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Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds
Been after one of these for a while, which wasn't being sold at an exorbitant and ridiculous price. People seem to think 'cause they're made of brass, they're worth their weight in gold... I replaced the spring inside the bell and adjusted the tension. And now it rings loud and true...- Shangas
- Post #3,658
- Forum: The Display Case
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Australian Vintage Suits
Australia is something like the second driest place on earth. And one of the hottest. So suits would probably all have been lighter weight than what is worn in Europe or northern U.S.A. Even in winter. Linen and cotton suits would most likely have been worn out into handkerchieves and dish-rags... -
What's Your Vintage Skill Set?
I admire folks who can navigate using a sextant/quadrant, compass and watch/chronometer. I'm not sure I could manage!- Shangas
- Post #104
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What's Your Vintage Skill Set?
Use and maintain a typewriter. Use and maintain a sewing machine. Use and maintain a straight-razor shaving setup. Use and maintain a fountain pen.- Shangas
- Post #98
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Australian Vintage Suits
Something like that looks like what you'd wear in Melbourne or Hobart during the coldest of winters! -
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What are your most treasured Possessions? Top 5, maybe top 10?
Would it be possible to get photographs of those things, Lizzie? I'm especially interested in the brass box.- Shangas
- Post #17
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Anybody Else Collect Sewing Machines?
You have a beautiful Singer 66 "Red Eye" as they're called. I'm glad my tutorial was helpful in fixing it up. They're really quite easy, these old machines. Tightening the belt should be very easy.- Shangas
- Post #235
- Forum: The Display Case
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What are your most treasured Possessions? Top 5, maybe top 10?
Hi Jskeen. Yes the sewing-machine was my grandmother's pride and joy. The desk I bought in London. I'm not sure about the ring. It's white gold with diamond-chips and a jade stone in the middle. That's all I know. I doubt it's very old (gran never had money to spend on that stuff). She...- Shangas
- Post #15
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What are your most treasured Possessions? Top 5, maybe top 10?
Jskeen, that's a stunning pocketwatch of excellent quality. Well worth being treasured. My treasures, in no particular order... My grandmother's Singer 99k sewing-machine, which I restored: My ca. 1862 Toulmin & Gale Writing-Box. It's been one of my biggest dreams to own a functional...- Shangas
- Post #9
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Typewriters
When you mean 'Heavy', do you mean that it's really stiff in the typing action? The next model up from this (the Royal Model O) came with touch-control so that you could adjust that. But I don't know about this one. I know it certainly didn't have touch-control.- Shangas
- Post #251
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Vintage Stain Fighters!
Water on its own doesn't work to remove ink-stains. I wish it did, but it doesn't.- Shangas
- Post #21
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Vintage Stain Fighters!
Does anyone have any good tips on how to remove INK STAINS? Specifically, fountain pen ink (but any other kind of liquid ink) without using commercial cleaners? Does that salt-grain trick work? Or should I try something else?- Shangas
- Post #19
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Show us your Vintage Office Supplies.
I agree with Johnny. They look like clay-sculpting tools. I also used similar ones in school.- Shangas
- Post #151
- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your vintage home!
LTTP, you're fortunate to own so many heirlooms. We have barely anything like that in our family. Just a few trinkets that my grandmother left me before she died in 2011. I love that clock. My uncle purportedly received an antique mantle-clock from his wife's brother when they were married. My...- Shangas
- Post #1,909
- Forum: Your Vintage Home
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Modern menswear done right.
The actual Disney :)- Shangas
- Post #5
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Anyone else interested in trying out ration dieting?
Should this thread perhaps be combined with the other one? Just so that folks don't get confused or something? At any rate, it's an interesting idea. But if you're doing the British system, be prepared to be hungry. British rationing in the darkest days of the war (ca. 1942 I think) was REALLY...- Shangas
- Post #6
- Forum: The Home Front Woman
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Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds
He's smart, he is. You're lucky I didn't use the one which shows the importance of proper hyphen use.- Shangas
- Post #3,648
- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds
Punctuation is the difference between King Charles walking and talking ten minutes after his head was cut off, and King Charles walking and talking, ten minutes after, his head was cut off.- Shangas
- Post #3,644
- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds
I went to the local antiques center intent on purchasing a beautiful antique typewriter. And would've done so, had a last-minute check not revealed a missing type-slug. Ho Hum. An acquaintance at the same shop (who apparently has a lot of these old typewriters) has agreed to keep me in...- Shangas
- Post #3,642
- Forum: The Display Case
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What are you wearing today??
BigMan, is that your granddaughter in the back of the car? What'd she say when you took the photograph? "Gramps! You shouldn't take photos when you're driving! GRANDPA PUT YOUR HANDS BACK ON THE WHEEL!!" FashionFrank, I love the suit and the boater. Very summery and light indeed. I also...- Shangas
- Post #20,321
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
