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EDWARDIAN MASSACRE APRON
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Since EBAY ENDED this auction and accused
me of selling body parts I am putting this on my website instead. Pooey
to you-EBAY!
Haunted Edwardian Massacre
Apron - Cold Case
Okay, so if you've been following my
auctions the past few weeks you already know about all the cool things I have
found in this trunk. Normal- cool things. It's been fun and
somewhat voyeuristic going through someone's family time capsule-so to speak.
Until! Imagine my surprise-shock-horror-when I pull out this wadded up
apron! What the.... It can't be, right? Tell me that isn't
blood...please. And why the heck did someone save it?
Okay...so the possibilities are running
though my head...she was a Chocolatier! Right? Probably not- this
isn't chocolate.
Okay so maybe she used the apron to
butcher pigs or chickens or something. Yeah! Cooks did that,
right? Or maybe she used the apron while birthin' some babies- could be.
But that still does not explain the need to save the disgusting thing in a
trunk full of otherwise normal stuff.
Then it comes to me! -being a devoted fan
of Cold Case and CSI. What if she offed someone? You know-like
Lizzie Borden did her parents. Maybe she killed her husband, her lover,
her um, I don't know -nosey neighbor? Then she'd definitely want to hide
the evidence-stash it away in a old trunk full of stuff and hope no one finds
it. Ever! Like I wish I hadn't.
Judging from the 'spatter' (that's a CSI
term) I'd say the crime was ghoulish (not a CSI term) and looking closely at
the stains I keep seeing some weird faces and-well-puppy dogs!?!
Did her dog watch in terror as the crime
was committed or was he a willing participant? I guess we will never
know...
Anyway-this thing is really creeping
me out and I have to get it out of here asap! So I thought I'd list it
like the rest of the stuff.
If you have your own theory or see
something in the spatter I missed please email me
at customerservice@thevintagepeddler.com
I have a follow up auction running
right now with more evidence pulled from the trunk. The winner of that
auction will get this apron too!!! Yeah!!!
HAUNTED
EDWARDIAN MASSACRE MORE EVIDENCE IN A COLD CASE AUCTION HERE!
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DEFINITELY
a circa 1890s-1900 "Dorcas apron", and surely the housewife's
(or Cook's) "butcher" apron. Hate to tell you - but housewives
of that era routinely butchered their own poultry... even city dwellers.
More rural housewives also butchered livestock, as well. Women kept an
apron specifically for butchering, since they had no modern
enzymatic-type cleaners, and they couldn't get those kinds of
bloodstains out, so they kept one apron that was "already
ruined" for the butcher jobs. They cleaned those aprons as best as
they could, back then, given their lack of enzymatic cleaners, and
reserved that one for each time she needed to butcher another chicken
(usually weekly). Why such an apron was actually kept... that is another
question to ponder entirely. One never knows who packed your trunks to
begin with - so one can't know why the clothes kept, were actually kept.
They might have belonged to different ppl and been packed up by one
person cleaning out old attics for a living.
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Mar-27-08 |
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Dear
slytherin_serpent,
Thanks so much! Pig blood was one of my original thoughts. But as you'll
see on Sunday night, the last thing I pulled out of the trunk was a man's
jacket with some very curious items in the pocket...
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Barb
here from VFG - love your trunk pieces!! This textile is not petit
point - just FYI - it is printed (linen), early of course and
wonderful! Looks like you have lots of early 1900s oriental textiles!
nice! I'm watching....... :)
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Mar-27-08 |
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Dear
boycetime,
Ahhh Barb-you're a dear! :) |
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The
stains look like rust. Perhaps the trunks were stored in a wet place
where metal parts of them got rusted and "bled" onto the
apron???
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Mar-27-08 |
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Dear
swinerugby83,
Hey...I know 'spatter' and 'cast off' when I see it! Besides-nothing
else in the trunk was rusty or wet or even mildewed. Sorry, I'm not
buying that theory-but thanks for playing. :)
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| Q: |
I'd
say a right handed culprit... note the stains where the right hand
would instinctively wipe the guilt away. (:
Perhaps the trunk packer thought that it was clean? Old stains often
age showing different colors later, and incomplete washing can lead to
visibly clean garments that show stains years later when the textiles
are brought out of storage, that's why we are supposed to clean
important things well first. Boring ol ring around the collar shows
right after it's too late.
Or it could be evidence. You never know. People think the world is
crazier and more dangerous than ever today, guess they never heard of
the wild west, Bonny and Clyde, the French Revolution and thousands of
other choice examples of humans behaving badly given the opportunity.
In the past getting away with it could have been as easy as stashing
an apron. Then again why? Apron is cheap. Would have also had a more
valuable skirt and bodice to stash as well.
Have fun!
Kate
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Mar-27-08 |
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Dear
aquarista,
I believe you are right! She must have been right handed and she
definitely carried something bloody in that pocket. I wonder where the
rest of her dress went, too. Thanks a bunch!
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| Q: |
Actually
that is a DORCAS APRON published by Godey's (I think) in 1896. I have
a copy of it and actually have made that apron for myself out of
linen. I am leaning towards the chicken / butchering of food.
Sometimes back then you weren't able to get fabric all the time, etc
or it was a memory of that family of their great so and so butchering
chickens. Which my famiyl talks all the time about my great
grandmother breaking chicken necks.... For myself, even if it was
covered in blood "stains" I would still keep it as being my
great so and so's. I might be wierd, but that's ok, smiles......
sincerely, Jenny p.s. I love your collection and have already bought
part of it from you! Good luck
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Mar-26-08 |
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Dear
moobootie,
Hey Jenny! I guess every family has their own little memories they
like to pass down. I'm quite relieved that I didn't grow up with tales
of breaking chicken necks but I assure you that we had our funky
stories that I won't be sharing today :) Thanks for the info on the
Dorcas apron and thanks a bunch for writing!
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3/26/2008
This looks like the apron nurses and midwives of the period (including
WWI)used to wear. Perhaps it was kept because a soldier fiancee,
husband,or brother died in the owner's arms. Maybe the splatter was
because the owner was a battlefield nurse or a nurse who assisted
surgeons. Professional midwives and non-professional lay women (if
they had them) would use aprons to protect their clothes when
assisting with the births of friends, family members and clients. I
bet this was kept for more sentimental (and sad) reasons, than for a
gruesome ones. People of that period were very much into keeping
tokens and keepsakes for rememberance
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Mar-26-08 |
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Dear
saskatchewanrose,
That is very sad. Thanks for sharing your theories.
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| Q: |
Wow!
Talk about a cold case!
Have you dug through all the trunks now?
Curious to see what else may turn up!
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Mar-26-08 |
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Dear
worth-a-peek,
Hi! Interesting that you mention this. I went through the last of the
trunk and think I may have some more 'evidence'. Including a life
insurance receipt! Watch my auctions to see whats next.
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| Q: |
Shame
on Me, Shame on You! You're featured at NOSHAMEAUCTIONS!
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Mar-26-08 |
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Dear
noshameauctions,
Wow! Thanks! How cool is that!? |
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WWI
nurse perhaps? Maybe she nursed someone famous?
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Mar-24-08 |
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Dear
panthergirl68,
Maybe...could be. Did you know that 111-year-old British WWI veteran
Henry Allingham, born June 6, 1896, is currently the oldest living
verified WWI veteran?
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Hey
There! SB55 is Observing your auction in the Observatory at petpretties.*
Best of luck to you and (((HUGS)))
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Mar-24-08 |
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Dear
showbren55,
(((Hugs))) back!
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I
think you have found Lizzie Bordon's missing apron. : - )
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Mar-24-08 |
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Dear
waterytart,
Believe me. That thought had crossed my mind. But I don't think she was
from NC. I will have to research that. Thanks!
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umm...maybe
it was a midwife's apron?
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Mar-23-08 |
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Dear
sidrita,
Um, yeah...I mentioned that.
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Hi,
I wonder if it could be a nurses apron - perhaps dating from your civil
war? Maybe this "nurse" fell in love with her patient &
when he died she kept it because it was all she had left of him? How
sad, now I've made myself cry!! I see you ship to England - sorry, it
won't be coming here though!!
I'll watch with interest to see if anyone bids for it.
Kind regards, Chrissie (in England)
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Mar-23-08 |
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Dear
chrissie2811,
That's a great theory-you Britts are smart! Are you sure you don't want
it-I'll give you a great deal on shipping overseas ;0
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