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« Reply #1325 on: August 13, 2011, 11:47:43 pm » |
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Aethergram from California:
It is apparently National Yard Sale Day- they must have known I was going to be here!!
$20 has got me:
Silk harem pants and top
Silk skirt in kashmiri style
Shirt
2 leather hides: large brown cow and small fcroc-embossed black cow
Bakelite rotary desk calendar (1960-80)
Chinese painted parasol
Stained glass seascape panel
If only I didnt have to keep within the aeroplane luggage weight limits I could have bought MASSES more.
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« Reply #1326 on: August 14, 2011, 10:56:49 pm » |
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 This military compass was purchased from an antique centre at Hemswell Cliff Lincolnshire today. A friend who went with me and knows somewhat of these things estimates it to be 100 years old. The pivot is in lovely condition, and it is intended for mounting on my electric recumbent trike- a project which has been delayed due to ill health. To explain, the lid has a mirror, which I blanked out because I couldn't get the reflection to look right in the photo. The mirror is in perfect order. The brass has suffered slightly from polishing, but that's brass for you. |
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« Reply #1327 on: August 16, 2011, 08:27:38 am » |
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Picked this up on Saturday it's about 9 inches long. It appears to be a self contained soldering iron. I've never seen the like. Couldn't resist buying it. |
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« Reply #1328 on: August 16, 2011, 08:43:00 am » |
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Aethergram from California:
It is apparently National Yard Sale Day- they must have known I was going to be here!!
$20 has got me:
Silk harem pants and top
Silk skirt in kashmiri style
Shirt
2 leather hides: large brown cow and small fcroc-embossed black cow
Bakelite rotary desk calendar (1960-80)
Chinese painted parasol
Stained glass seascape panel
If only I didnt have to keep within the aeroplane luggage weight limits I could have bought MASSES more.
nice finds! I still want a Chinese/Japanese parasol myself. If you want to buy/keep more though, can`t you just send things back in a parcel? It`s what I did in Japan (not only me, I know all of my friends have sent parcels with things they bought back to their own countries). |
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« Reply #1329 on: August 16, 2011, 10:56:57 am » |
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Picked this up on Saturday it's about 9 inches long. That is a soldering iron? Never seen one looking like that. Great find. Sorontar |
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« Reply #1330 on: August 16, 2011, 02:52:41 pm » |
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Picked this up on Saturday it's about 9 inches long. That is a soldering iron? Never seen one looking like that. Great find. Sorontar Looks like it should be used by a welder. |
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« Reply #1331 on: August 16, 2011, 09:15:00 pm » |
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Picked this up on Saturday it's about 9 inches long. That is a soldering iron? Never seen one looking like that. Great find. Sorontar Looks like it should be used by a welder. It's definitely for soldering, we've got an old soldering iron at work that is basically the poker bit from that device, you heated it up and used that instead of the electric things we've got now. It looks like the blowtorch is to avoid having to keep heating it up. Top find! Captain Morgan Arkwright. |
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« Reply #1332 on: August 17, 2011, 11:14:57 am » |
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I do in fact own and have used a large copper soldering iron which has to be heated with a blowlamp, but as I said I've never seen the like of this before, perhaps someone can shed a little more light on the subject.
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« Reply #1333 on: August 18, 2011, 01:35:54 pm » |
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  Just got back from england yesterday, and these are my finds (pics'll be up shortly): From various markets: ° 1 very nice vintage waistcoat (grey, 2 pockets, no lapels) ° 1 copy of "The chemistry of farming" (1864) ° 1 copy of "The garden of lies" (somewhere between 1880 and erly part of the 20th century) From my grandmothers chest of heirlooms form her great grandad and grandmother, mother and father: ° 1 tin coated brass telescopic cup that belonged to my great grandfather (or possibly my great-great grandfather) ° 1 opium pipe in the shap of a 4 taloned claw holding the cup, with mouth piece missing almost identical to this one http://www.malleries.com/images/resized/1524-iID_175x154.jpgMy dad took home a tobacco pipe in the same design, my brother a station masters train door locking handle and whistle and a pack of pneumatic playing cards (or so it says on the packet). There where also lots of clothes other opium pipes, a cicarette holder, a glass, metal, and leather hipflask, glasses, bibles, photos and all sorts, but unfortunately we where flying Ryanair...
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"But we don't really live in the past; we live in the present as it should have been if the entire 20th century hadn't gone so horribly wrong!"
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« Reply #1334 on: August 21, 2011, 06:40:49 am » |
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I got this for about three dollars. Sears Roebuck and Co., made in Germany. |
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« Reply #1335 on: August 21, 2011, 06:43:13 am » |
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I got this for about three dollars. Sears Roebuck and Co., made in Germany. West Germany...that was always a label we would smile at when I worked auction. Good find and so much that can be done with it aside from leaving it as is. |
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« Reply #1336 on: August 25, 2011, 03:40:10 am » |
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So my friend and I went down to our mutual friend's trading post. He talked me into buying this old wardrobe trunk 1890-1910 that had never been opened since it was first bought. There could have been anything inside. There was no key so we had to pop the nails on the bottom of the lock. Sadly, there was nothing and 2 drawers were missing so $100 down the drain, I thought, even though they are worth a lot more....then tonight we started cleaning it. It is nowhere near done, but thus far I have changed my mind. The color is amazing and the interior is intact, in fact part of it was made with gold leaf. We are thinking of turning it into a steampunk vigilante trunk since the drawers are missing. One side will be for guns and the other side will remain for suits as the hangers are intact as well as the lap desk piece. Pictures to come in a separate thread. |
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« Reply #1337 on: August 27, 2011, 04:54:39 am » |
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Some items found at the thrift store nearby: |
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« Reply #1338 on: August 28, 2011, 10:36:34 am » |
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We found these yesterday in an antiques and junk emporium. They are opera glasses that fold flat. The objective and eyepiece lenses flip through 90 degrees from the bridge section, which then slides apart for focus adjustment. However, separated completely we have the beginings of a couple of flip out eyewear items, just need a suitable means to attach to head or hat! |
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« Reply #1339 on: August 28, 2011, 08:18:11 pm » |
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Vintage Top Hat, made by City Cork Hat Company, only minor damage.........£5 |
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« Reply #1341 on: August 31, 2011, 02:11:17 am » |
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Thrift store find: Early juice squeezer with removable basket. Apologies, again, for the poor photos.   Actually it is a ricer for making mashed potatoes . |
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« Reply #1342 on: August 31, 2011, 02:34:22 am » |
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Actually it is a ricer for making mashed potatoes .
Might it not have had more usefulness? The manufacture appears to have come from PA. I would guess at the age of maybe late 40's to early 50's. Definitely made in the USA, though. |
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« Reply #1343 on: September 01, 2011, 11:05:07 pm » |
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Actually it is a ricer for making mashed potatoes .
Might it not have had more usefulness? The manufacture appears to have come from PA. I would guess at the age of maybe late 40's to early 50's. Definitely made in the USA, though. Juicer is designed a bit different, however if fully pealed it would work. When I go shopping for cookware I don't look to see what something is designed for, if I can use it for what I want to use it for, I buy it. And I'm a Pennsylvanian who learned from my grandmother. |
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« Reply #1344 on: September 01, 2011, 11:11:22 pm » |
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Hadn't thought about it til now. I learned cooking from my grandmother and mother as well. When I saw the item, I thought this is what my grandmother would have had in the kitchen. Really not sure what to do with it but will hold on to it, just in case. Not related: Her preserved figs were fit for the gods!
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« Reply #1345 on: September 02, 2011, 02:40:19 am » |
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We found these yesterday in an antiques and junk emporium. They are opera glasses that fold flat. The objective and eyepiece lenses flip through 90 degrees from the bridge section, which then slides apart for focus adjustment. However, separated completely we have the beginings of a couple of flip out eyewear items, just need a suitable means to attach to head or hat! They are brilliant! (wanna sell 'em?) |
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« Reply #1346 on: September 02, 2011, 07:37:23 am » |
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We found these yesterday in an antiques and junk emporium. They are opera glasses that fold flat. The objective and eyepiece lenses flip through 90 degrees from the bridge section, which then slides apart for focus adjustment. However, separated completely we have the beginings of a couple of flip out eyewear items, just need a suitable means to attach to head or hat! They are brilliant! (wanna sell 'em?) We could have a bidding war! I was avoiding discussing mainly because I absolutely love them as is. |
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« Reply #1347 on: September 02, 2011, 07:40:44 am » |
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Hadn't thought about it til now. I learned cooking from my grandmother and mother as well. When I saw the item, I thought this is what my grandmother would have had in the kitchen. Really not sure what to do with it but will hold on to it, just in case. Not related: Her preserved figs were fit for the gods!
With old cookware, I think the best thing to do is to smell it. If it smells like chemicals, let it as is and never use it, but if it smells like metal or the remains of real food, USE IT! May take some cleaning up, but to be perfectly honest, I trust the old stuff to the new stuff...except my new iron skillet which I absolutely love because it is untreated metal and the side that gets the heat was enameled and not just painted! |
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« Reply #1348 on: September 02, 2011, 07:24:28 pm » |
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We found these yesterday in an antiques and junk emporium. They are opera glasses that fold flat. The objective and eyepiece lenses flip through 90 degrees from the bridge section, which then slides apart for focus adjustment. However, separated completely we have the beginings of a couple of flip out eyewear items, just need a suitable means to attach to head or hat! They are brilliant! (wanna sell 'em?) We could have a bidding war! I was avoiding discussing mainly because I absolutely love them as is. Apologies dear chaps, but the memsahib has set her heart on some "goggle-ettes" fabricated from these, and I really wouldn't want to disapoint her. However, we do believe we can do this in such a way that the parts can be put back together in the original form. I hope this at least eases your disquiet at seeing them pulled apart, if not your acquisitive desires! |
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« Reply #1349 on: September 03, 2011, 11:37:19 pm » |
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Final tally brought back to Scotland addtionally includes: Railroad hand lantern ALL the high collar blouses in central California Brass and diamante shirt studs Postcards of dams Piano roll of St James Infirmary blues (I have a friend with a pianola) Edison cylinder (no means ot playing this but what the hell) Tureen/dish with lid, all in form of corn cob MANY books on history of women in the west Tragically the bloody airline has lost my son's luggage including all his purchases, photos, books and most of all his worldly clothing including what he ought to wear for the Asylum next weekend fortunately all recovered from the belly of the airbeast. |
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