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You have job titles on your passports? Something anaemic might be advisable; something that doesn’t give the impression you’re in a country for business purposes.
I’ve used ‘computer operator’ on my car insurance.
Chili goes better with tea, but maybe not Liptons, which seems to have a bad reputation. Try Yorkshire.
Also it might help to send a screen grab of the tracking info- I did that a couple of weeks back for a US-bound GSP parcel. Some of those numbers are loooooooong.
12/27/2020 at 4:25 am in reply to: Can you ship a vintage thermometer with small amount of mercury #84624Glass thermometer Mercury – Free Kids
Well I guess the eBay computer doesn’t pick up on the word Mercury.
12/26/2020 at 8:51 pm in reply to: Can you ship a vintage thermometer with small amount of mercury #84621Mercury can amalgamate with aluminium, so a leakage in an airplane is a bit problematic. So I suppose if you’re sending it ground mail and the thermometers are securely wrapped in case of breakage there shouldn’t be a problem.
#8- that perfume’s “At Your Convenience” by Armitage and Shanks. Two dollars a pint, free applicator brush and holder with every purchase.
Yeah, but this Christmas…
1. Marching up and down stairs in a department store in a mask, looking for where they hid the boxes of cotton handkerchiefs
2. …to the soundtrack of “Driving back for Christmas” and “Wish it could be Christmas every day” again for the nth effing year
3 …while the rest of the country is hoarding lettuces and broccoli because we’ve been quarantined by Europe
4 …for developing a more infective version of the spiky nemesis.
This is why we have a legal drinking age of five. 🙂
I did wonder whether it is the back leg of an easel, but I can’t see anything similar. The other possibility is that it’s off a surveying instrument tripod. Good luck with it!
(tries different browser for third attempt at answering) Looks like one leg from a wooden camera tripod.
Label on the rack says “Made In Taiwan”. You could sell it as a
杜希奇 (du xiqi) :)
🙂 So that’s why my Ford Fiesta sounds like a bag of nails.
Looks like it’s made from horseshoe nails. I’ve seen similar, but not as ornate.
Also Gotheborg which has an “ask questions” part. Neither piece has a “Nippon” or “Japan” mark, which had to be added to export ware after 1891 (?). The seal script mark looks too crude compared with real ones, and the vase may be transfer-printed and not handpainted.
The plate looks like it’s painted in the same way as Imari ware. With Imari the cobalt blue’s painted onto the pot, and then the pot’s fired, and the red, gold etc. is painted on and the pot fired a second time. I picked up a couple of crude ‘Imari’ pieces recently and still haven’t got to the bottom of how old and where made!
The vase has an approximation of a Chinese seal script mark on the base, which is odd.
Those springs on the plate holder need to be cut with a pair of wire snippers before the rim gets chipped!
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