Massachusetts History

Minton Tile featuring the "Old Hancock House" on Beacon St in Boston Ma

Erected 1737, Demolished 1863.

Tile is 6" x 6"

Made in England at Stoke On Trent

Hotel Nantasket – Nantasket Beach Massachusetts Souvenir Shot Glass.

Made in Germany

Ceramic

2.25″ tall.

Souvenir mug from New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Made in Germany.

One side features “Butler’s Flats Lighthouse”

The other side has “The Morning Star from a Whaling Voyage”..

Mug is just over 4″ tall.

The Butler’s Flats Lighthouse was built in 1898 , Decommissioned in 1978 and refurbished/ re-lit in 1998.

Looking at this item made me realize something…. Souvenirs are dumb, and the granddaddy of all dumb souvenirs is the plate. 

Why do people buy these things?   Can’t eat off it.   You could hang it on a wall, but why would you? If you want to remember these places, whip out the old Kodak Brownie and take a picture… Much easier to bore people with your travels using a stack of photos than a porcelain plate…

That leaves target practice… So , before it goes in front of the firing squad (cigarette and all).. I present…

8″ Souvenir Plate From Orleans Mass… Made by Wheelock in England.    One of the pictures is a riveting  “street scene” with absolutely nothing happening in it.. (all “street, no “scene”).. Church , Mill , Cable Station, school…..

yawn…

Sorry plate, you’ve seen your final sunrise…..  You will live on only in this lame post….