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    tonyb replied to the thread Made In USA?.
    Is it true that goods made (in whole or in part) in Guam and American Samoa and the Northern Marianas can carry the “Made in USA” label...
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    tonyb reacted to BobHufford's post in the thread Old gas stations with Like Like.
    “Gas station attendant. Millburg, Michigan.” 1940 photo by John Vachon.
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    tonyb replied to the thread Made In USA?.
    ^^^^^ Final assembly plants might be here in God’s Country, but the components being assembled into a complete automobile or airplane or...
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    tonyb replied to the thread Old gas stations.
    Hanksville, Utah (Note the phone-less pay phone box.)
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    tonyb replied to the thread My new old furniture: how old?.
    And … Closer examination shows this piece to carry the mark of Jacob and Josef Kohn of Vienna, an established furniture manufacturer...
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    tonyb replied to the thread My new old furniture: how old?.
    As it turns out, Thonet offers authentication services, free of charge, with the caveat that a response will not be instantly...
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    tonyb replied to the thread My new old furniture: how old?.
    This seems as good a thread as any for this … I hadn’t planned to buy anything today, but a friend convinced me to join him at an...
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    tonyb reacted to dhermann1's post in the thread Kitchen knives with Like Like.
    In Brooklyn to this very day, there's a guy in a green panel truck who drives all over the boro (all 77 square miles) ringing his bell...
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    tonyb replied to the thread The Worth Of A Penny.
    ^^^^^ In another thread was mention of the phrase “drop a dime,” which meant alert law enforcement to a person’s illegal behavior. To...
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    tonyb reacted to LostInTyme's post in the thread The Worth Of A Penny with Like Like.
    Yes, it is one of my more recent efforts.
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    tonyb replied to the thread The Worth Of A Penny.
    Very good. Is it of recent, um, coinage?
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    tonyb reacted to LostInTyme's post in the thread The End of the Collector Mindset with Like Like.
    Well, here I am, 9 plus years into this thread, and 78 years into life. I didn't really start collecting until I reached 50. Then...
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    tonyb replied to the thread The End of the Collector Mindset.
    ^^^^^^ Which is why I have few regrets over tossing out all those magazines 25 years ago. And why I don’t begrudge a person for charging...
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    tonyb replied to the thread The Worth Of A Penny.
    ^^^^^^ Your authorship?
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    tonyb reacted to LostInTyme's post in the thread The Worth Of A Penny with Like Like.
    See a penny, pick it up, and all the day, you’ll have…… ………a penny in your pocket. For, after all, a penny saved, is just a penny, and...

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