Under the kitchen sink!

[Reanm8er]

When My Mother In Law passed my wife was clearing her effects from her apartment and was working under the kitchen sink. She opened an old cardboard ice cream box to find this object hidden inside. We've been scratching our heads for a couple of years now trying to figure out what it could have gone on and the other day it finally came to us, a parasol handle.



It's very similar to one on a parasol found in the attic of Callaway Plantation in Lincolnton, Georgia. It's Sterling but no maker's marks.

Any info?

 

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[Batchief]

Very beautiful keep it in the family!

 

[huntsman53]

I have no idea but you may have already solved it! Is the small end solid or hollow and if hollow, is it threaded or not? The answer to these might help with identification.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

beautiful piece!

 

[Reanm8er]

This is sterling lain over a wooden form. Narrow end has a small, maybe 3/16 hole with no evidence of any adhesive or attaching features. I had originally though it to possibly be a Tora pointer, but too short. So I kept trying to think what could be that small and thought fishing rod, but that didn't make sense, unless for little Lord Fauntleroy, and no residue of ferule cement. As we sat there and thought on it I said "umbrella" and she said "No, parasol", so that's when I went online and searched parasol handle and came up with the one found in Georgia. I expect most of you folks know how precious it is to be relieved from an obsession!

 

[adit]

Great find !

 

[Reanm8er]

3/16ths hole, no threads, no glue residue, no signs of trauma. This is who we think owned this artifact.


Sue Brown Gash, born in frontier Texas and survived encounters with Comanches as well as characters as such as John Wesley Hardin. A beautiful and elegant woman seen here with her husband William Leander Gash, at their home in East Asheville, N.C. ca1905. WL was kicked out of West Point in 1870 because he refused to shine an upper classman's boots, (that's the simple story). They returned to Ashville by covered wagon train in about 1902 because their revolutionary era land grant required a family heir to occupy the lands ( the whole East end of Asheville as well as Oteen).
She lived through childbirth 7 times and her children were giants who loomed large in their era. One a meet hunter for the railroad out west, another an early Millwright who built the TVA dam locks and liberty ships for WW2, Daughters who worked in Military intelligence, taught school and were homemakers in the Texas oil boom. They built a pioneer enclave along the Swananoah River in East Asheville where the daughters built their own log homes.
I'm proud to say that her G Grandaughter is the Mother of my Children. Here's to Mother Sue!

 

[A2coins]

Wow thars really cool.must have meant a lot to her to hold onto it.