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Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds
Picked this up last week and spent the weekend repainting some of the tiles. It's a mahjong set from the 1920s. Made in Shanghai, in China. The tiles are bone and bamboo. I can't wait to share it with my friends during our Christmas meetup and play a few games with it. Sets like these often...- Shangas
- Post #5,556
- Forum: The Display Case
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Show off your Ebay finds and purchases
Antique silver chopsticks...- Shangas
- Post #295
- Forum: The Display Case
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Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?
Fountain pens, straight razors, and safety razors. I mean, they never fully disappeared, but since the early 2000s, they've been coming back with a HUGE vengeance. The communities online dedicated to collecting them, restoring them, buying, selling and trading them, and using them as daily...- Shangas
- Post #123
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds
$10.00 at the flea-market a couple of weeks ago. Made of glass. Had a chip in one corner which left a hole in the bottom of the inkwell. Fortunately, some waterproof epoxy helped to fill the hole and make it waterproof again :)- Shangas
- Post #5,454
- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds
$80.00. Retractable straight-razor strop. Sterling silver hallmarked casing. Restored it myself. Pulled it apart, removed the old leather strop, used it as a template to cut a new strip of leather and handle, and then fitted the new strip inside and then polished up the silver. Works great! Not...- Shangas
- Post #5,453
- Forum: The Display Case
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Golden Era Things You've Revived Or Repaired For Use
And here's the results...- Shangas
- Post #290
- Forum: Skills and Smarts
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Golden Era Things You've Revived Or Repaired For Use
My latest restoration project: An Edwardian-era silver-faced pocketwatch stand. The watch inside is my 16s Ball railroad chronometer. The original interior: All torn out..- Shangas
- Post #289
- Forum: Skills and Smarts
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Celebrating My First Trenchcoat :)
Haven't been here for quite a while. Lots of things happened in life which kept me busy, occupied, and away. Over the last few months I've been busy building up my wardrobe again, and have purchased a number of new pieces. One of these was my new navy blue cotton-gaberdine knee-length DB...- Shangas
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- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Post New Hats Here!
The first new hat I've bought in a while. This antique boater was $10.00 at a local flea-market. Another $10.00 was spent in getting a new sweatband put in. It's got one or two minor dents, but no major damage, and is perfectly wearable! :P I was told it was from about 1900-1920... -
One Homemade Dressing Gown
My little hand-cranked sewing machine has been my pet for about...oh...10 years now? It's my favourite little machine. The fabric I used was, believe it or not, a set of old curtains from IKEA. I found them at a charity-shop for $10.00. They were pure cotton, and they looked like a nice, solid...- Shangas
- Post #5
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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One Homemade Dressing Gown
Thanks! Yes, I notice that a lot of vintage gowns/robes are quite LONG - shin or even ankle-length, whereas most modern ones (unless they're bespoke, or insanely expensive) are really short. I always thought that the first point of a dressing gown was to keep you WARM, so I deliberately cut this...- Shangas
- Post #4
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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One Homemade Dressing Gown
This is only my second attempt at making one...- Shangas
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- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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My New Green Overcoat
I've been to Britain in summer, I can assure you it isn't :P- Shangas
- Post #16
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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My New Green Overcoat
It's 5'c right now. Sorry if that isn't cold enough for the Europeans here.- Shangas
- Post #14
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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My New Green Overcoat
Hey - this morning is bloody freezing!!- Shangas
- Post #12
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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My New Green Overcoat
I did a bit of research, and I found this: ...and this: I think the first photo is what mine would've looked like originally, and the second photo is what a previous owner wanted mine to look like (more of an 'officer's version', I guess), and so changed the buttons from plain black to...- Shangas
- Post #8
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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My New Green Overcoat
Hi Ed, No, the buttons are not original. I saw thread-holes in the coat from previous stitching, so the buttons have been replaced. But I like the gold-colour buttons, I think they make a nice touch :) And L.&.M, just so you know - it's snowing in country Victoria right now - like, snowing...- Shangas
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- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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My New Green Overcoat
I honestly have no idea where it came from. I love it, though! It's so solid and well-made. It cost me all of $40.00.- Shangas
- Post #4
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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My New Green Overcoat
In my ongoing quest to build a proper wardrobe for myself, I decided that I needed a decent long winter coat. I ended up buying this at the flea-market today. It's from the 70s, according to the label on the lining, from a menswear company (Scott LaSalle's) that, according to my research...- Shangas
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- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
