I got to rummaging around this afternoon as I did research on a couple of miniature trivets that I picked up at an estate sale two years ago. I thought at first they were Wilton cast iron, but the marks didn’t seem to match up, so I chased it a little further and found that they’d actually been made by Virginia Metalcrafters, for the Woodward & Lothrop department store chain (Woodie’s, for anyone who grew up in the Virginia-DC-Maryland area). Both trivets are marked “Alexandria store” and dated October 1952, cast into the under surface of the trivets themselves. I’m wondering if perhaps these were done for a fiftieth anniversary of that store, or something of the kind. There’s not much way of telling now, because Woodie’s went into bankruptcy in 1994 and folded.
I need to dig my way into the Waring Stuph stockroom (aka the eBay room, aka our unused third bathroom) and try to reorganize what I have there, write out of stock and donate some things that simply aren’t going to sell, and move other stock items that are sitting around the house in various places to that room. The stock is gradually taking over the house, which ain’t good at all. Of course, I suppose I could try to sell some of it, as a last resort . . . .
Batman patronizes a dizzy geographer in New York. Fnord.
