My Family Heirlooms
| These are pictures of various heirlooms collected by my family. | |
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| This was a clock purchased by my mother Laura (Hoffman) Thompson in the 1920's. Beside it is her bible she used most of her life. | |
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| This doll was also my mother's and fit over her powder box. The crocheted "basket" went with another doll. | |
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| This pitcher was what our family used to serve milk in during the 1940's in Poulsbo, Washington in our Quonset Hut. | |
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| This was one of the many clowns my mother painted. Her signature is on lower right. | |
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| And another. | |
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| This was a cookie dish mom used with a handle in the middle. The gravy lade was Grandma Thompson's. On th back: 1914 Norge Isaksen & Orjan 8309; on the front appears to be SPT - could this be Sophia (and) Peter Thompson? The small spoon has Kenya, Minnesota | |
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| These were kitten salt and pepper shakers of Mom's. | |
This was a mirror made by a the father of a friend of my Mother's when
they lived in Montana around 1911. |
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These were reindeer my Mother had since she was very young. I used
them every Christmas. They were very fragile. |
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| These were a set of Chinese men and a lamp. My mother, Laura (Hoffman) Thompson, painted a picture of them, seen in the back. | |
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| This coffee pot was used by my family in the 1930's and
40's in Seattle and in Poulsbo.
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| This was my Grandmother Thompson's coffee pot used in Seattle in the 1900-'s-1940's | |
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| This is various silver used by my family and earlier. The top spoon was our silver in the Quonset Hut in the 1940's | |
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| The bone knife was used by my family in the Quonset Hut in the 1940's, the Indian doll and the Indian leather small album had been my Mother's (Laura (Hoffman) Thompson) The watch was Grandfather Peter Hoffman's RR watch - HamptonWatch Company. | |
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| More old silver - the cake server was very worn. | |
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 A partial set of dishes that were my mother's good dishes but were Haviland china - my best guess made in the late 1800's |
These dishes were also handed down to me by my mother. |
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| This was the Bible of Peter Thompson dated about 1914. NY American Bible Society 1889. | |
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| This was the same Bible with Peter 's shoe hammer | |
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| This was a dish my father Iver Thompson got from his Seattle job: "George Bush and Sons" | |
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| This lighting (above and below) was my husband Duane's way of saying we were a team. He put this continually on his shop outside wall. | |
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| This was a train Duane made for me many years after he made them to sell. | |
Compiled by Karen Miller
