'd never seen before!


Well, wonder no more!!! It's called a Wooten Desk after the Quaker minister who invented it.

I was especially interested to see that Pastor Wooten was from Indianapolis - - - GO COLTS!!!


And when he said he likes a lot of compartments, he means he likes A LOT of compartments.

I don't guess he needed much room for writing - - - not much desk top available for THAT.

Maybe he didn't plan his sermons ahead - - - - - (just sayin')

On closer inspection of the written description I see that the writing desk is supposed to slide out of there somewhere, but is now missing. I guess I better apologize to Pastor Wooten for doubting his sermon planning skilz.

I googled and found some of these whose asking price was $25,000 - $35,000. I don't guess I'll run out and buy one tomorrow.


I found this collection of doctor's pills and potions fascinating.

Not fascinating enough to TRY any of them, mind you.


An old blue cook stove. I think I might like to HAVE one of these.

We grew up with a wood stove in our kitchen and it was WARM and toasty in there - - - especially on the side that you had FACING the stove. ;-)


A great little Hoosier. This one has both a flour bin/sifter and a sugar bin. I've always wanted one of these - - - maybe some day.

I won't paint mine gray though.


Have you ever heard of one of these???? Me neither. But here is one:


I believe it is the rolled undercarriage that gives this cabinet the name "possum belly."

I googled it and found images of some that were way prettier than this one. But those of you that love the distressed look will simply die over this one.

Most possum bellies did have a removable cabinet top and were in fact the predecessors to the Hoosier.

You gotta wonder though, who wants a POSSUM in their kitchen? (Which is REALLY an opossum - - - but that's for the science lesson and not the vinitage thingie party.)

Most of you will probably recognize the milk/cream separator on the front right corner.

You young whipper snappers probably don't know anything about cream floating on top of milk - - - more's the pity.

Well folks, that's all for this go round!

Linking today to
Vintage Thingie Thursday
Over at Coloradolady's lovely place.

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