The ladies also carted a prize-winning quilt from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, an antique sampler, and a hand-stitched carpetbag with working lock and key that Melinda guessed, "could be something from the Civil War, or maybe the Middle East...I have no idea".
In an ornate dining room filled with Oriental antiques, sample complex dishes like sour "asam laksa" soup, "otak-otak" (fish cake, chilli and galangal steamed in banana leaf), "acar awak" (pickled vegetables smothered in crushed peanuts), and "udang lemak" (prawns cooked in a delicious rich coconut sauc).
Microbial corrosion of glass causes problems on delicates antique glass samples.
They have monikers that sound like exotic birds — cleeks, spring-neck brassies, long-nose baffing spoons — but actually specify types of antique golf clubs, a sampling of the nearly 800 in the collection of Jeffery B. Ellis, which Sotheby's is to sell in New York on Sept. 27 and 28.
Bristol is also a good place to browse through antiques shops and sample the biscuits and gravy at a classic diner, the Burger Bar.
THREE years ago, a fashion event for Monique Péan meant stowing her best jewelry samples into an antique white box and hauling it to the Times Square offices of Vogue in the off chance that editors there might like her earthy, eco-friendly bracelets and necklaces.
The dates are considered as approximate, particularly for samples obtained from antique shops, unless the samples themselves contained a date.
Someday specialists in 20th- and 21st-century music may decide that the sampled sounds of antique technology just aren't good enough.
Old photos of the family cover the walls of the atmospheric sitting room, a farm museum exhibits antique tools and you can still sample the Baglio's oil, wine and honey in the rustic restaurant.
Visitors may not expect so much instructive reading amid the antique sapphire and diamond jewelry and mineral samples, lent by private collectors, including the banking heir Marc P. Weill.
