Interesting stuff you’ve got around the house

Syrte’s virgin hat was okay, so who knows ☕

WHAM-O Super Balls...made of amazing ZECTRON!

Memory board from a Control Data Corporation CDC 6400 computer.

No shortage of sh*t in my house...
1936-1938 Westclox Celestial Paperweight Clock

1920s Speakman Shower Head

Angry Bird

Push Button Gravity Heater Controls
Late 1920s waffle iron

1930s Bookend

Tiffany Letter Opener

Deadpool Figurine

The waffle iron is the bees knees

oh man where to start? I'll pull some stuff out tomorrow maybe and post some pics. I definitely have some oddities. Not nearly as many as I once did since I keep paring down, but enough to fill this thread.

I had to look up gravity heaters 📖 http://www.oldhouseweb.com/how-to-advice/gravity-hot-water-heating.shtml

That waffle iron is amazing!

Since you were curious enough to look up gravity heaters, I best correct your information pertaining to the gravity heater used at my particular house and that were rather common in the 1920s. The gravity heaters which are located in a sub-basement area, I have two; one for upstairs (Chambers) and one for downstairs (Living Room), use gas, they are simply a large boiler that has a gas flow that is controlled by a valve which is controlled by the buttons you see mounted on the brass plate. Many large mansions could have up to 10 to 15 boilers and as many corresponding buttons, i.e. Chambers, Kitchen, Living Room, Library, Study, etc. The red and white lights on either side of the mother of pearl button are indicators which let you know how much gas flow is going to the heaters (boilers) by controlling the "F" valve connected to the heaters. The button has four cycles, first push turns on both red and white lights and heater is on high, the second push only the white light is on, medium, the third push the red light is the only light on, low, and finally the fourth push resets to the off position, all lights off. The F valve which is mounted onto the gas line that feeds the gravity heater and allows gas to flow thru at different volumes is a very simple device that has different size holes in a metal plate that vary the flow of gas, large hole = high flow, medium hole = medium flow, small hole = low flow, and no hole = off. The valve inside has a magnetic coil which rotates the metal plate as electrical surges are provided by the control button. There is no forced air system, so the heat rises thru the vents in the house by gravity. It is very efficient and seldom, if ever, breaks down. Yes, you can't control the exact temperature and it won't turn on automatically at 5 am as you can using modern day controls, but, when it warms up house enough you turn off system or put on the low setting. The F valve design is so simple they'll last for over a hundred years... probably why no longer in use, and can't have automatic settings etc.

A wooden model U.S. Navy T-34C which is the first aircraft I flew and the first aircraft I soloed. I purchased this model in the Philippines while on deployment in the late 1980s...and supposedly it’s made from discarded wooden furniture.

OK, Dave...full disclosure...when I first saw what’s indicated by the red box above, I thought it was petrified poop [with barnacles]. I’m glad I actually went back and read your text explaining it. 😁

LOL. Well, you know me well enough to have a healthy suspicion 😉

My dad escaped Nazi Germany in 1938 and spent the war in London. He came over to the US in 1946 aboard the HMS Chaser, a converted escort carrier. They were scuttling aircraft overboard at sea, so my dad took some gauges out of them before they went over the side. I used to play around with this as a kid, turning it to get to 00000 and using the rubberized edge of a record turntable when my fingers got tired. I still have it on his desk with some of his other stuff (like his JLC P812). Don't know what this came from...maybe an F6F Hellcat or something like that. @Mad Dog: any idea what this might have come from?

I'll take all your smelt off your hands for you...