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The brass pegs look as if they are used to retain something that’s wrapped around the recesses. The recesses are graduated, as if the largest quantity of what’s wrapped is at the bottom. The ring at the top may be for moving around the fully-laden thing, and the black ebonised finish seems to indicate that whatever’s wrapped around is quite soft, otherwise the finish would wear quickly. Taking all this into consideration, I think it’s a (continued on page 6)
02/24/2020 at 3:22 am in reply to: VIDEO: How younger people are buying clothes at second hand shops #74308Hey! If you were working out of somebody’s stairwell to avoid paying office rent you’d be writing your shipping labels out by hand as well! 🙂 75 dollars a square foot a week in central London…
After all, Richard Branson started Virgin Records in a ‘phone booth, Jobs and Wozniak started Apple Computers in a garage and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex started Sussex Royal in a hotel boiler room in Banff.
02/23/2020 at 11:03 am in reply to: VIDEO: How younger people are buying clothes at second hand shops #74271Yes, glottal stops an’ all! 🙂
It’s a different world down south!
02/23/2020 at 10:42 am in reply to: VIDEO: How younger people are buying clothes at second hand shops #74268Interviews filmed in Shoreditch, which is halfway between Hackney and Spitalfields, both very trendy areas.
You could combine watching “Shawshank” with reading volume 2 of the “Gulag Archipelago” by Solzhenitsyn, for while you’re trapped in a job, and volume 3 for when you’ve made the break.
I watched “Uncut Gems” a couple days back. That’s the kind of shop I’d enjoy working in 🙂
Probably a pot pourri holder, for dried flowers and herbs.
The steam under the tender’s probably leakage from the mechanical stoker. Signature reads like Michal E Kaplan. The number of artists who can both draw and know how to accurately depict a steam loco is quite small…
It’s Union Pacific 8444 starting off past a railroad water stop, with the cylinder drain cocks open, and boiler pressure up over the mark. Don’t know what’s going on under the tender 🙂 Lools like the artist actually knew what’s what on a steam loco.
On the other hand… bought a working Roberts valve radio for £5 from a flea market, sold it via eBay for £40 to a gentleman who lived three miles away from the flea market. Delivered it to him, and he showed me his collection of restored Roberts radios, some of which he’d recovered in vintage-design Fablon-type stuff.
As for consumer electronics, I get the impression from watching transactions at the flea market, plus listening to someone telling how the government had raided his shop, that tons of the stuff gets shipped to Nigeria.
02/13/2020 at 11:23 am in reply to: What is this thing on this vintage Stromberg-Carlson telephone #73937Methylated spirits. That’ll shift the spots of emulsion paint off the ‘phone.
Device may have been made by RMB Communications, who have been around since 1995.
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Antique Frog.
Yes, thanks! The comments are (mostly) informative as well.
Many years ago I came across a statement in a book on the economy, that when real estate becomes derelict the process of re-use or renovation takes on average 18 years, i.e. nothing happens to the site for a decade and a half apart from weeds ‘n’ winos.
Unfortunately I can’t remember the author or the book, so I can’t shed any light on their thinking, but I have seen their assertion borne out (give or take a few years).
So I wonder whether the same applies to scavenging. When did Beanie Babies crash in value? Is it time to start investing in them?
Nah…
I’m making a claim for a couple of James Bond books the Royal Mail has failed to deliver. The sale was for £20, which is the maximum amount that can be claimed without purchasing insurance. The claim form states that I’m restricted to claiming either for the actual cost to me of acquiring the books (which was nuffink ‘cos I’m a scavenger) or manufacturing a replacement…
I’ve got some magazines listed at 3.50 GBP each with free P&P. The GSP charge to Australia is £21.58, including £4.90 import charges. That’s on top of the £3.50, so the total is £25.08.
I seem to remember a time when printed paper didn’t attract duty, but maybe I’m misremembering.
Explains why the second-hand bookshops in Perth WA are so expensive!
Sounds good.
Five and twenty ponies,
Trotting through the dark –
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