esteban68
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now they have pepper spray too!
Ooooohh! Now they are dangerous. lol lol lolnow they have pepper spray too!
Nice find! I would have put out $15 for that.Picked up a stack of 30-some old issues of Collier's magazine, dating from the 1940s and '50s, with most of them from the WWII period. As might be expected, much of the editorial content and advertising is devoted to the war effort.
They ain't in bad condition at all, considering their age. Paid 15 bucks for the stack.
Nice find! I would have put out $15 for that.
Today I purchased a pair of very nice vintage dessert plates/bowls...dishes...whatever! They're small, oval and they have "VICTORIAN RAILWAYS" on them. I think they're from the 1930s. Victorian Railways lasted from 1859-1983.
Here's a few pictures:
About 6.5in. across, 5in. wide, about 1/2in. deep.
Both dishes are stamped and punched with numbers, which I suspect are manufacturing dates...
If that's the case, they come from September, 1933, and June, 1935, respectively.
Your guess is as good as mine, as to what they really are, but I suspect dessert plates or snack-plates or something, used on the dining-cars of the state railway company back in the early 1900s.
Cut them up?! :faint:Thanks.
Much as my avaricious little heart likes having things for my very own, it is also true that I am motivated in some part by a desire to preserve these old things (especially the more ephemeral stuff) for future generations, and, in this case, to save them from the people who would cut them up just to sell the individual advertisements on eBay.
You see that done to old magazines in France frequently especially for the front covers JP....really sad especially on the pre 1940 stuff!