barometer; aneroid barometer secured to a carved wood plaque; barometer has a calibrated dial to indicate air pressure; text on dial reads: "VERY DRY", "FAIR", "CHANGE", "RAIN", and "STORMY"; flat metal loop at top of wood plaque for hanging.
Dark stained carved wood decorative scroll with finial; has detached from base plaque.
Object History
Object used in the Love Farmhouse, currently on site at Burnaby Village Museum.
The core of the Jessie Love farm house is a 1893 two story, pioneer tent style building. The home was added to over the years and became a large Craftsmen style farm house.
Object History
Built on Cumberland Road in Burnaby in 1893. Music Room/Parlour/Living Room and bedrooms above added c.1898. Kitchen added c.1908. The home of Jesse and Martha Love and their eleven children. One of Burnaby's oldest structures. The home was moved to Burnaby Village Museum in the late 1980s and has been partially restored to its 1920s appearance.
dining chair; side chair; brown painted wood; chair back has four vertical spindles; two horizontal stretchers between front and side legs; one horizontal stretcher between back legs.
Object History
Object used in the dining room of the Love farmhouse. The layers of paint beneath the brown outer layer reveal past colours of the chair that are documented in BVM photographs of the interior of the Love farmhouse.
Serving platter, 16 X 12 inches. Made by J & G Meakin, Hanley, England. It is a [C]haplet patern. Blue patern with raised dots around the top edge. The patern is raised on the short sides of the oval. There is a chip on the inside of the bottom surface. "21 is pressed into the underside.
Object History
This platter was handed down from Martha Love through three generations to the donor.
Reference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._%26_G._Meakin - short history of J & G Meakin.