Okay, let's research what you found in the books. The name is actually Louise Laube (both first letters are the same). The family name seems to be German. Fred Knefler (last row on the Invitation card) was a veteran in Indiana. There was President Cleveland Reception in Indianapolis in 1887 (as far as I can find records of his events in Indiana). There is a German News Paper from Indianapolis from 1894 mentioning a "Fräulein Louise Laube" traveling to Germany to become a teacher. There is a record of a marriage from 1898 from Indianapolis mentioning the marriage of William E. Pellett and Marie Louise Laube, born 1863 in Germany. Their kids were born in 1901 and 1903, so in the second term of President Cleveland. Greetings from Germany. Have fun with the stories about who Louise was 🙂
WOW! There are few people more wonderful to have in your life than researchers! I really love poking around in history, and I appreciate your work, Corinna.
The basket handle looks like dried grapevine. I love your wonky basket! Also, I once bought a boxful of vintage dress patterns from the 50s and 60s. Some of them were still factory-folded, but many of them had been used and I was able to trace a mother and daughter's path through their lives via their dress sizes. It was poignant to see the mother's notations of the daughter's measurements through time, and also see her own dress sizes grow from the canonical "32 inch" size through 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 inch sizes. I loved these pretty patterns while I owned them, then passed them on to a collector.
I did a quick familysearch research. Louise M Laube was born 1865 in Berlin, Germany and died June 1956 in L.A. California. In 1895 she married Werter M Faries in Marion, Indiana. The word "sonder" in german is also a old form of "without", as in "sondergleichen -> unparalleled"
Lol I love that you called the black camera a brick because in the film photography world that camera is referred to as The Argus Brick. Great camera, but very heavy.
Ooh, great finds! Little bits of paper in old books are so delightful. I have a possibly 1860's cookbook with 2 handwritten recipes for soap tucked into it. I went to an estate sale last weekend with my uncle and got an old print of a man in a fancy hat, a metal crumb catcher/small dustpan thingy, a basket of old table linens, and a hatbox. My uncle (a retired chemistry teacher) got a chemistry book from 1847!
"You're aloud to just love something. " Ya! I'm 51 years old. Been trying to get that through my head for a long time. I think that's one of the reasons that I enjoy your videos. You do things just because you love them. Not because it's fashionable.
The SCREM that I SCREMED before I even clicked on the video!! I'm so excited! If a suspicious, windowless, white van set up in a parking lot said "fRee AnTiqUe BuKz" on the side, I'd be a goner. EEEEEEE!
Without looking it up, Kriss Kringle sounds like it's a weird spelling of hearing "Christkindl" when said in a Southern German dialect like Bavarian. Saw someone else already point out that in the Southern part of Germany the gifts at Christmas are brought by the Christkindl, basically an angelic form of baby Jesus. A very vague theory, it's a very charming name change somewhere in the 19th century, where German immigrants were talking about Christkindl and what English speakers understood was "Kriss Kringle" and ran with it. In any case, I love this.
As I understand it, the beginnings of our modern secular Christmas traditions came to us through the English Queen Victoria, whose extended family included the German royal family. So that ties together the Christmas tree and Kris Kringle and Santa Claus (St. Nicholas). Of course, the evergreen tree and the Yule log may have been originally from the Nordic countries. Anyway, it makes sense to me that these Northern European royal families shared Christmas and Winter Solstice traditions.
The stacked metal lunchbox thing is a tiffin box/carrier thing. You can find the same model at Ikea. They are originally (I THINK) from the Indian continent and Asia.
The metal tiffin cans are part of the amazing Dabbawala system in Mumbai, where office workers get their home cooked lunches delivered to their desks. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabbawala
I inherited my grandma's collection of ancient early 20th century books when she passed. There are a couple that are so old they don't even have the publish date. I also have an entire leather bound bible in Finnish that's about 150 years old.
The random stuff shoved in old books reminds me of a book I found at a flea market sort of thing that my grandma took me to as a teenager. I was going through the books not looking for anything in particular, and I found a 2nd edition Merriam-Webster dictionary that'd been duct-taped together and presumably gone through a fire given the cover was a bit melty. Inside in an envelope, I found a bunch of pictures of some random family, including pictures of a teen with a car and a few baby photos. It's one of my favorite things I own
Great memories of Miss Louise, I love it. Also, Link being so gentle with the turtle yet so playful with that "I could give it to you, but... don't wanna..." :)))
I love all your wonderful discoveries! Just be careful of one thing with extremely old books: if the cover is fabric, it's from the 1800s, and emerald green, handle carefully and wash your hands immediately after touching it. Also, keep it away from your fur baby. The cover dye is literally made with a heavy dose of arsenic. It's been known to cause blistering and chemical burns on fingers and could potentially be even worse if your puppy were to lick it. I bought a couple of first-edition books from the era, both with the dangerous dyes. I was looking up the book details when I found out about the dyes, and since then they're handled with a great deal of care. Most of all, bravo for reaching a point in your life you can buy something you like, for the sheer joy of it. Your treasures don't need to meet anyone else's approval: your liking them is more than enough.
Fun fact about Christmas in Sweden: On Christmas Eve, that’s when we celebrate Christmas, at 3 pm, a big part of Sweden is watching this special tv program that contains short snippets of really old American cartoons and some newer ones, mainly Donald Duck ones (He’s been very big in Sweden for decades). At 16:47 we can see this vintage cartoon that we in Sweden see every year! 🤣😍 I googled it and the first time they started airing it on tv was 1960 and it’s been a tradition ever since! There are ofc parts of newer animations added, but many of them are still the vintage ones to this day! 😁😁😁 Isn’t it a weird tradition?!! But we love it! Every year at 3 pm it’s Kalle Ankas Jul (Donald Duck’s Christmas)!
I’m second generation Swedish on my dad’s side. We always celebrated Christmas at my FarFar and FarMor’s house with a dinner of ham, potati scorve (sorry about the spelling), lutefisk, lefse, mashed potatoes and corn, at 3pm. Then the adults did the dishes-it took years for us kids to figure out we weren’t trusted with FarMor’s good dishes- and finally, finally, we opened the presents. Your comment brought back such great memories. I know my fascination with gnomes is because of the tomte gooben stories I heard as a child. Thank you! Edited to say this was in the early and mid 1950s.
Houghton Mifflin is a publisher of school books. I worked for them briefly in Batavia, IL. They were founded in Boston MA in 1880 and are still around today, although today they are called: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. It's possible L.M. Saube was either a student or even a school teacher.
Also, it's pronounced Hō-ton, long O. First thing I learned 40 years ago as an assistant editor (read: slave) to a major publisher, was how to pronounce Houghton Mifflin; Alfred A. Knopf; Scribner's (it's NOT Scriveners, dammit!); and Farrar, Straus. The old days, when some of the founders of these big names were still alive.
I love seeing the random pieces of paper in the book. It seems like she was using whatever was nearby to mark either her place or poems she wanted to come back to.
Those items between the pages might just have been quick bookmarks, too. If someone were to find my books 100 years from now, they might think the old receipts and yarn ball bands were precious objects 😂, but miserly I have a knack for never having a bookmark around when I need one.
I recommend reading or listening to the Little House in the Big Woods books as an adult. I basically ignored the story - just listening to all the expectations of the times described in the books was fascinating! I also think that reading books that clearly show prejudice as it was perceived contemporaneously is a great way to train yourself to see the prejudice in modern writing.
I think the little green bowl cup thing is a sugar bowl, given the spoon! also it would be so slay if you check to see if the old books have been scanned yet. If not, please scan them!!!! preservation is so important!!!! there are often crazy different details and censorship and errors between prints that are wild for us English literature academics so 🥺🙏
Santa Claus comes in so many forms and shapes and versions that it's a rabbit hole to infinity, almost. There was a separate character from 'regular' Santa that went about the houses in German towns, I believe, with a tree on his back and who lit up the lights on the Christmas trees, supposedly. If you see a 'Santa' in a grey robe, that's him. Germany also has Knecht Ruprecht, who went around with Saint Nicholaus (who becomes Sinta Klaas in Holland and then Santa Claus) and was the...well, the Krampus, really, in some versions, and helped with the gifts in others, afaIk. In Sweden, it's the Christmas tomte that brings the presents, and in Italy, I believe there's a Christmas Witch, La Befana. That's just off the top of my head. I'm sorry for the wall of text :S
I very very nearly bought the whale basket, because I also have finally, hopefully, settled down by buying a house. And I need storage for all my yarn, and that whale is adorbs.
In my house bento boxes become storage for art and sewing little bits, daggers go in a shadow box as wall art. There are beautiful modern hardcover books, I love finding stuff in used and vintage books. Cool lamp and pottery which I am weak for.
A perfect way to start my morning! Trying to overcome executive dysfunction, and this acts as the cozy fun body doubling I need! In a not creepy, non parasocially weird way 😅 ❤ this exact type of multi estate sale place is where I got my oldest books!
Oh! Mini book fact! Once upon a time when you purchased a book, all you would get is the pages. Then you would take those pages to your book binder who would bind the pages for you. Your two books match because that was the design that your mystery lady chose for the books in her personal library. So cool!
You got so many cute things! Also I don’t think I’ve ever been so invested in something more than I was when you were talking about the Christmas songs and Louise. I was so fascinated by everything you said-though I’m trying to finish my daily writing goal for NaNo and I’m trying so hard to resist the urge to look up the history of Santa now XD Also your dog is the cutest dog ever :)
I experience the same kind of sonder, its part of the reason i cant go to bigger cities or stand in crowds. I also love vintage and antique things for the same reason, i feel alot of love and connection for strangers of the past when i can expeirence history in little ways.
Sonder is actually a created word! It’s from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, and it was made in around 2012. They have dozens of words, but that one REALLY struck a lot of people and is now just. A word in English.
26:30 That is a salt cellar. You put your cooking salt in there so you can easily reach in for a pinch. The spoon is for larger amounts. Once you have one, you'll never go back! Tis beautiful! as is the wee bear.
Santas workshop cartoon is from 1932 and we see it each year in sweden acculy 😂. From All of Us to All of You that Disney aired 1958 become a swedish tradition to watch each christmas eve at 3 a clock.
Whoa... that box camera brought back some memories! My dad has one that used to be my grandpa's back in the '50s. My sisters and I loved it when we were kids. It still worked. I completely forgot about it until just now. Thanks for the flashback!
Love watching your videos! Awesome finds, especially like the Tiffany lamp. I have a vintage floor lamp with dragonflies but it’s like rubber type substance (?) stain glass rather than ..well. glass. I also appreciate old book binding a leather or fabric bound with clear effort to make it look nice though I’m fine with simpler styles. Also such a good pup not chewing on the turtle tape. I can see why he’d think (hope) it was a new toy for him.
I ❤old books. I stopped watching what I was when the notification for this came up solely cause it was about old books. 😊 Those are awesome finds. Love. The Honey bear!
I love this video. I love going to antique stores and going to estate sales I don't normally buy anything cuz I really don't have the room for anything but I love watching with other people find. By the way I think the little green mug is not for drinking but more for seasonings.
Haha!! 😄 That first Christmas cartoon you showed is a national Swedish Christmas tradition! On Christmas Eve, at 3 pm, the family (those who still partake in the tradition) gathers in front of the tv and watch the old Swedish dubbed version of the From All of Us To All of You show from 1958 (in the US part of The Wonderful World of Disney tv series)
OMG...the calling card remind me so much of Laura Ingalls Wilder and the book The long winter or Little town on the prairie . All the young girls and boys jump on the new trend and it thing, on collecting calling cards from each other. And as i rember it, Laura orders 100 cards with violets on it. 😊😊
Moin 😊 I'm a German and I did study the German language in university. I never heard of the term "saunder" before. Maybe you meant "staunen"? Which means "to wonder about something". I would also recall Louises last name starts with a "L" not a "S" , they are close in cursive handwriting but the s doesn't come to the right at the bottom. I really like Tiffany style lamps too, the one you got is not vintage, it is a new model which you could buy brand new for about 150€. I'm a little fascinated about the term Kris Kringle, it was unfamiliar to me so I looked it up. In Germany we had the "Christkind" before Santa Claus (in German he us called Weihnachtsmann, which translates to Christmas Man 😂) was invented. The Christkind is an Angel and referred to Jesus, who brought the Christmas presents on the birthday of Jesus. Love your little haul 😊 greetings
Another German here. I think what Charlie meant is "sonder", a very old German word meaning "without". It's rarely used in that form anymore, but it was used to develop the term Charlie is referring to, which originated in America. However, we still often use words based on this word in Germany. The closest word in Scripture is "sondern", which means "but instead" or "but rather". More related in meaning to how it is used in the video would be "absondern", which means to keep away from people, or "Sonderling", which describes an eccentric person or misfit.
The captions say "sonder". But as a fellow German, "sonder" on its own doesn't really make sense in that context either... maybe "besonders" ? That's an adjective though, not referring to a feeling (of wonder or otherwise). Or "sonder" as a prefix to say "separate from" as in Sondermüll for example... 😅
Not my oldest book, but one of my favorites, a 1897 edition of "Dracula" printed in the USA by Garden City Publishing Company. I love books that had a life before thay came to me.
The one book with the inserts and previous owner's name. I think the last name is "Laube"- which most likely has roots in the german speaking countries. The way they wrote the first letter is so similar.
Yes, I think you're right! I do calligraphy and the letter forms on the card look like an "S" but I believe they are a slanted "L", because the same form spells out "Louise". Likely of German descent!
German here and I can confirm that. The first letter of the last name looks almost exactly like how I was taught to write the L in elementary school in the nineties. The German word Laube means pergola or arbor.
I know it was pretty common in the 1800’s for books to come with temporary bindings and the owner would go get the books bound however they liked. That’s why the books look so similar but are from different publishing companies.
Maud Muller is one of those poems that stays in your mind and the closing lines will come to you at odd times. My mother quoted it to me when I was a child
Loved the books and the fascinating insights makes me want to look up Louise online. Im excited also my your belle tapestry is wing its way to me for my granddaughter thank you
The songs remind me of the Christmas program that my cousins do. Theirs is Swedish so it isn't the same, but they sing songs to tell a story and then sometimes repeat songs with a different set of lyrics.
Very cool stuff. The lamp was a great deal. Sometimes people go by their middle name, rather than their first name, if their mother has the same first name. Maybe that explains switching up the names. For example, many girls of french Canadian decent were named Marie. It gets confusing when everyone has the same name 😊
We used to have one of those weird estate sale warehouses in my town, and it was the best place to get cheap vintage and antique furniture, but every time we went in there it was harder to get around.
I used to do that "Sonder" adjacent thing when I was out and about. I'd see someone and imagine how they'd be described as the protagonist in a romance book. "She was pleasantly plump, with a quirky look about her that implied an easy laugh and a generous heart". Something like that 😆
I love the video. You have eclectic taste. I love that. I also go down rabbit holes when looking at things. Have you thought of looking up what became of them? If her family had invitations to Cleveland's reception they must have been connected.
I look at garage sales, yard sale, tag sales, or whatever your neck of the woods call them and yes, estate sales are better than Christmas. You never know what you will find and then you get to pick and choose what you want to buy.
The mug tangent. Our master bedroom's vibe is after an English literature themed inn. We have all of the bookmarks from the rooms we have stayed in on the wall, and just a number of things that make us feel like home is an extended simi staycation. We added a mini fridge close to the birth of our child for milk and LaCroix storage which significantly adds to the hotel vibe. We are building a hutch for the mini fridge for a coffee maker to improve our alertness. I have a collection of Pantone COTY mugs that I had intended on having in my studio, but they might end up being kitchenette mugs. I did think it could be cool to have hotel mugs made using Walgreens photo mugs to add to the illusion that this is a suite life. I've made a special mug for the first Pantone COTY I followed but couldn't buy, the Google Doodle for my husband's first day working for Google (there wasn't a Doodle for his last day so I have been slacking on making a special Doodle mug). I've also made mugs at Color me mine for all of my parents that actually all had foreign languages on them. I'd like to find more antique-y things to add to the vibe. I have mushroom mugs that have started my collection of woodland tea party entertainment pieces.
I highly recommend JRR Tolkien's Letters from Father Christmas. It is the collection of letters he wrote to his children from the perspective of Father Christmas. There is elaborate world building of what like is like at the North Pole and beautiful paintings that have a feel of intimacy being letters only intended for his family. I would recommend it to a teenager who doesn't believe in Santa anymore, but also enjoyed the Lord of the Rings.
The baby sword brings me much joy 🗡🤺🛡 Edit/addition (hadn't watched the whole video yet): I'm going to have "Christmas comes but once a year..." 🎵 stuck in my head the rest of the night now
Nice lamp! I have the dragonfly motif in a knock off reading chair lamp with more of the green. I like knowing it's a knock off because I know it's up to today's standards of safety and that if something happens to it, it wasn't as rare. There's a color smart bulb in it so I can make it light a color gradient along with meditation music and just watch the colors play.
I think I may have an answer for the not quite estate sale! A lot of times not everything sells at estate sales. So companies exist that buy up the ends for super cheap and do a big sale after doing this a few times. I got a dresser for like $15 bucks when I was super broke at one.
Your Indian Bento box is called a tiffin. They're really nice to use - though you don't want to put anything wet (like a stew/soup - curries are wet, but not) in them - they'll leak.
Nice cameras! The one in the brown case might work still and I believe it is an Argus and uses 35mm film. I have my Dad's and he used it well into the 1990's. The other is a movie camera/ video camera but I doubt it works.
It looks to me like the young lady was named Louise Laube, because the first letter of the surname actually looks more like the first letter of the Louise name than anything else! Otherwise, oh my I LOVE these kinds of books and finds - well done girl! Indian knitting needle company Lantern Moon makes measuring tapes that look like animals, including sheep, turtles, pigs et cetera, so who knows.
Why give him turtle if he can't keep turtle? He does not unnerstan. Every little bit about this whole thing was delightful, rabbit hole *enthusiastically* included. Thank you!
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Okay, let's research what you found in the books.
The name is actually Louise Laube (both first letters are the same). The family name seems to be German.
Fred Knefler (last row on the Invitation card) was a veteran in Indiana.
There was President Cleveland Reception in Indianapolis in 1887 (as far as I can find records of his events in Indiana).
There is a German News Paper from Indianapolis from 1894 mentioning a "Fräulein Louise Laube" traveling to Germany to become a teacher.
There is a record of a marriage from 1898 from Indianapolis mentioning the marriage of William E. Pellett and Marie Louise Laube, born 1863 in Germany.
Their kids were born in 1901 and 1903, so in the second term of President Cleveland.
Greetings from Germany. Have fun with the stories about who Louise was 🙂
Thank you so much for sharing! It’s so cool to know more about her :)
WOW! There are few people more wonderful to have in your life than researchers! I really love poking around in history, and I appreciate your work, Corinna.
Yes there are a LOT of German families who ended up in Indiana in the mid 1800s, mine being one of them.
OH OH OH do me next!!! LOL just kidding. I love seeing the path to history even if it isn't mine.
The basket handle looks like dried grapevine. I love your wonky basket! Also, I once bought a boxful of vintage dress patterns from the 50s and 60s. Some of them were still factory-folded, but many of them had been used and I was able to trace a mother and daughter's path through their lives via their dress sizes. It was poignant to see the mother's notations of the daughter's measurements through time, and also see her own dress sizes grow from the canonical "32 inch" size through 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 inch sizes. I loved these pretty patterns while I owned them, then passed them on to a collector.
The green vessel with the spoon is a salt pig. Fill it with salt and leave it on the counter. It's so pretty. Gorgeous green. Thanks for all you do.
Came here to say this. I love it!
Those letter openers would also make nice little corner turners.
I did a quick familysearch research. Louise M Laube was born 1865 in Berlin, Germany and died June 1956 in L.A. California. In 1895 she married Werter M Faries in Marion, Indiana.
The word "sonder" in german is also a old form of "without", as in "sondergleichen -> unparalleled"
The word still exists (in Dutch, at least) as "zonder," which does mean "without"
As I commented elsewhere, there are a lot of German families that ended up in Indiana
I looked up the Whitter poem book is worth $249.95 used. It's the same exact book as the one u got. I'd get them appraised.
I saw that too. They have them in green and red covers too
I'm not sure where you looked it up, but there are several of this edition for sale for around $20 on Abebooks
Now this is a haul video I enjoy. It’s not about buying all the new trendy things. It’s really and fun! Thank you for showing us your cool finds!
Lol I love that you called the black camera a brick because in the film photography world that camera is referred to as The Argus Brick. Great camera, but very heavy.
Ooh, great finds! Little bits of paper in old books are so delightful. I have a possibly 1860's cookbook with 2 handwritten recipes for soap tucked into it.
I went to an estate sale last weekend with my uncle and got an old print of a man in a fancy hat, a metal crumb catcher/small dustpan thingy, a basket of old table linens, and a hatbox.
My uncle (a retired chemistry teacher) got a chemistry book from 1847!
"You're aloud to just love something. " Ya! I'm 51 years old. Been trying to get that through my head for a long time. I think that's one of the reasons that I enjoy your videos. You do things just because you love them. Not because it's fashionable.
I love when you find stuff that's not just stuff, but your stuff, stuff that speaks to you. ❤the lamp
Oh my days, your puppy instantly adopting the turtle was the cutest thing ever 🥰
The SCREM that I SCREMED before I even clicked on the video!! I'm so excited! If a suspicious, windowless, white van set up in a parking lot said "fRee AnTiqUe BuKz" on the side, I'd be a goner. EEEEEEE!
LMAO I love the imagery. Thank you for the good laugh ❤ may you find your next lovely antique book soon ❤
Without looking it up, Kriss Kringle sounds like it's a weird spelling of hearing "Christkindl" when said in a Southern German dialect like Bavarian. Saw someone else already point out that in the Southern part of Germany the gifts at Christmas are brought by the Christkindl, basically an angelic form of baby Jesus.
A very vague theory, it's a very charming name change somewhere in the 19th century, where German immigrants were talking about Christkindl and what English speakers understood was "Kriss Kringle" and ran with it. In any case, I love this.
The first search result on the Internet, is the same theory ^^
As I understand it, the beginnings of our modern secular Christmas traditions came to us through the English Queen Victoria, whose extended family included the German royal family. So that ties together the Christmas tree and Kris Kringle and Santa Claus (St. Nicholas). Of course, the evergreen tree and the Yule log may have been originally from the Nordic countries. Anyway, it makes sense to me that these Northern European royal families shared Christmas and Winter Solstice traditions.
Books! I'm a proud book hoarder!
I adore random shopping where you just see something and KNOW that it's useful and/or fun
The stacked metal lunchbox thing is a tiffin box/carrier thing. You can find the same model at Ikea. They are originally (I THINK) from the Indian continent and Asia.
The metal tiffin cans are part of the amazing Dabbawala system in Mumbai, where office workers get their home cooked lunches delivered to their desks.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabbawala
I inherited my grandma's collection of ancient early 20th century books when she passed. There are a couple that are so old they don't even have the publish date. I also have an entire leather bound bible in Finnish that's about 150 years old.
The random stuff shoved in old books reminds me of a book I found at a flea market sort of thing that my grandma took me to as a teenager. I was going through the books not looking for anything in particular, and I found a 2nd edition Merriam-Webster dictionary that'd been duct-taped together and presumably gone through a fire given the cover was a bit melty. Inside in an envelope, I found a bunch of pictures of some random family, including pictures of a teen with a car and a few baby photos. It's one of my favorite things I own
Great memories of Miss Louise, I love it.
Also, Link being so gentle with the turtle yet so playful with that "I could give it to you, but... don't wanna..." :)))
These are great and fun!! You're at a time in your life to enjoy doing this. ❤ I am at a time where i've had to "admire but don't acquire"!!! Enjoy!
I love all your wonderful discoveries! Just be careful of one thing with extremely old books: if the cover is fabric, it's from the 1800s, and emerald green, handle carefully and wash your hands immediately after touching it. Also, keep it away from your fur baby. The cover dye is literally made with a heavy dose of arsenic. It's been known to cause blistering and chemical burns on fingers and could potentially be even worse if your puppy were to lick it.
I bought a couple of first-edition books from the era, both with the dangerous dyes. I was looking up the book details when I found out about the dyes, and since then they're handled with a great deal of care.
Most of all, bravo for reaching a point in your life you can buy something you like, for the sheer joy of it. Your treasures don't need to meet anyone else's approval: your liking them is more than enough.
Fun fact about Christmas in Sweden: On Christmas Eve, that’s when we celebrate Christmas, at 3 pm, a big part of Sweden is watching this special tv program that contains short snippets of really old American cartoons and some newer ones, mainly Donald Duck ones (He’s been very big in Sweden for decades). At 16:47 we can see this vintage cartoon that we in Sweden see every year! 🤣😍 I googled it and the first time they started airing it on tv was 1960 and it’s been a tradition ever since! There are ofc parts of newer animations added, but many of them are still the vintage ones to this day! 😁😁😁 Isn’t it a weird tradition?!! But we love it! Every year at 3 pm it’s Kalle Ankas Jul (Donald Duck’s Christmas)!
I’m second generation Swedish on my dad’s side. We always celebrated Christmas at my FarFar and FarMor’s house with a dinner of ham, potati scorve (sorry about the spelling), lutefisk, lefse, mashed potatoes and corn, at 3pm. Then the adults did the dishes-it took years for us kids to figure out we weren’t trusted with FarMor’s good dishes- and finally, finally, we opened the presents. Your comment brought back such great memories. I know my fascination with gnomes is because of the tomte gooben stories I heard as a child. Thank you! Edited to say this was in the early and mid 1950s.
@ That’s so nice! ❤️❤️❤️. I’m happy I could bring back some fond memories for you! ❤️ I have to admit something though, I can’t stand lutfisk 🤣😂
Houghton Mifflin is a publisher of school books. I worked for them briefly in Batavia, IL. They were founded in Boston MA in 1880 and are still around today, although today they are called: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. It's possible L.M. Saube was either a student or even a school teacher.
Also, it's pronounced Hō-ton, long O. First thing I learned 40 years ago as an assistant editor (read: slave) to a major publisher, was how to pronounce Houghton Mifflin; Alfred A. Knopf; Scribner's (it's NOT Scriveners, dammit!); and Farrar, Straus. The old days, when some of the founders of these big names were still alive.
I would love to hear someone sing these old carols!
Thanks for your videos, I look forward to them every Friday! Btw, as a potter, I can make you a chicken mug if you want.. 😉
I love seeing the random pieces of paper in the book. It seems like she was using whatever was nearby to mark either her place or poems she wanted to come back to.
Those items between the pages might just have been quick bookmarks, too. If someone were to find my books 100 years from now, they might think the old receipts and yarn ball bands were precious objects 😂, but miserly I have a knack for never having a bookmark around when I need one.
I recommend reading or listening to the Little House in the Big Woods books as an adult. I basically ignored the story - just listening to all the expectations of the times described in the books was fascinating! I also think that reading books that clearly show prejudice as it was perceived contemporaneously is a great way to train yourself to see the prejudice in modern writing.
I think the little green bowl cup thing is a sugar bowl, given the spoon!
also it would be so slay if you check to see if the old books have been scanned yet. If not, please scan them!!!! preservation is so important!!!! there are often crazy different details and censorship and errors between prints that are wild for us English literature academics so 🥺🙏
Such sweet haul, the green ceramic tilted pot you got is a salt pig, for your kitchen for fine salt to add to cooking
Santa Claus comes in so many forms and shapes and versions that it's a rabbit hole to infinity, almost. There was a separate character from 'regular' Santa that went about the houses in German towns, I believe, with a tree on his back and who lit up the lights on the Christmas trees, supposedly. If you see a 'Santa' in a grey robe, that's him. Germany also has Knecht Ruprecht, who went around with Saint Nicholaus (who becomes Sinta Klaas in Holland and then Santa Claus) and was the...well, the Krampus, really, in some versions, and helped with the gifts in others, afaIk. In Sweden, it's the Christmas tomte that brings the presents, and in Italy, I believe there's a Christmas Witch, La Befana. That's just off the top of my head. I'm sorry for the wall of text :S
I’d really enjoy a video of research on the song sheet and what you found out about it and Christmas back then. 🙂
I very very nearly bought the whale basket, because I also have finally, hopefully, settled down by buying a house. And I need storage for all my yarn, and that whale is adorbs.
In my house bento boxes become storage for art and sewing little bits, daggers go in a shadow box as wall art. There are beautiful modern hardcover books, I love finding stuff in used and vintage books. Cool lamp and pottery which I am weak for.
Oooh! My oldest book is from 1882 [Oliver Wendell Holmes]. I am so excited for this. Time to grab my coffee and knitting and curl up!
I full-on gasped at the turtle measuring tape. So cute!!
this is a very fun video and it makes my heart happy. I love the puppy with the turtle. Very very sweet. He was so gentle.
So enchanting, and just the video I needed today ❤️🧶
I used to watch the same old cartoons at Christmas! I love them!
A perfect way to start my morning! Trying to overcome executive dysfunction, and this acts as the cozy fun body doubling I need! In a not creepy, non parasocially weird way 😅 ❤ this exact type of multi estate sale place is where I got my oldest books!
Oh! Mini book fact! Once upon a time when you purchased a book, all you would get is the pages. Then you would take those pages to your book binder who would bind the pages for you. Your two books match because that was the design that your mystery lady chose for the books in her personal library. So cool!
You got so many cute things! Also I don’t think I’ve ever been so invested in something more than I was when you were talking about the Christmas songs and Louise. I was so fascinated by everything you said-though I’m trying to finish my daily writing goal for NaNo and I’m trying so hard to resist the urge to look up the history of Santa now XD
Also your dog is the cutest dog ever :)
Love older books specifically for these reasons the stories of the people who owned them before. ❤
I experience the same kind of sonder, its part of the reason i cant go to bigger cities or stand in crowds. I also love vintage and antique things for the same reason, i feel alot of love and connection for strangers of the past when i can expeirence history in little ways.
You're a natural empath, you pick up on the energy of all, it does indeed get overwhelming
That lamp is stunning! So many fun finds - thank you for sharing with us!
Sonder is actually a created word! It’s from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, and it was made in around 2012. They have dozens of words, but that one REALLY struck a lot of people and is now just. A word in English.
26:30 That is a salt cellar. You put your cooking salt in there so you can easily reach in for a pinch. The spoon is for larger amounts. Once you have one, you'll never go back! Tis beautiful! as is the wee bear.
Santas workshop cartoon is from 1932 and we see it each year in sweden acculy 😂. From All of Us to All of You that Disney aired 1958 become a swedish tradition to watch each christmas eve at 3 a clock.
Whoa... that box camera brought back some memories! My dad has one that used to be my grandpa's back in the '50s. My sisters and I loved it when we were kids. It still worked. I completely forgot about it until just now. Thanks for the flashback!
I love all your wonderful finds. I love things like that as well.
As a daughter of an antique collector, I think the item that looks like a camera, is actually a projector.
I, too, have a small collection of sword "letter openers" which I use as hair sticks to put my hair up. 😂 Lovely collection of new treasures!
Love watching your videos! Awesome finds, especially like the Tiffany lamp. I have a vintage floor lamp with dragonflies but it’s like rubber type substance (?) stain glass rather than ..well. glass. I also appreciate old book binding a leather or fabric bound with clear effort to make it look nice though I’m fine with simpler styles. Also such a good pup not chewing on the turtle tape. I can see why he’d think (hope) it was a new toy for him.
The dagger letter opener with the figure on the top looks like the Pied Piper of Hamlin to me. Which makes it all the better.
It's always worth waiting until the very end of your videos.😂 You're my favorite person!
We are all santa claus, ha ha ha ha ha! I very much loved these quirky lil songs
I ❤old books. I stopped watching what I was when the notification for this came up solely cause it was about old books. 😊 Those are awesome finds. Love. The Honey bear!
I love this video. I love going to antique stores and going to estate sales I don't normally buy anything cuz I really don't have the room for anything but I love watching with other people find. By the way I think the little green mug is not for drinking but more for seasonings.
The letter openers *chefs kiss* book Wyvern mind engaged
Haha!! 😄 That first Christmas cartoon you showed is a national Swedish Christmas tradition!
On Christmas Eve, at 3 pm, the family (those who still partake in the tradition) gathers in front of the tv and watch the old Swedish dubbed version of the From All of Us To All of You show from 1958 (in the US part of The Wonderful World of Disney tv series)
OMG...the calling card remind me so much of Laura Ingalls Wilder and the book The long winter or Little town on the prairie . All the young girls and boys jump on the new trend and it thing, on collecting calling cards from each other. And as i rember it, Laura orders 100 cards with violets on it. 😊😊
Yes! Chicken mug! Push me over with a feather! The dragonfly lamp, the one I kinda really love. Ok i am excited about your finds.
I love old books!
Moin 😊 I'm a German and I did study the German language in university. I never heard of the term "saunder" before. Maybe you meant "staunen"? Which means "to wonder about something".
I would also recall Louises last name starts with a "L" not a "S" , they are close in cursive handwriting but the s doesn't come to the right at the bottom.
I really like Tiffany style lamps too, the one you got is not vintage, it is a new model which you could buy brand new for about 150€.
I'm a little fascinated about the term Kris Kringle, it was unfamiliar to me so I looked it up. In Germany we had the "Christkind" before Santa Claus (in German he us called Weihnachtsmann, which translates to Christmas Man 😂) was invented. The Christkind is an Angel and referred to Jesus, who brought the Christmas presents on the birthday of Jesus.
Love your little haul 😊 greetings
Another German here. I think what Charlie meant is "sonder", a very old German word meaning "without". It's rarely used in that form anymore, but it was used to develop the term Charlie is referring to, which originated in America. However, we still often use words based on this word in Germany. The closest word in Scripture is "sondern", which means "but instead" or "but rather". More related in meaning to how it is used in the video would be "absondern", which means to keep away from people, or "Sonderling", which describes an eccentric person or misfit.
The captions say "sonder". But as a fellow German, "sonder" on its own doesn't really make sense in that context either... maybe "besonders" ? That's an adjective though, not referring to a feeling (of wonder or otherwise). Or "sonder" as a prefix to say "separate from" as in Sondermüll for example... 😅
Perfect for the Hollywood bowl.
What fun. I enjoy the history of people and things. 🙃
Not my oldest book, but one of my favorites, a 1897 edition of "Dracula" printed in the USA by Garden City Publishing Company. I love books that had a life before thay came to me.
I love hardback books. My grandma got me harry potter and the goblet of fire in hardback cover when i was in my teens. It was the best book ever ❤
Where I live the tiffins in the Chinese stores are designed to have hot water in the bottom and your meal in the top.
The one book with the inserts and previous owner's name. I think the last name is "Laube"- which most likely has roots in the german speaking countries. The way they wrote the first letter is so similar.
Came to say that, too.
Yes, I think you're right! I do calligraphy and the letter forms on the card look like an "S" but I believe they are a slanted "L", because the same form spells out "Louise". Likely of German descent!
German here and I can confirm that. The first letter of the last name looks almost exactly like how I was taught to write the L in elementary school in the nineties. The German word Laube means pergola or arbor.
I know it was pretty common in the 1800’s for books to come with temporary bindings and the owner would go get the books bound however they liked. That’s why the books look so similar but are from different publishing companies.
I'd put the calling card in some acid free paper so it doesn't do damage to the book
Maud Muller is one of those poems that stays in your mind and the closing lines will come to you at odd times.
My mother quoted it to me when I was a child
Loved the books and the fascinating insights makes me want to look up Louise online. Im excited also my your belle tapestry is wing its way to me for my granddaughter thank you
The songs remind me of the Christmas program that my cousins do. Theirs is Swedish so it isn't the same, but they sing songs to tell a story and then sometimes repeat songs with a different set of lyrics.
Very cool stuff. The lamp was a great deal. Sometimes people go by their middle name, rather than their first name, if their mother has the same first name. Maybe that explains switching up the names. For example, many girls of french Canadian decent were named Marie. It gets confusing when everyone has the same name 😊
We used to have one of those weird estate sale warehouses in my town, and it was the best place to get cheap vintage and antique furniture, but every time we went in there it was harder to get around.
I used to do that "Sonder" adjacent thing when I was out and about. I'd see someone and imagine how they'd be described as the protagonist in a romance book. "She was pleasantly plump, with a quirky look about her that implied an easy laugh and a generous heart". Something like that 😆
The tiny sword letter opener looks like a replica of Excalibur
I love the video. You have eclectic taste. I love that. I also go down rabbit holes when looking at things. Have you thought of looking up what became of them? If her family had invitations to Cleveland's reception they must have been connected.
I look at garage sales, yard sale, tag sales, or whatever your neck of the woods call them and yes, estate sales are better than Christmas. You never know what you will find and then you get to pick and choose what you want to buy.
The mug tangent.
Our master bedroom's vibe is after an English literature themed inn. We have all of the bookmarks from the rooms we have stayed in on the wall, and just a number of things that make us feel like home is an extended simi staycation.
We added a mini fridge close to the birth of our child for milk and LaCroix storage which significantly adds to the hotel vibe. We are building a hutch for the mini fridge for a coffee maker to improve our alertness.
I have a collection of Pantone COTY mugs that I had intended on having in my studio, but they might end up being kitchenette mugs. I did think it could be cool to have hotel mugs made using Walgreens photo mugs to add to the illusion that this is a suite life. I've made a special mug for the first Pantone COTY I followed but couldn't buy, the Google Doodle for my husband's first day working for Google (there wasn't a Doodle for his last day so I have been slacking on making a special Doodle mug). I've also made mugs at Color me mine for all of my parents that actually all had foreign languages on them. I'd like to find more antique-y things to add to the vibe.
I have mushroom mugs that have started my collection of woodland tea party entertainment pieces.
Antique cameras make excellent bookends! At least at my house they do.
Cute stuff! I don't think the lamp is Tiffany, but $100 is about right for one that size.
I highly recommend JRR Tolkien's Letters from Father Christmas. It is the collection of letters he wrote to his children from the perspective of Father Christmas. There is elaborate world building of what like is like at the North Pole and beautiful paintings that have a feel of intimacy being letters only intended for his family. I would recommend it to a teenager who doesn't believe in Santa anymore, but also enjoyed the Lord of the Rings.
Good you clarified the noise was from inside 😅
Love your outfit!!!
The baby sword brings me much joy 🗡🤺🛡
Edit/addition (hadn't watched the whole video yet): I'm going to have "Christmas comes but once a year..." 🎵 stuck in my head the rest of the night now
Nice lamp! I have the dragonfly motif in a knock off reading chair lamp with more of the green. I like knowing it's a knock off because I know it's up to today's standards of safety and that if something happens to it, it wasn't as rare. There's a color smart bulb in it so I can make it light a color gradient along with meditation music and just watch the colors play.
I think I may have an answer for the not quite estate sale! A lot of times not everything sells at estate sales. So companies exist that buy up the ends for super cheap and do a big sale after doing this a few times. I got a dresser for like $15 bucks when I was super broke at one.
Your Indian Bento box is called a tiffin. They're really nice to use - though you don't want to put anything wet (like a stew/soup - curries are wet, but not) in them - they'll leak.
The silver lunch boxes are called Tiffin tins I think!
Nice cameras! The one in the brown case might work still and I believe it is an Argus and uses 35mm film. I have my Dad's and he used it well into the 1990's. The other is a movie camera/ video camera but I doubt it works.
You should search those lyrics and see if you can find the songs. I recognized "Christmas bells are pealing..." The mythery thickens!
Oh the wonky green bowl with the spoon? likely for salt to have by your stove to be at hand while cooking??
Sounds like a pop up store estate sale
It looks to me like the young lady was named Louise Laube, because the first letter of the surname actually looks more like the first letter of the Louise name than anything else! Otherwise, oh my I LOVE these kinds of books and finds - well done girl!
Indian knitting needle company Lantern Moon makes measuring tapes that look like animals, including sheep, turtles, pigs et cetera, so who knows.
3:00 You cannot find them everywhere in my experience - I was looking for them for a while and was ecstatic when I randomly found them at Ross. 😂
Why give him turtle if he can't keep turtle? He does not unnerstan.
Every little bit about this whole thing was delightful, rabbit hole *enthusiastically* included. Thank you!