{"id":8228,"date":"2011-02-17T01:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T01:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8228"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:25","slug":"day-96-assorted-shells-throw-and-day-97-four-gallon-mason-jar-hopefully-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8228","title":{"rendered":"Day 96 – Assorted Shells (Throw) and Day 97 – Four Gallon Mason Jar (Hopefully Sell!)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Keeping it short so that I can get caught up soon.\u00a0 The Drama Queen is beginning work on a school project where she gets to choose a president to study.\u00a0 It reminded me of an odd little artifact that had fallen out of some of my Grandpa Henke’s books that were passed on to me when he died.\u00a0 I went out looking for it and came across some interesting stuff in the process.\u00a0 (I will write about the “artifact” in a separate entry.\u00a0 It is truly unusual and I DID manage to locate it eventually.) First of all, I came across a whole bunch of sea shells.\u00a0 I just love collecting sea shells.\u00a0 I could spend hours on a beach just strolling in the surf and keeping an eye open for little (free!) treasures that have recently washed ashore.\u00a0 They all look so beautiful and utterly unique in the moment, but then I get them home and, over time, I\u00a0don’t remember which shell came from which beach.\u00a0 Because they all pretty much look alike. I didn’t even bother to take a picture of them.\u00a0 Only one was marked with the name of the beach of origination –\u00a0it came from the Shetland Islands – up north from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, where I spent my junior year of college.\u00a0 I’ve never been anywhere so remote and so ruggedly beautiful – but the shell I brought home as a souvenir was dull and ordinary!\u00a0 I tossed all (ok… most) of the shells.<\/p>\n\n\n

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But the container I found them in may actually be worth something.\u00a0 It’s a mason jar.\u00a0 I have no idea how old it actually is (it was another item from Grandpa’s estate – so it has potential to be fairly old), but on the one side it says “Mason’s Patent Nov. 30th 1858”.\u00a0 On the other is an eagle emblem. [A few minutes later …] I just finished a bit of internet research.\u00a0 If the folks at answers.com know what they are talking about, the jar is worth $40 to $80.\u00a0 Apparently it is a reproduction – produced in 1975 in celebration of the coming bicentennial.\u00a0 So not so old. Still … it could put us $50 closer to Haiti.\u00a0 Anyone want it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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