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  1. Shangas

    Early 1900s Leather Suitcases? Repros?

    There was a shop I knew years and years and YEARS ago which sold them. I have one which I still use occasionally. It's a great overnight bag. You CAN buy them new from places like Saddleback, but if that's too steep, then your best bet is to buy vintage or antique examples and repair/refurbish...
  2. Shangas

    Collar pins - questions

    I've always called them collar bars. They're pretty nifty. I have two or three which I wear occasionally.
  3. Shangas

    Golden Era Things You've Revived Or Repaired For Use

    Restoring the pill-making machine is basically done! Read all about it!! (Click the photo, in other words!)
  4. Shangas

    Golden Era Things You've Revived Or Repaired For Use

    My current 'Golden Era' restoration project: This is a Victorian-era brass and mahogany pill-rolling machine. Basically how it works is that you would grind up the ingredients of your pills in a pestle and mortar... You'd thicken up the powder with an appropriate syrup or sap, and form...
  5. Shangas

    Pocketwatches

    I carry a pretty chunky 16-size Ball railroad watch with me every day of the week. I wear it in my waistcoat pocket. You don't need a suit to wear a waistcoat. I don't know why people have that impression. If I'm not wearing my waistcoat, then the watch sits in the fob-pocket of my jeans or...
  7. Shangas

    (KNIVES) Let's see some sharp pointy objects

    My two tiny two-bladed two-toned teeny little antique pen-knives... Mother of Pearl and Ivory... To display how teeny-tiny-titchy they really are...
  8. Shangas

    Show Us Your Vintage Sewing Machines!

    In my experience, old sewing machines are pretty forgiving of mistakes :)
  9. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Got my greasy little mitts all over this, today: Victorian-era brass string-caddy :)
  10. Shangas

    Vintage Steamer trunk

    I love those old-fashioned trunks! I think you're right, it is made of aluminium. It's in great condition! Gee I'd love something like that... :o
  11. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Not a flea-market find, but rather, an auction-house win. Nobody else bid on these, and so I got them cheap... They are a pair of solid sterling silver chained chopsticks and rest. Got them about a week ago :)
  13. Shangas

    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    $40 more in 90 years sounds like a good payoff!! LOL
  14. Shangas

    Business Card Cases

    I have two antique silver card-cases. One Edwardian, one Victorian. 1904, and 1885. As yet, I haven't had any cards to put into them!!
  15. Shangas

    Golden Era Things You've Revived Or Repaired For Use

    Not exactly 'revived or repaired', but I bought these recently... ...then I polished them... They're solid, sterling silver vintage travelling chopsticks. Since they're travelling chopsticks, they required some sort of case or pouch to carry them in. No such pouch came with them when I...
  16. Shangas

    Typewriters

    I have that EXACT machine, including the case, sitting under my bed, right now!!
  17. Shangas

    The Golden Age of the Streetcar

    When I was a kid, you still had the older trams from the 50s, 30s, etc, rattling around town. And I mean RATTLING. You could hear them coming three blocks away! But these days, apart from the City-Circle tourist trams, I'm not sure that the old antiques are still used anywhere in Melbourne.
  19. Shangas

    Anyone know anything about fountain pens?

    I've been repairing my own vintage/antique FPs for nearly 10 years now - basic stuff - re-seating nibs, replacing sacs, etc etc etc. Good advice been given overall. Apart from keeping casein away from water, I'd also keep celluloid and ebonite well away from naked flames.
  20. Shangas

    Anyone know anything about fountain pens?

    Luckily for you guys - I am a fountain pen person. H.Jack's pens are a Sheaffer Balance, likely from the second half of the 1930s, and a later pen, which I believe to be a Sheaffer PFM ("Pen for Men"). It was what they called a 'touchdown-filler'. You lift the plunger, stick the pen in a bottle...
  21. Shangas

    The Golden Age of the Streetcar

    Where I live - Melbourne, Australia - streetcars or trams are still a thing. We boast the biggest network in the southern hemisphere. And I'm very glad that we do! If we didn't, I'd never be able to get anywhere!! This is our current route-map:
  22. Shangas

    Show Us Your Vintage Sewing Machines!

    I'm SURE there was a thread on this somewhere, but for the life of me, I can't find it. I've scoured the search-function of every likely board and came up with zilch. Anyway, this is the thread for showing off your vintage, or antique sewing machines! I know there's a lot of people here who...
  23. Shangas

    What do you use to shave?

    Was something like "Kaufman" or something along those lines. Just one of billions of razors manufactured in the Solingen region of Germany. It was by far one of my favourites.

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