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Andrew C
·Jade jewelry from Gump's of San Francisco...
This set in particular was from the estate of the Producer of Spartacus.
This set in particular was from the estate of the Producer of Spartacus.
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w@tcher
·Yes. Lagavulin is my go to though. I prefer the richness of an Islay over any other spirit.
Glad you are interested as well to whiskies.
I have all the annual Lagavulin 12yo since 2010 in my collection
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Edward53
·I was going to leave the flint tools alone as I felt they might already have outstayed their welcome, but I couldn't resist posting this one I found last month while out on a walk with my visiting sister and her husband. I'd just said to them that I'd been over this field a few times since ploughing so I don't expect to find anything today...... Here it is, lying on the path where it was half buried, and cleaned up at home. It's probably an adze for woodworking.
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ghce
·I was going to leave the flint tools alone as I felt they might already have outstayed their welcome, but I couldn't resist posting this one I found last month while out on a walk with my visiting sister and her husband. I'd just said to them that I'd been over this field a few times since ploughing so I don't expect to find anything today...... Here it is, lying on the path where it was half buried, and cleaned up at home. It's probably an adze for woodworking.
Really cool, argillite I presume?
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ghce
·Sci-fi and fantasy - all the books I loved reading as a kid, and which I can now afford to buy the first editions of... in many cases the artwork from the 70s and 80s is fantastic- photo of a couple of shelves and covers:
Wow, love your book shelf I am certain I have read them all lol.
I read SF voraciously from the late 1960's to the mid 90's and by that time had over 2500 (mostly paper backs) on my shelves from the 20's thru to the 1980's but mostly from the heyday of pulp scifi. Sold them all for a song at auction which I kinda regret now.
Since Covid came about I had started reading some more things like the Book of Dust series and others in a similar vein, probably read 100 plus books since lock down though there are some books I did keep, just a handful really things that were writtern by Eric Frank Russel and a few other not so well know authors.
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khanmu
·Some great cover art there. Fantastic collection!
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khanmu
·Wow, love your book shelf I am certain I have read them all lol.
I read SF voraciously from the late 1960's to the mid 90's and by that time had over 2500 (mostly paper backs) on my shelves from the 20's thru to the 1980's but mostly from the heyday of pulp scifi. Sold them all for a song at auction which I kinda regret now.
Since Covid came about I had started reading some more things like the Book of Dust series and others in a similar vein, probably read 100 plus books since lock down though there are some books I did keep, just a handful really things that were writtern by Eric Frank Russel and a few other not so well know authors.
Yes I sold off mine, and then started buying them again a few years ago. It is amazing what turns upon on Ebay and at car boot sales etc.- I picked this up last week for £10 each - a first edition of the Ship of Ishtar from 1926 and a 1968 Wizard of Earthsea - less than a watch strap!
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dsio
··Ash @ ΩFlots and lots of old car brochures. Sadly, most manufacturers have gone digital these days.
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Cayohuesovespa
·vintage vespa scooters.
the shiftier the better!
(if you know, you know!)
the shiftier the better!
(if you know, you know!)
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Bumper
·Peranakan Jewellery.
Peranakans are the Straits Chinese who have intermarried with Malays/Indonesians. Found mainly in Penang, Malacca and Singapore, there are some in Thailand and Indonesia as well.
Ladies are referred to as Nyona, the men as Baba.
These are pendants, the dangling grapes were a popular design, some are articulated. Stars, insects, birds, plants and more uncommonly, animals, were often featured.
Diamonds are Berlian
Diamond chips, or rose cut diamonds are known as Intan
These are pendants that double as brooches with an additional pin behind.
The most iconic design is the kana (olive) ring, so called because the shape resembles an olive seed.
They also love their flowers...
Silver jewellery was known as mourning jewellery, for up to a year after the death of a loved one, it was not the done thing to be wearing gold.
These are hairpins
As a show of wealth, brides would wear up to 100 gold hairpins, some with diamonds or other precious stones.
Children also wore silver though, these are anklets.
The last pair are in really bad shape, but they're around 100 years old.
Bracelets
Kerosang, to fasten the blouse or baju
Or, if you preferred buttons.. but they had to be sewn on every time.
A gentleman's keychain in really fine condition. This is a doll or human figure. They also had fish, or just a plain bar that clipped to the trousers.
Spare betel nut bells i acquired from a jeweller, these are NOS. Look like pumpkins though..
A necklace with leaves and dangling fliwers, intans.
Peranakans are the Straits Chinese who have intermarried with Malays/Indonesians. Found mainly in Penang, Malacca and Singapore, there are some in Thailand and Indonesia as well.
Ladies are referred to as Nyona, the men as Baba.
These are pendants, the dangling grapes were a popular design, some are articulated. Stars, insects, birds, plants and more uncommonly, animals, were often featured.
Diamonds are Berlian
Diamond chips, or rose cut diamonds are known as Intan
These are pendants that double as brooches with an additional pin behind.
The most iconic design is the kana (olive) ring, so called because the shape resembles an olive seed.
They also love their flowers...
Silver jewellery was known as mourning jewellery, for up to a year after the death of a loved one, it was not the done thing to be wearing gold.
These are hairpins
As a show of wealth, brides would wear up to 100 gold hairpins, some with diamonds or other precious stones.
Children also wore silver though, these are anklets.
The last pair are in really bad shape, but they're around 100 years old.
Bracelets
Kerosang, to fasten the blouse or baju
Or, if you preferred buttons.. but they had to be sewn on every time.
A gentleman's keychain in really fine condition. This is a doll or human figure. They also had fish, or just a plain bar that clipped to the trousers.
Spare betel nut bells i acquired from a jeweller, these are NOS. Look like pumpkins though..
A necklace with leaves and dangling fliwers, intans.
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ghce
·Very Chinese looking.
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blubarb
··I might rise, but I refuse to shine.Starting to get a small collection of these Timely wrist calendars. Hard to find these days, as you can see by the small number, but the fun has been in the hunt. Always on the hunt. 😁
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Mark020
··not the sharpest pencil in the ΩF drawerNot things I've actively collected but becoming a collection by default: most of the footpaths round here go over fields at some point and at ploughing time I usually pick up a few worked flints on certain walks. These four came from the same field. R to L - a blade, a tranchet arrowhead, an awl and something unidentified.
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Edward53
·Epic stuff. If I would show this to my son he would want to fly to you tomorrow 😁
A pity you're not just down the road from here or he'd be very welcome to look through them. Arrowheads seem to be the most common type of tool in this area. Here are some I've found. I'm not an archaeologist and the descriptions are my best guesses from the few reference books available on this subject.
Large leaf-shaped early Neolithic.
Ridged leaf-shaped Neolithic.
Large diamond Neolithic.
Small diamond Neolithic. 2nd left is upside down.
Tanged, probably late Neolithic to early Bronze age. Asymmetric tang on right.
A particularly beautiful red flint leaf shape I found in July not far from the site of a vanished barrow. Height 32mm.
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Spruce
··Sunburst dial fanA pity you're not just down the road from here or he'd be very welcome to look through them. Arrowheads seem to be the most common type of tool in this area. Here are some I've found. I'm not an archaeologist and the descriptions are my best guesses from the few reference books available on this subject.
Large leaf-shaped early Neolithic.
Ridged leaf-shaped Neolithic.
Large diamond Neolithic.
Small diamond Neolithic. 2nd left is upside down.
Tanged, probably late Neolithic to early Bronze age. Asymmetric tang on right.
A particularly beautiful red flint leaf shape I found in July not far from the site of a vanished barrow. Height 32mm.
I’d never thought about these before but was wondering about the logistical/technical problems of using them.
I came across this diagram which made it all a bit more understandable
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Edward53
·I’d never thought about these before but was wondering about the logistical/technical problems of using them.
I came across this diagram which made it all a bit more understandable
As well as being tied in they would have been glued in with sap or pitch. They occasionally turn up with some of it still adhering.