We have a small collection of turkey candy containers from the late 19Th century to about the 1930's. I believe these treasures were filled with candy and given to children for our American holiday. The head and neck comes off on the more detailed ones and are filled with goodies. The one on the far left side is filled from the bottom. We have four or five of the Tom turkeys and one hen which was very hard to find but thanks to e-bay it makes it much easier to find goodies like this. The flow blue plate was a garage sale find Ray had spotted for a bargain.
They are all made with paper mache and a couple have glass eyes and are hand painted. They come from Germany and are getting harder to find. So if you decide to start a collection always be on the hunt for a white Tom turkey they are pretty rare. Maybe I can join in for White Wednesday with the blue & white turkey plate for show and tell today.
We also have a collection of antique postcards with the children and turkeys with the American Flag. They all date from 1906 -1912 and were found at shops and flea markets.
We would like to wish all our friends a Happy Thanksgiving with their family and friends as we will be looking forward to going to my mothers for the holiday. I will be linking up to a couple of parties today so I hope you will have fun checking them out. Have a safe Thanksgiving .......Julian & Ray Theses are a couple of the fun parties I will be linking up to for some fun. ~Nifty Thrifty Tuesday ~ which is hosted by Linda and also for ~ White Wednesday ~ which is hosted by Kathleen over at Faded Charm and also for ~ Vintage Thingie Thursday ~
