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« Reply #1125 on: March 13, 2011, 07:24:13 am » |
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Picked this up today at an antique store. Supposedly a prohibition era flask, I don't know if this is true, but it's pretty cool and will go nicely in my flask collection. Cost about $26. |
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« Reply #1126 on: March 14, 2011, 06:05:53 pm » |
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The days take at Alameda Point Antique Show , the hat steamer will handy for reshaping crushed felts . I plan to LED-ify the miner lamp, and the old pewter will become new pewter. Not shown are 78s ragtime and foxtrot records , a Victorian broach and tin type photos. |
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« Reply #1127 on: March 14, 2011, 06:13:20 pm » |
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OMG, I love the knitting/sewing bag! Wanties.....
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« Reply #1128 on: March 14, 2011, 11:34:46 pm » |
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The days take at Alameda Point Antique Show , the hat steamer will handy for reshaping crushed felts . I plan to LED-ify the miner lamp, and the old pewter will become new pewter. Not shown are 78s ragtime and foxtrot records , a Victorian broach and tin type photos. Great haul there. I love the hat steamer, you could make the 'head' look a little more like a robotic head? |
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« Reply #1129 on: March 15, 2011, 12:16:12 am » |
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From yesterday's local flea market:  Nice set of headphones, and a bunch of approximately 40 keys, £10 for the 'phones, a fiver for the keys. Not sure what to do with the headphones, I might have to pick maduncle's brains... |
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« Reply #1130 on: March 15, 2011, 01:57:47 am » |
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From yesterday's local flea market: Nice set of headphones, and a bunch of approximately 40 keys, £10 for the 'phones, a fiver for the keys. Not sure what to do with the headphones, I might have to pick maduncle's brains... Okay then - pick away! I use a basic Sony headphone set I can buy off the shelf for $16. I take the foam covers off the speakers and twist the plastic speaker holder slightly to unlock the speaker holder and remove it from the headphone frames. I then use a pair of tin snips to trim the diameter of the plastic speaker holder down so it fits inside the old headphone cups. I then put the foam cover back over the trimmed plastic speaker holder to protect the speaker. Then - I drill a small hole in the bottom of each speaker cup near the thread, and use a dremel to cut a slot from the edge of the speaker cup down to the hole, so I end up with a slot in the old speaker cup that allows me to insert the new speakers and attached wire without having to cut the wire. Once you screw the bakelite covers back on to the speaker cups you cannot see the cut slot. Depending on the diameter of the hole in the bakelite cover, you may want to add more holes or drill the one hole out bigger to allow more sound out. That is why I put the original foam covers over the trimmed speakers. After that - it is up to you how you polish them up, or dress them up. (Or post them over to me and I will send them back modded). |
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« Reply #1131 on: March 15, 2011, 06:08:56 pm » |
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The days take at Alameda Point Antique Show , the hat steamer will handy for reshaping crushed felts . I plan to LED-ify the miner lamp, and the old pewter will become new pewter. Not shown are 78s ragtime and foxtrot records , a Victorian broach and tin type photos. Great haul there. I love the hat steamer, you could make the 'head' look a little more like a robotic head? The "head" and neck unscrew , and I'm sure at one time it had a whole set of different shapes , I am thinking of two copper whisking bowls brazed together for steaming derbies ; maybe I'll add a steam whistle for a nose. |
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« Reply #1132 on: March 15, 2011, 10:31:22 pm » |
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The days take at Alameda Point Antique Show , the hat steamer will handy for reshaping crushed felts . I plan to LED-ify the miner lamp, and the old pewter will become new pewter. Not shown are 78s ragtime and foxtrot records , a Victorian broach and tin type photos. Great haul there. I love the hat steamer, you could make the 'head' look a little more like a robotic head? The "head" and neck unscrew , and I'm sure at one time it had a whole set of different shapes , I am thinking of two copper whisking bowls brazed together for steaming derbies ; maybe I'll add a steam whistle for a nose. Gear wheels for eyes? |
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« Reply #1133 on: March 16, 2011, 05:30:15 pm » |
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I bought three of these today in a hardware store in Venice. They'll probably wind up on USB drives  |
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« Reply #1134 on: March 16, 2011, 11:16:53 pm » |
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I bought three of these today in a hardware store in Venice. They'll probably wind up on USB drives 'nautical but nice' |
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« Reply #1135 on: March 18, 2011, 02:23:04 am » |
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Oh wow, I love that! ^^ Nothing hugely amazing from me - I got some lovely old photos and postcards from Relics and one of the wee antique shops in the Mews round the corner...  The moustache was rather good and it's just such a lovely portrait.  I nicknamed this gent 'Alexander' as is it just me or does he bear a striking resemblance to Alexander Armstrong from the RAf airmen skits? http://i.ytimg.com/vi/_LcUkuHr8AU/0.jpghttp://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/2010/11/armstrongmiller415.jpghttp://s.mcstatic.com/thumb/4131969/13083398/4/videos/0/1/armstrong_and_miller_pilots_and_vera_lynn.jpg?v=8    This one really caught my eye - dated 17.6.1917 - it's written to his daughter which is really quite sweet. If anyone can shed any light on what it's referring to by the New Zealanders I'd be very grateful - I can't find any information on it at all!   (if you can't read it it says: I hope you enjoyed your bathe. I longed for the water as the heat has been very great today.
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DaddyOh and a spur (only one sadly but as I'm an equestrian (not that you'd have guessed XD) and it was only £2 how could I resist?  ) I don't know a date (it says 'stainless' on the inside edge but that's the only marking) but a friend of mine said she saw a pair identical to mine at an antique shop recently for £30 so I think I've got myself a bit of a bargain.  Now all I need to do is get some boots and it's twin and I'll be all set! XD (apologies in advance for all the arty farty photos - I had the macro lens on Nigel...)     I also got a gyroscopic spinning top but I haven't any photos of it yet. |
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« Reply #1136 on: March 20, 2011, 10:10:07 pm » |
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last couple of charity shop finds  the globe is an ice bucket which will come in handy on the bar at the WOTW ball and the other item is a storm glass which is made from old bobbins from Manchester (circa 1913). Both cost £3 each! |
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« Reply #1137 on: March 21, 2011, 03:58:47 pm » |
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last couple of charity shop finds the globe is an ice bucket which will come in handy on the bar at the WOTW ball and the other item is a storm glass which is made from old bobbins from Manchester (circa 1913). Both cost £3 each! Where are all these shops with such pretty things! all the charity shops round my area are full of tat, over priced tat at that. No matter how much I rumage I can only find things with the tinyist of potential  I want pretty shops near me |
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« Reply #1138 on: March 22, 2011, 03:00:14 pm » |
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Found this bought it and I couldn't decide if I should clean this or not... glad I did now.. Before  After  |
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« Reply #1139 on: March 22, 2011, 05:03:55 pm » |
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Found this bought it and I couldn't decide if I should clean this or not... glad I did now..
Oh my God! A three-gang high amperage knife switch! I WANT IT! |
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« Reply #1140 on: March 22, 2011, 11:21:05 pm » |
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Found this bought it and I couldn't decide if I should clean this or not... glad I did now..
Oh my God! A three-gang high amperage knife switch! I WANT IT! NO NO NO!!! I WANT IT!!! That is the best knife switch set up I have ever seen, wow! |
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« Reply #1141 on: March 23, 2011, 05:45:23 pm » |
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I managed to find a Fitzroy Barometer (like this one: http://photos.liveauctioneers.com/houses/pookandpook/22424/0501_1_lg.jpg) in a small antique shop in Robin Hood's Bay (a small seaside village in the North East of the UK), for an amazing price, probably one-fifth of what they normally are sold for in specialist antique shops. Best thing is, it is in immaculate condition. |
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« Reply #1142 on: March 23, 2011, 10:59:51 pm » |
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I managed to find a Fitzroy Barometer (like this one: http://photos.liveauctioneers.com/houses/pookandpook/22424/0501_1_lg.jpg) in a small antique shop in Robin Hood's Bay (a small seaside village in the North East of the UK), for an amazing price, probably one-fifth of what they normally are sold for in specialist antique shops. Best thing is, it is in immaculate condition. Oh very nice. I had not heard of Fitzroy barometers before (and I spend a lot of time in Fitzroy here in Melbourne). |
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« Reply #1143 on: March 25, 2011, 12:45:44 am » |
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Not from a fleamarket but more of a sort of rescue service. I spotted that an old clockmenders shop had closed and was being converted into a cafe. So I boldly asked the new owner if there was any junk left behind and he gave me 3 massive boxes of old clocks, clock cases and bits and bobs, for son to practice his clockmending skills on.
Bizarrely, one of the 'clocks' doesnt tell the time at all, having no face, but having two electric terminals on a baseplate. So we conclude it is a clockwork operated electric timer, for setting off explosives or something.
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« Reply #1144 on: March 25, 2011, 01:13:56 am » |
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Not from a fleamarket but more of a sort of rescue service. I spotted that an old clockmenders shop had closed and was being converted into a cafe. So I boldly asked the new owner if there was any junk left behind and he gave me 3 massive boxes of old clocks, clock cases and bits and bobs, for son to practice his clockmending skills on.
Bizarrely, one of the 'clocks' doesnt tell the time at all, having no face, but having two electric terminals on a baseplate. So we conclude it is a clockwork operated electric timer, for setting off explosives or something.
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« Reply #1145 on: March 26, 2011, 10:24:41 pm » |
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My best find so far is probably this wooden hand prosthetic what I found from the local scrapyard in the early nineties when I was still a kid. Also this medical stimulax vibrator is quite rare thing at least in my home country. One girl swapped it to wrought iron pendant about 5-6 years ago when I was selling my viking style forge works in one Finnish RPG-Con. ( I remember similar device used in Terry Gilliam's amazing "Brazil" movie, but this one doesn't work, because of the missing transducer etc.) There is rest of my nicest flea market finds over the years ( And one goggles from military surplus store): Two old military drinking flasks, leather ammo belt, Swiss glacier goggles, lionhead belt, wooden renaissance style flask & portable sundial compass. ( Last three are probably some kind of souvenir objects.)  Some of you maybe noticed, that I have already started to modifying those goggles by removing original black paint from brass frames and later I'm going to put also some better straps to it. Lionhead belt is also way too "kitchy" for my own taste, but I maybe separate that lion part and attach it to some other object. I have collected also a bunch of flea market knives between 1997-2006, but only few of them fits properly to steampunk aesthetics: http://koti.mbnet.fi/wfan/kuvat/v-kokoelma01.jpg |
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« Reply #1146 on: March 27, 2011, 01:37:55 am » |
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Spent the day helping my folks clean out their attic. I walked away with these fun little items... I also kept a few of my old toys and books. We only got about 1/3 of the piles of stuff they've stored up there for 30 years, so who knows what else I might find. |
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« Reply #1147 on: March 27, 2011, 03:47:43 am » |
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Hey,I used to have a little cannon just like that when I was a wee lad-fun times.
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« Reply #1148 on: March 27, 2011, 10:55:55 am » |
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Todays haul from Camberwell market...  For me - another pair of old headphones to modify (these ones have extra large ear pieces) an ammo belt, a small horn and a rose vase. The ammo belt will become the ballast belt for my rocket pack outfit, and I may attach the horn too. The vase will go into stock as these make lovely ray gun barrels.  And for our shop - a large lab flask, a glass jelly mould, a small glass cup, two wooden rulers. And not photographed, an old Sunbeam electric mixer with all attachments, a lamp shade, six wooden shoe lasts and a large wicker and wood basket in a steel trolley frame on wheels, old and painted white. Quite a haul - and I have contacts with several stall holders for wholesale goods for our store. |
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« Reply #1149 on: March 28, 2011, 02:28:47 am » |
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Forgot I had this. It was a something I grabbed a few years back when my dad's old school hardware store closed. I found it while cleaning today. It's an architectural lettering kit from 1950. There's even an awesome tin/steel w/brass nib ink pen in there. It has most of the original pencil tips, a little can of replacement pencil led, a small inkwell, all the lettering rulers, and there's almost no blemishes on any of the parts and pieces, though the pen looks good and used. 
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