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  1. Shangas

    Skills For "Living The Era"

    Hand-crank machines are best for people who are new to sewing, or who like more control, or who like me, have a disability (in my case, poor eyesight), which means they find it safer and easier to go slower. And it's a hell of a workout! And really fun :P
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    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    On holiday in Singapore. I bought this last week at a flea-market in Malaysia...
  3. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Won this on eBay last week...
  4. Shangas

    Another what is it?

    Yep. Cheese dish :)
  5. Shangas

    Show us your photography

    I took this about a week ago. I was mashing up ingredients to make chili paste... Another angle... Mortar & pestle is solid brass. Handmade. Dutch manufacture from the 1700s.
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    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    Sorry for not replying to this sooner. No, the fob isn't anything special. I bought it simply because I was piecing things together to build up a 'silver ensemble' as it were. Pocketwatches have fascinated me since I was a child.
  8. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Thank you!! Here's my latest flea-market find (and restoration project): Old-fashioned lift-arm lighter. Made ca. 1932, by Karl Wieden, in Germany. Nickel-plated brass construction. I bought it because it has the coat of arms of my school on it!! :D After extensive, extensive...
  9. Shangas

    Golden Era Things You've Revived Or Repaired For Use

    Some people buy themselves computer games for their birthday presents. Or books. Or go out for dinner. Or cook their favourite meal or bake a cake or cookies or something. I bought myself a restoration project! This: Antique, solid brass naval/nautical telescope, with mahogany sleeve...
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    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    I didn't post this before now, because I spent two weeks restoring it. But this is a mid-1800s solid brass nautical telecope I got for my birthday: It is 11in. closed, and extends to 39in. long. It weighs about a pound and a half (approx 750g), and has solid brass construction, with a...
  11. Shangas

    (KNIVES) Let's see some sharp pointy objects

    I don't think it's an ink-scraper. I've seen LOADS of ink-scrapers. The size and shape of the blade just doesn't match. --- --- --- --- Found out what it is! It's a gardener's budding knife. For pruning and budding new shoots in trees and plants :) How cute!!
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    (KNIVES) Let's see some sharp pointy objects

    Hoping to find myself a nice traditional pocket-knife for my upcoming birthday, but in the meantime, I picked up this doovalackey at the local thrift-shop. It's got an ivory handle and a weird blade. Made by Joseph Rodgers & Sons in England during the reign of George V. Was made sometime between...
  14. Shangas

    Fedora Lounge Bloggers?

    You're very welcome :) You have lovely taste in images.
  15. Shangas

    Fedora Lounge Bloggers?

    AmateisGal, I do believe we're following each other on Pinterest!! ...Small world! :eek: ...You have some BEAUTIFUL pictures, by the way.
  16. Shangas

    Fedora Lounge Bloggers?

    Hey everyone, Just wondering how many people on the Fedora Lounge run their own blogs? I think a few people do - I have seen them. I invite you all to share your blog here and tell us a bit about it. My original blog was set up in October of 2009 and ran until the end of 2015. I covered a...
  17. Shangas

    What are you Writing?

    Lately I've been doing a lot of writing and adding stuff to my blog. Mostly antiques and hstory and things of that nature. My blog can be found at: www.throughouthistory.com
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    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    After a hiccup involving a broken spring, my watch is back: New crystal. Dent removed. Movement stripped and serviced. So far, it's keeping time. Silver-faced watch-stand I bought for it. Watch is 1925. Stand is 1920.
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    Show us your vintage home!

    I love all the boxes stacked upstairs! They look really artistic. All the colours and logos...
  21. Shangas

    Does your name date you?

    When I was a kid in school we were in legal studies class and we were learning about wills and last testaments and such. And our teacher brought in a whole list of obituaries from the local newspapers. Among all the names, one of them was Percival. ...when's the last time ANYBODY met someone...
  22. Shangas

    Does your name date you?

    My grandmother and her sisters were raised Christians in Singapore in the 1910s and 1920s. As a result they gave all their children (my father, my aunts and uncles), which were all born between about 1945-1955 - Christian names, as well as Chinese ones. They were... Lawrence (uncle), John...
  23. Shangas

    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    Quite. A watch that runs for four hours would be useless to anybody. Properly serviced, it should run for anywhere from 28-30-36 hours, depending on the design of the watch and the mainspring. Occasionally, other things might be at fault, but if it's not running for anywhere near that long, then...

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