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    Weird Pocket Finds

    I guess he did get wound stripes as you say the equivalent of a Purple Heart. The aftermath of the battle was the only time in his entire life that he was ever hospitalized and then only for a short time. But all the pictures of him in uniform show him in Khaki drill and, as was his lifelong...
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    Weird Pocket Finds

    My father, long deceased, was a countryman from County Wicklow, Ireland. My maternal aunt tells a story of how my mild mannered uncle Stanley, who came out of the Battle of El Alamein with stripes on his arm, had once bodily ejected him from the house because he had a ferret in each of his...
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    Different decorating periods in one home...or room?

    *I mean "Robin Reliant" of course (for our USA friends a dangerously crap three-wheel car from the 1980s). TK
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    Different decorating periods in one home...or room?

    ...there were so many different Utility chairs...but I think I've seen photos of the ones you mean. I don't think any Utility item was design more thrown together like two Reliant Robins are used to make one Reliant Robin in a dubious garage. As they're Utility I guess they didn't have...
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    Weird Pocket Finds

    Bit late on this thread but...better late than never... Like many of you I’ve found a lot of things over the years for instance I had a run in the mid-80s of finding 1951 Festival of Britain souvenir buttons and broaches in items of clothing...and once found a wallet with a fiver in it, but...
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    Different decorating periods in one home...or room?

    hello Portland, I have some of my uncle's North Africa campaign photos up too, being a shoe maker by trade he became the company cobbler in between combat and games of cricket. Now I'd like to see that Soviet propaganda you have in situ, the Cold War never figured heavily in our imaginations...
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    Different decorating periods in one home...or room?

    this mixing styles is always at the forefront of my mind...my flat is very small even by UK standards...if i bring a new item into the mix it displaces everything else...so i've a very rigid plan...my main room has late-20s leather deco armchairs, a US depression era lamp and a early-30s German...
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    Late 50's early 60's

    Personally I've never possessed enough tact not to offend you folks on the far side of the pond, thought I count some of my dearest friends amongst your number...I consider my words very gentle banter...perhaps it is a question of, in the words of GBS "...two countries divided by a common...
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    Late 50's early 60's

    in my experience it's the 5% you've gotta worry about.
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    Late 50's early 60's

    quite likely but I've yet to mention that my sometime acquaintances Danya and Minka spent a whole summer stalking you hither and lither through the thoroughfares and back alleys of Brighton and Hove...and although I was completely unaware of their activities and their imagined connection to you...
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    Late 50's early 60's

    yes, I'm sorry Jack...as they say its not funny and its not clever and I promise not to do it again. being a newcomer I didn't that I had to leave any semblance of wit at the door... my trusty service revolver is loaded and waiting on my desk and you can be sure old son that I'll do the...
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    Late 50's early 60's

    I tend and have always tended to dress for myself. And anyway I wouldn't dig a chick who thought a post-49 suit was a good idea, I'd suspect she could also be swayed to have the same intensity of feeling towards a chap in 1970s safari suit and we all know where that leads...I know for a fact...
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    Berlin: A Boon For Travellists?

    ta very much Edward...I don't mind a splattering of DDR in it place, but anyroad we're treating our long weekend as a reconnaissance trip...taking 1000 Euro a piece, we also buying to sell and if it looks promising we'll return in the Spring older and wiser...I guess we'll come away happy...
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    Berlin: A Boon For Travellists?

    Yeah, an obvious choice really (for those with out the technical skills to be welcomed as long lost friends by the US government) with all those long established German speaking communities in South America...
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    Late 50's early 60's

    I believe the polite and proper cutoff date for clothing for an English Gentlemen, even a Northerner such as yourself, would be 1952 when all wartime rationing was ended...and undoubtedly anything post 1955 leads to sartorial beastliness worthy of an ASBO. I myself although in my dotage when it...
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    Berlin: A Boon For Travellists?

    Thank you Sin Khan...that would truly be hard travailing indeed. My hat goes off to you for the suggestion. Tracking down ODESSA's old suits surely is a far cry from cycling around car boot sales in the Sussex countryside on a Sunday morning. I'll speak with the boys and see if we can pencil...
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    Berlin: A Boon For Travellists?

    Maybe its merely part of the ongoing campaign of disinformation about the rest of the world the US seems to have going on. I don't know. Its true that a lot of people are broke in Berlin right now, my German friends who would like to return cant for economic reasons, but more pertinently to the...
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    Berlin: A Boon For Travellists?

    Greetings Gents, Myself and two well suited companions have a trip planned to Berlin in late October. We intend seeking out prewar, if you will, Third Reich era civilian attire, accessories and wot knot of gentlemanly nature. This will be our first such escaped to Germany and although our...
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