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  1. Shangas

    What are you wearing today??

    Wedding today. Striped dress pants and vest, white shortsleeved shirt(tropical climate). Black dress shoes. Pocket watch and double Albert chain. Photo coming soon.
  2. Shangas

    need a fountain pen

    In the time-period that you mention, common models were the Parker duofold and the sheaffer balance, both iconic pens of the 1920s and 30s, and most definitely available in the period that you mention. Finding one in working condition, sold by a professional dealer/restorer, should not be too...
  3. Shangas

    The Most Impressive Vintage Item You Wanted but Could Not Afford?

    If I had anything connected with bogart, it would be Sam's piano!!
  4. Shangas

    The Most Impressive Vintage Item You Wanted but Could Not Afford?

    Antiques shops are the dens of addiction for us. We all see things that we cannot have. I have seen beautiful things in antiques shops which I could never afford. Desks, writing slopes, chairs, things made of ivory, and other such items. It is a real wrench to pull yourself away...I wish I could...
  5. Shangas

    Golden Era Things You've Revived Or Repaired For Use

    I hesitate to ask what that age is? I am thinking of taking up quilting as a hobby so that I can play around with my vintage Singer more often. And make something useful and pretty at the same time that will not be too difficult.
  7. Shangas

    Typewriters

    I like earlier Royals from the 1920s and 30s, the RQD never really appealed to me.
  8. Shangas

    Let's see your mechanical watches

    My mechanical companion is my Ball railroad chronometer pocket watch. It ticks like an old-fashioned time-bomb...LOUDLY!! My watchmaker said it would wake up the neighbours! Hahahaha!!!
  9. Shangas

    Hand-cranked air-raid sirens - questions...

    Hahaha!! I used to joke about doing just that, with a friend of mine! Now, I could do it for real! But I shan't. It is a beautiful siren, though. Once I am back on my own computer, I shall post pictures of it. And yes, they do make a hell of a racket. I let it rip at the flea market where I...
  10. Shangas

    Hand-cranked air-raid sirens - questions...

    I have done more research, and found near-identical sirens on eBay, in better and worse shape than mine. All with folding handles and the same style of front. Their sellers all ID them as being from China during the Japanese occupation (1937-1945), and belonging to either the IJA - Imperial...
  11. Shangas

    Typewriters

    Hahahaha!! That is funny! A typewriter looks nothing like an enigma machine! Except, maybe, for the keys...
  13. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Been doing a lot of antiquing and bargain hunting on my trip around china. So far, I have one fountain pen, one raid siren, one carved bone opium pipe, one folding fan, and one "xiao hong shu", or "little red book", the famous pocketbook of quotations of chairman Mao. I still have one more city...
  14. Shangas

    Show Us Your Restorations

    I also like restoring things. So far, that has included two vintage Singer sewing machines, numerous antique fountain pens and other vintage nick-nacks. Cannot post pix right now, but will do at the end of my holiday.
  15. Shangas

    Hand-cranked air-raid sirens - questions...

    Hi smithy, thanks for the information. It is much as I suspected. Did styles of these sirens change much in the twenty or thirty years that they we're insure? I suspect not, huh? This one looks like it was fairly well-used, which I suspect, would make it older, around WWII, civil-war era.
  16. Shangas

    Hand-cranked air-raid sirens - questions...

    Hello folks. Anyone keeping up with my thread in the steamer trunk will know that I am currently antiquing my way around the Peoples Republic of China. Today, I visited the largest antiques and flea market inpeking, and came away with a vintage, green-painted steel hand-crank folding air-raid...
  17. Shangas

    Gentlemen, show us what you've made!

    I've read of people doing that as well. And it's something that I might try. By my reckoning, it'd probably work better, given the results that I want to achieve.
  19. Shangas

    Typewriters

    Of all the postwar typewriters, the Hermes 3000 (original, curved styling) is the one I love the most. It looks very sleek, postwar 1950s jet/nuclear age to me. Very much of-its-time, and that's why I like it.
  20. Shangas

    Gentlemen, show us what you've made!

    I have done a fair bit of online reading and watched some videos. That's what got me interested in trying. I was looking for a fun, practical hobby to do which would make use of my stockpiles of thread and let me play with my sewing machines. And making quilts looked like the best solution. I...
  21. Shangas

    Have you found Hidden Treasure?

    Perhaps not, but if you do, you should put it somewhere safe. Looks neat! The only things I found in the garden as a kid were buried flower-pots.
  22. Shangas

    The Wifely Duties

    "Wifely duties" in my mind is a load of bunk. Your duties are whatever the hell you need to do to keep a family together. For an example, I look no further than two generations back, and my grandmother. My father's family was lower-middle class/working-class back in the 1930s, 40s and 50s...
  23. Shangas

    Golden Era Things You've Revived Or Repaired For Use

    Today, I took Mr. Singer at his word that these machines he makes can sew through anything. I made a new liner for an old leather bag I bought. When's the last time a 77-year-old handcranked vibrating-shuttle machine ate through four layers of leather and came out working? I'm impressed!

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