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« Reply #1375 on: September 18, 2011, 04:10:56 pm » |
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Madame Curatrix, where on Earth did you find that lovely thing?
Why, where else but the Saturday's Market, Mr. Oakes! |
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« Reply #1376 on: September 18, 2011, 04:15:44 pm » |
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Wow, everytime I go there I can never seem to find the good stuff. I think everyone gets a memo that I am showing up and hides everything of value at a fair price.  |
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Captain Shipton Bellinger
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Why the goggles..? In case of ADVENTURE!
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« Reply #1377 on: September 18, 2011, 08:42:19 pm » |
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The last several car boot visits have been decidedly slim pickings bits-wise, but today I spent the outrageous sum of 10p on what will eventually be the reaction chamber and exhaust nozzle of a rocket pack.
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« Reply #1379 on: September 19, 2011, 08:47:41 pm » |
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It looks kinda like rollers for a pocket door, so it could be the same for a sliding barn door, although it looks more complex that most I've seen.
Pretty neat, though!
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Coffee Powered Sprite
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« Reply #1380 on: September 22, 2011, 07:21:23 pm » |
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A couple months ago my hubby and I were helping move my grandmother from her large house that she could no longer afford to her duplex not far from where we live and I started rummaging around after she told me that pretty much anything I wanted from the place, I could keep. Most of it is reproduction stuff we had for Texana years ago, but sill in really good shape. Sorry, no pictures since I do not currently have a working camera.
My finds: a leather hat case for a Stetson from the 50s (I think) that looks more like a briefcase; a wood and leather flat-backed lady's train case; a pair of pinch-nez glasses from Italy, a mini-grandfather clock from Germany (still had the key too!); an old art-deco Agfa shur-shot special camera; some music boxes (3 small ones (banjo, violin, and one doesn't have a case), and 1 large one that I am going to have to wait for); 2 sets of hoops for skirts; a cigarette holder box from Asia somewhere; and I know that there's still several other things stashed away in that house that just need to be found again.
At the flea market here I have only been able to get my hands on 3 battery powered pocket watches, but I work weekend graveyard shift, so I haven't been able to get back out there. Since I have weekdays off, I mainly peruse the many antique malls, second hand shops, and thrift stores that are out here. So far I've only been able to get my hands on a pair of pilot's wings (I think they're military), but I also have my eye on a straight razor for the hubby, a silver tea and coffee set (no tray though, but that's ok. It'd probably be out of my price range if it had it), and a jar of skeleton keys that I want to dig through so very badly. And that's just the things I know I can afford right now in 2 shops! The rest that I've seen that I'd want we have neither money nor space for, sadly.
For those of you in Texas (Oklahomans and Arkansanians are welcome too, I suppose :p ), come on up to Paris and dig through our shops. They need the sales badly and most are willing to haggle for it. There are plenty of antique shops to go around for all, and that doesn't count all the garage and estate sales, the dozens of auctions, and the flea market (many of the people at the flea market also sell at Canton, so some may seem familiar to you). As much as I would like to hoard these treasures for myself, they are simply too plentiful and wonderful to languish in closed shops.
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Siliconous Skumins
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« Reply #1381 on: September 23, 2011, 12:20:20 am » |
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Local charity shop had a "Wintime Palmpal writing tablet" which allows handwriting recognition, signature capture, picture tracing etc. It was the princely sum of £3 and was complete with box, instructions, driver CD and even the warranty card, but it was a serial port device, and it was powered via the keyboard port - both of which have become defunct and dropped from newer computers. Still, for three quid it was Worth a punt... Picture (sorry only one Google could find...):  Tablet area approximately 3" x 2" and can be used as a mouse. However the driver / software CD was only for win 3.1 - win98, but I got lucky and found a windows XP driver on the 'net. A quick rummage in the box of computer junk provided a Serial USB adapter (which I also tweaked to provide power to the tablet, from the USB instead of from the keyboard port) and a few minutes later I had a working mini graphics tablet. Nice! Steampunk project now underway (clue: think 'Artie's desk in Warehouse 13'...).  Using a pen is sooo much more steampunk than using a computer mouse!  SS |
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« Reply #1382 on: September 23, 2011, 09:01:16 am » |
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@Siliconous Skumins: That's a lovely find. I love older computer hardware. |
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I have defied Gods and Demons. I am your shield; I am your sword. I know you: your past, your future. This is the way the world ends.
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« Reply #1383 on: September 24, 2011, 11:29:21 pm » |
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« Reply #1384 on: September 25, 2011, 11:51:14 am » |
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Lovely tubes there - and always good to get a matching pair to mad science devices.
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« Reply #1385 on: September 26, 2011, 05:38:56 pm » |
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Also picked up some sweet radio tubes!
As well as some brass odds and ends, a 4 brass cogs(looks like they came from an old clock)
and a chain for my pocket watch, all for a pittance!!
Flea markets rock!
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Herr Döktor
Gadgeteer, Contraptionist, and Inventor, FVSS
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Master Tinkerer
United Kingdom
Herr Döktor, and friend.
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« Reply #1386 on: September 28, 2011, 01:28:38 pm » |
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My latest find:  Now I have to find/make something to put in it... |
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Sylum Verinta
Gunner
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This life I've "Made Out of Nothing."
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« Reply #1387 on: September 28, 2011, 02:22:55 pm » |
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Know how to suspend a rose in the air inside that dok? lol
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« Reply #1388 on: September 28, 2011, 04:07:22 pm » |
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My latest find: Now I have to find/make something to put in it... I've been trying to find one of those for ages. I have a mounted Kingfisher in need of a new home. |
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There is no such thing as useless knowledge, just dull ways to obtain it.
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Gadgeteer, Contraptionist, and Inventor, FVSS
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Master Tinkerer
United Kingdom
Herr Döktor, and friend.
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« Reply #1389 on: September 28, 2011, 05:32:36 pm » |
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My latest find: Now I have to find/make something to put in it... I've been trying to find one of those for ages. I have a mounted Kingfisher in need of a new home. I have actually found a company that supplies them: http://www.glass-domes.co.uk/index.htmReally glad I did, and they are relatively local to me! |
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« Reply #1391 on: October 04, 2011, 04:39:47 am » |
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I got this ID badge, not from a flea market, but from a friend. If the following description is controversial to anyone, I humbly ask the moderators to remove it. (And, if you choose to do so, I would kindly ask not to ban me, please) It is an ID badge from the Third Reich, stamped metal, so probably no older than '43 or maybe '44. The text says "Reichsfinanzverwaltung--Zollgrenzschulz" with an ID number of 33023.
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Antipodean
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« Reply #1392 on: October 04, 2011, 05:19:31 am » |
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Google Translate says
Reich Finance Administration - Customs Border Protection
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Did you just go PSSSSSSST at me or have I just sprung a leak?
I'm not retreating, I'm advancing in another direction.
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« Reply #1393 on: October 04, 2011, 10:44:44 pm » |
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Last week I bought a copy of "The Warlord of Mars" & a 1933 (HB) edition of "A Fighting Man of Mars" both by E.R.B.
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« Reply #1394 on: October 07, 2011, 07:09:16 pm » |
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Well, I went first to the surplus store to try to find the perfect coat for the Captain in my screenplay...no such luck...but I did find:  It came with a filter, but from reenacting, I know enough not to trust the filter. I may do something steamy with it, I'm not sure. I needed panniers for my bike and have been hard pressed to find any for under $100 a piece. I found these lovely, I believe British packs for: $10 for the pair.  Then I went to the antique store. (ignore the skull and the binoculars) I shall be doing lobotomies and various other gruesome surgeries for quite some time. Well not me...but they will make great props.  My total for the day, including a nice lunch, came out to well under $100. |
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Capt. Dirigible
Rogue Ætherlord
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Shirts?.....I got plenty at 'ome.
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« Reply #1395 on: October 16, 2011, 09:16:42 pm » |
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The Countess and I went to Ford Car Boot Sale in Sussex tyesterday morning. It's graet car boot..most times I find some great stuff there but don't have the cash. Other times I have the cash and good stuff is thin on the ground. But this weekend the gods of steampunk smiled down on me and I had extra cash than normal and there was so much cool stuff there!.
I picked up two sets of four shoulder pips in brass and silver. A couple of medal ribbons..no medals..just the ribbons. A medal with a lovely portrait of Her Maj, Queen Victoria (HUZZAH!) on it. It's actually called 'The Queen Victoria Medal'..and was awarded by the School Board for London to 'G.Harding' for 'functual attendance for the school year 1899'..but it looks really cool. Also got a couple of either collar badges or cap badges..a small globe surrounded by a laurel wreath which has modding possibilities
Also picked up a Seaforth Highlanders cap badge (I have it on good authority that Father Christmas is bringing me a McKenzie tartan kilt! And I already have a diced Glengarry).
Also found a really nice monocle..one of those with the little ledges top and bottom for a more comfortable fit
And the piece de resistance..a Gladstone Bag.
Total outlay..£36.
Having camera problems at present but I will post pics at some point.
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I say, Joe it's jolly frightening out here.
Nonsense dear boy, you should be more like me.
But look at you! You're shaking all over!
Shaking? You silly goose! I'm just doing the Watusi
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« Reply #1396 on: October 16, 2011, 09:30:07 pm » |
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I went to check out the new stocks of ex-Scottish Opera costumes in the Britannia Panopticon's shope on High Street Glasgow. I had heard that they had some lovely red victorian ladies suits. They did and they are lovely, real silk and velvet, but at £60., too much to justify right now. However, I did get an original cottom petticoat for use with hooped bustle, for only a tenner, in the nearby Barnardo's charity shop.
The Britannia Panopticon shop also has some nice pale grey victorian gentlemen's suits. Large sizes.
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So it's every hand to his rope or gun, quick's the word and sharp's the action. After all... Surprise is on our side.
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« Reply #1397 on: October 17, 2011, 02:34:57 am » |
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Picked up a small pile of brass candle sticks and vases that will be great for rocket packs and ray guns.
Got an old movie film cannister. It will be a great start to a time machine/clock.
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« Reply #1398 on: October 18, 2011, 07:19:43 pm » |
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Picked up a small pile of brass candle sticks and vases that will be great for rocket packs and ray guns.
Got an old movie film cannister. It will be a great start to a time machine/clock.
Or that film cannister could be a pan or drum magazine on a weapon....... |
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« Reply #1399 on: October 18, 2011, 07:54:48 pm » |
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Picked up a small pile of brass candle sticks and vases that will be great for rocket packs and ray guns.
Got an old movie film cannister. It will be a great start to a time machine/clock.
Or that film cannister could be a pan or drum magazine on a weapon.......I have wanted to do a BIG gun as an outdoor sculpture. I'll have to give it some thought. Thanks. |
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