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Showing posts with label antique. Show all posts
Thursday, 29 October 2020

Historic Detroit Hotel elevator discovered during remodel in St. Petersburg, Florida

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Historic Detroit Hotel elevator discovered during remodel in St. Petersburg, FL On the face of it the headline of this article appears to ...
Tuesday, 27 October 2020

Couple restores antique sewing machine to make face masks

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Back when we were still going through the first wave of Covid, but still pertinent today, come these two strikingly similar news items from ...
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Thursday, 21 May 2020

Boffins chapify Amazonian assistant using Belgian blowers

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Antique Alexa telephones by Grain Design More news featuring items from Belgium, although "news" is perhaps not quite the le mot...
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Monday, 1 July 2013

The Barrelhouse Stomp Forties Weekend

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I don't often feature events like vintage weekenders on this blog, mainly because I can never seem to get to them for one reason or o...
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Monday, 18 February 2013

If you can't knit 'em, blog 'em!

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Another week seems to have flown by, again without a single blog post from me!  How terribly remiss of me, to be sure; I can only say that I...
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Saturday, 12 January 2013

World War I photos found inside antique camera

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Photo courtesty of Anton Orlov @ The Phot o P alace World War I photos found inside antique camera As the 100th anniversary of the st...
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Tuesday, 28 February 2012

My two penn'orth

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On Sunday I went to my first antiques fair for, I am ashamed to say, three or four years (although that enforced absence was in no small par...
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Friday, 10 February 2012

The family business expands

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Back at the end of 2010 I took the liberty of telling you all about a vintage eBay store run by my aunt and uncle in Pittsburgh.  Of inter...
Thursday, 10 February 2011

Ridgewood Garbageman Rescues Treasures Of The Past

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Ridgewood Garbageman Rescues Treasures Of The Past From across the Pond comes this story that is at turns fantastic, desirous and yet slight...
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Thursday, 2 December 2010

The family business

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An aunt of mine who has lived in Pittsburgh for the last 16 years has recently taken to visiting estate sales (or house clearances, as they ...
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