Hi and welcome to our Show and Tell. We are showing off some of our fun items that we collected throughout the years. If you see something of interest and are in the USA please contact us. Then we can possibly list and reserve the item you’re interested in at our Etsy store for purchase. For pickup only items we can list and reserve the item at our Ebay store. We are not selling items through this website, it is for Show and Tell purposes only. Thank You!
Heavy solid brass bowl with a Skeleton key as a handle. made by Virginia by Virginia MetalCrafters Waynesboro. The bowl has the VMC insignia, Nonmagnetic. Seen a few of these and only one other almost as nice. This ones unusual with just the VM marking on bottom of bowl and nothing on key like all the others I’ve seen.
Measures a 7 3/8″ diameter bowl, 6 5/8″, Bowl site 1 1/2″ high and 8 3/4 across bowl to end of skeleton key post. Nice weight at 2 3/4 pound. Great serving tray and east to pickup by the key bow. Found some fun info from the great Wikipedia at bottom.
Has wear from age and use with scratches scuffs tarnished spots inside bowl and hard to see in pictures but most scratching is on bottom from sliding around. Verdigris and tarnishing where the keyward attaches to bowl, most of bowls shine still intact and still looks great!! Preowned well taken care of. In very good usable condition and sure to please.
Guessing made 19. Nice Unusual Bowl! Please check pictures for description and condition.
The Virginia Metalcrafters Historic District encompasses a historic industrial complex at 1010 East Main Street in Waynesboro, Virginia. The complex includes one large multi-section brick factory, a number of small outbuildings (most in deteriorated condition), and the ruins of at least one collapsed building. The complex was from 1925 until the company’s 2006 demise home to the Virginia Metalcrafters Company, a business founded in 1890, which created reproduction hardware for historic sites including Colonial Williamsburg, Mystic Seaport, and Old Salem.
