This is a 146 year old platter. It’s a serving dish but it’s also a witness to history. It was made in Ohio in 1875 just 10 years after the Civil War ended. Since then, it’s lived through all sorts of amazing milestones in history... the building of the Panama Canal, the invention of the telephone, the invention of the radio, the passing of the Pure Food and Drug Act, WWI, the Spanish Flu pandemic, Prohibition, the passing of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote, Lindbergh crossing the Atlantic, the Great Depression, the birth of supermarkets, WWII, the birth of the Interstate Highway System, the rise of in-home televisions, Martin Luther King’s I Have A Dream speech, the Vietnam War, the civil rights marches, the birth of air travel, the assassination of JFK, the assassination of MLK, Neil Armstrong landing on the moon, Watergate, the birth of the farm to table movement, Roe vs. Wade, the destruction of the Berlin Wall, the Gulf War, the rise of personal home computers, the rise of cell phones, the birth of Amazon, the September 11th terrorist attacks, equality in the workplace, Black Lives Matter, Covid, plus all the zillion personal and private celebrations and milestones shared by individual families along the way. Through all those momentous times, people ate and drank around this platter as they talked, read, listened, watched, binged and processed history as it unfolded. Isn’t that amazing to think about? That this platter has been intimately connected to people’s thoughts, ideas, cooking adventures, conversations, mealtimes and homes for over a century and a half? And here it sits now in the shop, still classically stylish and ready for another 150 years more. Sure, you could be nonchalant and say it’s just a platter, but in the land of the Vintage Kitchen, it’s so much more. 🥂 . . . . #historymatters #antiques #antiqueplatter #19thcenturyantiques #platters #classichomedecor #heirlooms https://www.instagram.com/p/CM7ps3JJHxx/?igshid=eefhh6ud1jjo
