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PADDY

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The Best A Man can Get!! Love the Gillette.

What a beauty Michael!!
Michaelshane said:
Gillette President,$12.00

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cookie

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Sydney Australia
HarpPlayerGene said:
Scored these vintage, but as new and unused, photo albums. The first one is very Art Deco to my eye.

Ideas as to era?...

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The first one is very deco especially the wonderful font. The other one looks a bit 20s to me with the heraldic type motifs,
 

LukasWallace

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Las Vegas, NV
Quigley Brown said:
Goodwill find today. A few days ago there was just one, but today....:)

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They are marked: Orchids of Hawaii - Japan

I swear I've seen those somewhere before... I think maybe my grandparents or a neighbor or something used to have a set like that. Very cool. I need some cool stuff like that for my place.
 

storman113

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Central Orygun
Used to be when at a tropical theme bar, if you purchased something like a Mai Tai, or other expensive tropical drink, it came in that type of server and you got to keep it!

My mom had a box full of em which went to the local thrift store when we cleaned out her place.
 

LukasWallace

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Las Vegas, NV
I think I'll have to ask around and see if anyone I know has anything like that they'd be willing to donate to me so that my apartment can be as cool as a Las Vegas apartment should be.

Monday I'm also going to go search some thrift stores and hopefully I'll have something interesting to post on here upon my return.
 

jeep44

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Detroit,Mi
Quigley Brown said:
Goodwill find today. A few days ago there was just one, but today....:)

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They are marked: Orchids of Hawaii - Japan

My wife used to work in a Chinese resturant, and these were indeed the cups they used for Mai Tais and such. I instantly recognized this cup,and went to get one I use for pencils-it is an "Orchids of Japan", but it's marked 'R91' on the base-the figure on the side is almost identical, but he is smiling instead of grimacing.
 

Dinerman

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Bozeman, MT
All my dish needs for my appt. next year are now taken care of. A whole mess of old hotel/restaurant dishes at a buck a pop.

Six of each, the plate, small plate and bowl. Dated 1968. The color band is a light emerald. I'm going to take better pictures when I have the sun tomorrow.

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Eight green line diner-style dinnerplates. The first one is different, but the same size.
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The rest are all identical
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Shangas

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I'm a naughty boy. I bought a 1918 Elgin pocket watch today at the flea-market, from a very very nice lady named Lizzie (who has taken to calling me one of her best & regular customers, even though I only bought two things from her in three months' time!).
 

Dinerman

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Yesterday I pulled a typewriter, steam engine, monkey toy, GE desk lamp and about 100 pages of 1960s pepsi advertising material out of a dumpster.

Typewriter still works, and the ribbon is still good.
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Not sure how old this guy is.
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Model Steam engine
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Silver Dollar

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Louisville, Kentucky
I guess the best thing I ever pulled out of a yard sale was a collection of record albums by Benny Goodman, Django Rheinhart and Billie Holiday. The guy had a lot more but I couldn't stay there looking at all the albums and I didn't have that much cash on me at the time.
 

HarpPlayerGene

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cookie said:
The first one is very deco especially the wonderful font. The other one looks a bit 20s to me with the heraldic type motifs,

Thanks cookie and foofoogal for the informed opinions. I had a notion to use one or both of these but I'm becoming more inclined to list them for sale on Ebay.
 

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