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Post by trilo on Feb 16, 2021 3:05:00 GMT -8
Share your old or antique items which are still in use. I fixed this old SAX 620 stapler from the 60's about two years ago. It's Made in Austria and one of the best I have ever used.  |
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Post by Fergus on Feb 16, 2021 3:23:07 GMT -8
Does the wife count cos she's making bread and cakes in the kitchen now.
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Post by trilo on Feb 16, 2021 4:15:35 GMT -8
Does the wife count cos she's making bread and cakes in the kitchen now. Depends. If she looks like this, then maybe:  Otherwise... What a nice weather today chaps (meaning, move on, nothing to see here). Forgot to add: Please attach photo(s). |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2021 5:05:54 GMT -8
Dads chair is Queen Anne so c1660-1700ce in date. My tools are all Victorian I use for clocks. My soldering iron and pivot polishing tools were used by the RAF during WW2. Even my cars 45 years old!
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Post by trilo on Feb 16, 2021 5:29:52 GMT -8
Exactly what I was after! Keep em' coming.
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Post by 8trackmind on Feb 16, 2021 12:55:06 GMT -8
1978 Suzuki  1955 National  68 Seiko  |
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Post by tempelkim on Feb 17, 2021 5:31:36 GMT -8
This lighter from around 1936 is in daily use. Actually I am using it a little too often, I guess...  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2021 5:36:35 GMT -8
This lighter from around 1936 is in daily use. Actually I am using it a little too often, I guess... I use my great grandfathers that he carried around with him in the trenches during WW1. It's shaped like a bottle. Perfect seal so no wonder he kept it for the duration of the war. Trench proof. |
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Post by scubarob99 on Feb 17, 2021 6:56:54 GMT -8
Found this Kinsey (whiskey) bottle opener/ ice breaker on a construction site I was working on, about 25 years ago. Solid brass. Use it daily. Rob  |
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Post by scubarob99 on Feb 17, 2021 7:06:40 GMT -8
Not everyday, but often enough.This pool table was yanked out of a Staten Island, NY bar close to 40 years ago. Weighs a ton! Even the cue tips are vintage (came with the table) Rob     |
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Post by nordlys on Feb 17, 2021 18:47:46 GMT -8
Not everyday, but often enough.This pool table was yanked out of a Staten Island, NY bar close to 40 years ago. Weighs a ton! Even the cue tips are vintage (came with the table) Rob What do you know? A Royal Oak I actually want. |
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Post by leffemonster on Feb 19, 2021 14:40:05 GMT -8
This is my North Staffordshire Railway office clerks chair, probably made some time in the late 1890s or early 1900s. Certainly pre-1923 as that’s when the NSR was one of eight major railway companies grouped together to form the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. Still in daily use - it sits in front of my tinkering desk.  |
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Post by Fergus on Feb 19, 2021 22:36:06 GMT -8
Yet another chair, a ladder back from around 1890. It was my father in laws and his father. I inherited it in 2007 on his passing and subsequently had it restored because it was in poor condition. The renovator removed 26 nails and 1 screw from the joints which had been used to keep it together and functioning. Following renovation I used it daily up until this year. It's now retired from regular use and sits alongside my desk.  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2021 2:00:05 GMT -8
Dad just informed me his TV table is c1600. I wonder when they made it they thought "one day someone will use this table as a TV stand". He also uses the table every day for his meals.
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Post by suntzu on Mar 14, 2021 13:30:33 GMT -8
In the United States, furniture like the ones here are not common given how young the country is. You will find furniture mostly from the 1800's with some early colonial pieces from the latter half of the 1700's. My parent's furniture in the dining room is from the late 1800's purchased believe it or not 50+ years ago when married from a charity organization so it was very cheap. My father had all the pieces stripped and refinished decades ago. Lots of Jacobian Oak pieces. Nothing truly rare or unique so refinishing didn't destroy any collector value. But it was a way to decorate with antiques on a budget when they bought their first home.
Friends of the family are fabulously wealthy and have decorated their Manhattan apartment and summer home in South Hampton Long Island with English and French furniture from the 1600 and 1700's often purchased from overseas auctions and old buildings like libraries. Some pieces date to the 1500's including MASSIVE armoires that came from castles and were shipped in separate pieces. One of them was so big and all original on the outside, but when you open it, it is a full wet bar stocked with liquor a vintage bar sink, mini refrigerator, freezer, ice machine, shelving with crystal drinking glasses and LED lighting. It is awesome! It's placed in the living room and a real show piece when guests are over and cocktails are served.
I have vintage staplers and tools that were my grandfathers. I also have all of one of my grandfather's fishing gear from the 40's and 50's which I've had restored and display. We loved fishing together and I used that gear in the 70's with him.
I have my other grandfather's vintage pens and I use the two Parker pieces you see. He had his initials on them. The pen has a blue broad ball point and the pencil has thick 0.9mm lead. They work great and I love them. I also use that sterling Parker ball point too that is pulled out and next to the other two.
Of course I have their watches!   |
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Post by Groundhog66 on Mar 16, 2021 16:56:32 GMT -8
Great thread, I love this stuff.
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