What did you inherit from your ancestors?

[KathMc]

I love the head. It reminds me of my ugly daisy vase. It has a prominent spot and my dresser, I love it, and it is so ugly. 

Kath

[sallysmum]

Is it a Toby jug?  I also think it is lovely!
Sallysmum

[Lydart]

No, its not a jug ... its just a pot, sort of thing !  No handle, no pouring spout, never had a lid !

[bearkat]

Perhaps it was for spills.

[PaulaToo]

Puts me in mind of a rather grotesque character who is toothily grinning down at me from the shelf....
It's either a coalman, or perhaps a dustman, he is wearing a cap and is extremely dirty what ever.
He has holes in his hat where matches were stuck, and there is the sad remains of a scratching patch across his chest. Perhaps your 'Long John Silver' was for holding spills, or something like that.
What ever, he's certainly more friendly looking than my character.

[Lydart]

Yes, it could well have been for spills ... I remember making them for my grandfather, out of old letters cut into strips, neatly folded, and the last inch given a twist !  He used them to light his pipe, but kept them in a bunch in an old jam jar, not Long John Silver !

Nowadays, I ponder what must have been written in all those letters I cheerfully cut up as a child ... I'd love to have them to read now; might solve a few family queries !

[BevL]

My sister and I were talking the other day about the Antique Roadshow and were reminiscing about our parents furniture and odds and ends etc and thinking of all those things that were thrown out - what a pity!
Mum lived with me for years and then went to my sister's to live - where she died from - and we only have a few things from her.  My sister had her wedding ring (as she was the oldest) and unfortunately has lost it somewhere in her home.  Then the only other things we had were a few bits of furniture and a few photos.  Not much for a life is it?

[Zelley]

Unfortunately when it comes to inheriting things it brings out the worst in people, I know from bitter personal experience but we wont go there.

The old line goes: (blood is thicker than water),
but for some, sadly, things - possessions - money
are thicker than blood.

[patrish]

How very true, only this afternoon I was talking to a neighbour who has recently lost her mother who she nursed for 11 years and the same thing is happening with relatives coming out of the woodwork that have not been seen for years.