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Is that consignment business really paying $2.40 per listing to promote their business in the subtitle?
The UK price for a subtitle is £2.40! 3 dollars 6 cents.
Bad scavenge of the week- a reproduction of a WW2 poster that had been nibbled by snails £20. Didn’t use a magnifying glass, else I would’ve seen the Ben Day dots- the original was litho-printed, not screen-printed.
On the other hand…
I did a search on a Nottingham auction house’s results (Arthur Johnson). Pembroke tables sell there for between £10 and £110 (results since September 2020). So I guess mine’s down near the ‘broke’ end!
I guess ‘jawn’ is like ‘thingy’- “I just bashed my knee on that table thingy of yours”.
This morning I drove past a local thrift shop and spotted a Regency Pembroke table. So I turned the corner, illegally parked outside the local booze shop and went and bought the table for £15. It just fitted in the boot.
Then I drove over to the Newark antique fair- hadn’t been there for two or three years. It’s now a third the size that it was, and the lines of vans with Irish registrations driving through the crowds to pick up furniture have disappeared. Didn’t buy much- I wasn’t expecting to as the prices are generally over-inflated. One brass artillery shellcase from 1937 made into a naff trench art thing £15, some Sylko cotton reels and a Sylko box £10, and a silver medal to Ada Straw from 1912 for tickling the ivories at the London Academy of Music £10.
Apart from the buying, a nice day out. I got to talk with a dealer from Portsmouth, which was interesting because I was told many years ago about the Pompey accent, but this was the first time I’ve heard it in real life. It’s a kind of mushy West Country accent- in fact he informed me that the word “mush” used as an address- “Hello mush, how’s it going?”- originated in Portsmouth. It rhymes with ‘push’.
When Nelson was interred in St Paul’s Cathedral his coffin was covered with the battle flag from HMS Victory. The intention was for the flag to be placed in the coffin, but before this could be done it was torn to pieces by the crowd for souvenirs.
I was thinking how could they stuff a huge flag into the coffin. What I reckoned happened was that the flag was a much smaller Union Jack, which accounts for all the fragments that sell for ten of thousands being parts of a Union flag.
The actual battle flag was usually a White Ensign with the Union flag in the canton, which would explain why the patch of flag in the card is white- three-quarters of a White Ensign is (ahem) white.
I helped unload a van at the flea market Saturday. There were about thirty-odd record cases- the type that hold forty or so lps- and they were filthy. Also some boxes of 78s and unused packs of blank cds. A couple of the regular record buyers had a look through and didn’t bother buying any. Looked like the lps were mostly light music selections. I guess they’re all going to landfill- I doubt anybody would bother to take off the cardboard sleeves and recycle them.
Did get a mahogany box with reels of Sylko cotton and a nice selection of buttons and scissors for £10. These sewer’s hoards always seem to include a couple of military items- in this case a Royal Marines brass collar tab and a couple of cloth badges- and bits of broken jewellery and the occasional farthing and silver thrupenny bit.
Bought an 18th-century ivory double slide rule from a thrift shop for three pounds. Fortunately the manager was absent that day, otherwise she would have thrown it away, like she does fur coats. Rare and unsaleable, unless I pay £250 for a CITES licence valid for one transaction.
As the gravity on Mars is about one-third that of Earth, does that make 3-d printing easier or more difficult?
Major failing with the Ninja coffee makers is the magnet in the dripstop lever. It’s tiny and it gets wet and rusts, and then the Ninja ‘thinks’ that the dripstop is not open. A magnet stuck on the side of the brewbasket housing acts as a fix.
Yeah, I’ve got a 3 foot by 2 foot landscape by Danielle, in a massive Victorian frame. I think someone thought “I’ve got this frame, I wonder if Danielle can paint a landscape to fit it”.
I’m guessing the name’s invented- the writing’s in a decorative kind of 18th or 19th century style. The big fishing boat in the middle is distinctive- seems to have a wooden hull and a particular style of cabin which might give enough clues for someone who knows old boats to be able to tell where it’s from.
It appears Chairish has partnered with the Kairos Collective in the UK- who puts online “our curated selection of antique and vintage, one of a kind collectibles.” Kairos Collective has one director. They also have a LinkedIn page if, as we say in Britain, “you want to do your head in reading it”.
