Thank you to Unique Treasures of Wheat Ridge for our March What Is It. (Sad to say we had no correct answers this month.) This object was used to send the logs down river in the logging industry. It is a vintage forged grappling hook or chain link.  Log driving is a means of moving logs (sawn tree trunks) from […]

We had two guesses for our February’s What Is it. Charles Kirkpatrick of Denver, Colorado says it seems like some sort of candelabra (or some kind of lamp) and Jacque Rutledge  of Northglenn, Colorado agrees, saying it is a lighting fixture. We weren’t sure ourselves but these answers seem to make sense to us. Our first thought was that maybe […]

 Dear Mountain States Collector,  We, too, are intriqued by your October 2021 “What I It?” My husband and son and I have put our heads together, done some research, and are hazarding our best guess as to what the item is. For starters, the only decipherable word (of two words) on the object is “All Bright” which is either a […]

 Our January’s What Is It’s correct guesses were from:  Jacque Rutledge, Northglenn, Colorado and Cheryl Miller, Fort Collins, Colorado. They both guessed the item to be a glass inkwell chair with a cat.  This inkwell has a cat on the seat cushion which makes up the lid. The body of the chair is the well in this pressed-glass piece. It […]

 Our December’s What Is It correct guesses were from: William McLaren of Anchorage, Alaska; Tricia Myers, Baltimore, Maryland and Jerome McLaren of Conifer, Colorado. All were correct in identifying these as carved bottle stoppers. These are all of political figures throughout the years.  Congratulations to all who ventured a guess. You have won a year’s subscription to the Mountain States […]