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Shangas

I'll Lock Up
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Melbourne, Australia
Hah!

Today I meandered down to the local thrift-shop. I purchased a shirt, and eighteen loose, but matching, buttons. Enough to bracify three pairs of trousers for braces. The shirt was $7. The 18 buttons were $1.80 for all.
 

DNO

One Too Many
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Toronto, Canada
Half price day at Goodwill hereabouts. Picked this up:

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Interesting book about one of the most iconic images from the Vietnam War. Opened it up and found it was signed not only by the author but by 'the girl in the picture' as well, Kim Phuc.

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It never fails to amaze me...the things you can find in thrift stores!
 

DNO

One Too Many
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Toronto, Canada
Thanks Heather...quite the lucky find. I love signed books and in the last year I've found over 50 of them in local thrift stores, including a lovely signed copy of Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure. Most of them are works of Canadian fiction. This one, The Girl in the Picture, has got to be my most exciting find, however. To think that the book has been handled not only by the author but by the woman who was the primary focus of such an iconic, Pulitzer Prize winning image is pretty exceptional.
 
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Orange County, CA
If I'm not mistaken, Kim Phuc lives in Canada where she's now a doctor. I love finding signed books, I come across them fairly often. Among the gems in my collection are a 1929 high school year book signed by Spike Jones and a book signed by silent film star Colleen Moore.
 
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DNO

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Toronto, Canada
If I'm not mistaken, Kim Phuc lives in Canada where she's now a doctor. I love finding signed books, I come across them fairly often. Among the gems in my collection are a 1929 high school year book signed by Spike Jones and a book signed by silent film star Colleen Moore.

Gems indeed V.C.! You're right about Kim Phuc...she became a Canadian citizen in 1998 and apparently lives in Ajax, just outside Toronto.

There's something about the fact that the author actually handled that particular book that makes signed books so special. It separates the book from the pile of mass produced volumes. One of my gems is a signed copy of a 1921 volume by Canadian poet Bliss Carmen. It, too, was found at a Goodwill.
 

Shangas

I'll Lock Up
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Melbourne, Australia
I like books which have little inscriptions in them.

I have a copy of "The Wooden Horse" by Eric Williams. Inside is an inscription, that in part, reads: "To Aunty, because you loved the film* so much. Xmas, 1952".

*the film was released in 1950.
 

potemkin_city_limits

One of the Regulars
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Toronto
Ive had a good couple weeks.

Calendar from 1937
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Lord of the Rings trilogy in hardcover
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Porno by Irvine Welsh in hardcover
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Signed copy of Sister Brothers by Patrick DeWitt.
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Tin sign
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Hat
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esteban68

Call Me a Cab
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Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England
Charity shop find last weekend at 20p each!... not sure of age but they're either c 1760-ish or late 19th/early 20th century 'copies'?
I think they are either wine or cordial glasses;
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Any glass experts out there?
 
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My mother's basement
I know next to nothing about glassware, esteban, but if those glasses are as old as either of your guesses, I'm impressed that they've lasted so long. I mean, they're made of GLASS. If they're really as old as that early estimate, I'd consider them real treasures for that reason alone.
 

esteban68

Call Me a Cab
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Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England
It's a difficult one tonyb as it seems the only way is for an 'expert' to get a look at them, the glass colour apparently is an indication, earlier glass is not as clear as modern stuff, these have an almost but very slight bluey-green tinge but it is difficult to see in the photos.
They could have been engraved later than they were made as this was a popular Victorian way of 'jazzing'things up similar to Victorian gentlmen going to carving clubs then practicing at home on 200 year old furniture!(not suggesting an amateur engraved them)
They could be Bohemian turn of the last century even...I think I'll take them to one of the Antiques Roadshow type events that occassionaly happen around here.
I guess there were 6 originally or more but three completely undamaged pieces is till good in my eye.
 
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RBH

Bartender
I picked this old china cabinet up Saturday.
And I mean picked up, the former owner had placed it on the sidewalk to be picked up
by the city [or someone like me]
It was rather dirty but cleaned up great. There was one piece of trim from the bottom drawer missing.
But when I got it home and cleaned it up I found it in the back of the drawer.
It is a beautiful piece of furniture.

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