How About Ice Picks?
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How About Ice Picks?
I did a search and didn't find anything? I've got a couple advertising ones that are pretty cool. One is from a funeral home. I always wondered if it was old enough to be from the days before refrigeration? What would a funeral home need an ice pick for. I'll try and dig them up (pun intended) today, and post pics tonight, Joe.
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Re: How About Ice Picks?
If it was old enough there actually IS a connection between the two. I picked up one time(in a box of stuff) a Rubbermaid spatula with advertising on it for a Taylor & Son in Grantsburg Wisconsin that said(under the name)"Morticians & Furniture " with phone numbers 202 R or 193. If you think about it for a minute it makes perfect sense.rarefish383 wrote:I did a search and didn't find anything? I've got a couple advertising ones that are pretty cool. One is from a funeral home. I always wondered if it was old enough to be from the days before refrigeration? What would a funeral home need an ice pick for. I'll try and dig them up (pun intended) today, and post pics tonight, Joe.
Back in the old West the people who made wooden caskets were also dry goods dealers as well and it isn't too far a stretch from making furniture to making caskets. What better way to cover all the bases?
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